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Is this a problem exclusive to outdoor farms, or would vertical/indoor farming help this?



Hydroponics usually measure the nutrients in the water and only add when needed. Indoor farming with soil beds can adopt water recycling too but there's no requirement to.


If you do greenhouse farming, the problem is more explicit.

(Though in theory you could still just let your wastewater drain into the ground, and have the same problem.)




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