can you drink RO/DI?

[DiverDude]

I agree with ScubaSteve. However, pretty much anything in moderation isn't going to affect you one way or the other.

To add to this, since I suspect there have been an underlying thought in the original question, I use my RO/DI system for more than just my tank. OK, the tank was the reason to get it but I also rationalized getting rid of Culligan (bought the cooler off them for $50) -and that saves me $.

For the water we drink, I've put 2 valves in the system and I cut out the DI stage of the system when making drinking water. I also use this water when I make wine.

I also use RO/DI for filling all our humidifiers.

For me, buying the system was a no brainer -it pays for itself over and over again.

[BC564]

Im not sure about Saskatoon but I believe they are using Chlorine gas and carrier water injection....waiting for them to get back to me.....Edmonton uses Sodium Hypochlorite to produce there own mixture which comes out at Approx. 12% solution..... all facililties also use UV disinfection to add to their total log removal which is an Alberta environment regulation which varies according to plant classification.....The filters removal most, if not all, cysts of Crypto and gardia........just to be sure they use the UV at the end of the process to kill any that may get through and also inject final Chlorine solution for distribution. Oh..just found out the Saskatoon uses Chlorine gas. So using the RO water to drink will remove the Chlorine taste and floride if you dont want those...but drinking RO water is exactly what your drinking when you buy a bottle of bottled water unless its marked as spring water or Distilled. RO water is not as harsh as distilled water for depleting minerals in your body from sweating. If you want to help remove Chlorine and bacteria then install a UV sterilizer in front of your RODI to help it....as UV light removes chlorine.

[sphelps]

Q10 & 13 on this page

Chlorine and ammonia are added to Saskatoon tap water, so it does contain chloramine

[BC564]

Correct....free chlorine is added prefilters.........ammonia is added to the filter effluent which does produce Chloramines. This is for Saskatoon only.

[Delphinus]

How does UV light remove chlorine?

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by BC564

Correct....free chlorine is added prefilters.........ammonia is added to the filter effluent which does produce Chloramines. This is for Saskatoon only.

You're saying Saskatoon is the only city that has Chloramine in their water?

[Cranky When Wet]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Stop believing stuff on the internet (Haha Iroonnnyyyy), there are no vitamins in tap water. Vitamins are organic compounds produced biologically, you don't find them in tap water only in them in the food you eat. This myth about having to drink tap water to get your mineral content/ vitamins is unbelievably wrong.

A single 50g serving of Swiss cheese contains 480 mg of Calcium which equates to about 1.19 e-2 mols of calcium or 7,211976048000000000000 molecules (7.2e21). Calgary water has 200 ppm of dissolved minerals (Including Calcium, Magnesium, sodium...). 50 mL of water is 50g, at 200 ppm 0.02% of that is minerals or 0.01g, this means that there are about 2.49e-4 mols of minerals or 1.49e20 molecules (using the heavier weight of calcium to calculate).

What does it all mean Basil!
Well for every 1 calcium molecule in cheese there are 0.02 dissolved hardness molecules in water (again this includes Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium...). So you would have to drink 2.5L of water to match 50g of cheese and I'm still comparing apples to oranges here as that's pure calcium in cheese and an accumulation of all hardness minerals in water.

The major advantage to drinking RO water is that you know it's ONLY water, a proper RO unit will filter out not only all the minerals but containment such as chlorine, chloramine, VOC, bacteria, viruses, lead and anything else your worried about.

Don't listen to me though, my opinion is bias as I used to sell these units. .

Love your "biased" opinion and sound, logical, good sense! Yeah, I really want to swill chloramine to get an atomic particle of a mineral I get reams of by eating a handful of raw almonds or a whack of nice, dark green, leafy things. As for electrolytes, I rather like what many Canadian athletes are doing: chug back a glass of coconut water! It's loaded with medium-chain triglycerides that are converted by your liver immediately, and effortlessly, for that much-needed energy... Of course, it's hard to say what kind of water said coconut is floating in... arrrrgh... again, we need to make our own to be really safe!

Needless to say... clean water is a luxury for most of the world now. Enjoy it if you can. It's your body and your choice.

I fully support drinking, and using, the absolutely, cleanest, purest water I can get.

'Nuff said, Bunny >:-)

[BC564]

NO I am saying that Edmonton doesn't as you listed those two together....Chloramine final solution is huge in the states.....

[lastlight]

It's a well-documented FACT that ro/di water will literally leech the BONES right out of your body. I know a lot of big-boned people drink upwards of 2L/day and some have now landed modeling contracts.

Knowledge is key everyone. Educate yourselves and GET SEXY!

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by BC564

NO I am saying that Edmonton doesn't as you listed those two together....Chloramine final solution is huge in the states.....

I'm pretty sure they do, everywhere I look tends to say so anyway. Where do you get all your info from?

http://www.freeh2otesting.com/chloramination.htm

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs.../index-eng.php

http://www.nrsc.ca/print.php?news.8

http://www.aquasanacanada.com/Water-FAQs-sp-11.html