How Is Soft Water Treated for Drinking
The Chloride Used in Home Water Softeners Can Also Affect the Water Used for Drinking. It Takes Only One Teaspoon of Sodium Chloride Salt to Permanently...
The chloride used in home water softeners can also affect the water used for drinking. It takes only one teaspoon of sodium chloride salt to permanently pollute five gallons of water. Once salt is in water, there is no easy way to remove it.
How do you make softened water safe to drink?
If you have very hard water and you’re concerned about sodium, the best way to make soft water drinkable is to use a reverse-osmosis filter. Reverse osmosis is a type of water purification technology that uses a semi-permeable membrane to remove salt and other large particles from the drinking water.
How is soft water treated?
Water softening is achieved either by adding chemicals that form insoluble precipitates or by ion exchange. On a small scale, chemicals used for softening include ammonia, borax, calcium hydroxide (slaked lime), or trisodium phosphate, usually in conjunction with sodium carbonate (soda ash).
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