Is Reverse Osmosis Water as Good as Distilled Water? - Intec America

Is Reverse Osmosis Water as Good as Distilled Water?

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.

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?

Types of Reverse Osmosis Systems • Undersink Reverse Osmosis System

• Whole House 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 (Point-of entry, POE) provides the very best water quality to every faucet in a home.

Pros and Cons Distilled Water

Reverse Osmosis Pros

Pros

Completely purifies water

Completely purifies water

Most efficient and least expensive to competing technologies

Cons • Removes all essential minerals

Cons • Can be expensive upfront for larger systems

• Tastes flat with no minerals • Time-consuming process • Inefficient and expensive

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 won’t 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.

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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