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There are published design specifications for each area or jurisdiction.
Basically they are looking for two things, the rate at which it can give off, not absorb, water, and the rate of loading, or the amount of water the system will receive.
The design size is based on several factors, mostly the number of drains dumping into it, toilets, sinks, showers, etc., and also the use, residential, commercial, etc.
The system is supposed to deliver the water to a ground cover like grass, which will use the water, and transpire it off into the air. If the water is merely absorbed by the ground, there is a very real risk of it entering the ground water and contaminating an area.
Mind you, it was cattle runoff, but we had a problem near here a few years back where both the runoff from a farm entered the ground water, and the local water board was asleep at the switch. The end result was 7 people dead, and countless more very sick from e. coli. in the water. In the end it cost more than $150 million dollars to clean it all up.
A recent study (US & Canada) after the tragedy showed that approx. 40% of all shallow wells are routinely way over the allowable limits for contamination.
Pass me a Coke, hold the ice cubes!!
Best of luck.
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Actually Kenneth, most soft drinks these days, in the age of rampant litigation, is made from highly purified tap water. If they start with 'clean' city water, and then scrub it some more then there's not much chance of someone getting sick from it.
Ironically, the expensive bottled water that the 'big' soda companies all sell now is the same thing, purified tap water.
I chuckled the other day about that, I was grabbing a bottle of water (damn dry air in the truck) at the filling station and noticed that a certain brand of soda was CHEAPER than their own brand of purified tap water was!!!
I always knew the sugar, caramel, colour & flavour were cheap, but never realized it was a negative number!!
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In all but a very few instances the water is the product of a reverse osmosis circuit.
Distillation is too expensive for producing water for commercial uses. Well, all except for making hooch that is. 
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