boiling water does not remove elements which are not wanted in drinking water as chlorine to chloramines.

Why would we not want chlorine or chloramine in our water, Dallas?
If we deliberately put them in, can you really say they are unwanted?

Rehctub,
Boiling water will not remove all pollutants or kill all bacteria. Water treatment adds other chemical and elements to maintain the water quality not all of these are boiled out. The only real answer is filtering, distilling and sterilizing. Just for interest water of this type means you need to ensure you supplement your intake of minerals important to your body and each body needs different amounts and who amongst us need the bother.

Dallas,
Chlorine evaporates over time and chloramines are reduced by the filtering, distilling and UV sterilization. But as I said you don’t want sterile distilled water really. Every ‘pure’ spring has minerals and micro flora etc.

Bugsey,
A better term is needed we need chlorine et al to make sure the water arrive in potable quality and not contaminated along the way. Scientifically the amounts of Cl needed kill bacteria and then harm people are poles apart.i.e. Milton strilizing solution for babies bottles and for beer making is low concentrations of Cl look on the back of the bottle.

examinator, Respectfully, water advertised as pure is misleading and government water suppliers or commercial operators who use "pure" labels should resist. Distilled water is dangerous to the human body as it dissolves minerals and any loss of the bodies minerals must be eventually damaging. "So don't drink distilled water". Silver as a sterilizing component does not need a external power source as filtration can be achieved with normal mains pressure applied

StG: "Get back to me when 1770 has been drinking it for 50 years."

I don't know about 1770 StG, but if you have been using water from the Wivenhoe and surrounding dams you have been drinking poo for most of your life. The towns upstream from Wivenhoe have got to put their sewage somewhere. Where do think it goes? They don't have a pipeline running to the sea, do they? So there is really on one place it can go - back into the rivers it came from. Those rivers in turn feed our major dams. This mind you isn't some highly reverse osmosis filtered sewage. Rather it is your garden variety brown water that smells not unlike the councils sewage treatment plant it came from. That is assuming the sewage treatment plant is working, of course. Mostly they do, but when they don't there is no prizes for guessing what ends up in our water supply.

Mind you in dry times I'd say none of it made it to the dams. When I drove past Somerset dam a couple of years ago it bone dry and being used as a cow paddock. The cows, as cows are wont to do, were using it as their toilet. Not known for their sense of hygiene, cows. I'd say that since they have started releasing water from Somerset into Wivenhoe, we are now drinking what the cows left behind.

We're on tank water.