Have you heard of the food production system called aquaponics?  It could be the answer to water shortages and world hunger.  What is aquaponics? Simply put, aquaponics utilizes the waste material from fish in a symbiotic exchange with plants in order to detoxify the water and restore it back to the fish. The water is led through a hydroponics system, where the by-products from the fish are filtered out by beneficial bacteria that breaks down the toxic ammonia in the fish waste to nitrite. The plants then absorb the nitrite as vital nutrients. The result is plant growth with[…]