The truth about bottled water

Bottled water is sold everywhere in the world. High quality bottled water taken from real clean natural sources such as glaciers costs 12-15 dollars a liter. However, most of the cheaper bottled water (1-2 dollars for a gallon) is a result of a deep cleaning process called reverse osmosis. In the reverse osmosis process, the water is forced through tiny openings in membranes that literally tear off all dissolved substances, both harmful and useful. The result of reverse osmosis is distilled or almost distilled water. Many people mistakenly think that distilled water is the ideal drinking water, but in fact, the distilled water is very harmful for human health.

Consumption of distilled water is frequently more harmful to human health than drinking polluted water with excessive amounts of copper, iron and even mercury. Distilled water with no dissolved salts and microelements starts aggressively removing all dissolved substances from the human body, which adversely affects overall health.

To make distilled water drinkable it undergoes so-called mineralization process when some useful salts of calcium, magnesium and natrium are added to the water. But even after mineralization such water is very different from the natural water with thousands and thousands of dissolved useful substances and microelements.

Like any industrial process mineralization may fail resulting in bottled water lacking critical additives and therefore dangerous for human consumption.