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Down the historical lane wars have been focused on control of precious resources like metals, minerals, oil, and land. This scenario has started to shift in the past few years, with armed conflict increasingly focused on control over depleting water resources and by association food. Climate change-linked droughts and growing world population is creating an imbalance in the food chain supply. Agricultural lands are decreasing, water availability is becoming scarce and due to increase in water pollution and over hunting sea food and cattle meat supply is steadily decreasing until a day when there will be none left for future generation. In addition to this according to statistics nearly one -third of the world's food produce is lost to wastage. A time has come when the eminent dignitaries of science and food world are stepping up to create a sustainable solution to meet the future food scarcity and stop food wastage by creating alternative solutions. This article is a study to understand the science, need, viability and realistic value of such innovative productions. It is also a study to understand, the acceptability of the new era food by the traditional in takers. It will reflect on the commercial value and acceptance of the same in commercial eateries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Municipal wastewater usually contains nitrate and phosphate as major contaminants, and if discharged untreated affects the health of the environment and human population. Currently available treatment technologies to treat municipal wastewater lose the essential growth nutrients ‘P’ and ‘N’ during treatment. This paper presents a strategy of simultaneous sequestration of nitrate and phosphate in biomass, by using a tailor‐made consortium in a biofilm reactor. RESULTS: The consortium comprising of three novel Bacillus strains in a fixed bed biofilm bioreactor maintained at ambient temperature showed reduction up to 94% of nitrate, 68% of phosphate, 93% of chemical oxygen demand, 97% of biochemical oxygen demand, 73% in total organic carbon while maintaining an effluent pH of 6.8 ± 0.02. Response surface methodology revealed maximum reduction at a flow rate of 1.97 L h‐1 with 306.04 mg L‐1 and 19.62 mg L‐1 of initial nitrate and phosphate concentrations respectively. The system was scaled up from 4.5 L to 220 L with the same retention time of 2 h and operated with consistent performance for over 212 days. CONCLUSION: The treated wastewater met the criterion for reuse as non‐potable water for applications like irrigation and aquaculture, hence making it the fastest microbial process for simultaneous nitrate and phosphate removal from wastewater. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]