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Do you think it helps to buy spring water for drinking? Our tap water just came out to have near the epa limit of pfas. (And the water company made it sound li
by mrfusion 8y ago
Do you think it helps to buy spring water for drinking? Our tap water just came out to have near the epa limit of pfas. (And the water company made it sound like a positive thing!)
- jimrandomh 8y agoYes. Either that, or install a reverse osmosis filter on your tap.
- usaphp 8y agoI’ve heard a lot of bad things about reverse osmosis water effects on your body as well.
- philipkglass 8y agoI assume that you're referring to magnesium deficiency problems, e.g.: "Magnesium deficiency in tap water in Israel: The desalination era" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916417313401 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001191641... So, yes, make sure that you're supplementing magnesium or getting plenty from foods if you switch from plain tap water to RO or distilled water.
- sorenn111 8y agoJust get a reverse osmosis system which remineralizes the water. Can be found on many good RO systems
- b_tterc_p 8y agoIt depends. Especially if by spring water you mean normal bottled water. Don't assume that their water quality will be water. In many cases, bottled water is worse than local water.
- dbcurtis 8y agoWe bought a counter-top distiller 15+ years ago and are never going back. If fact, I think we have worn out 3 now. Highly recommend.
- mrfusion 8y agoCan you link to it? I guess a distiller gets all chemicals out.
- chihuahua 8y agoIt seems that a distiller would remove those chemicals whose boiling point is above the boiling point of water.
- tryptophan 8y agoLow boiling point compounds, like say benzene, would just evaporate and then condense with your water into your final product. Distillers get rid of heavy things that don't boil, like metals and large contaminants like bacteria and their waste products. A carbon filter would get rid of the organics and low-boiling point things. So optimal water purification would first use a carbon filter, and then distill the output of that. Make sure to add minerals to the final product though. Pure water is a vicious solvent and will slowly melt your teeth away. It will also become quite acidic after sucking CO2 out of the air, so consider adding some pH balancing salts too.
- dbcurtis 8y agoThe distiller I use has carbon filter packs at the output of the distillation chiller (at the top of each carafe where the water enters).
- dbcurtis 8y agoBasically an earlier version of this beastie: https://waterwise.com/?product=waterwise-3200-countertop-distiller https://waterwise.com/?product=waterwise-3200-countertop-dis... I suspect that this one is identical for all practical purposes.