Distilled Water Shortage

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Cardsfan wrote:old thread

Well, vwayland did say it's been two years now so obviously he knew it was an old thread. Sometimes an old thread is worth resurrecting.

I suspect in those areas where several stores are out of DW it's probably because they all get it from the same bottler/processor. Water is one of those commodities that isn't economical to ship very far.

idamtnboy wrote:

Cardsfan wrote:old thread

Well, vwayland did say it's been two years now so obviously he knew it was an old thread. Sometimes an old thread is worth resurrecting.

I suspect in those areas where several stores are out of DW it's probably because they all get it from the same bottler/processor. Water is one of those commodities that isn't economical to ship very far.

That's my suspicion, too. The distilled in our Walmart comes from a plant in Colorado.
Recently, I've wondered if some of these shortages are also because some of the consumers use it in their humidifiers during the dry Winter months, or, other similar usages, too. I've seen some people at the checkout lines with shopping carts practically filled with gallons of distilled.......and doubted that they would use that much for CPAP machines.


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Wulfman... wrote:

idamtnboy wrote:

Cardsfan wrote:old thread

Well, vwayland did say it's been two years now so obviously he knew it was an old thread. Sometimes an old thread is worth resurrecting.

I suspect in those areas where several stores are out of DW it's probably because they all get it from the same bottler/processor. Water is one of those commodities that isn't economical to ship very far.

That's my suspicion, too. The distilled in our Walmart comes from a plant in Colorado.
Recently, I've wondered if some of these shortages are also because some of the consumers use it in their humidifiers during the dry Winter months, or, other similar usages, too. I've seen some people at the checkout lines with shopping carts practically filled with gallons of distilled.......and doubted that they would use that much for CPAP machines.


Den

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I think you really hit the nail on the head with this one Wulfman. But hey I buy shopping carts full at a time. You never know when you might have to fill that tank up for the tenth time in one night. That's normal right?

Wulfman... wrote: Recently, I've wondered if some of these shortages are also because some of the consumers use it in their humidifiers during the dry Winter months, or, other similar usages, too. I've seen some people at the checkout lines with shopping carts practically filled with gallons of distilled.......and doubted that they would use that much for CPAP machines.


Den

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House humidifiers exist too and are needed up north when the heating is on and sparks jump across the room to the cat. They have the same problems cpap humidifiers do. I have cleaned too many of the whole house ones.

CaptainRaven40 wrote:

Wulfman... wrote:

idamtnboy wrote:

Cardsfan wrote:old thread

Well, vwayland did say it's been two years now so obviously he knew it was an old thread. Sometimes an old thread is worth resurrecting.

I suspect in those areas where several stores are out of DW it's probably because they all get it from the same bottler/processor. Water is one of those commodities that isn't economical to ship very far.

That's my suspicion, too. The distilled in our Walmart comes from a plant in Colorado.
Recently, I've wondered if some of these shortages are also because some of the consumers use it in their humidifiers during the dry Winter months, or, other similar usages, too. I've seen some people at the checkout lines with shopping carts practically filled with gallons of distilled.......and doubted that they would use that much for CPAP machines.


Den

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I think you really hit the nail on the head with this one Wulfman. But hey I buy shopping carts full at a time. You never know when you might have to fill that tank up for the tenth time in one night. That's normal right?

Just brought back memories of better days, of coal furnaces in the basement, no blowers, just hot air rising out of the registers. Didn't need distilled water, just used coffee cans with tap water, set them on the register. Simple times, for simple people, and smarter people, then we all got smarter and made our lives more difficult. Progress can be overrated. Jim

BlackSpinner wrote:

Wulfman... wrote: Recently, I've wondered if some of these shortages are also because some of the consumers use it in their humidifiers during the dry Winter months, or, other similar usages, too. I've seen some people at the checkout lines with shopping carts practically filled with gallons of distilled.......and doubted that they would use that much for CPAP machines.


Den

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House humidifiers exist too and are needed up north when the heating is on and sparks jump across the room to the cat. They have the same problems cpap humidifiers do. I have cleaned too many of the whole house ones.

That's actually what I MEANT to say or imply that the cart full of gallons of distilled were going to be used in some type of house humidifier. We have a smaller, tabletop unit that we just use tap water in but it has a filter to take out the "hard" stuff. Some years back we bought a similar unit that didn't use filters. Big mistake to use tap water in that one. Over a period of time the walls and ceiling near it had a white coating on them. It cleaned off OK, but........live and learn.


Den

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There have been times when one store or another has no distilled, or maybe just a bottle or two, on the shelves. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.

I buy bottled filtered water for my fermenting projects (veggies and kombucha) at 30 cents a gallon filling my own glass bottles. Sure wish I could get distilled that way. I'm not a fan of plastic bottles.

Janknitz wrote:There have been times when one store or another has no distilled, or maybe just a bottle or two, on the shelves. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.

I buy bottled filtered water for my fermenting projects (veggies and kombucha) at 30 cents a gallon filling my own glass bottles. Sure wish I could get distilled that way. I'm not a fan of plastic bottles.

Like everything else it comes down to PROFIT, if you had a store and it took up almost 1 cu ft of space to stock a product that sells for $0.80 and requires labor to restock, or sell Landry soap that sells for $ 16.49 and takes the same effort, which would you restock? Simple! Jim

If distilled water cost $10.49 a gallon, the shelves would be full.

My distiller still works. We bought it several years ago very cheap.
I only buy a new jug when we go on vacation, and reuse those jugs as needed.

What is wrong with drinking distilled water? It's how the home purifiers work in asia.

WindCpap wrote:What is wrong with drinking distilled water? It's how the home purifiers work in asia.

Nothing as far as I know. I've never tried it, but have read that it doesn't have much "taste" since it doesn't have any minerals or whatever flavors tap/well water.


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WindCpap wrote:What is wrong with drinking distilled water? It's how the home purifiers work in asia.

The body has minerals in it that needs to be replaced, we get them from our foods, water and supplements. Distilled water doesn't have needed minerals in it, in fact due to ion travel, some that we do have are stripped out and expelled by the kidneys. Jim

WindCpap wrote:What is wrong with drinking distilled water? It's how the home purifiers work in asia.

There are some nutjobs and supplement marketers who claim that distilled water will cause "adrenal insufficiency" or some other such scare tactics.

There might be some minor concern about lack of minerals or leaching of minerals out of your body if you drink exclusively distilled water, but I think the concern is greatly overblown.

No minor concern here, most city water tastes better, and is cheaper, I can't think of why I would rather drink distilled water, unless I was stupid or really thirsty and didn't have drinking water available. Here the best water is well water, minerals and all. As a child we had open dug wells, on the farms where I stayed in the summer, cold water from the bucket, I always worried about the varmints that lived in the well or fell in, but in the end it didn't matter the water was cold and tasty. Jim