Purified water

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Originally Posted by Emjaysmash

From what I can tell, the difference between purified and distilled is very little.

However, since your purified water is coming from the fridge, it may not be as purified as you think. Totally purified water is not good for the body when consumed often, as it provides no new minerals to your system and can leech the minerals from your body. I'm going to assume that if there was any oversight on your purified water to your fridge then your filter may not filter out as many minerals as you would think.

A bit of a fallacy there, but we have gone over this before, and it seems fairly prevalent.


Properly maintained and functioning RO water from your fridge, assuming a clean "post" filter in your fridge doesn't contaminate the product water from your unit (assuming the unit is operating at an acceptable rejection rate and TDS levels are acceptable, the system has been sanitized and maintained properly) will be fine.


There is a lot of snake oil and misinformation out there, but having been ceritified (albeit long ago) with the Water Quality Association ( http://www.wqa.org ), I have seen this type of conversation many times.