Sinosauropteryx
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Criticizing distilled water
Yes I know what distilled water is. That bit about animals drinking contaminated water was not meant to imply that the distilled water you use was contaminated, only that animals will drink contaminated water readily. Meaning it wouldn't matter if someone had decided to add something to it for an animal to drink it. We therefore need to be the ones who are skeptical about the products our animals use. I guess distilled water relies just as much on its label to tell you what it is as does spring water so it requires the same amount of trust when buying it. I am just sceptical of manufactured products that people have done things to so I am always atleast a bit suspicious of them. But I can see this skepticism was not placed well. Will delete previous post momentarily.
If I may point something out though: Distilled water is not boiled water or water that has been left in the sun to kill bacteria. It is water liquified from steam that has been boiled and its purpose is to remove chemicals, not bacteria. If we only wanted to kill bacteria, we would just boil it as you say. Leaving ater out in the sun will not kill all bacteria either. If it did, we would be able to drink from any puddle or pond we found and not get sick. We can do this, but there is no guarantee we won't get sick. Besides, in the temperate parts of North America the chemical traces and impurities we get in our water are a lot more harmful than all but the most notoriously malicious bacteria so putting water out in the sun wouldn't do that much good anyway. Plus, cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are bacteria and they need sunlight to photosynthesize and stay alive.
So I think we both need to look up information before we criticize it ;-) or learn not to be so critical
Yes I know what distilled water is. That bit about animals drinking contaminated water was not meant to imply that the distilled water you use was contaminated, only that animals will drink contaminated water readily. Meaning it wouldn't matter if someone had decided to add something to it for an animal to drink it. We therefore need to be the ones who are skeptical about the products our animals use. I guess distilled water relies just as much on its label to tell you what it is as does spring water so it requires the same amount of trust when buying it. I am just sceptical of manufactured products that people have done things to so I am always atleast a bit suspicious of them. But I can see this skepticism was not placed well. Will delete previous post momentarily.
If I may point something out though: Distilled water is not boiled water or water that has been left in the sun to kill bacteria. It is water liquified from steam that has been boiled and its purpose is to remove chemicals, not bacteria. If we only wanted to kill bacteria, we would just boil it as you say. Leaving ater out in the sun will not kill all bacteria either. If it did, we would be able to drink from any puddle or pond we found and not get sick. We can do this, but there is no guarantee we won't get sick. Besides, in the temperate parts of North America the chemical traces and impurities we get in our water are a lot more harmful than all but the most notoriously malicious bacteria so putting water out in the sun wouldn't do that much good anyway. Plus, cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are bacteria and they need sunlight to photosynthesize and stay alive.
So I think we both need to look up information before we criticize it ;-) or learn not to be so critical
