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But the water someone plucked out of desert air and drank doesn't poof out of existence. They'll eventually pee and sweat it out.



> They'll eventually pee and sweat [the water] out.

It's infuriatingly hard to find good citations, but I think they actually mostly breathe it out. IIRC, the water breakdown for some (spacecraft) life support system was something like 50% from respiration, 30% in urine, 10% in sweat, and 10% in feces.




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