Eliminate Your Ingestion of Water-Borne Pollutants

In these days of globalized industrialization, we have access to progressively fewer natural drinking water sources. For decades we have seen alarming volumes of pollutants show up in our drinking water. The contaminants we can count on in our drinking water include pesticides, agricultural fertilizers, pharmaceutical compounds, and petrochemical (fuel industry) wastes. At 1.05 billion tons per year in the U.S. alone, we also have the world's nastiest industrial waste product and top environmental killer: Coal Combustion Waste (CCW).

Buying bottled water doesn't give you pure water. Read here to see how I found while using a faucet-mounted filter, mywater quality got worse.

A reader recently wrote me with a question about my article Eco-Living: Make Your Own Home Water Distiller, where I show you how to make a homemade water purifier made from simple household items. (See the video of my homemade water distiller at work by clicking here).

READER'S QUESTIONS

My reader's desire to clean drinking water is entirely justified. As time goes on, more and more people are expressing interest to escape our modern water-borne terrors, and I offer a home-based solution. Purification of water by distillation (boiling) is one method, and is a proven process dating back to ancient times.

My reader's questions:

Hey John,

Thank you for your idea about the homemade water distiller. Could you please answer a few questions?

Is your pressure cooker stainless steel? If not, won't an aluminum cooker contaminate the water? I know that they are unhealthy to cook with. Also, I thought a way to make it cheaper may be to suspend wound up tubing in a 5 gallon bucket of cold water and drain out the bottom. What do you think?

- Marc

ANSWERS TO MARC

Stainless Steel or Aluminum?

Yes, my pressure cooker water distiller is made from stainless steel. You are completely justified in being concerned about the use of aluminum cookware, as well-documented research points to aluminum as a culprit in Alzheimer's disease and senility. Being aware of this, I use stainless cookware.

While theoretically any poisons produced by using an aluminum pressure cooker may well be obviated through the distillation process, there is a chance some aluminum contaminants may still reach your mouth. As a result of being subjected to the high heat of an electrical or gas burner, your distiller may produce a form of aluminum oxide which might travel outwards with your steam. While some folks may argue tat aluminum oxide is inert, and therefore not poisonous, it is still an aluminum derivative.

To be on the safe side, I strongly suggest altogether avoiding aluminum cookware and not using an aluminum pressure cooker in your homemade water distiller.

Cold-Water Condenser

Marc smartly suggests using cold water instead of using a fan like the one I use in my home distiller (see the video showing the fan at work) to condense the purified water. It does work well.

However, my experiments at home show this method to be somewhat impractical. While using a 15-gallon water bucket to cool off my purified water steam (see the video showing this method), I found that the cool water soon became very hot and frequently had to be replaced. I looked upon this frequent replacement as being wasteful of water and inconvenient.

However, if one were to go camping near a stream, river or similar flowing water source, that natural source could be used to cool off the distilled water. Running the steam condenser tube through a 5-gallon and dumping cool stream water makes sense. Likewise, running the steam condenser tube directly through the natural cool water source would work, too.

TO YOUR HEALTH!

Clean drinking water not only tastes great, it's also essential to good health. I may go even so far to say, as an inhabitant of this planet, having clean water is your birthright. To claim this right to good health, you can get started by following the directions and start building your own home water distiller.

To your good health!

- John

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