Re: Water: from a post Suzi sent me

[Guest guest]

See, this is what I've never understood. The best distilled is

apparently thrice distilled. Now why does it need to be distilled

more than once? BTW: Walgreens carries the best brand.

I've learned all this from making colloidal silver which requires a

high grade.

When I distill my own I do a batch at least twice.

The distillation process is expensive.

Kit

> Distilled water is water that has been turned into steam so all the

> impurities are left behind. The steam is then condensed to make pure

> water.

>

> The prolonged boiling process of distillation kills and removes

> virtually all bacteria, viruses, heavy metals, and other organic and

> inorganic contaminants. There is simply no other process as efficient or

> reliable.

>

> Once distilled, the water is as pure as water can reasonably be. So it

> should be no surprise that steam distilled water is the standard by

> which all other waters are measured.

>

[Guest guest]

I have a couple of different distillers. My favorite is actually

one I got from Sears for $80...they marked it down $100. Guess no one

in this small town knew what to do with it.

I forget my other brand...I'll look and see.

Both require lotsa electricity.

Kit

>

>

> See, this is what I've never understood. The best distilled is

> apparently thrice distilled. Now why does it need to be distilled

> more than once? BTW: Walgreens carries the best brand.

>

> I've learned all this from making colloidal silver which requires a

> high grade.

>

> When I distill my own I do a batch at least twice.

>

> The distillation process is expensive.

>

> Kit

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

My other one is a WaterWise...

http://www.alerg.com/page/A/CTGY/MF-WW

My Sears model is the same as the deluxe WaterWise.

BTW: I drank nothing but distilled for 15 years...up til the late 80's

....I bought it or had it delivered in 5 gallon bottles and would only

drink it out of glass. It tasted fine.

Kit

>

> I have a couple of different distillers. My favorite is actually

> one I got from Sears for $80...they marked it down $100. Guess no one

> in this small town knew what to do with it.

>

> I forget my other brand...I'll look and see.

>

> Both require lotsa electricity.

>

> Kit

>

[Guest guest]

Of course...nothing in the universe is ever " wasted " ...my mother

taught me! But, it always takes energy for transformation. It takes

energy to recycle....and it's washing 'unused' water down the drain.

(I think we did this once before, didn't we...or was that another

list?) BTW: I wasn't thinking about anyone's personal water bill...I

was thinking of the waste of water itself.

Shari!....diluting the crap everyone puts down there drains?....is

that the purpose of running 'unused' water down the drain?!

Did the people in your town buy that about the prescription drugs?!!

How many people do you know that put their pills down the drain

instead of in the garbage? If for mere laziness of the human

animal...it takes alot less effort to just toss it in the trash. The

truth is that they are pissing those drugs down the toilet. That's

the sad part...do you live in a red state....what whitewash! They

didn't want to say that so many people are on drugs!! The FDA doesn't

want to admit it, either. In fact this has been in the national news

a couple of times. That's one way they've been monitoring cocaine

(illicit drug) abuse.

http://www.ehjournal.net/content/4/1/14

" A new class of water pollutants has been discovered during the past

six years. Pharmaceutical drugs given to people and to domestic

animals — including antibiotics, hormones, strong painkillers,

tranquilizers, and chemotherapy chemicals given to cancer patients —

are being measured in surface water, in groundwater, and in drinking

water at the tap. Large quantities of drugs are excreted by humans and

domestic animals, and are distributed into the environment by flushing

toilets and by spreading manure and sewage sludge onto and into soil. "

" The first study that detected drugs in sewage took place at the Big

Blue River sewage treatment plant in Kansas City in 1976. The problem

was duly recorded in scientific literature and then ignored for 15 years. "

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:r8bPs7Shk7wJ:www.lamontanita.org/docs/newsl\

etterarticles/2000/Jun2000/drugsinthewater.htm++%22drugs+in+the+rivers%22 & hl=en

I'm sorry to have made you defensive over your RO. The fact is that

it runs as much water down the drain as your get out of it. That's

your personal choice but anyone who doesn't yet own one should know

that. It's not exactly what they promote on the sales floor. I

installed one before I knew that fact and had to have them come out

and take it back out. I refuse to waste water in Texas.

Like I said I quit drinking distilled water....I use my distiller

about 4 times a year....how often do you use yours?... out of

curiosity. Anyway, it's not distillers here...it's RO.

Peace, love and clean water,

Kit

PS. As Don noted early we will see wars fought over water....I agree

with him. I treasure every drop....and do my best not to waste, I'm

not perfect.

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> " RO wastes wates. "

>

> Well, I'm not on metered water so I pay the same every month and

what goes down the drain, to me, is not wasted. It goes to the

recycling plant and helps to dilute all the (excuse the pun) crap all

the other folks are putting down their drains!

>

> They have had a warning around my town for months not to put old

prescriptions down the drain. I guess so many people were flushing

their dope that the filters couldn't keep up and we were getting the

residuals in the city water! Can you believe that? Sad, sad, world

we live in.

>

> The other thing I wanted to mention about RO water is after many

years of research, I concluded that RO is the only way to remove

flouride. I refuse to ingest flouride and I take offense to cities

that add it to the water, mine is one.

>

> What happens when you heat flouride, chlorine, and who knows what

else is in your water? Where does that steam go? Is it in your

kitchen? Your garage? No one seems to be able to answer that

question for me. I'm not a fan of chlorine gas, which is what you are

getting by heating the water in the distiller.

>

> Shari

[Guest guest]

Shari,

See it as you like....I already said it in my last post. You might

want to re-read the first (esp.) and last paragraph.

Peace, love and clean water,

Kit

PS. Do you let the water run while you brush your teeth...same thing.

> I still don't see how an ro unit " wastes " water. It's all recycled.

How can it be wasted?

>

> Shari