RO/DI Water

[quote author=Nautilus link=board=General;num=1085673993;start=30#37 date=05/28/04 at 21:02:46]
The many quotes I post seem to be clear and I thought that I made it clear at least to me it sounded clear. I also said IMO somewhere..
Your body is not getting the minerals or vitamins needed... would this not slowly kill? as anything alot of one thing is bad for you. Re-read some of the post about the resin in the DI. If they don't convince you then as I said before you learn what you want to learn and your mind is made up and no one can change that. If you don't think this will do this then that is fine. show me where it states that it is OK to drink it and I may change my mind as I am OPEN to learning something new. "Common sense" to me at least would play a factor here. Hospitals don't even give you DI water. Companies don't bottle it so what makes you think it is OK to drink it?
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Nautilus, me old mate,

You are TOTALLY missing the point

The discussion was based on YOUR comment that drinking it will kill. If that is just your opinion then you obviously have a right to express it. Just stop trying to justify what is a rediculous statement with arguements that hold no water ( pun intended )

John

 

It was not on drinking water it was DI filtered water.... keep up here so I don't have to repeat. and if you want to post a negative comment please do so in a PM not in the public forum sir.

I will try and re-state this again. If you deprive your body vitamins and the only thing you drink is DI water then your body system will shut down. This may take years for some people and other not so long. (and no other vitamin intake of any kind)
Tell you what call your personal Doctor and ask him if drinking DI water is healthy for you, you do trust your doctor right?

This was my first post and was trying to state the import FACT about vitamins aka minerals that your body needs. I would want to think that this is common sense here but  jeesh people [smiley=beer2.gif]

 

[quote author=fletch link=board=General;num=1085673993;start=0#3 date=05/27/04 at 12:31:56]OK Well that I don't know I have a 6 stage RO/DI and my drinking water uses all of the filters. I don't know why the filter you are looking at does that.

Check out this link this is were I got mine
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50[/quote]

I think you will get real tired of buying D.I. cartridges . If you own a tds meter check to see if you are getting -0- tds . If not you will need to check the progression upward . Normally the reading climbs very slowly thru to about 5 p.p.m. then it zooms up to the rejection rate of the membrane.
The Way I would like to plumb the Dual would not allow any water from the storage tank to travel thru the D.I. The only water I would like the D.I. to see is water that has come directly from the membrane .
The D.I. on a tank system is subject to much shorter life than one that is not hooked to a storage tank . The reason is TDS creep . All pressure tank systems suffer from TDS creep . TDS creep is most pronounced on systems with larger membranes . You will see that we offer the Dual and all of our tank systems with no more than a 50 gpd membrane . You can upgrade to 75 . However we will not allow you to upgrade to 100 on any tank system .

The H2O Guru

 

[quote author=Nautilus link=board=General;num=1085673993;start=30#38 date=05/28/04 at 21:23:48]

Sorry Aquafina is only "RO water" mister says so right on the bottle.. no bottle water company processes ro/DI water for human consumption.[/quote]
Guys ! There was a bottled water sold , I think the name was SYFO . It was R.O. D.I. . Personally I drank R.O. D.I. water fro years and so did my wife . WE had well water . I built the following system for the home
1) one cubic foot G.A.C. filter upflow
1) 800 gpd R./O. system
1) 500 gallon storage system
10 pump and re pressure
that part feed the House we lived in 5-8 p.p.m. water everywhere except the kitchen . In the kitchen I hooked up a sub-micron cartridge just in case and followed it up with a D.I.
So the entire house was bottled quality water and the kitchen was R.O. D.I. everything we drank was D.I.
We lived there for about five years .
To this day I have R.O. D.I. for drinking and R.O. for Ice and coffee.
Personally I disagree about minerals coming from water I think your minerals are supposed to come from your food .
You may want to look up AquaThin corporation they specialize in R.O. D.I. home drinking water systems .

Too many people cop an attitude , when I write I try to stay with the subject and keep it simple .

Walter The H2O Guru

 

Thank You Walter that is all I wanted to know ( WILL IT KILL ME OR NOT ) So now My Question is answered ( NO it won't) ;D

 

[quote author=fletch link=board=General;num=1085673993;start=30#44 date=05/29/04 at 10:53:01]Thank You Walter that is all I wanted to know ( WILL IT KILL ME OR NOT ) So now My Question is answered ( NO it won't)   ;D[/quote]

I guess you can take his post and cut it up like that if you are wanting too.
If you read it Walter was also saying you need to get minerals from food sources.
If talk just about DI it has no minerals to support your bodies needs and THIS is why you WOULD need to supplement with multi vitamins more than the other person would was drinking tap water or plain RO water.

You can't say this would not kill you because there is no study on it. There would be too many variables involved that it is mind boggling.

 

Just to add a little fuel to the fire....I checked a bottle of water I bought...the brand is Alhambra....and it says

"Water is purified using micronfiltration, ozonation, Reverse Osmosis, and/or deionization. Contains purified water and specially selected minerals in nutritionally insignificant amounts for clean fresh taste"

so you can by RODI drinking water...but then they add some stuff back in....Sodium Bicarbonate, Magnesium Chloride, Calcium Chloride, and Sodium Sulfate

 

I don't believe that you could survive just on tap water or RO water alone any way!! So I would suspect that you would be getting your vitamins and minerals from other food sources.

 

[quote author=builderguy link=board=General;num=1085673993;start=45#46 date=05/29/04 at 15:35:09]Just to add a little fuel to the fire....I checked a bottle of water I bought...the brand is Alhambra....and it says

"Water is purified using micronfiltration, ozonation, Reverse Osmosis, and/or deionization. Contains purified water and specially selected minerals in nutritionally insignificant amounts for clean fresh taste"

so you can by RODI drinking water...but then they add some stuff back in....Sodium Bicarbonate, Magnesium Chloride, Calcium Chloride, and Sodium Sulfate
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Off the web site.
Alhambra bottled water is the clear choice for high quality and great taste. Because Alhambra offers the convenience of home or office delivery, and its products are easily found on store shelves, bottled water drinkers have made Alhambra a favored brand whether they're at home, at work or enjoying leisure activities. Founded in 1902 in San Francisco, today the Alhambra brand is a category leader in Northern California.

Alhambra offers its customers a variety of pure, refreshing water types, including:



Crystal-Fresh® Drinking Water, which has a clean, crisp taste that comes from a special, light mineral blend and is made using a special multi-step purification process.
Crystal-Fresh Fluoridated Water, which offers the same great taste as Crystal-Fresh drinking water, with added fluoride to help prevent tooth decay.
Purified or Distilled Drinking Water, which is the perfect choice for those who prefer mineral-free water.
Spring Water, which is natural water, complete with nature's own mineral balance.
Premium Ice, which is made with Crystal-Fresh drinking water and is not only great tasting, but also easy to store and keep fresh.
http://www.bottledwaterweb.com/bott/bt_010alham.html


I saw multiple filtering and distilled but where is the DI part?
Please provide a web page for this company as I could not find it and would love to read about it. From the search results it looks like a company Branch off of sparletts? any way a web page with info on this company would be greatly appreciated.

 

Try this web page there are 3 bottled water company's using RO/DI Alhambra,Lady Lee and Safeway
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/appa.asp