Cohousing-L Mailing List: Water Treatment

[mdutton (mdutton]

Kay
Wasatch Commons
Salt Lake City, Uta said:
"We have hard water, coming out of limestone aquifers.  Because of the
high temperature, a fair amount of water evaporates, leaving a film behind,
which has to be cleaned off.  It's not difficult -- when you shut it off for
the evening, unscrew the rotor arms, run a scrub brush over them to keep the
holes open and over the inside surfaces of the dishwasher, and empty the
filter baskets -- but a lot of clean-up crews neglect it.  One of our
residents uses lime-away on it every month or so, but it can be a major
struggle -- and hard on the fingers -- getting the knobs to break loose when
they have several weeks' lime build-up sealing them in place."


What about having a water softener?  The water where we are is very hard too
and we are all suffering rashes.  We are drinking bottled water but are
living in a rental apartment building so there is no chance of having soft
water here.  From my experience, a water treatment system has a pay back in
savings that makes it well worthwhile.  It is only necessary to use about
1/4 of the amount of soaps, cleaners, detergents, shampoos, hand
lotions...to say nothing of the maintenance items such as Kay describes or
the replacement of washers, and pipes...and humidifiers parts. What about
drinking water?  What do other groups do about that?  IMO there isn't any
good water on this earth worth drinking anymore.  It is way more economical
over time to have some kind of a purifier for drinking water than buying
bottled water.
Thanks for sharing.
Maggie Dutton,
Fort McMurray, Alberta






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