| There has been a lot of hype in the drinking of | | | | Should you choose to distill what you drink by |
| distilled water now and in the past. Many health | | | | yourself, distilling in this case means to take out |
| benefits have been accrued to drinking this | | | | impurities, you have some options. First you could |
| supposedly. There are of course other significant | | | | choose to purchase a simple faucet attachment |
| facts about this type of liquid. The question then | | | | which 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 comes | | | | filtrate most of the hard substances of a certain |
| from nature. Notwithstanding the recent polluted | | | | size. However, since some substances are |
| environments one can easily get distilled water | | | | microscopic, 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 its | | | | Some filtration systems that you can connect |
| purest form | | | | directly 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 in | | | | eight stages, the filtration tank is small enough to |
| distilled water. Mineral water acquires its mineral | | | | fit on your sink countertop and you can see the |
| and sometimes earthy taste due to its passing | | | | liquid pass through. Most of the filtration tanks are |
| through mineral aquifers deep in the grown such | | | | see through as they are made of pure glass or |
| as limestone and bedrock. | | | | plastic. |
| Thus in theory what we drink comes from our | | | | Another way to get this treated water into your |
| dam reservoirs is really distilled in the beginning as | | | | home is through a commercial purchase system. |
| it comes from rainfall. However as it passes | | | | That is that you directly buy what has been |
| through rusty pipes and the like it will get | | | | distilled from a supplier. This is packaged for you |
| contaminated. Add to this the practice of adding | | | | in your own personal containers and have passed |
| chlorine by companies to kill bacteria and you may | | | | through a reverse stage osmosis process usually |
| get a pretty noxious liquid coming out at the end | | | | consisting of 16 stages. With this process you can |
| of your pipe. | | | | get close to the purity of natural rain. |