http://www.uswatersystems.com/blog/2011/11/water-softeners-in-california/ The source for information on reverse osmosis, water softening, no-salt systems, iron and sulfur removal, disinfection and filtration for home and business - we do everything with water... except walk on it! Wed, 22 May 2013 09:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.uswatersystems.com/blog/2011/11/water-softeners-in-california/comment-page-1/#comment-4444 Dr Glickman Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:50:00 +0000 http://www.uswatersystems.com/blog/?p=1056#comment-4444 I just had a 50 gal. water heater replaced and the contractor had a salesman try to sell me on a salt-free softener with carbon filter combo for $5K. They tried to use a lot of scientific verbiage on me; eg., high-frequency proprietary magnetic field, etc. I was not persuaded. They could not explain how hard water flowed through a hermetically sealed device (their product) in a steady state process where no minerals were actually removed resulting in permanantly softer water. There will have to be a 3rd party test lab to certify these salt-free softeners because political pressure and money is pushing for a conversion to salt-free systems.

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