How Pure is Distilled Water Really?

There has been a lot of hype in the drinking ofShould you choose to distill what you drink by
distilled water now and in the past. Many healthyourself, distilling in this case means to take out
benefits have been accrued to drinking thisimpurities, you have some options. First you could
supposedly. There are of course other significantchoose to purchase a simple faucet attachment
facts about this type of liquid. The question thenwhich has a carbon or other form of filter which
is how pure is distilled water.the water passes through. This can significantly
First of all the purest distilled water only comesfiltrate most of the hard substances of a certain
from nature. Notwithstanding the recent pollutedsize. However, since some substances are
environments one can easily get distilled watermicroscopic, you will not really get a full filtration
easily providing you are not in an air polluted area.or distilled effect.
This of course is natural rain which is distilled in itsSome filtration systems that you can connect
purest formdirectly to your faucet require a sort of tank with
This is of course the opposite of mineral water.layered filters. Numbering anywhere from three to
That is there is very little or lack of minerals ineight stages, the filtration tank is small enough to
distilled water. Mineral water acquires its mineralfit on your sink countertop and you can see the
and sometimes earthy taste due to its passingliquid pass through. Most of the filtration tanks are
through mineral aquifers deep in the grown suchsee through as they are made of pure glass or
as limestone and bedrock.plastic.
Thus in theory what we drink comes from ourAnother way to get this treated water into your
dam reservoirs is really distilled in the beginning ashome is through a commercial purchase system.
it comes from rainfall. However as it passesThat is that you directly buy what has been
through rusty pipes and the like it will getdistilled from a supplier. This is packaged for you
contaminated. Add to this the practice of addingin your own personal containers and have passed
chlorine by companies to kill bacteria and you maythrough a reverse stage osmosis process usually
get a pretty noxious liquid coming out at the endconsisting of 16 stages. With this process you can
of your pipe.get close to the purity of natural rain.