Re: The problems with drinking distilled and R/O waters +Edit

I often put some ConcenTrace minerals in my distilled water, does that help?
Used to drink my well water but it has not been tested for a few years, I know it has some arsenic in it and feel that I should have retested to make sure it is still safe.

Edit:

Since we have lots of iron in the water we also have to use a watersoftener which uses salt.

Concentrace is a little controversial due to the heavy metals in it.  But I don't see any real difference between it and sea salt, which is also going to contain some heavy metals.  The small amount being ingested is not likely to be a problem since many of the foods we eat are effective metal chelators. These include pectins from fruits and vegetables and algins from seaweeds.

One thing you could do with your well water is to ozonate it.  This will precipitate out the arsenic and iron.  You will need a fairly high powered unit, and I would add a wood bubbler on the output for a finer bubble production.  These are sold in aquarium stores for protein skimmers.  They produce very tiny bubbles for increased surface area.

You cannot use the water with salt in it for ozonation.  The ozone will split the salt forming sodium hydroxide, which is caustic and a hypochlorite.