if your interested (id have to look it up) real goods sells a device that
uses electricity to help soften and make water safer
email me and ill begin the hunt for the last issue they sent me


On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 08:38:12 -0400 Janis Callen Bell <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>The well water is hard and also has 2 ppb of Fe.  The previous owner
used
>a water softener.
>Putting sodium chloride in the water to ionize magnesium and calcium
>seems
>awful to me -- that's what water softeners do.
>
>I'm wondering whether the minerals in the well water might actually be
>healthy to drink, and if they are absorbed in the body (actually, I
>wonder
>whether they might even be similar to the colloidal minerals that are
>such a
>rage these days).
>
>If hard water is healthy /not healthy for humans, are there any other
>environmentally safe and health conscious solutions to protect the
>life of
>appliances?  Hope to hear something soon.  Am supposed to meet these
>water
>softener salemen Friday afternoon but I'm now thinking of cancelling,
>as my
>instinct tells me I don't want to go with this solution.
>
>Janis ([log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask])
>