Around these parts, the water sold by the co-ops in bulk is nearly all RO water, and this is also true of many bottled waters. However, the primary water quality is important, since, as you point out, the purity of the water is dependent on where they set the machine.
Minneapolis water is from the Mississippi, and has many impurities, ranging from Thallium to the more usual halo-chlorides (the side products of chlorination?), and the never discussed radioactivity from the nuclear power plant. Some of these will not come out with filtration entirely, but a good charcoal filter will catch even some radioactive elements- everything seems to stick to activated charcoal. The local water in my town is well water, and has some residual contamination (like many major railroad sites) from creosote that basically has phenols in the water that a chemist told me a good RO filter would take out if I bought one (which I could not afford). I can taste the difference in the various sources of the different co-ops purified water. I believe the mpls water is maybe the worst, but it tastes the best to me! Go figure, personal taste. I keep buying distilled, which is sometimes steam distilled. When I tried to use my filtered tap water (carbon block etc) to make CS, it bubbled up in a hurry- it was pretty funny. Way too many solids to use internally, but maybe I could try it for cleaning the basement or something. I can imagine the Vit E is a good antioxidant, but why the selenium? Kathryn ------------------------------------ Debbie said, > so would RO water be just as good? < If you cannot find steam distilled water, RO water will work, but your CS will probably not be clear. If you are forced to make/drink cloudy CS, simply add a 50 mcg. tablet (capsule is better) of selenium, plus 400-800 I.U.s of Vit E daily to your diet. If you own your own RO unit, you can set it to maximum filtering (it uses a porous membrane) and it will remove most or possibly all minerals from your water. If you buy the RO water, you are stuck with whatever the vendors set their RO machine at, which is rarely at the same level as steam distillation. Still, I'd rather drink RO CS and take some supplements than go without it. Terry Chamberlin ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
