09-02-2012, 04:57 AM
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Originally posted by Jay Bondesen
I'm not sure that filtered and UV treated catchment is really the same as distilled water. Catchment should really be close to County water without the floride or whatever they use to sterilize. Depends on the filters you use though. Some people use a 1 micron filter under the sink for drinking but usually the whole house filter is a 5 or 10 micron filter plus a carbon block filter. I really don't know what the mineral content is here in well water. I do think that reverse osmosis systems produce something close to distilled water.
Jay
By definition, distilled water is made by boiling water and condensing the steam into a clean container. Although not boiled, rain is essentially water that has gone through the same process of changing from a liquid state into a gas state and then back into a liquid state. When water changes to a vapor almost all the minerals are left behind. My comparison to distilled water was intended to describe the demineralization of the water. Drinking only distilled water leaches minerals from your body that can have health implications. The same may apply to drinking only rainwater.