Talk:Purified water

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[edit] Health aspects of drinking purified water

There is a common understanding that drinking a lot of purified water can be bad for you (ostensibly because it will absorb minerals that would otherwise be consumed by your body). However, I could only find one clear article describing this and it is widely disseminated, by Zoltan P. Rona MD, MSc. Unfortunately the vast majority of the web sites that contain this article are trying to sell water purifiers or water itself and therefore are suspect sources of material. Can anyone provide information about whether drinking purified water is good or bad for you in the short or long-term?

Note: I started this same discussion under "bottled water" as well. -- S. Gartner ^talk 02:01, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure of any articles, but a basic chemistry class will teach you that truly purified or distilled water contains, well, nothing other than basic water molecules. A basic biology class will teach you that you need neurons firing in your brain to function properly, and for this to happen you'll need ions or electrolytes, which distilled and purified water don't have. You normally get the ions you need from standard bottled water or tap water. -71.104.92.157 04:00, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

You don't get most of your electrolytes from the water, anyway. The vast majority of the electrolytes in your diet comes from your food. The whole thing is nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.255.83.70 (talk) 15:30, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

there is much controversy over drinking purified water, but my research led me to conclude that 1) we don't rely on inorganic minerals for mineral absorbtion, as we rely on the organic minerals in food to supply, and the absorption rate or inorganic minerals, as those found in water, are of little or no consequence as compared to, say, a bite of an apple, or an egg. Hard water consumption imports many unwanted guests in the water that purified water can eliminate from your body. I sleep better knowing that I do have a choice to choose distilled water for my hydration, and rely on good diet to provide add'l vitamins and mineralsSJR55 (talk) 22:03, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Units

Just a small note. I'm not familiar with elertical conductivity literature, but the units of siemens-cm seems incorrect. Shouldn't it be siemens-m? Astrobit (talk) 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Milli-Q

Need there be some mention of the Milli-Q purification system? It seems to be a common standard for purified water in a lot of labs and scientific papers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roddyboy (talk • contribs) 05:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)