What is distilled water?
Distilled water is water that
has been heated to the boiling point so that impurities are separated from the
water, which itself becomes vapor or steam. Steam is then condensed back into
pure liquid form. The impurities remain as residue and are removed. Pure Water
Distillation Systems remove waterborne biological contaminants such as bacteria,
viruses, organic and inorganic chemicals, heavy metals, volatile gases, cysts
and other contaminants. Distilled water contains virtually no solids, minerals
or trace elements. It is clean, natural and healthy. Steam distilled water is
the standard by which all other waters are measured.
What other kinds of water do you get?
- Groundwater: Water
contained in underground aquifers that reach the surface through springs, deep
wells, or artesian wells.
- Surface Water: Water
collected as rain and snow runoff, and groundwater seepage, collected in
reservoirs, lakes and rivers.
- Spring Water: Groundwater
that rises to the surface through a natural opening.
- Artesian Well: Groundwater
that is reached by drilling and then flows to the surface naturally.
- Mineral Water: Bottled
water containing not less than 250 parts per million total dissolved solids may
be labeled as mineral water. Mineral water is distinguished from other types of
bottled water by its constant level and relative proportions of mineral and
trace elements at the point of emergence form the source. No minerals can be
added to this product.
- Sparkling Bottled Water:
Water that after treatment and possible replacement with carbon dioxide,
contains the same amount of carbon dioxide that it had at emergence from the
source.
- Deep Well Water:
Groundwater that is reached by drilling, and then pumped to the surface.
- Hard Water: Water high in
calcium and magnesium.
- Soft Water: Water low in
calcium and magnesium. Soft water can occur naturally or be achieved through
ion-exchange wherein calcium and magnesium ions are exchanged for sodium ions.
- Water through Reverse Osmosis:
A process to reduce mineral content of water by forcing the water through a semi
permeable membrane.
- Water through Carbon Filtration:
A method of removing organics and chlorine by use of carbon's natural ability to
absorb such chemicals.
- Water through Deionization:
A method to produce purified water, utilizing the fact that inorganic impurities
possess ionic charges, and can be removed from water utilizing that charge.
Why use distillation?
Distillation is the single most effective method of water
purification and can be used throughout the world on all types of incoming
water. Unlike other treatment methods such as carbon filters and reverse
osmosis, our systems are effective on virtually all contaminants and are not
dependent on water pressure, water temperature, pH, or chlorine and can even be
used on water containing bacteria and parasites and still produce safe, 99.9%
pure water.
Where can the Pure Water
distillation unit be installed?
Practically anywhere. It
requires an electrical outlet and a level, ventilated location. Access to a
water supply is required for the automatic refill units. With the addition of
the accessory demand pump, the unit can be placed in a remote, out-of-the-way
location and distilled water can be pumped out of the storage tank to the
kitchen faucet, refrigerator or any location of your choice.
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What maintenance is
required?
The units are designed for
little maintenance in normal situations. Once per week the boiling tank should
be drained to dispose of the contaminants which have been removed from your
drinking water (the automatic drain units do this automatically). The boiling
tank should be cleaned once per month, although this may vary depending on water
conditions in your area. Each unit also incorporates an activated carbon
post-filter which requires changing every three months.
Where can I buy parts or supplies?
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Are distillation
systems expensive to operate?
Distillation systems use about
3 kWh of electricity for each gallon of water that is distilled. The national
average cost of electricity per kWh in the US is 6� which means each gallon of
distilled water costs about 18�, a fraction of the cost of buying bottled
water! You can find your personal cost per gallon by multiplying 3 times the kWh
rate in your area.
I�ve heard that distillation cannot remove volatile
organics?
Some articles have been written
about distillation systems being unable to remove volatile organics (organic
chemicals that have a boiling point lower than water). They claim these gases
carry over with the steam. To ensure this does not happen, Pure Water Brand units are equipped with patented twin volatile gas vents on the condensing coil,
which remove virtually all of these contaminants. For even further protection,
each Pure Water Brandunit is equipped with an activated carbon post-filter to
provide you with high quality distilled water with a 99% removal rate of
virtually all contaminants.
Can I see Lab test results for
your distillers?
This document is an evaluation
of contaminant removal (167kb .PDF) from drinking water, using Pure Water Brandproducts, done by an independent testing facility (Midwest Laboratories,
Inc., Omaha, NE).
(167kb .PDF) Document: An
evaluation of the Pure Water Midi D Model ECP Distillation System, and the Pure
Water A-12 Distillation System for removing select contaminants from drinking
water.
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Does distilled water leach minerals from my
body?
Absolutely, not...in fact just
the opposite has been found to occur in cellular research studies. It is a
mistaken belief that drinking pure distilled water reduces valuable minerals
from living human tissues.
There are two types of
minerals, organic and inorganic. Human physiology has a biological
affinity for organic minerals. Most organic minerals for our body functions come
from dietary plant foods. A growing plant converts the inorganic minerals from
the soils to a useful organic mineral.
Tap water presents a variety of
inorganic minerals which our body has difficulty absorbing. Their presence is
suspect in a wide array of degenerative diseases, such as hardening of the
arteries, arthritis, kidney stones, gall stones, glaucoma, cataracts, hearing
loss, emphysema, diabetes, and obesity. What minerals are available, especially
in "hard" tapwater, are poorly absorbed, or rejected by cellular
tissue sites, and, if not evacuated, their presence may cause arterial
obstruction, and internal damage Even if the human tissue suddenly developed the
ability to absorb inorganic minerals from tap water, it would take an enormous
amount of tapwater to supply the bare minimal mineral quantities for human life
functions. If (for example) the rich inorganic mineral content of the tap water
in Reno, Nevada were modified so that it would convert the daily Calcium
requirement (RDA) from its inorganic calcium solutes, you would have to drink
7.4 gallons of their tap water!
When inorganic minerals
are "removed" from tapwater, by converting it into pure distilled
water, the result is a remarkable biological mineral absorption for both health
and maximal metabolic activity.
(This is an edited version of
Dr Bill Misner's answer to the question above. For the full article complete
with references, please visit the "From
the Experts" section in the Library.
Also...
Is
Distilled Water Dangerous?
For reasons I don't understand, any number of myths � some quite extreme � have grown
up over the years about distilled water....
Aren�t there minerals missing from distilled
water that my body needs?
There is no doubt that the body
needs minerals. This issue is perhaps the �hottest� one regarding the use of
distilled water. It is easy to find an equal number of �authorities� or �experts�
on both sides of this controversial issue.
In short, virtually all
nutritional and medical authorities agree that the body assimilates organic
minerals from the daily food cycle. Where the authorities disagree is whether or
not the body directly extracts any nutritional value from the minerals found in
an inorganic source such as dissolved rocks, dirt, and stone found in tap or
mineral waters.
Perhaps the best way we have
found to sort out this problem is to evaluate various tap and mineral water
sources around the world and determine the amount of inorganic minerals (by
weight) which would be consumed by drinking an average of two liters of tap
water daily. Then, we compare this number to the amount of minerals (by weight)
found in a normal daily diet. Dr. Jon Kirschmann�s Nutritional Almanac is one
of several good sources for this data.
When these two sources of
minerals are compared, the results are real eye-openers. On the average, over
95% of the major and trace minerals ingested daily (by weight) come from food
(fruits, vegetables, animal products) - and less than 5% from drinking water.
The distilled water �mineral issue� then
can be focused into a much clearer question: Is it really smart to ingest all
types of heavy metals, bacteria, chemicals used in water treatment processes,
industrial and agricultural chemical residues, etc. simply to get that little
additional percentage of daily mineral intake from water sources. We don�t
think so!
But don�t just take our word for it,
listen to what the experts say�
"The body�s need for
minerals is largely met through foods, not drinking water."
American Medical Journal
"The minerals which
the human body needs that are in the water are insignificant to those in food�
and anyone simply eating a varied diet, not even a balanced diet, could hardly
suffer a mineral deficiency."
Dr. Henry A. Schroeder, Dartmouth
Medical School
"Water hardness
(inorganic minerals in solution) is the underlying cause of many, if not all, of
the diseases resulting from poisons in the intestinal tract. These (hard
minerals) pass from the intestinal walls and get into the lymphatic system,
which delivers all of its products to the blood, which in turn, distributes to
all parts of the body. This is the cause of much human disease."
Dr. Charles Mayo, world-renowned Mayo
Clinic
"The only minerals
that the body can utilize are the organic minerals. All other types of minerals
are foreign substances to the body and must be eliminated. Distilled water is
the only water that can be taken into the body without any damage to the
tissues."
The Choice is Clear�by Dr. Allen E.
Banik
"The greatest damage
done by inorganic minerals - plus waxy cholesterol and salt - is to the small
arteries and other blood vessels of the brain (75% water). Hardening of the
arteries and calcification of the blood vessels starts on the day you start
taking inorganic chemicals and minerals from the tap water into you
bodies."
The Shocking Truth About Water�by Dr.
Paul Bragg, ND.Ph.D .
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