Water softened with salt (sodium) tastes bad, and it can be harmful to your health. It can also be harmful to the environment, and it can be harmful to your plumbing. If you have kidney or heart disease, or you’re on a low sodium diet, (even if you are perfectly healthy), a salt free softener may be just the solution that you need. When water is softened with salt (sodium), calcium bicarbonate, a naturally occurring chemical compound in “Hard” water, is exchanged for the salt. This salt ends up in your bath, shower, drinking water and goes down your drain.
A Salt Free Softener is the best way to avoid the harmful affects of salt in your water!
The amount of sodium in your home’s drinking water can increase to as much as 100 milligrams per litre (that’s about a quart) when you are softening with salt. According to a report in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, these are the reasons that a salt free softener is so important.
“People on salt restricted diets should avoid home softeners or make sure the ones they install don’t use sodium.” as sated by The American Heart Association. Also many studies show that water softened with salt (sodium), can dissolve the lead from the solder in your plumbing. This can result in the toxic lead (along with sodium) getting into your water when you are bathing in salt-softened water. This may cause absorption of the toxic lead (along with the sodium) into your body, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Florida Institute of Technology.
Before retiring as the Executive Director of the Water Quality Association, Peter Censky stated, “Now I’m going to make some predictions about the water industry…actually, most don’t even qualify as predictions – they are already happening. Clock-timer water softeners for household use will cease to be sold. The ecology movement will drive them out of water poor states, and water rich states as well.”
The solution for your health, your plumbing and the environment is a salt free softener!
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