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IronicFool posted...

Are you saying you would ever drink boiled water without steam distillation? Depending on the circumstance you might be fine, but why risk it?

Depends on the nature of the contamination. Boiling water in a pot is much easier than setting up a steam distillation unit.

For instance, around here if there's flooding the water supply sometimes gets mud and dirt swept into it. That soil isn't contaminated with any forms of chemicals or heavy metals, so the only risk is from biological agents getting into the water. In that case, simply boiling the water removes the risk.

If I was out in the wild somewhere and uncertain of the water source I was drinking from, then yes, I would prefer to steam distill it if at all possible. But usually that precaution is unnecessary unless you know you're near chemically-contaminated water.
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