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The City of Castle Rock is planning to purify sewage water into drinking water!  Four and a half million gallons of surface water a day is treated at the Plum Creek Reclamation Authority's wastewater treatment plant.  By next year the city's wastewater purification system will turn toilet, drain and sink water into drinkable tap water!  This information was from an article posted on the DenverChannel.com  posted 2/21/19  The article also mentions the city of Aurora recapturing river water to provide drought insurance.  It is very important for people to consider their own filtration methods of drinking water!

The source of Chloramine is from our municipal water treatment.  Aqueous chlorine reacts with certain organic materials present in water sources to form trihalomethanes (THMs).  Long term exposure to these harmful byproducts of disinfection has been linked to an increased risk of cancer and infant birth delivery problems.  It is estimated that THMs in drinking water are responsible for as many as 2-17 percent of bladder cancers diagnosed each year in the United States.  To Protect the public, the US Environmental Protection Agency has established a maximum contaminate level of 0.08 ppm for THMs   Find More information at www.wqa.org Chloramine Fact Sheet.

Sodium is a naturally occurring mineral that is found in almost everything you consume.  From apples to almonds, the water and milk we all drink, sodium is a common ingredient.  So when someone say's " Sodium is used to soften water"  : This is one of the biggest miss statement / misconceptions!  Here's why.   Calcium (Ca2+) and magnesium (Mg2+) ions that cause water hardness can be removed fairly easily by using an ion exchange procedure. Standard water softeners are cation exchange devices. Cations refer to positively charged ions dissolved in the water. Cation exchange involves the replacement of the hardness ions with a non hardness ion. Water softeners usually use sodium (Na+) as the exchange ion. Sodium ions are supplied from dissolved sodium chloride salt, also called brine. In the ion exchange process, sodium ions are used to coat an exchange medium in the softener. The exchange medium can be natural “zeolites” or synthetic resin beads that resemble wet

Over the last five years I have seen several web based companies selling a "Salt Free Water Softener".  Which I find very upsetting.  The hardness in water is a liquid called calcium carbonate.  As air comes in contact with the liquid hardness it is converted to a solid.  That is the build up you see on your faucets, fixtures and on your appliances.  Now in order to remove the liquid hardness out of your water we have to go back in time to the later 1800's.  That is when a filter media called resin was invented.  During the industrial revolution clean water was necessary for certain manufacture practices.  With the invention of Resin, hardness as a liquid was able to be removed from water.  Now the Resin has a negative charge which would attract the positive charge calcium carbonate (hard water).  OK back to my topic of salt free water softeners.!  Since hardness is a liquid, THEIR has not been any invention or filter media invented that can remove hardness from the water