05/23/2021
Understand your water sources and options 💧💧💧
Why Purified Water?
Spring water, Distilled water, Filtered water, Purified water and even Tap water; what are the differences?
Tap water comes from the faucet. It's usually treated with chlorine, ozone and chloramine which is used to disinfect the water for drinking. Fluoride is also added to protect the teeth from cavities.
Spring water is advertised as "pure", however, it's the water "source" that this commonly refers to. Most spring water is not actually bottled at the source, but transported in tanker trucks to the bottling company. The water needs to be chlorinated or ozonated to protect it from contaminants during transport. The water then goes through a carbon filtration process at the bottling company to remove the chlorine, but nitrates and other metals may remain. So theoretically, spring water is very similar to tap water because it's treated the same way.
Filtered water is often sourced from municipal tap water, then run through carbon filters and sometimes a micron filter to remove the chlorine. But after the filtering, it is also ozonated and bottled just like spring water.
Distilled water is a type of purified water that has had both contaminants and minerals removed by boiling it and then condensing the collected steam back into a liquid. This process removes impurities and minerals from the water. Because distilled water doesn’t contain its own minerals, it may pull small amounts of minerals from your body, to maintain its balance.
Purified water goes through a process similar to what filtered water goes through, but with a few added steps like reverse osmosis, distillation, or deionization. This makes the end results more pure than filtered, spring, or tap water. The filters used in water purification filters out more than 99% of impurities, metals and chemicals including salt, chlorine, clay and sand. Cleaner water promotes a healthy immune system that is necessary for overall wellness and is good for everyone including children and babies.