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What are Electronic Home Water Conditioners?

Have problems with hard water? Scaling on the inside of your pipes and hot water heater? Are your hot water heating costs going up? Hard water is caused by having a lot of calcium or magnesium dissolved in it. The usual solution is a water softner. They work by exchanging the calcium and magnesium ions in the water with sodium ions. Since sodium  does not precipitate out to the pipes the scaling problem is eliminated. Unfortunately in the process an enormous about of  salty water is created and dumped down a drain. Some municipalities are banning their use because of the strain on their water purification systems.
Electronic water conditioners work by inducing magnetic and electrical fields in the water and forces the free dissolved minerals like calcium and magnesium to crystallized before the mineral ions settle at the walls of the pipes or heating elements. It doesn’t “remove” the minerals but changes their state and prevents them from attaching to the pipes. This is done for pennies a day and require no maintenance. No salt, no drain, no strain on our water treatment plants. Plus the healthy minerals like calcium and magnesium aren’t replaced by sodium, which we all know we use too much of already. If you are using the new tank less water heaters these are a “must”. Find out more from the water quality experts at Better Water Store.