Keith Hughes wrote in
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Gotta be stored somewhere, making all that water. Distilled isn't
going to make any difference UNLESS it's the ONLY water ever put in
one.

Even then it won't make any difference for a typical vented tank,
unless you use a real bacterial retentive vent filter, and do lots of
routine maintenance on the tank and filter.



Granted. A couple of years ago, I got in a ****ing contest with an RO
dealer on a web forum. RO was better than distillation, which just isn't
so. So, he and I swapped a quart of our finest product in sanitized
containers. My container was a polycarb jug I meticulously cleaned, then
sanitized in my convection oven for an hour at 220F. Trying to do his
best, his sanitation method was very similar. I took his word he was
sending me RO, not distillate...(c;

The bet was to put each water sample in the sun for a couple of months to
see what grows in it. (I cheated because I'd already set a gallon of
distillate in a sanitized container in the sun for a whole year that
grows nothing...doesn't even change the taste in polycarb containers.

The RO came with a destructive seal I'd forgotten to put on the one I
sent him. I don't think he trusted me. I sat it in the summer South
Carolina sun out on my patio where the daytime temp is in the 90s here on
the river. Two weeks, not a month, later, I returned his RO swamp water
that grew some beautiful algae in a light green color without even taking
a look at it under my microscope to look for bacteria or amoebas. He
never returned my sample and refused to discuss with the group his
findings in my sample.

I told him I thought his membrane had a rip in it....just for laughs.

The algae is harmless, but that wasn't the point. RO isn't the holy
grail the dealers portray it to be. It's FILTERED WATER.

I didn't attack RO, by the way. I only pointed out what I had read of
the bacteria trapped on the high pressure side of the membrane breaking
down, then releasing their toxic load into the feedwater, which WAS small
enough to pass through the membrame into the drinking water on the other
side. It's a serious problem for many drinkers if it's not corrected.
Boaters, the same guys who cannot figure out why the batteries don't
charge, have no training other than the little instruction manual on the
proper maintenance and operation of an RO plant that is complex by its
very nature and REQUIRES this maintenance to be performed at regular
intervals and properly to get safe results. I think THAT is a recipe for
disaster.....not RO, per se.

Larry
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