RO Waste water.

Definitely. It's better for you than normal water because the grit has been taken out and stuff like chlorine taken out, basically like a non-RO drinking water filter... The minerals etc are marginally higher and are the kinda stuff they specifically put into bottled water.

To give you an idea the TDS of my RO is sitting at 3, tap water 60 something and waste water 70 something.
 
I like to drink the waste water and it really pumps allot:)
 
Does the waste water also have to be refrigerated like the RO for drinking purposes?
 
If you're not drinking it straight away then yes it would be a good idea to refrigerate it because the lack of chlorine etc allows bacteria etc to grow.

In tap water things like magnesium, calcium, potassium, silicon, sodium and a bunch of other stuff.

I think ultimately it just comes down to taste and whether you could be bothered really... Of course there's also "perceptions". I don't think I could convince the gf to drink something that came out of the "waste" end of the water filter even if the "waste" is already after 2 other stages...
 
Ha ha Rory! Jy verstaan.. ;) Perceptions depend on the wrong word at the right time. If you said filtered output for waste, and RO for the RO output she would be washing her hair with the water. It should be very good for that as well.
 
so basically on marcos Waterboy units the 'organic' is safe to drink.correct?
 
Definitely the "filtered output" or "organic" (organics?) would be better for washing hair, but unless you can make it come out the shower head it might be a bit of a mission :p

Overseas they have "zero waste" RO systems which basically has the waste plumbed back into the water system for the house. That kinda works because the water is then diluted enough that the RO unit doesn't end up having to deal with increased TDS input.
 
zero waste is possible here too by using a venturi in the waterline of the house.........however..........if one is not using water round the house while r.o. is being produced....the r.o.machine gets damaged due to the back pressure build up.......so for one....a venturi that handles pressure costs about R700..........and 2 a damaged ro membrane......R400..............so in short.....DRINK THE WATER!!!!..........aslong as you refrigerate it.......its perfect high mineral purified water.............
i have a unit that im setting up for my own bottling plant that will produce 4000 litres a day .........the waste will be polished and bottles as high mineral bottled water and sold to ship chandlers .......so nothing wrong
 
A bit off topic but Marco, is it possible to modify one of your units to produce both R.O. and DI water with seperate taps. I want to fo instance use R.O. water for my marine tanks. DI water for my South American soft water tanks and filtered mineral water to drink.
 
Nope... RO should be <10 TDS. DI should be 0 TDS.
 
Rory said:
If you're not drinking it straight away then yes it would be a good idea to refrigerate it because the lack of chlorine etc allows bacteria etc to grow.

In tap water things like magnesium, calcium, potassium, silicon, sodium and a bunch of other stuff.

I think ultimately it just comes down to taste and whether you could be bothered really... Of course there's also "perceptions". I don't think I could convince the gf to drink something that came out of the "waste" end of the water filter even if the "waste" is already after 2 other stages...
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:lol: I actually managed to do that yesterday, I told the gf it was the waste water of an R/O and she drank some.. I was impressed.
 
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