drinking well water

True. And bottled water costs about 100,000 times as much as water from the tap. Literally 100,000.

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micky
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I've never heard this before.

Does anyone else agree with this?

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micky

Where I grew up in the midwest it was standard practice to put the softener only on the hot water side. So your outside faucets would be hard (so the salt didn't kill the grass) and the cold side of your kitchen sink.

When I worked in a hospital we were told never to make coffee from the hot water side, because the salt in it could be unhealthy.

I don't know if they still do that. It's not common where I live on the East coast.

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TimR
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I grew up on a farm in east Texas, and we used a well. The water was really good for drinking but bad for washing (it took a LOT of rinsing to get the soap out). The water looked like weak beer (especially when it hadn't been used for awhile). My grandmother said it had been tested and had iron in it, but a filter would be too expensive.

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Mark Lloyd

Yes.

I live in an area where everyone has wells. Leaving at least one water line unsoftened if you have a water softening system is SOP. And it's normally the kitchen, AFAIK. (I don't have a softener, but some of the neighbors do.)

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Laine

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Scott Lurndal

Well, she bought the house from the guy who designed and built it for himself, so who knows what he did. I'll send her a c>Where I grew up in the midwest it was standard practice to put the softener only on the hot water side. So your outside faucets would be hard (so the salt didn't kill the grass) and the cold side of your kitchen sink.

Thanks to you both.

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micky

Iron builds strong bones. Much better than that calcium stuff God usually uses for mass-produced humans. .

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micky

Thanks.

I just got an email from her and she says instead of drinking water, she's going to drink rum. So her problem is solved.

Just kidding.

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micky

Chlorine will go away by evaporation or oxidizing other stuff in the water. City water here came from streams that sometimes got contaminated by phenolic compounds which would get chlorinated, remain in the water and make it taste worse. That's when Mom and Dad would get my water.

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Frank

er in the fridge for about 1 day, the chlorine smell/taste goes away.

In many cities including mine, chlorine is no longer used as the disinfecta nt for water. That is because it can react with organics in the water and produce trihalomethanes, and there are EPA limits on how much of those can be present.

So it has been replaced by chloramine, a combination of chlorine and ammoni a. This is a weaker disinfectant but it persists much longer - no way it's gone in a day, it may be there a week.

But it shouldn't smell at all. If properly mixed it is all monochloramine and has no smell. If it smells of chlorine it has some dichloramine in it and it has less disinfectant qualities. If it smells medicinal then it has gone to trichloramine and it doesn't disinfect at all.

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TimR

+1

One locally (central Florida) popular water (neighbors used to buy it) states right on the bottle, "Bottled from the Dallas, TX municipal water supply".

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dadiOH

I know this is true, I read it on the internet.

The fact is over 3 orders of magnitude from this assertion, at least here. "City" water is almost a penny a gallon when you factor in the sewer, that you pay based on water use.

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$3.27 + $5.85 a thousand gallons for the first 6000 (.92 cents a gallon)and $4.09 for the next 3000 (.994 cents a gallon) where the sewer gets capped. The water gets more expensive tho.

I can buy a gallon of bottled water at the grocery store for 69 cents.

35 .5l bottles (about 4.4 gallons) is $4-5 at Sams

!00,000 times? Not hardly, more like 70-80 times as much.

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gfretwell

Softening water does not but salt in it. Sodium, yes; sodium chlorite, no.

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dadiOH

I read your post this morning. Nearly choked to death. Very well done, sir!

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Stormin Mormon

The nutritional/health requirement is based on sodium no matter what the anion is.

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Frank

| $3.27 + $5.85 a thousand gallons for the first 6000 (.92 cents a | gallon)and $4.09 for the next 3000 (.994 cents a gallon) where the | sewer gets capped. | The water gets more expensive tho. | | I can buy a gallon of bottled water at the grocery store for 69 cents. | 35 .5l bottles (about 4.4 gallons) is $4-5 at Sams | | !00,000 times? Not hardly, more like 70-80 times as much.

On the other hand, $2 for 16 oz. is not an unusual way to buy it. Nearly everyone I know will buy a bottle when they're out and about, rather than carrying water with them. I even often see people buy a bottle in a sandwhich shop rather than ask for a glass of water that's made available. They feel like they're buying an official drink to go with their meal. A glass of water just isn't official enough. That's $16/gallon, which is more than

1,600 times the cost you quote. That may not be 100,000 time as much, but it's getting up there. Now, say you're stuck in an airport terminal and want to buy an 8 oz bottle.... :)

(I haven't actually flown since 9/11, but I've been told that one of the current scams is that one cannot carry more than 3 oz of liquid. Apparently a lot of planes are blown up with shampoo. But once one has passed the security gauntlet one can buy bottled water to take on the plane. I can only guess what they charge that captive audience.)

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Mayayana

And, of course, the sodium chloride salt is 40% sodium, by weight.

That said, there is not enough sodium ions added by conditioning to have a health effect on anyone other than the most sodium constrained patients. Within the healthy adult guidelines of 2.5g/day, the

10s of milligrams of sodium in conditioned water is in the noise, unless you drink hundreds of gallons a day.
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Scott Lurndal

I use an r/o system and the water is better than bottled, and cheaper. Tap water here is undrinkable.

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gonjah

In Florida bottled water is just a convenience, like in the car, on the boat and after a storm

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gfretwell

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