Introduction:
Water shortage is a serious problem, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, and climate change-related extreme weather events frequently contribute to or exacerbate it. A healthy person produces 500 liters of urine annually, which should be enough to replace around 1/4 of the world's current supply of phosphate and nitrogen fertilizers. These ideas could become widely adopted and have an impact on major problems including human sanitation, recycling, and the shortage of food, water, and energy.
Methods:
To find out what barriers there are in our area to the acceptability of food treated with natural fertilizers, such as animal dung or recycled human pee, as compared to chemical fertilizers, a questionnaire was created based on a global survey that was published. Medical students, personnel, physicians, and nephrologists answered the questionnaire. Following the coding of the data collected from the questionnaire, statistical analysis was performed.
Results:
Participants were 57.6% females, 36.4% medical students, 51.5% university students, 7.6% university staff, 3% physicians, and 1.5% Nephrologists, according to preliminary statistics. The majority of participants came from cities. Cow urine is thought to be a fertilizer by 60.6% of people, while 63.6% were unwilling to consume food fertilized with cow urine. 69.7% believe that human urine cannot be utilized as a fertilizer. 81.8% said they would not consume anything fertilized with human urine. 83.3% of colleagues do not believe that food seeded with human urine would be consumed. 84.8% said they would not pay for food fertilized with human urine. 68.2% believe that fresh, untreated human urine poses no health risk. 62.1% do not believe human urine can be safely processed before being used as fertilizer.
Conclusions:
Recognizing the importance of green nephrology may assist overcome some barriers to the implementation of creative urine-recycling sanitation systems, which may help shape the future of the field.
I have no potential conflict of interest to disclose.
I did not use generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process.