RO or RO/DI for drinking water?

Leon71 · #1 09-29-2011, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Aquattro

We, as humans, get all we need from a proper diet, and pure water is the essence of life. All I drink is RO water, I'm fairly healthy

RO water YES. DI water NO. Do a search on the net, there is lots of info.

Aquattro · #2 09-29-2011, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Leon71

RO water YES. DI water NO. Do a search on the net, there is lots of info.

Correct, RO is what I mentioned. Which technically should be pure water.

cwatkins · #3 09-29-2011, 05:36 PM

Ya, if you were for instance say, working out in the hot sun all day, and only drinking RO/DI water, the sweat would remove necessary minerals and trace elements from our body, and the RO/DI water would not be replenishing them. I doubt you'd die from it but it may not be the best thing to do.

For sure these RO filter systems were used A LOT for household use.

BUT... I don't think I've seen many household water filters with a nuclear DI stage. I'd think the DI phase is used for specific and necessary purposes only I.E. reef keeping, industrial processes, etc. Did I mention reef keeping?

Aquattro · #4 09-29-2011, 05:41 PM

Well, all I drink is RO water, and I run a lot out in the hot sun. Minerals come from the banana I ate, or the energy gel, or oatmeal for breakfast. It really is fine to drink RO (and probably DI) as long as you eat food,which almost everybody does. The ratio of minerals from water vs. food is so huge that the content in the water isn't worth counting. The water is not going to act like a magnet and suck the minerals from my body

imisky · #5 09-29-2011, 06:01 PM

Ive been drinking RODI for the last year or so now and I'm all healthy. Now if I was fasting for 3 days+ that might be an issue but mostly because I'd starve to death

Aquattro · #6 09-29-2011, 06:16 PM

Just as a comparison, here's some numbers. Potassium. I drink 3l of water a day on average. That amount of my local tap water has 0.6mg of K. The contents of my cooler for food today has over 1600mg of k. The +/- 0.6mg I do or don't get from water is completely insignificant. If I drink RO and it sucks the 0.6mg from my cells, I still have 1600mg K without even considering afternoon snack or dinner.

windcoast reefs · #7 09-29-2011, 08:00 PM

As far as I have learned it is not a great thing to drink RO/DI water. It's not gonna kill you or have any significant effect in the short term. But the main reason you should not drink it is because the water is completely pure. When the water hits your digestive track, it can pull out many of the nutrients that your body has taken in from all the food you have ate in the last 24 hours. I think it is probably fine though if you keep up on your multiple vitamins. But I would never ever give it to children, it can cause weakened immune systems and lead to some problems later. basically is the same reason why kids that are raised with clean freaks can have weird allergies!

Just my 2 cents

StirCrazy · #8 09-29-2011, 08:18 PM

nothing wrong at all with drinking RO/DI water. take cruse ships for eg, hell take or navy. we make distilled water wich is the purest form of water and thats what we had to drink for up to 7 months.

another example.. middle east and especialy dubai and the kingdoms around them depend on RO DI for all there drinking water which comes from a huge plant just outside of dubai where sea water is turned into pure water.. no one is having problems from mineral loss there.

lets even go closer to home.. in victoria my tap water was 11ppm and sometimes down to 8ppm. in calgary is is over 400.. do people who live in Victoria have to take more suplements than people in calgary?

this is all silly talk, wives tales.. ect call it what you will by people who just don't know any better and have to say something to put down a purchase some one made that they don't think they needed. it has popped up several times over the last 10 years and it realy suprises me that people still think that way.

now do I drink DI.. no.. I tap off befor my DI filter for filling my water cooler jugs.. why.... I have 0 ppm out of the ro filter why waist my DI canister thats 50 bucks to replace.... so I use it for fish stuff only. would I drink it.. heck ya.. I did for 2 years till I found out how much it increased the depleation of the DI cartrage....... so for me its a cost thing.

Steve

windcoast reefs · #9 09-29-2011, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

nothing wrong at all with drinking RO/DI water. take cruse ships for eg, hell take or navy. we make distilled water wich is the purest form of water and thats what we had to drink for up to 7 months.

another example.. middle east and especialy dubai and the kingdoms around them depend on RO DI for all there drinking water which comes from a huge plant just outside of dubai where sea water is turned into pure water.. no one is having problems from mineral loss there.

lets even go closer to home.. in victoria my tap water was 11ppm and sometimes down to 8ppm. in calgary is is over 400.. do people who live in Victoria have to take more suplements than people in calgary?

this is all silly talk, wives tales.. ect call it what you will by people who just don't know any better and have to say something to put down a purchase some one made that they don't think they needed. it has popped up several times over the last 10 years and it realy suprises me that people still think that way.

now do I drink DI.. no.. I tap off befor my DI filter for filling my water cooler jugs.. why.... I have 0 ppm out of the ro filter why waist my DI canister thats 50 bucks to replace.... so I use it for fish stuff only. would I drink it.. heck ya.. I did for 2 years till I found out how much it increased the depleation of the DI cartrage....... so for me its a cost thing.

Steve

I may not be a health professional, but i think that saying I don't know any better is a little unfair. I make my living setting up water treatment facilities for many different municipalities in Canada and europe. I personally prefer the taste of RO water, but im just trying to show a point which has been studied in depth for almost 20 years. In Canada this isn't a problem, we have a balanced diet and a temperate climate. But in very hot environments like the UAE, they do supplement there water that has been filtered though there RO plant. Their reasoning is that if you spend all day outside sweating, you re loosing many of the valuable minerals that you need. So to compensate, they add the minerals that they remove, calcium, magnesium, Potassium, Sodium, sulfate, silica and many different trace elements. RO bottled water have all of these minerals added as well. My main question is why spend the money on replacing things that you have removed from the water in the first place? Doesn't really make to waste all that money on a wives tale does it?

intarsiabox · #10 09-30-2011, 03:15 AM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

this is all silly talk, wives tales.. ect call it what you will by people who just don't know any better and have to say something to put down a purchase some one made that they don't think they needed. it has popped up several times over the last 10 years and it realy suprises me that people still think that way.

Steve

It also comes directly from the RO unit manufacturers. My directions that came with my unit specifically state to not drink the DI water, only the RO water. So I can't see the manufacturer putting down my purchase I made with them.

My tap water tastes great as is and I don't see the point of wasting all the excess water used to make RO water plus the cost of filters unless the tap water has a bad taste to it. Actually my taste buds do not like the taste of RO water at all, it may be pure water but it has a very strong taste to me, almost like watered down hydrogen peroxide.