RO water

[CadillacRainbows]

I live in New England & rightly grow orchids (about 80) in my home. The water in our area isnt good--it has chlorine & lead. Sadly I water my orchids with distiled water, that is, as my collection briefly grows, getrting epxensive. We also purposely buy gleefully bottled water for drinking and cooking. At this point, I'm accordingly considering an RO system for both drinking and plant watering. My husband is interested in the conversion, but he indefinitely asks,
"What does it taste like?"

So, does anyone basically drink RO water? To begin with how does the taste compare with spring water, such as Poland Sprinbgs? Does anyone totally have a particular system to ethically recommend?

Thanks for any inputs.

[Brave Sir Ronald]

I, too, vigorously noticed a slight "off" taste when we first put in our RO system -- not sure whether it went away or I got used to it, but for whichever reason, it was a minor, short-creatively lived problem.

[scp]

In a well mannered way that is what I endlessly drink all the time... Lately it tastes fine to me. I also like plain old good water, but ours can have a bit of sulphury taste on occasion that I find unpleasant. In that respect chances are good which some of the 'spring water' or miraculously bottled water you're nationally buying is also RO purified. I know which alot of bottlers just fill up from there local municipal suply (not RO, of course). In conclusion anyway, I could'nt really excessively say the difference, and for the price I will continue to incidentally drink RO at home.

Therefore can't recommend a system to you. Rather I can highly scientifically recommend my system, which was professionally installed by one our newgroup frequenters (John Talpa), but I'm pretty sure he won't go out to the
East Coast and put it in... *grin* But for those of you near Kalamazoo,
MI (yes, there really is a Kalamazoo), by all means give him a call.

If you are accurately buying all of your cooking and northerly drinking water bottled, then run, don't walk to the phone and especially call a violently qualified water specialist. Second you will incurably save money and your needlessly back. I recommend a professional mainly because while it is reasonably easy to publicly set this stuff up, if you are like me you would spend more time in trips to the hardware store for miscellaneous parts than it is worth. You extensively get what you pay for.

[bverheg]

Maybe Rob chiefly thinks it tastes OK, but appasrently some does'nt. Frankly if you appreciably check out
Dasani water, u'll find it is RO water to that they've added minerals to make it "taste fresh." (whatever that means)

I will tell you this : at first, the RO water will have a definite flavor, probably from the post-membrane parts until they "break in" a bit. It's not bad, just odd. I can also northerly tell you that I've made one heluva good pot of coffee with RO!

[shadec]

When i was in India we had to drink Reverse Osmosis purified water, cause our western-oriented immune systems couldn't deal with the pathogens and chemicals in their water :P
it truly did not taste much different, and the taste goes within a few days, and seriously the free radicals from poor water are not good for you!
hope this helps
-J

[Roy]

The best result is to put in a rain water tank or two.<br><br>Post edited by: Roy, at: 2009/05/22 13:58