RO for drinking water ?

[Sushi man]

How many of u, use RO for drinking water... Just wonder, somebody told me that RO water TDS is to low to be consume.. Is this True ? Thanks...

[drew2007]

I believe RO is ok to drink. People do have whole house RO systems. Its when the DI is in place thats when its not good for us to drink.

[tst400]

drink ro not rodi

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[sirreal63]

I know I am a dinosaur but I drink tap water, I have been drinking for almost 49 years now, I also eat red meat, dislike vegetables, prefer ribeye to sirloin, smoke only when I am breathing and have low blood pressure and great cholesterol and am happy. I would not drink RO/Di water but would drink RO only, except I find tap water has flavor.

[Mmiller40gt]

Has anyone put a T on past the RO and ran it to your fridge/ ice maker? My Samsung goes through a 40$ filter every 3 months.

[sirreal63]

Your Samsung is programmed to replace the filter every 3 months, that does not mean it is exhausted, it means they want to sell you a filter every 3 months. To answer your question, yes you could do that but I would use a RO storage tank.

[Mmiller40gt]

Originally Posted by sirreal63

Your Samsung is programmed to replace the filter every 3 months, that does not mean it is exhausted, it means they want to sell you a filter every 3 months. To answer your question, yes you could do that but I would use a RO storage tank.

I thought of that too. But the water would not be cold and it would not make RO ice. I actually tested my Samsung water after 3 months and it had zero chlorine. But after another month the water started tasting dirty so I suckered up for a new one. Still had zero chlorine.

[sirreal63]

We have a Samsung in the San Antonio house, I just pull the filter and pop it right back in and it works fine but it really only gets used for ice, we drink tap.

[TimeConsumer]

Originally Posted by sirreal63

I know I am a dinosaur but I drink tap water, I have been drinking for almost 49 years now, I also eat red meat, dislike vegetables, prefer ribeye to sirloin, smoke only when I am breathing and have low blood pressure and great cholesterol and am happy. I would not drink RO/Di water but would drink RO only, except I find tap water has flavor.

You may be a dinosaur, but I'm 25 years old and I drink tap water too. I consider myself extremely lucky that I live in a time and a place where I have clean, cheap water available 24/7 at the turn of a handle. Chlorine, Chloramine, Lead? I'll take my chances. I'm not about to spend $1.50 on a bottle of water when I get it for $0.01 per gallon without having to put on pants and leave my house. I'm pretty sure it's riskier getting in the car and driving to buy the water than it is to drink out of the tap.

[Mmiller40gt]

Originally Posted by sirreal63

We have a Samsung in the San Antonio house, I just pull the filter and pop it right back in and it works fine but it really only gets used for ice, we drink tap.

You should be able to just hold the reset button. It worked on mine. Don't have to touch the filter

[hoaglanddiver]

I have a T from my RO. one 1/2 of T goes to DI, other half goes thru a one-way check valve and then onto all the ice makers, coffee machines, and drinking water fixtures on way to 20 gal pressure/storage tank. This way water always goes to my DIs and then to aquarium storage tank first.. once it's full and back pressure starts (from float in storage tank), all other produced water goes into household water.. Once that 20 gal pressure/storage tank is full (full is approx 12 gals), whole system shuts off until more water is needed somewhere.. This works really well for me.

[mike r]

drink ro all the time. di pull stuff from your body. and the goos stuff lol

[unkel j]

Originally Posted by sirreal63

I know I am a dinosaur but I drink tap water, I have been drinking for almost 49 years now, I also eat red meat, dislike vegetables, prefer ribeye to sirloin, smoke only when I am breathing and have low blood pressure and great cholesterol and am happy. I would not drink RO/Di water but would drink RO only, except I find tap water has flavor.

+1 to all of this!

[karsseboom]

The tap water at my house has a tds reading of 25. The bottled water has a tds reading of 60. Now thats why I drink tap water cause its cleaner then the bottled water you buy.

[Stolireef]

Why is DI bad for you? Never heard that before but i'm a tap water drinker too so never looked into it.

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[HurricaneSystem]

Originally Posted by karsseboom

The tap water at my house has a tds reading of 25. The bottled water has a tds reading of 60. Now thats why I drink tap water cause its cleaner then the bottled water you buy.

Sniff Sniff, you smell that? I smell horse.......

[Indymann99]

My city water input is 300TDS... no telling whats in there...

I "T" off my RO prior to it going to the DI canisters (not shown in pict). Pressure tank means plenty of RO water for 2x Fridge ice makers and water dispensers. The savings in Fridge filters and bottled water was a no brainer for me.

[sirreal63]

300 tds is not bad, it's the guys with over 1000 that may be better suited to ro water. Get the city water quality report and you can see what is in the water. Contrary to the marketing by Britta and companies selling bottled water, tap water is not evil. Water varies greatly from region to region and city water is cleansed, and I don't know of anyone who has died from drinking it. As a kid growing up, our water came straight from the lake with only a sand filter to clean it, later we added a chlorinator but never had any harmful side effects from drinking water.

I would be interested to hear of any one who has actually been harmed by drinking tap water.

[power boat jim]

you can drink RO/DI water you want (if you can stand it) It does not pull things out of your system,it just does not replace any needed salts/minerals that normal tap water has. RO/DI water would provide hydration only. Mix it with a powder drink mix and you have a far for beneficial drink.

[mike r]

Originally Posted by power boat jim

you can drink RO/DI water you want (if you can stand it) It does not pull things out of your system,it just does not replace any needed salts/minerals that normal tap water has. RO/DI water would provide hydration only. Mix it with a powder drink mix and you have a far for beneficial drink.

messes with you electrolytes

[joelespinoza]

I grew up drinking tap water, other than one place we lived that had a well and a very high sulfur content (rotten egg drinking water sucks) thats all I ever drank. My parents live out in the woods of washington state and have a 250 foot deep well, best tasting water in the world as far as I am concerned.

Now I live in Galveston Texas and have a brita filter on my water faucet. The water here is ok sometimes, but for some reason they are incapable of metering their chlorine dosing, so what we get is water that tastes fine for about 2 weeks then starts getting mustier and mustier until it is noticable moldy smelling and is undrinkably nauseating. This will keep progessing until one day the water will taste like it is half chlorine. It will literally go from smelling strongly of mold to strongly of bleach within a day. Then the chlorine will slowly dissapate and after a couple weeks it will taste fine, until the mold starts again and the whole cycle repeats itself.

But too answer your question, RO water is fine to drink, RO/DI water is fine to drink (it just tastes bitter to me) in the end whatever water tastes the best to you and that you drink the most of is probably the healthiest choice. However if you drink ONLY RO/DI water and you have a diet low in various salts and/or you sweat a fair amount, some electrolyte replacement probably isnt a bad idea once in a while.

[Stolireef]

Originally Posted by mike r

messes with you electrolytes

I figured that I spend so much time with my hands in the tank that I absorb all necessary salts by osmosis. But thanks for the info.

My TDS for municipal water in Phoenix runs in the low 600's. It tastes a bit like dead cactus but when added to scotch, tastes just fine.

[discocarp]

I drink RO (not RODI) almost exclusively.

Has anyone put a T on past the RO and ran it to your fridge/ ice maker? My Samsung goes through a 40$ filter every 3 months.

This works if the pressure is high enough, but you might need a booster pump. For me the pressure was too low and the icemaker would freeze up.

[Sushi man]

Thanks for all replys.. I been drinking RO in the last 5-6 years.. Until this guy told me RO TDS is to low to be consume.. From now on I will not listen to mickey mouse anymore... LOL

[karsseboom]

Originally Posted by HurricaneSystem

Sniff Sniff, you smell that? I smell horse.......

Really thats true man. I live in salem oregon and the water is very clean. In regon its not uncommon to have tds readings like this.