its R.O. water good for drinking?

[verz36]

hi, just wanted to ask about drinking ro water.. i have set up my system, and was thinking on putting a y connector to also fill up gallons for drinking water.. is it good or a bad idea?

 

[ChrisL1976]

RO water is fine to drink. Its the same filter systems many of the bottle water companies use. IF you attach a DI filter to the system, its pretty much said not to drink RODI water. You can run both systems fine, just split off a tap for the RO water and put a 1 way valve before the DI filter so no DI water gets back flushed into the RO side.


You can actually buy RO systems at most home improvement stores.

 

[ek9vboi]

Perfectly fine, I use to do it all the time till we converted to bottled water. It would probably save us more money by using the filter system for RO.

 

[Linesider]

Only if your drinking before DI

 

[tommy tomato]

aquafina and dasani are ro water

 

[Dino]

RO, RO/DI - its all completely fine. If you want an absolute definitive answer from some chemists you can search the RC Chemistry forum as this topic has come up quite a bit in the past. The myths that it'll suck minerals out of your body are just that - myths. In fact if you look at some of the fine print on most of your popular bottled water it'll probably say its RO/DI somewhere on there. Typically if you're going to be drinking it its run through a post DI carbon stage to add some stuff back in as a lot of people don't like the bland taste of straight RO/DI.

 

[DRThompson]

www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/cmp130704.pdf

Here's a link to the "World Health Organization" WHO guideline. Drinking RO/DI water is a big debate. I have been drinking RO/DI water for years with no ill effects.

 

[silver17jo]

Way to be the test subject Dave haha,

RO is fine I in fact preferr it and like Dave hAve been drinking it for years

 

[verz36]

thank guys for the reponses.

 

[BIG_KAHUNA]

So living in South Florida and hurricanes being a legitimate threat I'm wondering if RODI (as this is what I store for the aquarium) would be OK to drink for a few days? This would be if water pressure was lost in the event of an emergency. If I still had pressure the RO unit will still function and I can bypass the DI canister and use that for drinking water? Still need to be boiled? Would our DIY trash can holding tanks potentially harbor bad bacteria etc? Just wondering sry try not to hijack your thread.