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Though the volume of blood kidney filters is 180 L a day then, why is the volume of urine only one to two litres ?

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Though the volume of blood filtered by the kidney is 180 L the volume of urine is just 1-2 litres because the remaining nutrients and water are reabsorbed in the kidney tubules.
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