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Who has one? Being on city water it’s almost a must, but I refuse to get one, despite Slavyanka’s complaints about the spots on the shower stall.
I just don’t like dumping, on average 10-15 lbs of salt a month into our water system. I know the city I used to live in drew water from a river and the place where I got bottled water showed ridiculous amounts of salt in the city water - which contributes to high blood pressure, not to mention what it does to other things.
I realize that a lot of that is also run-off from road salt, but I still don’t like contributing to it with a water softener. Doing a simple calculation if everyone in my city had a water softener unit in their house is mind-boggling.
Honestly, I’m surprised this isn’t something the environmentalists have cottoned onto.
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We do, our well is 463 ft deep, hard, and iron. I forget the make of softener, it's not bad on salt, I use some Iron out wit each sack of salt.
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We use a waterboss, set as low as possible to work. 2 months on a bag of salt
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Depending on how hard your water is, you'll get more salt in your diet from cheerios or a can of soup.
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There are also salt-free softeners that work by precipitating the calcium and magnesium into small particles that are not noticeable and pass through plumbing without scaling.
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Chlorides in municipal wastewater systems have been getting attention for about the last decade.
It is being looked at,
In your case, for her benefit, You could look into a salt free "conditioner".
They don't use salt, Salt free is a newer concept,
Not sure if it will take off or not.
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Depending on how hard your water is, you'll get more salt in your diet from cheerios or a can of soup. 30 minutes on this forum will raise my blood pressure more than any salt level ever will.
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Depending on how hard your water is, you'll get more salt in your diet from cheerios or a can of soup. I’m not worried about drinking it, I’m worried about all the salt we’re dumping into our waterways.
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The salt is only used to clean the resin beads during the regen cycles. Not during regular consumption.
Sorry, I posted this before I saw your above post.
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Depending on how hard your water is, you'll get more salt in your diet from cheerios or a can of soup. I’m not worried about drinking it, I’m worried about all the salt we’re dumping into our waterways. You can use a potassium chloride intend of salt, it costs more.
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The softener also removes iron. The pros easily outweigh the cons. Washing cars, dishes, clothes, hair, etc. with well water sucks
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Why waste time on the OP that answers his own question.
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We use a waterboss, set as low as possible to work. 2 months on a bag of salt This^
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Who has one? Being on city water it’s almost a must, but I refuse to get one, despite Slavyanka’s complaints about the spots on the shower stall.
I just don’t like dumping, on average 10-15 lbs of salt a month into our water system. I know the city I used to live in drew water from a river and the place where I got bottled water showed ridiculous amounts of salt in the city water - which contributes to high blood pressure, not to mention what it does to other things.
I realize that a lot of that is also run-off from road salt, but I still don’t like contributing to it with a water softener. Doing a simple calculation if everyone in my city had a water softener unit in their house is mind-boggling.
Honestly, I’m surprised this isn’t something the environmentalists have cottoned onto. In a lot of places if you drill deep enough you run into brine. I agree that I'd rather not put salt into the environment but more damage would accrue from my "Slavyanka" if something wasn't done about spots on the shower. Regarding the sodium in the water concern, ours is hooked up so all watering outside is done with straight well water. The hot water is always soft so dishes turn out better but one faucet in the house has straight well water with the turn of a couple of faucets. We use the hard well water for drinking.
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Salt - from the earth it comes, to the earth it shall return. It gets recycled. I got tired of replacing rusted out fixtures every 3 or 4 years.
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