RO for drinking water ?

[joelespinoza]

I grew up drinking tap water, other than one place we lived that had a well and a very high sulfur content (rotten egg drinking water sucks) thats all I ever drank. My parents live out in the woods of washington state and have a 250 foot deep well, best tasting water in the world as far as I am concerned.

Now I live in Galveston Texas and have a brita filter on my water faucet. The water here is ok sometimes, but for some reason they are incapable of metering their chlorine dosing, so what we get is water that tastes fine for about 2 weeks then starts getting mustier and mustier until it is noticable moldy smelling and is undrinkably nauseating. This will keep progessing until one day the water will taste like it is half chlorine. It will literally go from smelling strongly of mold to strongly of bleach within a day. Then the chlorine will slowly dissapate and after a couple weeks it will taste fine, until the mold starts again and the whole cycle repeats itself.

But too answer your question, RO water is fine to drink, RO/DI water is fine to drink (it just tastes bitter to me) in the end whatever water tastes the best to you and that you drink the most of is probably the healthiest choice. However if you drink ONLY RO/DI water and you have a diet low in various salts and/or you sweat a fair amount, some electrolyte replacement probably isnt a bad idea once in a while.

 

[Stolireef]

messes with you electrolytes

I figured that I spend so much time with my hands in the tank that I absorb all necessary salts by osmosis. But thanks for the info.

My TDS for municipal water in Phoenix runs in the low 600's. It tastes a bit like dead cactus but when added to scotch, tastes just fine.

 

[discocarp]

I drink RO (not RODI) almost exclusively.

Has anyone put a T on past the RO and ran it to your fridge/ ice maker? My Samsung goes through a 40$ filter every 3 months.

This works if the pressure is high enough, but you might need a booster pump. For me the pressure was too low and the icemaker would freeze up.

 

[Sushi man]

Thanks for all replys.. I been drinking RO in the last 5-6 years.. Until this guy told me RO TDS is to low to be consume.. From now on I will not listen to mickey mouse anymore... LOL

 

[karsseboom]

Sniff Sniff, you smell that? I smell horse.......

Really thats true man. I live in salem oregon and the water is very clean. In regon its not uncommon to have tds readings like this.

 

[Mmiller40gt]

Really thats true man. I live in salem oregon and the water is very clean. In regon its not uncommon to have tds readings like this.

Skip the RO and just send your water through a DI.. Making water would be fast and painless

 

[James77]

Sucks electrolytes and minerals for the body?

Anyone with a halfway decent diet would have more than enough minerals I their body to compensate for the minuscule amount RO water would take out, if any. It is pure water, you get the vast majority of minerals and vitamins from foods, water has very little of them.

 

[Yogre]

As others have said, I think the decision to use RO water for drinking comes down to the content and taste of your source water.

When we built this house 10 years ago, I noticed on the county's analysis of the water from our well that it was not to be fed to children under 2 years of age, the nitrate content was too high. Since our daughter was around this age at the time, we specified an RO unit be installed for drinking water.

We've since grown to like the taste of the RO water, the well water from the tap doesn't taste nearly as good.

 

[Michigan Mike]

Ive heard RO/DI is good for drinking if your adding something to it - powdered drinks, baby formula, tea and stuff like that. I use to work in a lab that tested water among many other things, and the RO/DI has a warning label on it saying not for drinking.