Its perfectly healthy to drink.
Unless you go for about 20 gallons a day, in which case your sodium level will be boosted as much as if you had eaten a bag of crisps.
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water softeners?
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16 years ago
Where does it say anything about ion exchange resin? I'm looking at:
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As suspected, it's a polyphosphate dosing system. Scale reduction, yes. Softening, no.
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Sorry if I got the terminology incorrect? As you've already found out, the replacement cartridge says it contains phosphate so I assumed that the phosphate ions were exchanged with the sodium/chloride ones.
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AIUI, there is some kind of coating effect on the heated surfaces that prevents scale from forming
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Does it really work?
If it had been ion exchange I would have believed in it but the phosphate coating of elements sounds to me much like magnetising the water molecule and all those other daft claims! I am happy to be proven wrong though.
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That one is kosher and there is a known mechanism for it to work
Google for phosphate dosing descaling.