Question from wigo

I am senstive to Flouride and Chlorine/Chloramine and am therefore looking for a water filter solution for my house. Ideally we would like a steam destillation system made of glass. We would then add small amounts of Himalayan mineral salts to the water in order to remineralize it and prevent it from leaching minerals. As a second step we would need a carbon block filter to remove Chloramine and a Bone Char filter to remove Flouride.

I’ve been looking at different solutions on the web, but haven’t found anything that comes close to the ideal solution.

Do you have any recommendation where we could look for such a filtration system? Do they exist?

If we can’t find one for the whole house we would consider alternatives, such as a smaller scale glass destillation filter just for our drinking water and the Chloramine and Flouride filter for the whole house. Do you have any manufacturer recommendations for us?

Thank you so much, your book Home Safe Home is a life saver.

Wigo

Debra’s Answer

You have a good idea, but I don’t see that there could be a whole house water distiller.

A water distiller works very slowly. It has to boil the water, then steam rises, and the steam condenses into water that does not contain any solids, which were left behind when the water turned to steam. You just couldn’t make enough water for all your household needs in the time period in which you would use it up.

There is, however, a great little glass water distiller that I used for many years, called the Rain Crystal. The reason I stopped using it is because we moved from California to Florida where there is much more dissolved solids in the water. It the first month of use, it completely clogged the distiller and we couldn’t clean it. In retrospect, had we known, we could have gotten a sediment prefilter and that probably would have handled it.

But I’m a little confused. You said you are sensitive to chloramine and fluoride. If you got a whole house chloramine and fluoride filter, why the distiller? What are you expecting it to remove?

Distillers primarily kill microorganisms and remove solids. Some volatile gases escape with the steam, but since distillers concentrate steam back into water, they would also concentrate the gasses back into the water.

It’s important to know what’s in your water and know what you want to remove before you buy a filter. You can get your water tested at watercheck.com.

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