On the International space station into the water recycle any brand of liquid: human sweat, exhaled breath condensate, the drain of the shower and, of course, urine. That's just Russian cosmonauts refuse to drink water from the urine, but their American colleagues do not allow to disappear "good" and use Russian pee for the production of potable liquids, The Guardian reports.

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On the International space station into the water recycle any brand of liquid: human sweat, exhaled breath condensate, the drain of the shower and, of course, urine. That's just Russian cosmonauts refuse to drink water from the urine, but their American colleagues do not allow to disappear "good" and use Russian pee for the production of potable liquids, The Guardian reports.

On the ISS, the Russians collect your urine in special packages, which are then forwarded to the American side of the station. the "We don't recycle 100% of Russia's urine, but do it if we have enough time", — said the representative of NASA Carter lane.

American astronauts don't understand why the Russians don't want to use all the sources to obtain fresh fluid. They claim that the taste of the water that was once in the urine, it is indistinguishable from normal. And even cleaner, because passes through a sophisticated cleaning system. Just on the us sector of the ISS 93% of water are recycled. For the year filtration system cope with 6000 liters of liquid.