A brewery in California is using recycled wastewater to make beer, the New York Times reports. The company is using technology designed by NASA for astronauts to recycle water in space. Recycled wastewater tends to actually be cleaner than the water breweries can get on-site, multiple brewery owners told the Times. Last year, Stanford professor William Mitch published a study showing that wastewater recycled using reverse osmosis resulted in a product as clean as groundwater, sometimes even more so. Just last month, NASA reported that scientists on the International Space Station had successfully recycled 98% of their wastewater for the first time.

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Persons: William Mitch, Chris Garrett Organizations: New York Times, NASA, Breweries, Service, Policy Breweries, Brewing Company, Times, Stanford, Space Station Locations: California, United States, , California