Rain water IS distilled water.
However, the jug it comes in is pretty dirty, full of sulfates and
nitrates, gasses and vapors and has to be rinsed well before using.
Be aware of what's upwind and the accumulations of waiting for the rain
on collection surfaces.
Ode
At 02:48 PM 3/21/2010 +0800, you wrote:
What is the current thinking on using rain water for making CS?
I seem to recall that in the past the general opinion was that one should
only use distilled.
I have to buy my distilled water, and although here in Western Australia
that is at least possible, it is expensive and inconvenient.
This Australian winter, I expect to have access to fresh rain water, and
have been thinking of bringing it home in big clear water fountain bottles
and using that for drinking water (we do have reverse osmosis, but I am
gathering from what I read that some of the worst chemicals are not
actually completely filtered out by the filters) and also perhaps for CS
unless there is some overwhelming reason why it should not be so used. I
would upend the bottles on our ceramic water dispenser and use it for
general consumption also.
This water would be gathered on a huge metal roof and stored in metal
rainwater tanks. I suspect this might engender some potential objection,
but I don't know. I would go and fill the bottle for a charitable
donation, and bring them home for use. The first rains of the season
would be allowed to run away to flush dust off the roof before it was
directed via simple filters to the new tanks. It would be collected in
the country from clouds probably blown up from Antarctica, anyway from the
Indian or Southern Oceans.Â
Why I like this idea is that the bottles would not come from a factory
that is forced by law to "protect" the inside of the storage bottle with
chemicals for "hygiene". It would also not contain echoes or particles
or suggestions of water treatment chemicals; although our water here is
basically of high quality, it does have standard chemicals added to it.
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