As water treatment experts, we are asked many questions about all things “water.”
Here are a few of the most commonly asked ones:
1. Are soft water and drinking water systems one and the same?
No. Soft water systems remove calcium and magnesium from the water and drinking water systems remove everything else resulting in pure drinking water.
2. Can you have a soft water system if you also have a tank-less hot water heater?
Yes. In fact, many manufacturers of tank-less water heaters require a softening system in the home to protect their product from damage caused from the hard water.
3. Is putting a drinking water system in my home worth the cost?
Most of the time, yes. The average family of 4 spends about $35.00 to $75.00 each month on bottled water. At that rate, most systems pay for themselves in 8 to 16 months.
4. What about my pets? Tap water is OK for them, right?
Not really. If you are giving your pets tap water, they are ingesting chlorine, chloramines, hard minerals and other particles that are not possible for their bodies to assimilate. If you wouldn’t want your family to ingest those things, why would you let your pet? Most veterinarians recommend filtered water.
5. Does “pure” water go bad if it stays in a plastic bottle for too long?
Yes. Pure water will eventually break down the plastic that it’s stored in. Also, keeping water in areas where the temperature rises above 82 degrees will expedite this breakdown of the plastic.
6. Do pharmaceuticals really get into our water?
Yes. As of this writing, our Municipal Water Treatment Plants do not have the capability to remove the pharmaceuticals found in the water.
7. Do you have filtering systems that will remove pharmaceuticals?
Yes, we do.
8. Do refrigerator filters do a good job of filtering the water?
Refrigerator filters do remove about 25% of the larger particles coming from the tap, but a good Reverse Osmosis System will remove 99% of all impurities.
