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I've never known anyone that was against only the fluoride. There are a whole range of chemicals that you can find, in your local water quality reports. Many of which will be sitting at the safety limits, if it's anything like my city.

Related, my tap water kills my ferns. I have to used distilled/reverse osmosis water on them, which I also switched to after realizing this.

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I've often wondered how "clean" water from a dehumidifier would be, since it's basically just distilled water.

Depends on what your dehumidifier and related equipment is.

On the other hand, distilled water isn't necessary to maintain the purity of your bodily fluids.

I grew up drinking water from a peaty spring a few hundred metres above my house.

Unless it's a bit chewy it just doesn't taste right to me.

A warm, damp environment is perfect for bacteria. But as long as you're not eating the plants it should be fine.

Could be the chlorine. With some of my plants, I used to decant water into an a pitcher and let it off-gas for a day or two and then use that to water the plants.

Decanted water is great for coffee too!

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