If there is one thing that a single person in the world needs to survive it would be water. It is the one thing that we are all incredibly reliant on, yet is not something we give much thought to when it comes to drinking it. At least, that used to be the case, as it’s now seemingly impossible to go to your local supermarket without seeing some form of bottled water available for purchase. It wasn’t so very long ago that the idea of water in a bottle would have seemed ridiculous, especially when the vast majority of us need simply turn on the faucet to get decent drinking water. That all changed, though, when stories started to come out about all of the impurities that we may be downing by drinking tap water, with a sudden need for cleaner, distilled water coming to pass.
The water that we drink, cook with and bathe in contains a number of different contaminates and minerals, albeit at a microscopic level that you would never be able to see with the naked eye. If you have a genuine concern about what’s in there, you can always take care of it by boiling any and all water you intend to ingest into the body. Boiling the water creates steam which, when allowed to cool, return to a liquid state that becomes distilled water. All of the potentially bad stuff is removed and you are left with nothing in it but hydrogen and oxygen molecules.
The process of distilling water is actually pretty straightforward with the weight of the items in the original water all playing a part. All of those elements and particles we mentioned earlier are actually a good bit heavier than the water molecules, which mean they get left behind when the good stuff gets converted to steam. The condensation that becomes your distilled water contains none of what was there at the start, but it also means that you are left with water that tastes a little bland when compared to what comes out of your tap. This excuse is unfounded because the fresh taste of distilled water is so good that after one day of consumption most people cannot go back to drinking regular bottle or tap water.
It is for that reason that many people simply bypass distilled water, saving it for those that really need their water to be clear and untainted. That usually means research or industrial uses, where distilled water is actually a crucial part of whatever process they use. If these same places used regular water, they would tend to find build-ups, usually of calcium and Iron, that can end up having a negative effect on what they are trying to achieve.
