WATER
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PURE WATER , H 2 O , is almost non-existent. Water, which is supposed to be 11.1888 percent Hydrogen, and 88.812 percent Oxygen , simply does not get to us that clean. Even in the relatively short trip from a rain cloud to a nice clean bucket, water has already picked up stuff from the air on it’s way down. WHAT stuff and how much of it is in YOUR water depends on the source. Water directly from rain has calcium, sodium, bicarbonate, chloride, sulfate, and nitrate, among other contaminates; maybe microorganisms spores, bacteria, possibly sulfuric acid depending on your area. Once water hits the ground, it can pick up percentages of whatever it comes into contact with. Don’t be surprised, water is well known as one of the world’s best solvents. It can pick up dissolved minerals, rock, metals, man-made contaminates, and just possibly sewage, and huge varieties of living organisms. If the water seeps into the soil, and becomes ground water, some of these things get separated out, because the earth itself can act like a filtration mechanism, up to a point, for those on well water. But even with this, only some of the contaminates are gone, and the water has had the chance to pick up whole new groups of liquefied metals and minerals. All these things can be very bad for your piping, and fixtures. For regular people, the important thing to know is that most any municipal water can be tested, filtered, and treated, to level of safety, health, and utility. In the case of city water, regular tests and screens provide the information by which your local water supplier knows what’s in the water and they have a normal protocol for treating the water for health and safety. Well water people do something similar, but on a smaller scale; periodically getting tests done to ensure the security of the water.

Sticking a water-softener on your water supply will indeed remove calcium, magnesium, and some iron, but there’s a lot more in the water than that. There’re also non-organic chemicals that will fly straight through a regular softener; with names that make us think of farming, making things grow, and killing bugs …all very nice, but please, not in my water. And , of course, the heavy metals and liquefied minerals a regular softener only dreams of collecting. Some of these contaminants actually ETCH their way into metal surfaces, destroying them, and even GLASS is prey to some of these things. A HAGUE WATERMAX is a machine that looks and behaves like a regular softener; and you can treat it like a regular softener, just feeding it salt; but it does so much more. Of course a machine like this is more expensive, but not eight times more expensive. In the space of a single softening machine you can have a self-flushing filter, that means no changing cartridges, EVER; a method (see KDF55) of chemically modifying nearly all of the chlorine, a NOTORIOUS ETCHER, of almost everything it comes into contact with, by changing it on a molecular level and flushing it out; a means of collecting and flushing out not only the liquefied metals and minerals, but also 'manmade' contaminates that have gotten in. And I almost forgot, it will soften the water too. I live in an area where the water tests for hardness between 22 and 25 grains , and I can tell you for sure, at these levels, water will eat your possessions. From faucets to tubs, to wash machines to car paint, the water here is just plain corrosive. Then I got my Hague, and since I’ve got better water now, I’ve been replacing the eaten up fixtures, one by one. One thing I won’t need to replace is the glass door on the shower. It used to be SO much work to clean the layer of stone from inside of the doors, nobody in the family wanted this task. Within roughly six months of installing my own machine on my own house, the glass on those same shower doors had simply melted clean ! No more stone, it is so nice, to be able to just wipe, and have it clean. Same goes for the bottom of the tub; I used to think the layer down there was a permanent stain, because we (not me) couldn’t scrub it clean. But not now, I do know it gets attention occasionally, but nothing at all like before. So, I found this great machine for water treatment and want to share it.

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