I work with water engineers, and they all drink tap water. It has to be tested several times a day at the treatment facility (something that's NOT true of bottled water, which is why tap water is usually superior). The US has the safest tap water in the world. There are SO MUCH mythology and quackery around drinking water it's crazy. There is NO evidence that the amount of dissolved chlorine in treated tap water is harmful and most of it escapes the water within a few minutes. Treating water with chlorine is one of the most important public health advances in history, and it has saved tens of millions of lives-people that used to die of cholera, typhus, and other water-borne epidemics that regularly devastated large cities. However, some research has found that the potentially beneficial minerals present in water are unlikely to be able to be absorbed by the human body. Some claim that because the distillation process strips the water of everything besides pure H2O, the natural occurring, potentially beneficial minerals are being extracted as well. It is debatable whether drinking large amounts of distilled water is ideal for the human body. So merely boiling the water will not distill it, it will only potentially remove few toxins. Once the water entirely vaporizes, that vapor is put into a clean container where it condenses back into pure water. Essentially, distillation entails boiling the water to produce vapor, leaving behind any and all contaminants, which luckily, have a higher boiling point than H20. Then once the droplets fall as rain (precipitation) the cycle starts over again.ĭifferent types of methods can be used to distill water. As the upper atmosphere drops in temperature the vapors cool and convert back to water to form water droplets. Distillation will remove bacteria, viruses, cysts, heavy metals, radionuclides, organics, inorganics, and particulates, leaving all chemicals, toxins and waste behind and creating pure, clean water.ĭistillation is literally the method seen in nature, whereby: the sun heats the water on the earth's surface, the water is turned into a vapor (evaporation) and rises, leaving contaminants behind, to form clouds. This method can also be easily adapted if you are in the wilderness.ĭistilled water is not only great in preventing mineral build-up in machinery, but it also converts any water source, be it river water, lake water, salt water, or waste water (i.e urine) into clean drinking water. No Laboratory or fancy equipment required.
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If you fear that your tap water may not be ideal for drinking, or if you are in the great outdoors and running low on clean drinking water, this is the instructable for you! Learn how to distill water in your own kitchen with just a pot and some ice.
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