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To address the water needs of crew members, several methods for water management, recovery, and quality monitoring have been developed for manned space missions. This chapter provides an overview of these methods and their evolution across the manned spaceflight programs.
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Ritter, S. (2019). Methods of Water Management, Water Recovery, and Quality Monitoring. In: Seedhouse, E., Shayler, D. (eds) Handbook of Life Support Systems for Spacecraft and Extraterrestrial Habitats. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09575-2_80-1
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