# Recycling Water on Space Station

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata discusses the the International Space Station's Water Recovery System, which recycles urine and waste water into clean water. Or as Wakata puts it, "Here on board the ISS, we turn yesterday's coffee into tomorrow's coffee."

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2014
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA Johnson
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Recycling_Water_on_Space_Station.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Johnson
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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