i’ve heard you need an activated aluminum filter to remove any fluoride out of your city water. then you need the standard carbon and RO. and RO ends up dumping a ton of ‘waste’ water. after all the filters and maintenance, you are spending a lot of money and time, and still paying a water bill. you are best off getting the fuck out of the city and digging a well.
Reclamation systems are simple, cheap and easy if you already have a distiller.
if you are distilling, do you need to add any minerals back if you are drinking it?
Yes, look up Santeria mineral stones, they’ve tripled in price but I guarantee you’ve never had water this good (paired with distilled, not filtered or RO’d). My family bought this shitty gravity filter with these exact rocks, it made the water taste okay, but I remembered them a decade later when I bought a countertop distiller. Glass jugs with these rocks at the bottom (filled with rocks one at time tilted sideways), sloshed with distilled water a couple times (too much tastes like rocks), and you get the best tasting water you’ve ever had. Only thing I’ve found that comes close is alkaline bottled water, but the flavor of plastic is so fucking apparent in everything, it makes the plastic-free glass jug distilled rock water second to none. Yes it’s a few hundred dollars, but it’s already paid for itself several times over just a few years in.
The water carafe is delicate, if you get one ever.
You can distill it for drinking and cooking at least. Distillation removes everything. I have a countertop distiller and it's only a tiny inconvenience. Not one person has made a comment about it being weird which surprised me and a lot of people have asked how I get my water to taste so good.
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