Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling

Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by DoneWithAllThat on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @09:51AM (#36403954)

Growing food at a scale large enough to feed hundreds of millions of people, and cheaply enough to lift millions out of malnutrition, being “wasteful” is certainly a take.

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Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by ayemel on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:13AM (#36404274)

You misread (I also did). They are saying wasteful water use for agriculture is wasteful, not agriculture itself.

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Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by mistrial9 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:17AM (#36404338)

some commodity crops and some niche groups absolutely are wasteful.. excess crops turned to processed, canned food or even sugar-fuels have changed farming in the last hundred+ years. Do not even mention animal practices, since that ranges from the mildly terrible to literally hell'ish, also big water users.

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Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:40AM (#36405648)

> Growing food at a scale large enough to feed hundreds of millions of people

Large scale does not imply efficiency. Soviet union did many things large scale

> cheaply enough to lift millions out of malnutrition

Millions were lifted out of poverty. Rhey lifted themaelves out of malnoutricioun because now they can afford food.

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