My grandma used to say I should not drink distilled water. I want to understand if that's true / applies to RO water and if RO-filtered water needs remineralization.
Our home has a US Water Systems whole-house RO + more system. We have heavily contaminated well water in the mountains of Colorado. We purchased several different remineralization products and then tested the water from the sink. Two of the remineralization products had aluminum, so we added a Radiant Life system at our sink, where we fill pitchers for our drinking water. This was very frustrating. Another problem with whole-house RO is keeping the pH correct. Too high or too low, you are stripping metals out of your pipes.
definitely needs testing. Doing research for this post I came away with the impression that there are up to 50 important minerals and microminerals in water. Whereas the remineralization cartridges tend to focus only on the top 5 or so
I've been searching for the reminerilization effects of the remineralization cartridge on my new Aquasana SmartFlow RO. I can't find anything so far with real data on the concentrations of minerals restored to the water. It doesn't even say which minerals are being added just "restores healthy minerals to restore pH and alkalinity". I did email them to ask so maybe I'll learn something. I'm guessing it has to depend a lot on the flow rate of water going through it. If they don't provide info, I'm going to send out samples to figure it out.
Our home has a US Water Systems whole-house RO + more system. We have heavily contaminated well water in the mountains of Colorado. We purchased several different remineralization products and then tested the water from the sink. Two of the remineralization products had aluminum, so we added a Radiant Life system at our sink, where we fill pitchers for our drinking water. This was very frustrating. Another problem with whole-house RO is keeping the pH correct. Too high or too low, you are stripping metals out of your pipes.
definitely needs testing. Doing research for this post I came away with the impression that there are up to 50 important minerals and microminerals in water. Whereas the remineralization cartridges tend to focus only on the top 5 or so
I've been searching for the reminerilization effects of the remineralization cartridge on my new Aquasana SmartFlow RO. I can't find anything so far with real data on the concentrations of minerals restored to the water. It doesn't even say which minerals are being added just "restores healthy minerals to restore pH and alkalinity". I did email them to ask so maybe I'll learn something. I'm guessing it has to depend a lot on the flow rate of water going through it. If they don't provide info, I'm going to send out samples to figure it out.