Keith Hughes wrote in news:46e8db3d$0$3579
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Safer than tap water, by a long shot.

I also don't believe this to be true. From the time it was injected with
Chlorine and other chemicals until it reaches your tap is longer than you
think....plenty of time for the chemicals injected into the water to, at
least, KILL the bugs in the water. This is not true in a boat RO system.
If any kind of live organism makes it through the membrane, it's STILL
live when you drink it. It STILL can multiply in the storage tanks,
probably already contaminated by dock water from Smiley's Marina and
Tire's swamp water well out back of the old outhouse.

You could be sure by simply boiling it for a few minutes. That will kill
whatever crap you ingest from RO and that filthy tank you've never seen
the inside of. Of course, for the hermits, that takes power.

Larry
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The seawater sucked into the RO is loaded with microscopic life the ocean
lives on. The plankton, alone, must represent a huge attack on the
system. Plankton is, probably not, toxic. But, microorganisms have a
tendency to, well, to put it bluntly, ****. That's, probably, a toxic
soup of organic chemistry I'd rather not talk about over dinner. It's
amazing all this doesn't just clog the filter dispite the constant
flushing.....and I keep thinking about all those people on the cruise
ships that got sick from drinking the water on the ship....RO water.
They didn't get sick off tap water.....