Is Reverse Osmosis Water as Good as Distilled Water?

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Is Reverse Osmosis Water as Good as Distilled
Water?
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Reverse Osmosis vs Distilled Water Basics

• Reverse Osmosis
• Reverse osmosis is a filtration process that
  forces water through a fine membranes producing a
  pure water stream and sending contaminated water
  to waste.
• The main reason for installing reverse osmosis
  systems in homes is to provide clean drinking
  water for drinking and food prepartion.

• Distilled Water
• Distillation is the process of boiling water,
  capturing the condensation, and allowing it to
  condense back into water leaving impurities
  behind.
• Simply boiling the water will kill bacteria and
  microbes in it but it will not remove chemicals
  and other impurities like minerals.

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What is Reverse Osmosis

• Osmosis is a natural process, where a solvent
  passes through a semipermeable membrane from the
  region of low solute concentration to the region
  of high solute concentration. However, reverse
  osmosis is a process, which is created
  artificially using pressure.

Learn in detail Reverse Osmosis Systems and How
it Works?
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Types of Reverse Osmosis Systems

• Undersink Reverse Osmosis System
• Point-of-use (POU) systems are generally
  installed inside a cabinet or basement where it
  is out of site and come with a dedicate faucet
  that provides highly purified water for drinking
  and cooking purposes.

• Whole House Reverse Osmosis System
• Whole house reverse osmosis system (Point-of
  entry, POE) provides the very best water quality
  to every faucet in a home.

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Pros and Cons
Distilled Water
Reverse Osmosis

• Pros
• Completely purifies water
• Most efficient and least expensive to competing
  technologies
• Cons
• Can be expensive upfront for larger systems

• Pros
• Completely purifies water
• Cons
• Removes all essential minerals
• Tastes flat with no minerals
• Time-consuming process
• Inefficient and expensive

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FAQs about Reverse Osmosis and Distilled Water

• Is it okay to drink distilled water?
• You technically can drink distilled water.
  Nothing bad will happen to you. The taste may
  seem flat, though. The lack of minerals wont
  hurt you either since most of our mineral intake
  comes from food and not water. Distilled water
  is close to laboratory pure.
• Is reverse osmosis water the same as distilled
  water?
• Depending on the incoming water, the treated
  water is very similar but not as pure as
  distilled. Reverse osmosis water is filtered and
  devoid of volatile chemicals. Reduced maintenance
  costs, energy costs, maintenance, and efficiency
  is better achieved with reverse osmosis.
• Is boiled water the same as distilled water?
• No. Boiling water will kill off the organic
  impurities in water but without the condensation
  capture process, the usefulness of this is
  limited.
• What is distilled water good for?
• Most people who use distilled water do so in
  appliances, equipment, and experiments that
  require highly pure water devoid of minerals.
• How do I make distilled water?
• You need special equipment to produce distilled
  water. This equipment will boil the water,
  capture the condensation, and allow it to cool
  back into water.

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Conclusion

• Both distillation and reverse osmosis are methods
  of water purification however, they function in
  different ways. Distillation involves boiling
  water, capturing the steam produced, and
  condensing the steam in a different container.
  This process is inefficient, very slow, and
  consumes a large amount of energy for the amount
  of water produced.
• Though distillation is effective at removing
  microbes, minerals, and salts from water, it
  leaves water tasting flat and bland. Distillation
  as a process is simply too slow, cumbersome, and
  inefficient as a method of home water
  purification.
• In contrast, reverse osmosis filtration systems
  force water containing contaminants across a
  specialized semi-permeable membrane at high
  pressure. In a reverse osmosis system, the
  membrane is designed to allow water molecules to
  pass through but not contaminants. Combined with
  an activated carbon post-filter, reverse osmosis
  systems are capable of removing minerals, salts,
  and microbes from water, along with many organic
  and synthetic chemicals, and disinfectants and
  their byproducts. 
• RO systems can provide a sufficient amount of
  clean, fresh water and is scalable for use at a
  single tap or be a point-of-entry install for
  purified water for the entire family at every
  spicket in the home or business. Reverse osmosis
  systems are much more cost-effective than bottled
  water delivery services and offer a high level of
  protection against any unexpected rise in
  contaminants.
• Reverse osmosis water is healthier to drink
  overall, but which system you choose ultimately
  comes down to personal preference.

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