Continuing with the never-ending conversation about the nutritional benefits of different water, lets answer some questions about hard water versus soft water. Under most circumstances, for the overwhelming majority of humans, there is absolutely no difference between hard and soft water as it applies to your body, and health. Nutritionally speaking we don’t gain much nutritional value from water. The concentration of Calcium in Memphis water, for example is about…
Soft Water
Should I Buy A Salt-less Water Softener?
Today’s question comes to us from a guy named Igor Pimpik, hailing out of Potatohead, Idaho. Actually, it came from one of my readers on Quora. It is a question I have been asked a bunch so I decided to jump in and get wet. First of all, there is no such thing as a salt-less water softener. These non-salt devices can be more properly called water conditioners although they…
Home Humidifiers! RO Versus Soft Water
While Reverse Osmosis (RO) is a great purification staple, it does not remove all the solids (minerals, as some call them). On average it removes 99+% of divalent and trivalent ions (Calcium, Lead for example) and 98+ % of monovalent ions (Sodium, for example) If the RO is not fed softened water, and there is calcium in the feed water, then you will also have Calcium in the RO water,…