filtered water

[cephissus]

My man.

Put the internet down, and walk away slowly.

And just drink your water without thought.

But to be safe, maybe avoid fumblewhumped.

I just happened to see a rather "fitness oriented" type hauling his empty water cooler jug toward a queer apparatus i had never noticed before at my favorite supermarket. Curious, I stopped to see what he was doing and, before i knew it, found myself entranced by the long list of benefits, specifications, and fumblewhumpery adorning the shimmering water distillery before my eyes. Later that day, I noticed an identical machine at another grocery store. Somehow these contraptions have been escaping my notice for years! My fascination, now piqued as a Sheik at an IFBB after party, bade me to do the right thing and log on, for the first time in months seemingly, to that forum most acquainted with queer apparatuses of arcane, vaguely health-oriented usage.

I apologize for any premature recidivism, injurious to self or others

Happy New Year, Grape.

[cephissus]

Exclusively, almost one year.  Before that it was a combination of distilled water and cheaply filtered water.

One week into drinking only distilled water, I felt much better.  I wasn't expecting that.  Could be the filtered water I was drinking has some chemicals or heavy metals that were slightly affecting my health negatively.  I was using a cheap faucet, carbon filter.

The myths regarding distilled water go like this:

It doesn't have any minerals.  So what?  Ask anybody who says that which minerals and in what amounts should be in water.  They can't tell you because it's all marketing by the people who sell mineral water and water filters.  We should be getting our minerals and other nutrients from food, not water.  I do add a little bit of Redmond's Real Salt to my water anyway, for other reasons.  So that gives me sodium and other trace minerals in my water anyway.

It's more acidic, so it dissolves some of its plastic container and then you drink plastic.  This is exaggerated, and we consume many more plastics from other sources than from plastic bottled, distilled water.  All you have to do is make sure you don't leave your plastic bottled distilled water in the heat, or exposed to sunlight.  Otherwise, buy your own distiller.

I'm considering purchasing my own distiller which is nothing but stainless steel and glass.  They are expensive and bulky, but the bigger more expensive ones can distill 8 to 18 gallons per day.  The cheap, counter top ones take hours just to make a little less than a gallon.

It's so acidic that it leaches out minerals from your body.  That's a myth.  People eat and drink stuff many times more acidic than distilled water and that doesn't happen.  Your stomach acid alone is many times more acidic.

As for filtered water, the best filtration system is reverse osmosis.  The problem is that the best filtration system can filter only 98% or less impurities.  It also wastes tons of water which stays behind in the filters.  It's also very high maintenance and expensive, replacing filters, water lines, etc.  For that kind of money and trouble, I'd expect water that's 100% pure of contaminants.

The process of distillation is simply boiling pure H2O out of its contaminants.  The water (with its contaminants) is boiled, the pure water then turns into steam and is captured and cooled.

Great read! Thr grocery story offers all the fancy filtration ay $0.49/gallon, but before splurging on a multi-gallon jug, I decided to try a $0.99 gallon of distilled water, utterly ignorant of all the information just so graciously granted. It tasted good, better than tap! Might keep with it.

[SOMEPARTS]

Prime plans to live 4 another 20 years ..............

My great uncle just died at 95. Lived hard and was still riding a tractor brush hogging the farm this past summer.

[IroNat]

My great uncle just died at 95. Lived hard and was still riding a tractor brush hogging the farm this past summer.

If only he hadn't drank the water...

[loco]

Great read! Thr grocery story offers all the fancy filtration ay $0.49/gallon, but before splurging on a multi-gallon jug, I decided to try a $0.99 gallon of distilled water, utterly ignorant of all the information just so graciously granted. It tasted good, better than tap! Might keep with it.

$0.78 at Walmart

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Distilled-Water-1-Gallon/10315382

Used a simple TDS(Total Dissolved Solids) Meter Digital Water Tester on different distilled water brands from different stores and found no difference.  They were all equally clean.

Tested filtered water too and regular bottled water.  They were not as clean as the distilled waters I tested.

[ilalin]

I got reverse osmosis at work, so will fill my canisters there, see you later bitches.

[loco]

I got reverse osmosis at work, so will fill my canisters there, see you later bitches.

Great!  Just make sure your employer is okay with that, and make sure the filters get replaced.

[Primemuscle]

Great read! Thr grocery story offers all the fancy filtration ay $0.49/gallon, but before splurging on a multi-gallon jug, I decided to try a $0.99 gallon of distilled water, utterly ignorant of all the information just so graciously granted. It tasted good, better than tap! Might keep with it.

Incidentally, distilled water is good to use in steam irons and Cpap humidifiers because it doesn't leave mineral deposits which eventually build up and ruin those types of items.

[loco]

Incidentally, distilled water is good to use in steam irons and Cpap humidifiers because it doesn't leave mineral deposits which eventually build up and ruin those types of items.

Distilled water is ideal for when purity is important. Common uses include:

Medical tools and procedures. Hospitals clean equipment with it to help avoid contamination and infections. Kidney dialysis machines use ultra-pure water to filter waste from blood.

Lab tests. Nothing in distilled water reacts with or affects the accuracy of lab experiments.

Cosmetics. If water is an ingredient in your moisturizer, deodorant, or shampoo, it’s almost always distilled.

Automobiles. Since it lacks minerals, distilled water won’t corrode metal engine parts or interfere with batteries.

https://www.webmd.com/diet/distilled-water-overview#1

[loco]

U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report

January 22, 2020

The contamination of U.S. drinking water with man-made "forever chemicals" is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group.

The chemicals, resistant to breaking down in the environment, are known as perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Some have been linked to cancers, liver damage, low birth weight and other health problems.

Of tap water samples taken by EWG from 44 sites in 31 states and Washington D.C., only one location, Meridian, Mississippi, which relies on 700 foot (215 m) deep wells, had no detectable PFAS. Only Seattle and Tuscaloosa, Alabama had levels below 1 part per trillion (PPT), the limit EWG recommends.

The EPA has known since at least 2001 about the problem of PFAS in drinking water but has so far failed to set an enforceable, nationwide legal limit. The EPA said early last year it would begin the process to set limits on two of the chemicals, PFOA and PFOS.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-drinking-water-widely-contaminated-050229550.html

[IroNat]

What you don't know can't hurt you.

[pellius]

U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report

January 22, 2020

The contamination of U.S. drinking water with man-made "forever chemicals" is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group.

The chemicals, resistant to breaking down in the environment, are known as perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Some have been linked to cancers, liver damage, low birth weight and other health problems.

Of tap water samples taken by EWG from 44 sites in 31 states and Washington D.C., only one location, Meridian, Mississippi, which relies on 700 foot (215 m) deep wells, had no detectable PFAS. Only Seattle and Tuscaloosa, Alabama had levels below 1 part per trillion (PPT), the limit EWG recommends.

The EPA has known since at least 2001 about the problem of PFAS in drinking water but has so far failed to set an enforceable, nationwide legal limit. The EPA said early last year it would begin the process to set limits on two of the chemicals, PFOA and PFOS.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-drinking-water-widely-contaminated-050229550.html

How effective are these filters like Pur and Brita?

[Marvin Martian]

You're right I am old which means I have been drinking tap water for a very, very long time. My digestive system works great. Most trace elements are harmless. Here's the scoop on Clackamas river water, which is what I get. http://crwater.com/drinking-water-treatment/

People who are concerned about drinking tap water because of the tiny amount of chlorine in it can boil their drinking water which removes the chlorine.

Thanks for the link to the EWG tap water database. Here is their report on the tap water where I live.

City of West Linn
EWG's drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group by the Oregon Health Authority, as well as information from the U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History database (ECHO). For the latest quarter assessed by the U.S. EPA (January 2019 - March 2019), tap water provided by this water utility was in compliance with federal health-based drinking water standards.

https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=OR4100944

Come on man - they deliver a report so it must be accurate???

[Primemuscle]

Come on man - they deliver a report so it must be accurate???

Maybe not. You can go through life questioning everything, because we are often sold a 'bill of goods'.  I stand by what I posted. I have been drinking tap water for 75+ years and I'm pretty darn healthy. Does this mean tap water is pure and entirely safe to drink? Nope! To me it means there are other more important things to stress over, like stress itself which is a real killer.

[loco]

Maybe not. You can go through life questioning everything, because we are often sold a 'bill of goods'.  I stand by what I posted. I have been drinking tap water for 75+ years and I'm pretty darn healthy. Does this mean tap water is pure and entirely safe to drink? Nope! To me it means there are other more important things to stress over, like stress itself which is a real killer.

It's possible your tap water is what has made your body produce so much estrogen, gave you erectile dysfunction, caused your dementia, and caused many of your other issues you've decided to share with the board...TMI. 

[loco]

How effective are these filters like Pur and Brita?

Not very effective.  You'd want reverse osmosis, or even better drink distilled water.  Buy it or get a high quality, high capacity distiller.

[Tapeworm]

When you're not making water with it you can moonshine and put it in large ceramic jugs with 3 Xs and store them on a corn cob shelf until the next hoedown or hootenanny.