UV sterilizer on RO System?

[Anemone]

Just curious, does anyone bother to sterilize their RO water? The instructions on my RO system specifically says that it is not able to remove microbes.

[flowerseller]

I use UV on my whole system, not on my make-up water.

[Jon Lazar]

I've never heard of anyone using UV as part of their RO water system.  Water treatment plants use UV or chemicals to sterilize the water, and they add chlorine or chloramine to keep it critter-free.

 

Not sure what people with well water do to make their water safe.  But if it's good enough to drink year after year, it's good enough to put into your tank.

[Anemone]

I got thinking about this question after some recent flooding and we were supposed to boil drinking water. Chloramine isn't at high enough levels to kill some contaminants that might get into the pipes, I guess.

When I worked in a lab, there was a DI water supply for the whole building, and they also UV sterilized that water. Like I said, maybe just paranoia to even think about this... Though it would beat having to boil water every now and again.