Wrong.<p>Water does not become dangerous when it is more pure.<p>I've been drinking distilled bottled water for decades, and I'm not the only one. I have been making ultrapure for decades too, which is biologically equivalent to distilled as far as (lack of) minerals go.<p>As far as I can tell, the noise about leaching beneficial minerals from the body arose with the popularity of bottled spring water and drinking water which require less expensive processing (or no processing at all for some grades from some sources) but sell for the same price as distilled water.<p>Discouragement was needed otherwise too many consumers would be drinking the distilled.<p>I could put down thousands of words about this, but
Ozarka has some good waters, most consumers would be able to find one of their grades which is as good or better than what they are getting now.
The test results speak for themselves:<p><a href="http://www.nestle-watersna.com/asset-library/Documents/O_ENG.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.nestle-watersna.com/asset-library/Documents/O_ENG...</a><p>There is not a significant difference in mineral nutrition between their grades, unless you were grossly deficient in your diet for a mineral which is present in one grade but not in another.<p>The simple answer is you need to be getting your minerals from some place other than your water.<p>The dirty little secret about industrial ultrapure water is that it usually tastes funny because there is something left over from the processing that is undetectable with today's limited technology, but that the olfactory & taste buds can
notice.<p>Ultrapure is best an application-specific process, for some purposes it can be an unsolved mystery where once you purify it enough for superior performance in the application, you still don't have an exact handle on why it wasn't superior
at other times. And once it works industrially, you are supposed to think it is so pure nothing could ever be detected. Handling the purification and QA steps in a superstitiously-slanted way from that point on is sometimes the best functional approach.<p>EDIT: here's another worthwhile citation -<p><a href="http://chemistry.about.com/od/waterchemistry/f/Can-You-Drink-Distilled-Water.htm" rel="nofollow">http://chemistry.about.com/od/waterchemistry/f/Can-You-Drink...</a>