urine

  • Drought Forces Texan Town Into Drinking Urine

    Drought Forces Texan Town Into Drinking Urine

    In a hygienically hair-raising endeavour, a Texan town is set to use recycled urine in its water supply after the state’s third worst drought in recorded history has humbled its historically tough citizens. Aptly named ‘Big Springs’, the town of 27,000 residents is already experiencing a 20% cutback on water usage, as low reservoir levels…

  • Urine Therapy – A Collection of Golden Tales

    Urine Therapy – A Collection of Golden Tales

    Restricted to the confined spaces of civilised society, urine is typically scorned in public, while its colour, generally a pale yellow, is associated with disease and cowardly behaviour. In fact, most choose not to talk of this undervalued golden fellow, unless it is the subject of some crude and tasteless joke. However this seems rather…

  • Ancient Animal Urine Shines Light on Climate Change

    Ancient Animal Urine Shines Light on Climate Change

    In a desperate bid to gauge African climate patterns, English scientists have leapt to the wild savannas with angle grinders to saw off shards of age old crystallized animal urine. The small hairy hyrax, a relative of the graceful elephant, has been known to frequent specific locations to relieve itself, intergenerationally, over thousands of years.…