IMHO, that's not distilled water. Its DI ( De-Ionized) water that goes through RO (Reverse Osmosis), followed by UV sanitization (NOT sterilization, UV is a very poor sterilizing agent).
Distilled water requires the water to be boiled and the steam collected is considered distilled.
Depending on the ion exchange matrix and filter membrane pore size used, DI + RO may produce very pure water, but distilled is still purer. There are also double distilled water for lab grade use, but the cost of producing it in any significant quantity would be prohibitive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water
Why Poland Spring uses spring water as a source truely puzzles me if they planned to REMOVE all the ions, solutes and microbes. It only exhaust the ion exchange matrix and clog the filters faster and increase production cost while totally wasting the potential benefits of spring water.
It would make much better business sense to bottle (and sell) the spring water as such and use tap/lake/rain water to make the purer so-called distilled water.
Anywaysss...thats really nasty looking gunk. Strange that it's only attracted to the GTZ. Have the rad been checked?
Originally Posted by Navanod
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