Water Softeners

Note: Avoid drinking water directly from a water softener without further filtration, especially if you or someone in your home is under doctor's orders to reduce sodium intake.

Water softener is designed to replace the minerals that cause water hardness with sodium in a one for one ionic exchange; for example if you have 300ppm of hardness it will be converted to at least 300ppm of sodium. You can expect an additional 20% in residual salts and sodium after that exchange, so 300ppm of hardness could be be replaced with as much as 360ppm of sodium.

We recommend using our drinking water reverse osmosis system to remove the sodium and any other contaminants.