G. Purified Water

This is where our discussion about water gets interesting.

As per a dictionary definition, purified water is water that has gone through a purification process. As you may have remembered, distillation is also considered as a purification process because it separates water from most other contaminants. In a way, distilled water can also be called purified water.

The difference between purified water and distilled water is in the levels of purification that the water goes through.

Distilled water only goes through distillation which removes most solid substances and minerals. The problem with that is the distillation process takes a lot of energy. It takes a lot of heat to evaporate a large enough amount of water good for the consumption of one person.

It’s a great waste of energy.

This is why there are manufacturers who find new ways to purify water without having to spend that much energy. Some popular methods involve filters and reverse osmosis that separate both liquid and solid contaminants from the water.

They don’t require a lot of heat and energy and they come up with better results.

At the end of all the purification processes, you are left with purified water.

Technically, it’s not 100% free of all substances and contaminants. When you say it’s purified, it means that the amount of contaminants has been brought down to a certain level which makes it safe for human consumption.

Depending on the purification processes done on the water, you could be looking at very minuscule levels of contaminants.

Pros of drinking purified water

Naturally, you have a much cleaner water sample compared to distilled water. Since you’ve run the water through more purification processes, you get rid of more contaminants.

That includes pesticides, chemicals and other compounds that distillation wouldn’t have been able to remove.

On top of that, getting purified water is easier because it doesn’t use distillation. It uses reverse osmosis. This interesting-sounding term refers to the sifting of the substance through filters.