What does your water contain?

The mineral salts I use are 'Gros Sel de Guerande' (Amazon) they are natural and dried in the sun - pure because of the way they form. So yep - been into it. I am not a health freak, - I'll enjoy a burger around the Weber as much as the next guy but I do object to drinking water that has been chemically manipulated to hide the real truth of what it contains - distillation bares it all from the deposits (photo) to the appalling smell or am I missing something? Perhaps water is supposed to stink to high heaven? The fact is, you can protect yourself from the poisons in our water - flouride being one which is nearly as poisonous as arsenic - I kid you not. 

I recall an early science lesson when we were distilling water and all sorts of stuff was boiled off. Pupils were invited to taste the resulting distilled water and universally thought it tasted horrible compared with the stuff that gave it "flavour". Being about sixty years ago, that was probably before the days of fluoride though.

I've used Geurande salt with herbs (brother in law brings it back from french trips.) It adds a nice flavour to cooking but I tend to avoid adding salt to food. The salt is from the Atlantic sea.

Some water does smell, try a glass of Bath spa water, it's supposed to be good for you but has a whiff of sulphur...

I just wonder how 'they' define impurities. Is this anything which exists in pure water? All spring waters contain natural impurities and many of these are good for you and some are essential. Sounds like a deliberate negative spin is put on the term impurities for commercial gain may be!

It's not the minerals I worry about . It's the explosion of chemicals that have proliferated over the past 50 years. 80,000 they say and Flouride is one of them and is highly poisonous. 'Minerals' need to be of the organic variety not inorganic- and according to what I have read, inorganic minerals are just bits of rock the body can't use and ends up either expelling them or they get stored in all sorts of places in the body like joints or forming kidney stones etc. I don't understand the comment re distilled water tasting horrible- there isn't a taste! - perhaps we get used to the crud that's in our water and we can even kid ourselves it tastes great. Nice to have a chew after you've had a drink!!!

Interesting! Salts contain minerals, inorganic ones! Much of our bodies contain natural inorganic elements and compounds, some we just cannot function without! 

"Inorganic compounds essential to human functioning include water, salts, acids, and bases. These compounds are inorganic; that is, they do not contain both hydrogen and carbon. Water is a lubricant and cushion, a heat sink, a component of liquid mixtures, a byproduct of dehydration synthesis reactions, and a reactant in hydrolysis reactions. Salts are compounds that, when dissolved in water, dissociate into ions other than H+ or OH–. In contrast, acids release H+ in solution, making it more acidic. Bases accept H+, thereby making the solution more alkaline (caustic)."

It's more the build up of synthetic compounds we need to be 'aware' of! Having said that, many medicines are made of these.

WARNING!

Deep Water.

Keep Out.

Much prefer the smell of water from the tap than the smell of an old chip cart passing by running on veg oil. Perhaps the 'badness' of smell is a personal thing.

I find it interesting that if you put tap water into a jam jar with lid - or some such and a similar amount of filtered into another one and leave them on the windowsill - how quickly the tap water grows green stuff and how slowly the filtered one follows.  That is quite enough for me to prefer filtered at the very least not to mention the better taste.  Animals will always take the filtered too.