what's better: pure spring water or reverse osmosis water?

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Paperdoc

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Originally posted by: wyvrn
Distilled water has a slightly acidic ph balance, and is not good for you in large amounts. Plus minerals from water are very important to the diet.

Not quite true. It IS true that most distilled water has an acidic pH (that is, below 7.0). That is because it is so very pure, but has a small amount of normal air dissolved in it. Now the two major components of air, nitrogen and oxygen, do nothing unusual in distilled water. But the third one, carbon dioxide (normally about 4% of air) reacts with the water to produce carbonic acid, a weak acid which partially dissociates, releasing free hydrogen ions and tying up the associated OH groups with the CO2. It is those free H+ ions that are called acid, and show up in a pH test. However, the amount of this is VERY low - it only shows as reduced pH because there is almost nothing else in the very pure distilled water to balance it out. The amount of dissolved CO2 in the water is absolutely harmless to people. If you are really worried about it, just boil the distilled water for a couple of minutes, then pour it into a container with no air and cool it down. Boiling the water will force all the dissolved air out, and then you just seal it up with no access to air. But I would never bother.

The more interesting issue is, why does anyone think the absolutely (chemically) pure water, or distilled water, is healthy? It certainly is NOT "natural". People have evolved with a variety of water sources to drink, and NONE of them have been close to distilled in "purity". While I grant you that distilled (a product of modern technology) is better than some waters that are contaminated with new man-made pollutants, it is NOT a substitue for clean normal drinking water. I agree with wyvrn that the mineral content of normal water is more important.
 

BladeVenom

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I'd have to agree that pure water is definitely not natural. If you've used really pure water you know you have to use plastic pipes since it will dissolve metal.
 

torpid

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Dasani and a few other RO bottled waters taste like crap to me. I prefer my tap water, which itself is not great due to hard water residue.

Bottled water that is labeled as spring water but actually from tap is a violation of FDA regulations as far as I can tell.

(vi) The name of water derived from
an underground formation from which
water flows naturally to the surface of
the earth may be ??spring water.??
Spring water shall be collected only at
the spring or through a bore hole tapping
the underground formation feeding
the spring. There shall be a natural
force causing the water to flow to the
surface through a natural orifice. The
location of the spring shall be identified.
Spring water collected with the
use of an external force shall be from
the same underground stratum as the
spring, as shown by a measurable hydraulic
connection using a
hydrogeologically valid method between
the bore hole and the natural
spring, and shall have all the physical
properties, before treatment, and be of
the same composition and quality, as
the water that flows naturally to the
surface of the earth. If spring water is
collected with the use of an external
force, water must continue to flow naturally
to the surface of the earth
through the spring?s natural orifice.
Plants shall demonstrate, on request,
to appropriate regulatory officials,
using a hydrogeologically valid method,
that an appropriate hydraulic connection
exists between the natural orifice
of the spring and the bore hole
 
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