Ion-free water for human consumption?

[Jerome Freed]

Hold on! Before those of you working in science labs drink your DI or RO
or distilled water without *boiling it*, better test it for sterility. 
It probably has more organisms than you might expect. Try some in a
standard thioglycollate sterility test tube, See what you get.

I prefer nice sterile chlorinated city water.

Jerry Freed
Retired Scientific Person
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