sf wrote:
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> On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:35:03 -0500, "Pete C." >
> wrote:
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> >
> > What really needs to happen is a large scale shift to aquaponic farming
> > which uses 75% less water than old-school dirt farming, is typically
> > "organic" and also is not dependent on an area with "good" soil, needing
> > only a modest water supply and a good sun supply.
>
> Who is to say that aquaponic farming will sip water and not turn into
> the polluted messes that fish farming has become?

A decade or two of aquaponics around the world provides good evidence
that it won't. Aquaponic systems perform better when run "organically".