I hope they drink their own........

It's not that big of a deal.

Most people living in drier parts of North America (i.e. the American SW) have likely unknowingly drank 100% recycled* or "pre-sipped" water at some point in time when it was exceptionally dry.



*If it weren't for wastewater treatment plants putting water back into the watersheds during the driest times, there would be almost no water for downstream communities to withdraw.

Oh gawd you had to post this first thing in the morning.
*glares at orange juice and glad it's not apple*

I can see it now... a space refrigerator with little bottles inside labled: John's pee, Margaret's pee, Yoshi's pee, and Vladimir's pee.

If you gotta drink it, you might as well drink your own brand.

too late if anyone watches morel orel they new this months ago!

Seeing as how there's only so much water on the planet, and that there's been humans and animals around for hundreds of thousands of years. I have to wonder if any water we drink hasn't been through someone or something at least once.

What a coincidence! So do I!

Any day now, Evian will bottle this, market it and sell it for 5 bucks a bottle.

I thought they were doing this since Gagarin. I mean on all space trips, not just NASA. I definitely remember reading about this kind of water recycling in spacecrafts before 1981.

Yup. They'll call it spc|wtr, or something like that, and make it really trendy.

Let's beat them to it!

"Does it have vitamin C?" ... "ummm.. no.. but I think it has vitamin P"...

Costner did it first.

Agreed. I remember learning about this back in elementary school (primary school, for you non-Americans). I thought this was commonplace.

I hear that though it is purified, it still retains some of the taste, though. :p

"OK, which of you guys has been eating asparagus again?"

Evian spelt backwards = Naive... :)


Purified urine is nothing new to the Fremen of Arrakis

What about Dune ?
Perspiration and breath moisture are captured and purified for drinking by the desert suit :)

Bear Grylls did it straight, without the filtration...

If I'm ever on a deserted island, I want *that* man!

Fact is, urine from a healthy person is sterile, unless you have kidney or urinary tract infection.

At one time, doctors would swish urine around in their mouths to check for sweetness, helping in the diagnosis of diabetes.

Urine is salty. When I was 5 a boy gave me what he told me was "lemonade." It did not taste like lemonade!

It makes sense, though. A readily available source.