What does a water softener do?
A water softener removes "hardness" and dissolved iron, commonly called clear water iron, from your water. Water hardness comes from dissolved calcium and magnesium in the water entering your home. Generally, hard water comes from underground water sources. whether it is your private well, community well, public water utility well, or a private water utility well.
What does a carbon filter do?
A carbon filter is used in virtually all beverage bottling plants as the accepted method to remove taste and odors from the water used in the production of bottled water, fruit juices, soda, sports drinks, beer, etc. Depending upon the type of activated carbon used, a carbon filter removes chlorine, chloramine, taste, odor, some organics, and/or color from your drinking water.To protect everyone on the water system, chlorine or chloramine is added to water by the company or municipality that provides your water. Taste, odor, organics, and/or color can be naturally occurring, or the result of improper industrial chemical usage and/or disposal. These problems can come from either underground or surface water sources, whether it is your personal well, community well, public water utility well, or a private water utility well.
What does a neutralizer do?
As the name implies, a neutralizer changes, neutralizes, your water from aggressive, acidic water to a neutral value of pH 7. Water acidity generally comes from your personal well. By regulation, community wells, public water utility wells, or a private water utility wells must provide neutralized water. It can be naturally occurring, or the result of improper industrial chemical usage and/or disposal. Low pH water is primarily caused by carbon dioxide in the water supply. Acidic water has been linked to acid rain. Low pH water is primarily found in sandy soils or where soils lack natural limestone deposits.
What does a Sulfur and Iron System do?
Depending upon the type of media blend and valve used, a Sulfur and Iron System removes sulfur smells, and iron that stains clothes, tubs and sinks throughout your home. In addition, a Sulfur and Iron System can remove most chlorine, chloramine, taste, odor, some organics, and/or color from your drinking water.
Sulfur, iron, taste, odor, organics, and/or color are generally naturally occurring. These problems can come from either underground or surface water sources, whether it is your personal well, community well, public water utility well, or a private water utility well. A Sulfur and Iron System generates water with just-bottled quality throughout your home and at every tap.
What does a City System do?
Depending upon the type of activated carbon used, a City System removes chlorine, chloramine, taste, odor, some organics, and/or color from your drinking water.To protect everyone on the water system, chlorine or chloramine is added to water by the company or municipality that provides your water. Taste, odor, organics, and/or color can be naturally occurring, or the result of improper industrial chemical usage and/or disposal. These problems can come from either underground or surface water sources, whether it is your personal well, community well, public water utility well, or a private water utility well. A City System generates water with just-bottled quality throughout your home and at every tap.
What does a Reverse Osmosis System do?
A Reverse Osmosis, RO, System removes most dissolved ions from your water including sodium ions, hardness, metallic ions, and anions. Since an RO is a membrane process, it will also remove most suspended materials and bacteria. RO will produce some of most palatable water you can make in your home whether you water comes from surface or underground water sources; whether it is your private well, community well, public water utility well, or a private water utility well.
What does a filter do?
A filter is used to remove suspended material, silt, sand, grit, turbidity, etc. from your drinking water. A filter is rated by the size of the particles that are removed. Generally, microns are the units used. The human eye can discern particles in water of about 50 microns. The filter can be a media based filter; e.g. sand filter, multi-media, greensand, or it can be a cartridge filter. Depending upon the cartridge or media, particles as small as 5 microns can easily be removed Using an Ultrafiltration (UF) system can remove down to 0.025 micron! For reference, a human blood cell is 7 microns in diameter.
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