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Watering with soft water
On Mar 1, 9:52�pm, Charles wrote:
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 18:21:23 -0800 (PST), Sheldon wrote: On Mar 1, 8:42?pm, Billy wrote: In article , ?Charles wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:10:13 -0800, "SteveB" meagain@rockvilleUSA wrote: I believe that the hose bibs on the outside of my house are hooked to the soft water system. ?Is there any disadvantage to watering with soft water? They're about to turn on the irrigation water system in our rural area, but I need to get around and water some of the trees before that. Thanks. Steve For occasional watering it is fine. ?For steady use I'd avoid it. Most softening systems replace the calcium and magnesium with sodium. Plants need calcium and magnesium, sodium is toxic. ?Over time it will build up, change the soil properties. Like Charles said, you would basically be putting salt on your plants. You don't want to drink it either, again it is salt (or the cation half of the salt) and you risk raising your blood pressure. It is good for washing things because the Ca++ in the water (hard water) is out and you don't precipitate fatty acids or get calcium stearate (better known as bathtub ring) which interfere with making the dirtiness soluble in water. |
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Watering with soft water
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, Sheldon wrote: On Mar 1, 9:52?pm, Charles wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 18:21:23 -0800 (PST), Sheldon wrote: On Mar 1, 8:42?pm, Billy wrote: In article , ?Charles wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:10:13 -0800, "SteveB" meagain@rockvilleUSA wrote: I believe that the hose bibs on the outside of my house are hooked to the soft water system. ?Is there any disadvantage to watering with soft water? They're about to turn on the irrigation water system in our rural area, but I need to get around and water some of the trees before that. Thanks. Steve For occasional watering it is fine. ?For steady use I'd avoid it. Most softening systems replace the calcium and magnesium with sodium. Plants need calcium and magnesium, sodium is toxic. ?Over time it will build up, change the soil properties. Like Charles said, you would basically be putting salt on your plants. You don't want to drink it either, again it is salt (or the cation half of the salt) and you risk raising your blood pressure. It is good for washing things because the Ca++ in the water (hard water) is out and you don't precipitate fatty acids or get calcium stearate (better known as bathtub ring) which interfere with making the dirtiness soluble in water. What tripe. ?There is virtually no salt in softened water... whatever salt was contained in the water before it was softened would be far, far less. From:http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/se...ter+softener&G.. . Sodium ions is not salt. The salt used in water softeners does NOT end up in the domestic water... the salt and oher minerals flush out as grey water. You have to give Shellly credit. He may be stoopid but but he is persistent. One more time from the top: The idea behind a water softener is simple. The calcium and magnesium ions in the water are ""REPLACED** with sodium ions. Since sodium does not precipitate out in pipes or react badly with soap, both of the problems of hard water are eliminated. To do the ion replacement, the water in the house runs through a bed of small plastic beads or through a chemical matrix called zeolite. The beads or zeolite are covered with sodium ions. As the water flows past the sodium ions, they swap places with the calcium and magnesium ions. Eventually, the beads or zeolite contain nothing but calcium and magnesium and no sodium, and at this point they stop softening the water. It is then time to regenerate the beads or zeolite. How's that hole coming Shelly? About time to hydrate again, huh? -- Billy Impeach Pelosi Bush & Cheney to the Hague http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1248.shtml |
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