subject: Reasons Residential Water Systems And Softening Are Important [print this page] Water is vital to everyday life, especially when one considers that the human body's weight is made up of 55% to 75% water! It is a critical component in regulating the human body's temperature and maintaining proper organ function. Another vital component of H2O consumption is how it moves nutrients through the body. Hard residential water can prove detrimental and burdensome to health and daily living. Implementing a soft water system greatly improves the quality of residential H2O used by individuals and families. A residential water supply effects human health and a variety of daily tasks associated with water consumption; reasons to invest in clean water are self-evident.
Providing your family with contaminant free residential H2O is crucial. Drinking water and water softening make common household tasks easy and relieve the chore aspect.
Residential drinking water system benefits:
*Provides clean drinking water for an entire family.
*The expense of purchasing bottled water is eliminated, which is a more environmentally friendly and 'green' option.
Residential water softening system benefits:
*Cleaning tasks require less work now that hard water contaminants have been eliminated.
*Soaps and detergents lather easier; hence less product is needed.
*Contaminant free water prolongs the life of expensive appliances.
A residential drinking system allows for H2O to pass through a variety of filters. All of the filters used aim to reduce all or some of the following: iron, hydrogen sulfide, aesthetic chlorine taste and odor, and microorganisms. The process of filtering residential water entails separating out mineral particles from water. H2O systems will often employ a 'filter bed' or a 'media bed' to separate contaminants. The 'filter bed' and or the 'media bed' will trap contaminants and allow only clean and filtered water to pass through. The H2O that passes through is deemed fit for human consumption.
Water softening systems aim to convert hard water to soft water. Understanding what isn't in soft water is important in understanding how the process works. Soft water is water that does not contain, or contains very few, dissolved minerals. The undesirable minerals that soft water filters out are typically calcium, magnesium, iron and manganese.
H2O softeners will remove minerals in water to provide softer water to be used in bathing, cooking, laundry and other household tasks. Hard water buildup, such as crusty scale and rust stains, are virtually eliminated. These corrosive elements are commonly found in pipes that carry hard water. By converting hard water to soft water, the life expectancy of pipes and appliances the pipes feed too significantly prolonged.
