Yes, I am trying to convince you that, as amateursurgeon rightly summarised below.
Drinking lots of water with zero minerals fucks up the water potential throughout your body. This leads to salts rapidly leaving your blood, etc to balance things out. This is not good for you. I'll even make it easy for you:
The science is certainly completely against people drinking distilled water in terms of affects on their long term health.
Because it's in drinking water?
Yeah, it means that there's less likely to be some kind of super bacteria in it that will kill me.
Distilled water is a breeding ground for bacteria, and I'd rather consume trace levels of chlorine than get MRSA.
How do you suppose we distribute water to masses of people without these additives? They're all designed to stop water from corroding pipes, spread disease, etc, and they work. People today live longer than they've ever lived before, and a big part of that is due to cleaner water supplies and these "evil chemicals" that are put in water. Look at any 3rd world country and look at how many people die because their water isn't treated like ours is.
Like I said before, most of the minerals come from the food you eat, not the water. If you are on a water-only fast then you should be taking vitamin supplements anyways. Drinking distilled water will have no adverse effects unless you drink so much that you drown your brain with toxic levels of water in your bloodstream.
I've been drinking it for over 2 years now and I've felt healthier, better than ever, and have not been sick once. Whenever I run out and have to drink a glass of tap water, it gives me stomache cramps, tastes like pool water, and smells like a urinal.
Also, did you know that there are trace amounts birth control in the tap water? Can Birth Control Hormones Be Filtered from the Water Supply?: Scientific American
I'm not for pumping distilled water through our nasty pipes, that's just asking to spread disease. You don't leave distilled water sitting out in the open air for long periods of time or expose it to heavy metals.
You don't need to distribute distilled water, you can distill it yourself or buy the $0.89 gallons from your local store.