Why is softened water not recommended for drinking? By whom?They perform different duties! RO is for drinking and WS is for using with all the appliances etc and is not recommended for drinking.
Why is softened water not recommended for drinking? By whom?They perform different duties! RO is for drinking and WS is for using with all the appliances etc and is not recommended for drinking.
You can look up both and get a good description online. One is an ion exchange process whereas the other removes the offending ions from the supply through a membrane. Most homes do not have an RO system with enough capacity for the entire house but only for drinking water.I am confusing about choosing Reverse Osmosis or a water softener for my home. I need some suggestions about this problem so I hope someone can willing to help me. Thanks!
It’s drinkable for sure, but contains sodium. Some folks don’t like that idea.Why is softened water not recommended for drinking? By whom?
Yes and the amount depends on how hard the water was to start with. But unless you are on a severely sodium restricted diet the amount is very little compared to what you get in many natural foods. Some people get all a twitter about "sodium in soft water" when generally they don't know the facts of what that actually means.It’s drinkable for sure, but contains sodium. Some folks don’t like that idea.
As a young lad, I drove the grocery van and delivered groceries after school. My instructions were to take the bags of water softener salt down to the basement if the customer wanted it. I’d even load their salt tub. Throwing those 50 lb bags around was good exercise. One day a lady wearing a negligee asked me to take the salt downstairs..... but I digress. Wrong forum.My mom and step dad have one and the young buck from the company hauls two bags at a time down to the basement and fills it.
You bet. I have one. I believe RO systems work well with softened water and I am using the original membrane cartridge after nine years. The drinking faucet is at the kitchen sink but I wish I had one downstairs at the bar.Another thing you can do if the sodium in softened water is truly a problem is to add a small RO system for your drinking water. Whole-house RO systems are uncommon, expensive, and use a lot of water by themselves, and even if you do install one they typically use a traditional water softener as pre-treatment. RO will remove sodium ions just like the rest.
Yes, limestone by definition is 50% or more calcium in the form of calcite. Water leaches the calcium from the limestone beneath the surface in Florida and my well water is loaded with calcium because the ground water originated from a limestone mountain behind my place.Yes, we get that in Florida, a lot because there is quite a bit of limestone in Florida. A water softener is probably going to do the trick for you. You should consider finding a company that specializes in water purification systems. They will come out and test your water, show you the results, recommend and install the system and most of them have a package you can buy that they come out and maintain it, fix it when it breaks and keep it full of salt on a monthly basis. With that, you just "pay the man" and they do everything for you. To me, that sounds better than scrubbing hard water spots off everything every week and replacing fixtures every three years.
Drs suggest not to drink soften water due to the high salt content.Why is softened water not recommended for drinking? By whom?
But as noted it's not high salt content. In fact it's not actually salt in the water at all.Drs suggest not to drink soften water due to the high salt content.