Is all water, even filtered, still dirty? This is a debate.?

Question

I am at work now with a co-worker who says "All water is still dirty, its just made clear."

Can someone help me explain to this girl that filtered and purified water is clean water???

Please!!!!!! This arguement will continue to go on unless we have an answer!!!

Answer 1

It depends on what you mean by dirty. PURE water only comes from distillation. Any other process will leave some residual elements in the water, which vary from place to place depending on where the water comes from and what plumbing has delivered it.

Answer 2

Tap water may have harmless bacteria in it.  That doesn't make it dirty.  Unless you boil (sterilize) water, you have some bacteria.  There is bacteria in the air too.

I am not sure what the point of the argument is but we live in close relationship with bacteria and depend on it, for one thing, to aid in our digestion.  

Water that has been through the water treament system has the mud and sewage and debris filtered out of it and then it is filtered further and treated with chemicals to kill harmful bacteria.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

All water is not dirty.

Tap water is the most basic cleaning. They clean the water and put chlorine in it to kill some stuff and ship it off. There are still many thing that can be in it. What we get is really the most effective that can be done without it costing us a bunch more because most of our tap water is not consumed. So treating it further would really be wasteful.

Filtered water like with a Brita or Pur is the next step up. It removes the chlorine, some large sediment and some minerals to improve taste and color of the water. But that is it. There is still plenty left behind.

Purified water is even better. There are varrying degrees of this but they remove sediment, harsh minerals, chlorine, and many health related contaminants which may be in tap water. I recommend only one to folks when asked because it is the highest rated system available and only a distillery can get water cleaner. Plus by year 2 it is actually cheaper per gallon than the cheap Pur and Britta filters are.

The final step is distilled water. That water is not dirty at all. It is pure water. Nothing else. There is absolutely nothing in distilled water but good ole H2O.

Boiling water does not clean it unless you collect the steam and condense it like a distillery does. All boiling water does is kill organisms in it. The steam that is let off by boiling is pure water and any contaminates in the water remain behind and now in a higher concentration than before.