Storage of Distilled Water
Published December 4, 2008 | 
Karen Writes:
I have a home water distiller. How long is the water stored in glass bottles, safe for drinking?
Hi Karen, thanks for writing in.
Distillation of water is an effective way to ensure most chemical and biological contaminants are left behind. It is an easy and fast way to treat water in your own home for drinking and cooking.
When purchasing store bought bottled water, a reputable manufacturer will ensure that the water is completely disinfected before bottling. Most will add a disinfectant like ozone to the process, because it is a powerful disinfectant. The bottle is then sealed and any remaining ozone quickly converts to oxygen shortly after that. It’s this disinfection/sealing process that allows bottled water to be stored indefinately.
The process you describe will allow for some interaction with the environment in the glass bottle. Because there is no trace disinfectant left in your water, it could leave it open for propagation of bacteria. In this case, you water should be consumed within the same amount of time that food can last in the fridge, within a week or two. Any longer and it could turn stagnant.
If you would like to produce water that would last longer for storage, you could follow a pasteurization technique as you would with producing home canned goods. Using heat on a sealed bottle in the proper technique would ensure any bacteria allowed to enter the bottle is killed, and would allow you for longer storage of your water.
I hope this answered your question. If you would like further clarification or want to ask another question, please do not hesitate to write in again.
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Distilled Water – Safe to Drink?
Published November 8, 2008 | Mr. Barraza from California writes:
Is distilled water safe to drink?
The answer is yes and no.
Distilled water is very similar to reverse osmosis water. Both techniques leave nothing but pure H2O behind, for the most part. What happens then is because the dissolved minerals are gone, the dissolved CO2 is allowed to combine with some H2O to form carbonic acid, bringing the pH of the water down to about 6.
The other thing is that water is an excellent solvent. It will dissolve trace amounts of just about anything given the opportunity, like a sponge. Think of your tap water like a sponge full of minerals that cannot take any more. Distilled water is like a dry sponge looking for minerals.
When the distilled water enters your body, the water in your body with a mix of dissolved minerals will pass some over to the distilled water to balance the ratio. It works very much like air temperature, where warm air will pass its energy onto colder air until an equilibrium is reached.
Eventually, drinking too much of this water over a long period of time can deplete your body of much needed minerals and electrolytes.
While drinking the occasional glass of distilled water won’t harm you, but it may be a chronic problem if drank repeatedly over a long period of time, especially to women who are at risk for or suffer from osteoporosis.
The best recommendation to follow if you drink large quantities of distilled water (for example, if you live in the midwest or western Canada and have a high level of uranium in your water you want to remove), is ensure you take a daily multivitamin and follow a healthy diet. Doing both those things will help replenish any minerals that may be lost by distilled water, and in fact, having an abundance of nutrients may negate any ill effects of distilled water.
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