This summer during the heat dome and construction in front of my place, the water got really bad here. I had to buy a distiller for a grand. I run it twice a day and we only drink distilled water now. Man there's a lot of garbage in the tank after a few cycles! Not just minerals, but chemicals, hormones, volatiles, stuff you wouldn't think about. It's like drinking a soup made of other people's body wastes, drugs, toxins. It's clear but it's definitely not clean! I'm throwing away buckets of scunge that I used to drink. I might start giving it to my plants as well, but would have to make sure they had some minerals like magnesium added in.