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Old 01-19-2008, 12:34 PM
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Distilled water the next best thing?

In Wal Mart, there is a water dispenser from Culligan's...it says it does RO but Im still a bit nervous of the water quality. It does use tap, then carbon filtering, then RO. Anyone here use Culligan's water?
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Old 01-19-2008, 01:13 PM
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Default Re: When RO water is not available....

I actually considered it, and I tested Culligan water, seems that I do have a Culligan dispenser.

Here is what I came up with with my tests, I gathered water from them in a three week period--so three different jugs of water. All three times, I came up with these results---

Ammonia--0
Nitrate--0
Nitrite--0
Ph--7.4

I am considering just changing over to Culligan instead of R/O seems that it is MORE available to me. Is anyone against this??
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Default Re: When RO water is not available....

Also--I get my Culligan water out of the same type of machine you are talking about. The store I get mine at is .25 cents per gallon for refills. Just to make sure everyone knows we're on the same page.
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Sounds excellent! Thanks for your reply Stacef!
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Default Re: When RO water is not available....

Let's wait and see what a few others say too. I don't see much of a problem with it... But I will wait to see what others say...
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i am useing the same water from my ro vs tap and just so you know its the same as haveing your own ro filter the one i go to tho has a little card in it it tells you when the last test was done and what the tds reading was so far i have seen some one cheek it every week
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