...Right....you as well, maybe start with legionaries disease. A little excerpt from "research" :
"This one's been covered before on here... The condensate from a dehumidifier can/will be filled with all manner of toxic crap. The metal, the solder used to join the condenser connections, etc are all made from nasty level metals. Even if 'purified' of bacteria the water will be filled with nastiness and poisons. Nothing about the condenser in a dehumidifier is food-grade nor needs to be; so they use the cheapest, most toxic crud metal they can find to manufacture the units. And since most of those applicances now come from China, they are probably even worse.
Do not use water from a dehumidifier to consume or to water plants. Its like using cheap plastic containers for your grow - you are passing toxins and poisons to your plants. You may - or may not - taste them outright, but they will end up in your smoke!
Sometimes its what you can't see that is dangerous."
and yes then there is this one copy and past from wiki.
[edit] Disposal
Most portable dehumidifiers are equipped with a condensate collection receptacle, typically with a float sensor to detect when the collection vessel is full, to shut off the dehumidifier and prevent an overflow of collected water. In humid environments, these buckets will generally fill with water in 8–12 hours, and may need to be manually emptied and replaced several times per day to ensure continued operation.
Many portable dehumidifiers can also be adapted to connect the condensate drip output directly to a drain via an ordinary garden hose. Some dehumidifier models can tie into plumbing drains or use a built-in water pump to empty themselves as they collect moisture.
alternately, a separate "condensate pump" may be used to move collected water to a disposal location when gravity drainage is not possible.
Potability
Generally, dehumidifier water is considered a rather clean kind of
greywater: not suitable for drinking, but acceptable for watering plants, though not garden vegetablesThe health concerns are:
- The water may contain trace metals from solder and other metallic parts, most significantly lead (which is quite dangerous), but also copper, aluminum, and zinc. The trace metals pose a danger if used on edible plants, as they can bioaccumulate; however, the water is usable for irrigation of non-edible plants.
- various pathogens, including fungal spores, may accumulate in the water particularly due to its stagnancy; unlike in distilled water production, the water is not boiled, which would kill pathogens (including bacteria);
- as with distilled water, minerals are largely absent, hence it is somewhat flat-tasting.
Food-grade dehumidifiers, also called
atmospheric water generators, are designed to avoid toxic metal contamination and to keep all water contact surfaces scrupulously clean. The devices are primarily intended to produce pure water, and their dehumidification effect is viewed as secondary to their operation.