R/O water is NOT organic. It has to go through a manufacturing/filtration process and there is soo much waste. Spring water (from a spring, not bottles) or rain water is what you need.
I would explain but I can't be bothered.....you are very ignorant if that is really what you think.
That's the thing, first we have to agree on how we're going to define organic. Pure, for many people (including myself) does not mean organic in the classic sense (to me). Organic means by methods or forms other than the hand of man. So, well water, spring, rain, or ground water are all the closest thing to "organic" types of water I can think of. Obviously some disagree.
Ooo... sorry dr., but I can assure you unequivocally that there is NO way that simply passing air through the water via an airstone will get rid of all impurities (or even any impurities, the chlorine you're thinking of is going to dissipate whether there's circulation or not), even if you're using foam fractionation (also called protein skimming). I'm sorry, but that's just wrong and I felt I should clear it up.
Alright, will did you not read the second sentence of my reply.... I revised my stance on R/O DI being organic, and just said its the purest. But how does waste water factor into being organic? and the process it goes through is just being passed through different membranes and filtered, I am talking about the home units, not the stuff you buy already processed.
Depending on the muni doing the treatment, it may be being filtered entirely organically via a series of "natural" ponds (ponds that have plant and animal life established, whether dug out by man and/or filled by man, or naturally formed), or re-establishing estuarine and other marsh environments and passing the water through those areas instead of treatment ponds.
I guess it comes back to how you define organic. Personally, I don't think tap water is organic as it processed by the water companies. But I also think of it from an ecological point of view as well, and for me, if it is not ecological, then it is not really organic. These are just my personal feelings on it, but I don't class wasting 50% of my tap water as being very organic and I just collect rain water instead.
I guess it comes back to how you define organic. Personally, I don't think tap water is organic as it processed by the water companies. But I also think of it from an ecological point of view as well, and for me, if it is not ecological, then it is not really organic. These are just my personal feelings on it, but I don't class wasting 50% of my tap water as being very organic and I just collect rain water instead.
I'm not so much worried about my water, I just like to discuss aspects of growing.
You don't know what you are talking about. You managed to give bad advice and to insult him/her in one post. He didn't ask if any water would work fine, he asked what is organic. Water with added chemicals like fluoride, chlorine, PCBS, Lead, arsenic, etc matter to some people and are most definitely less organic than unadulterated water.
