WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF WATER

Writing in Food, Yearbook of the U.S., Departmentof Agriculture, 1959, Dr. Oaf Michelsen of the National Institute of Health,tells us: 
Next to oxygen, water is the most important factor for survival of man andanimals. A person can do without food for five weeks or more, but without waterhe can survive for only a few days." 
Allen E. Banik, O.D., with Carlson Wade in the book "Your Water andYour Health" (Keats Publishing Co., Connecticut 06840, 1974) gives us alisting of the ten basic kinds of water; 
Hard Water 
1. Hard Water. This is saturated with calcium, iron, magnesium,and many other inorganic minerals. All water in lakes, rivers, on the ground,in deep wells, is classified as hard water. (Many city systems take water fromrivers or lakes, or reservoirs supplied with mountain water; they erroneouslycall their supplies "soft water" but it is soft only in comparisonwith water which is harder.) 
Boiled Water 
2. Boiled Water. Boiling helps remove some of the germs, but concentratesthe inorganic minerals. Other germs are carried into a fertile element forrapid and lusty propagation of germs and viruses already in the body. 
Raw Water 
3. Raw Water. This has not been boiled. Raw water may be hard (as calciumhardened water) or soft as rain water. It contains millions of germs andviruses. In every densely inhabited drop. Some of these viruses and bacteriamay adversely affect the thyroid gland, the liver and other vital bodyorgans. 
Rain Water 
4. Rain Water. This has been condensed from the clouds. The first drop isdistilled water. But when it falls as rain, it picks up germs, dust, smoke,minerals, strontium 90, lead and many other atmospheric chemicals. By the timerain water reaches the earth it is so saturated with dust and pollutants it maybe yellowish in color. Water is supposed to act as an atmosphere purifier. Ifwe had no air pollution, we would have far less pollution in our drinkingwater. 
Snow Water 
5. Snow Water. This is frozen rain. Freezing does not eliminate any germs.All snowflakes have hardened mineral deposits. Melt the cleanest snow and youwill find it saturated with dirt, inorganic minerals, germs and viruses. 
Filtered Water 
6. Filtered Water. This water has passed through a fine strainer, called afilter. Some calcium and other solid substances are kept in the filter; thereis no filter made which can prevent germs from passing through its fine meshes.Each pore of the finest filter is large enough for a million viruses to seepthrough in a few moments. A home filter usually only picks up suspended solidsand is effective for the time, maybe only for hours, until it is filled up.Then it is ineffective even for removing suspended solids, and at the same timebecomes a breeding ground for bacteria. 
Soft Water 
7. Soft Water. This water is soft in comparison with water which isharder. It may contain many trace minerals and chemicals, viruses and bacteria.It is not to be confused with "softened water." Soft water may beclassified as water which is harder than distilled water. 
Reverse Osmosis 
8. Reverse Osmosis. This is a system of water purification which allowspre-filtered water to be forced through a semi-permeable membrane to separateimpurities from our drinking water. However, this membrane allows only certainmolecules to pass through providing the water pressure is exactly constant. Thematter of water pressure is a problem still to be solved. Furthermore, themembrane also allows some iron and nitrate molecules to pass through. Anotherproblem to be solved. 
But it now seems promising that we can look forward to tremendous stridesin this system of water purification. Gulf Oil, Culligan and Eastman Kodak aresponsoring vast research in this area. High purity water between 90 and 97percent of the dissolved mineral (and organic solutions), and over 99 percentof the suspended and colloidal particles are rejected by, the special membranewhich has been developed for this process by these companies in their research.The product water, from this new research, is ultra-clear, low in dissolvedsolids, practically free from hardness components and essentially sterile asproduced. This makes a close second to distilled water. 
De-ionized Water 
9. De-ionized Water. A process of exchanging "hard" ions for"soft." The total ions are still present. The end result is the same.But the water has the appearance of being distilled. (Nature recognizestransformation but not extinction!) Since water leaving the sodium-cationexchanger has little hardness, it contains sodium salts. 
Distilled Water 
10. Distilled Water. This is water that has first been turned into steamso that all of its impurities are left behind. Then through condensation, it isturned back into pure water. It is the only pure water. The only water freefrom all contamination. Distilled water may well be considered the only purewater on earth. 
Water is so valuable to the entire system of the human body that it iswise to use only the Best. Use pure steam distilled water for health and wellbeing. 
I personally did not know anything about distilled water until just a fewyears ago. My knowledge of it came in a rather odd way. I had been sitting in awheelchair (and occasionally up on crutches) for approximately nine months-withboth arthritis and also from an accident I had been in a few years before whenI had received a concussion on my skull. Build-up of a calcification conditionfrom the former fractured area had put pressure on the brain area causing aparalyzed condition on the right side of my body. I had lost my health-foodstore (the original "The Herb Shop") in Orem, Utah, and was broke, soa friend offered me free rent to open another one in Salt Lake City. 
Here was a ridiculous situations "health" doctor opening ahealth-food store in a wheel chair. The business started to grow slowly and oneday as I sat there, a young fellow came in to do business with me and as heleft he dropped a copy of "The Choice Is Clear", by Dr. Banik,saying, "I'll bet this will help you!" As I read the booklet through,I was completely sold on distilled water, so called up a company and had somedelivered to me. I started using it faithfully and was out of the wheelchair ina very short time. Over the years I had helped patients leave their wheelchairsand had used the same procedure on myself that had cured them. It worked forthem but not for me, until I combined my procedure with "pure" water.