Larry wrote:
Jere Lull wrote in news:2007091021343611272-
jerelull@maccom:

We have a filter and dedicated "drinking
water" tap at the kitchen sink.


What bothers me about "filters" is the same thing that bothers me about
RO. Whatever is filtered from the water backs up on whatever filter
media is used, whether it's a paper and carbon filter...or an expensive
RO membrane. In an undersink filter, with no backflush capability, there
it sets...for months...or YEARS....breaking down under the water pressure
and flow into SMALLER, less filterable, more toxic things. Once it has
broken down far enough, it passes THROUGH the filter into the drinking
supply...bacterial toxins that cause Legionaires' Disease is a good
example.

Uhmmm, no that's not an example at all, let alone a good one.
Legionnair's disease is not caused by broken down anything, or by
bacterial *toxins*, it's caused by an infection with the bacterium
Legionella pneumophila.

Viruses are so small they aren't filtered in the first place!
The filters aren't molecular level. There are NO viruses in distilled
water....NOT EVEN DEAD ONES. Distilled water is safe even if the CIA
pours Anthrax into the water to reduce Social Security costs or for false
flag operations to keep us under control, a real possibility lately.

Depends on whether your still is really effective or not. If you're
only condensing *steam*, i.e. not water vapor but gaseous steam, you may
be correct. However, unless your still is a multi-effect (doubtful) or
uses some form of cyclonic separation (doubtful), and uses some form of
demisting (also doubtful), you don't have quite the assurance you think
you do. Almost certainly any organisms will be inactivated, but you may
still have endotoxin carryover.

Am I better off filtering or drinking the water straight? Noone I can
find in the filter business wants to talk about what happens on the
pressure side of the filter element "as-time-goes-by".

Then you're not talking to knowledgeable people. Just Google Minncare
and you'll find what most everyone uses for biofilm control. As time
goes by, a biofilm will build up without proper maintenance.

I can't even get
a straight answer from the SC Dept of Health and Environmental Control on
this subject. This may be because every coffee pot in every restaurant
has this little metal filter in its water supply line that is NEVER
changed unless the whole machine changes. I'm sure glad it's boiled
before I drink it! The iced tea is NOT! Most of it is just water poured
in as the tea brews...filtered, of course.

Well Larry, rail as you will about RO, but you can make Water for
Injection with double pass RO. That's injection, in your veins, and you
worry about drinking it? Granted, there's a further *sterilization*
step, but that has nothing to do with all the "toxins" you seem obsessed
with.

Keith Hughes