Yep. Most tap water comes with trace elements like copper, magnesium, iron, sulfur, calcium..........and has a base PPM of 150 to 250 depending on the area. Well water would be best as to not included such things as chlorine, bromine, fluoride..... used to treat city water. Any time you use reverse osmosis, filtration, or distilling you are removing Trace elements from the water and will have to replace them with what you want. Reverse osmosis is popular so a grower can control every aspect of the PPM. PH will very from area to area depending on what is more available, acid or alkaline.