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Every day, thousands of billions of tons of water evaporate
from the earth's surface.
As the heat of the sun evaporates the water and draws it from the
earth's surface into the atmosphere, many impurities are left
behind. The water vapor eventually cools to form clouds and
then falls back to earth as precipitation.
On its way from the clouds to your faucet, soft rain water
dissolves and absorbs a part of almost everything it touches.
Falling rain cleans the air as it falls. Unfortunately the impurities that
were removed from the air have not left; they have just been relocated
through the water onto the ground.
These gases and other airborne contaminants can cause
undesirable tastes, colors and odors in water.
Rain falls onto the ground, collecting sediments like rust, sand and even algae. The water eventually finds its way
to a surface water supply or percolates downward and collects in an aquifer. As it percolates through the earth, the
water can absorb hardness minerals, iron, heavy metals, radioactivity, organic contaminants, and many other
complex elements and compounds.
Water can also collect numerous harmful man-made chemical impurities during this cycle. These synthetic
chemicals are generally odorless, colorless, and tasteless; and can sometimes be life-threatening. The statement,
"my parents drank this water for 75 years and it never hurt them", is no longer a valid excuse to not be concerned
with water quality. There has been a massive global increase in harmful chemical waste over the last 50 years.
The scientific and medical community has not had the time or budget to study the long-term health effects of the
more than 70,000 harmful chemicals that can be found in use today.
Approximately 1,000 new synthetic chemical compounds are entering the industrial marketplace each and every
year. Precipitation falls upon commercial and municipal dumpsites, toxic waste sites, industrial refuse depots,
military test sites, leach fields, mining operations, farmer’s fields etc... Where it dissolves minute amounts of the
toxic chemicals present and carries them along.
The United States Government estimated in 1986 that close to two percent of the nation's ground water supplies
were moderately polluted by sources such as hazardous waste dumps and leaking landfills.
Industrial wastewater is also a major source of water contamination. When certain chemicals come in contact with
others, they create new compounds. Chemicals that are considered generally acceptable in controlled amounts may
react with other elements and/or chemicals to form new compounds that could be highly carcinogenic.
Chlorine is one of the best-publicized examples; it reacts with organic matter in water and forms deadly
trihalomethanes.
Hard water is probably the single largest threat facing the American home in the 21st century. Hard water can coat
your family, your home and your appliances with thousands of pounds of inorganic mineral rock-scale each and
every year; hard water slowly destroys everything it touches. Left untreated, hard water costs you money, ruins your
lifestyle and can even lower the value of your home.
No one needs to tell you that you're living with Hard Water though. Soap doesn't lather easily, glasses are cloudy
after washing, a ring forms around the bathtub, faucets and shower heads are crusty, laundering results are poor and
there are many other easily recognized signs.
