skinz78
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Have you been drinking plain RO water or have you been drinking RO/DI water?
RO Water - Who Uses their Setup for Drinking Water?
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Have you been drinking plain RO water or have you been drinking RO/DI water?
skinz78
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LOL doesn't the coffee kill out any other bugs or chemicals in the first place? I would say you are good to go!
PR_Reefers
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sorry if I didn't clear it up before but RO is what you should drink DO is the problem!
Yellowtang
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Started with just RO water back in 1980 because the well water I had was barely tolerable for taking a shower or washing clothes, but now have a DI unit that sits in the fridge. I dont drink gobs of water, but all the water I do drink is DI, and have been for years. You could possibly cause a deficiency of minerals by leaching and by way of fluid elimination because that the human body wont leave the water pure that you consumed and will remove some calcium and magesium from your system. But that will only be a factor if your diet lacks suficient quanities to replace what is removed, and you drink a lot of DI water. You would have to drink a bath tube full of water from the tap to get enough minerals to supliment your diet. So plain DI H20 is all I drink.
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Yellowtang
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I should also add this. If you drink DI water after a meal by the time the water gets settled in you stomach
it is no longer DI water. What I normally do with the DI water is mix it with 2 cups of real lemon juice and
1 cup of sugar and a gallon of water. Supposedly good for eliminating kidney stones of which I have had three, but none since
drinking lemonade. If you ever had a kidney stone once would be enough to add lemonade to your diet forever.
JR
it is no longer DI water. What I normally do with the DI water is mix it with 2 cups of real lemon juice and
1 cup of sugar and a gallon of water. Supposedly good for eliminating kidney stones of which I have had three, but none since
drinking lemonade. If you ever had a kidney stone once would be enough to add lemonade to your diet forever.
JR
As long as you eat a sensible diet even drinking RO/DI is not an issue. The foods you eat provide the minerals your body needs. Again you could not possibly drink enough to cause harm as long as you eat normal solid foods too.
Taste and expense, DI resin gets expensive when you are making enough to drink too. Another problem is storing it, it does not keep well in a pressure tank as it picks up tastes and odors from the rubber bladder, it is always trying to attract things to get back to its natural "dirty" state. Companies like Spectrapure manufacture remineralization cartridges which many of the major coffee houses use, it puts just the right amount of the correct minerals back in the water to make it taste good.
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btkrausen
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Cool, thanks for the input. I've never needed to keep RO water to drink from my unit, but I knew it was a fairly popular thing to do. Are the bladders that Kent makes good enough for DI storage?
You don't want to store DI in any pressure tank. Keep it in something like 5G PET plastic drinking water jugs or maybe a covered Brute trashcan. Pressure tanks are designed for RO only water which still contains some TDS and is not as agressively trying to attract minerals and contaminants. You also usually have a post carbon taste and odor filter like refrigerators use to adsorb any tastes and odors from the bladder. Post carbon filters actually add TDS to DI water so its not a good idea to have one except for RO drinking water.
