RO water is good enough if its good quality. The most popular water
for making colloidal silver here in Australia is a reverse osmosis
brand called Nobles PUREAU. It's sold as drinking water and its
available in just about every major supermarket for about $6 - $7 for
a 10 litre cask. (About 2.5 gall.). It's basically reverse osmosis
water but they claim to do other things to it to improve the the
purity. From memory the purity averages at about 1.5 uS, although
lately they had a few bad batches go through that werent up to
standard. So Aussies should look for Pureau with a 'Best by' date
after 30/10/11.
Personally (because I got a distiller cheap) I now distil my own
water, but if i do buy water I buy demineralised water. I used
demineralised water for years. I found it gave me a clearer end
result - better even than my own distilled water. The best quality
demineralised water over here is 'WT' brand from the laundry products
dept of larger supermarkets, although most of the home brand demins
from big supermarkets are good. Demineralised water is usually always
labelled 'Not for drinking' but thats basically just a legal
disclaimer because they are not in the beverages business. The
important thing to remember about RO and demineralised water is that
the quality can vary greatly from brand to brand. Some brands are
excellent whilst others are very poor. Theoretically distilled water
should consistently be very good although I've never bought any
distilled water that is as good at the best demineralised water.
'Home' undersink RO filters seem to be a bit of a lottery. They can
produce very good water but they need to be maintained very well.
A very simple rule is to be very wary of any water that produces any
form of white cloud soon after you apply the power. Other than for
emergencies you should ditch it or use it externally or give it to
the pets.
David
From: sol <[email protected]>
Date: 11 January 2010 8:26:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CS>about pure water
At 05:19 AM 1/10/2010, you wrote:
But is RO water good enough for CS?
I don't think it is, but distilling RO water is supposed to make
extremely pure distilled water. And I think Ode told me once he
knew of a couple of people who had to do that to get decent DW
(correct me if I am wrong).
Since I also drink DW and use it for coffee and tea, and for
cooking (if I have enough), my still ran nearly daily, at least one
gallon and often two. If my husband drank DW it would have had to
produce much more, he drinks double filtered tap water. I do use
around a gallon to a gallon and a half of CS per week.
When I figured up how much DW we'd need to purchase per week to
replace what I was distilling at home, it came to about 10 gallons.
I can't imagine doing that for 6 people and an infant. The 10
gallons a week here is for me to drink and for making CS for my two
cats, my husband and myself (and neither of us actually drinks CS
routinely though we do use it for mouthwash and lots of other uses,
including, misting eyes and hands and cleaning around the kitchen,
etc). I also wipe down most bottles and food containers that come
from the store and go right into the refrigerator. The cats DO
drink straight CS, and go through quite a lot.
It seems to me that 10 gallons per week is about the maximum
practical to haul home from the store.
sol
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