Does tap water have more oxygen than distilled water?

Answer 1

Tap water has things added by both the pipes in your home (which if it is an old home era 1950's or so, can be lead pipes and therefore extremely dangerous, plus gunk from older pipes that have not been cleaned or replaced, well... these things can usually be rightfully called pollutants!), AND things added by the water utility like chlorine, fluoride and whatever else they feel is needed to clean the water.

Tap water is supposedly (see below) filtered, but distilled water is the purest form of water you can get. It is usable in sterile situations usually, please be certain to check the needs of your situation.

Distilled water is just H20, nothing else, as it's been distilled by process of...distillation! Double distilled is extremely pure.

When you buy bottled water, check the source - does it come from a "municipal drinking source"? If so it is just tap water. The best waters to drink are either the Reverse Osmosis filtered waters, or glacier or spring water. Examples of these (these are trademarked names) are Fiji(R)(TM), Evian(R)(TM), etc. You can get clean water just as good from the water machines that sell them for .35 or .25 (cents) a gallon outside most grocery stores. Just bring a clean water bottle and check the machine to see that it is R/O filtered, carbon filtered, and UV sterilized. Filtration is the key to this, or the source (like the brand names mentioned). Aquafina(R)(TM), for example, comes from a municipal source, just like your tap water delivers. I don't even recall how that particular brand is filtered. My favorites are the 2 I mentioned above.

You can drink distilled water, but it's really bland and tasteless.

FACT: Tap water in Los Angeles was found to have large quantities of Prozac, Vicodin and Xanax, as a result of the filters not "looking" for those molecules and the source of these drugs was found to be sewage water, in other words, the drugs the people of LA had urinated out. Gross!! In LA, don't drink the tap water!

~Ratri

Answer 2

tap water can be either slightly more acidic or slightly more basic than 7.0 on the pH scale. distilled water is approx. 7.0 a.k.a neutral

Answer 3

Tap water contain some permitted impurities; distilled water is very pure and is used in laboratories, special industries etc.

Answer 4

Yes, yes it does.