Conventional industrial farming practices have greatly reshaped the environment, and some would say for the worst. While these modern practices amass large yields, it results in even greater damage to our soil and ultimately our water. Therefore, we set out to find an alternative to these practices and, through some digging, settled on regenerative agriculture. Hence, our research focused on regenerative agriculture’s effects in improving water quality via improved soil health as opposed to its degradation as we see with current farming practices. We aggregated many useful studies and datasets from Web of Science as well as a few other databases found through the Miami Library website. Additionally, we conducted graphical analysis on some useful data we found. We believe that regenerative agriculture results in better quality water as well as increased water conservation, and therefore is a worthy investment. We believe that this will help further motivate us in our respective and differing career paths, as there the skills required to solved clean water are various and require STEM as well as the arts to pull it off.
Authors: Jovonah Kramer, Madeleine Slater, and Tyler Williams
Advisor: Dominik Konkolewicz, Chemistry and Biochemistry
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