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The cost of hard water
Hard water can increase your spending on soaps, detergents, and cleaning products, while scale build-up on water-based appliances can increase your operating costs and shorten the appliance life.
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Common terms
Just starting your hard water research? Here is some key water softener terminology you’ll need to know to help put the puzzle pieces into place.
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Hard water
A high concentration of calcium and magnesium make water hard. When water flows through soil and rocks, the materials are mixed with the water. Depending on where you live, your water could be harder than most because your water is traveling through more soil than other areas.
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USA has hard water, so the likelihood that you live in a state or city with hard water is high.
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Man-made contaminants and mineral-heavy water from the Mississippi River, the area’s main water source, produce a 15+ gpg level for the Twin Cities.
Showers, tubs and sinks are easier to clean due to decreased calcium/
magnesium (hardness) residue
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Water is supplied to this area from both mineral dense groundwater and Lake Mead in Nevada, picking up additional minerals as it travels into the metro area and resulting in a 16 gpg level.
Rainwater runs through soil and rock before it moves into the natural aquifers where water is collected, resulting in a large mineral collection of 15-20 gpg.
Water in this area is supplied from surface and groundwater creeks containing calcium, magnesium and iron salts — producing a hard water rating of up to 20 gpg.
The water hardness fluctuates, but can get up to 17 gpg during the dry season when there is less fresh rainwater to dilute the supply.
Water is carried into Lake Mead from the mineral-dense Colorado River resulting in 16+ gpg of hard water for homes in the Las Vegas area.
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Measuring water hardness in parts per million (ppm) is rare, but you will occasionally see it when shopping for a new softener. The conversion is 17.1 ppm for every grain per million (gpg). If iron is found in water, it’s measured in ppm. Iron can leave a reddish brown colored stain on fixtures and appliances when it’s as low as 0.3 ppm. It’s very difficult to remove once the stain has been applied, but you can prevent this from happening with a water softener.
Grains per gallon — or gpg — is the unit used to measure the hardness of water. This is measured by using one grain (~65 milligrams) of calcium carbonate dissolved in a liter of water. As a reference, let’s look at aspirin. Let’s say there are 10 grains in one aspirin. When it’s dissolved into a gallon of water, it’s reported as 10 grains per gallon. Soft water is considered to have less than 1 gpg. Hard water is anything greater than 7 gpg.
Water softeners are measured by either grain capacity, gallons or cubic feet. Before buying a system for your home, you should consider the number of people in your household and how much water you use.
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