Hopefully your tap water is safe to drink, but over 45 million Americans don't have that luxury. Filtered water is one solution. Filtered water starts out as plain tap water. You may already have filtered water in your home by way of a whole house filtration system, a faucet filter or a water filtration pitcher you can even get a filtered water bottle. Most filtered water passes through some combination of carbon and micron filters, which help to remove chemicals such as chlorine commonly added to municipal tap water as a disinfectant or pesticides, and metals like copper or lead.
Filters can also eliminate foul odors and tastes. Purified water usually begins as tap water as well. It will go through many purification processes, including those used for water filtration. Purified water goes a step further than filtering, with a process that removes chemical pollutants, bacteria, fungi, and algae.
You'll often find purified water in bottles at your local grocery. Distilled water is a more specialized type of purified water, but much easier and cheaper to produce at home. As with purified water, it meets the classification requirement of 10ppm parts per million of total dissolved solids, aka, contaminants or less. The process of distilling is simple. Heat tap water to the point that it turns to vapor.
When the vapor condenses back to water, it leaves behind any mineral residue. The resulting condensed liquid is distilled water. Distilled water is completely safe for use, but the downside of distilling is that it removes all of the helpful minerals like calcium and magnesium that occur naturally in tap water. For that reason, it isn't generally recommended to use distilled water as your daily drinking water, and you may find that it lacks in flavor.
You also need to choose any storage container you use for distilled water carefully. Distilled water's lack of nutrients can cause it to leach chemicals from the container it's stored in. Although distilled water is commonly used for household needs such as ironing or steam cleaning, other types are more often consumed as drinking water.
Distilled water is made by boiling water -- usually from municipal sources -- and collecting the steam as it condenses. Minerals and most contaminants and chemicals are left behind, at least those which have a higher boiling point than water. Distillation is most effective in removing heavy metals, nitrates and minerals, and the boiling process kills the vast majority of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi and viruses.
Some chemicals that have a lower boiling point than water, such as chlorine and benzene, are vaporized and remain in the distilled water unless they are filtered out with charcoal. The health consequences of drinking distilled water on a regular basis are unclear.
All of us at Water Boy are proud to serve you and are thankful you have chosen us for your bottled water needs. Spring Water Spring water is just as its name implies—water from a natural spring. Distilled Water Distilled water is derived from boiling municipal waters.
How can we help? Which product are you inquiring about? Type of Inquiry I would like more information I would like a quote Give me a call to get started. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy. The point is that when the water gets heated, the volatiles boil off first, then the pure water next.
Purified water is defined by the levels or lack thereof of any impurities found in the water. The impurity load of dissolved solids in purified water cannot exceed 10 parts-per-million, and water that meets this threshold is inherently of a higher purity than spring water, tap water, or filtered water. Purified water is often confused with filtered water.
Many people believe the two terms to be synonymous, but this is not the case. While both types of water are subject to some sort of filtration as is almost every spring water , purified water is cleansed and purified through additional purification processes, typically reverse osmosis, distillation, or deionization.
Purified water may originate from either a spring, surface or groundwater source or directly from the tap. Since the purification process is designed to remove virtually all types of impurities, the quality of the source water has little bearing on the quality of the final product.
Nevertheless, our source water meets the EPA minimum drinking water standards before any purification is even done!! We purify that water extensively and literally remove more than This is not true of spring water, tap water, or filtered water. For this reason, purified water is viewed as the objective benchmark against which the purity of other waters is judged.
The most interesting part of this is the fact that distilled water is purified water.
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