Water Softening and Sodium for Drinking?
Published July 4, 2011 | 
Sarah from New Jersey Writes:
I read on your site that the best thing to do when putting in a water softener is to run a cold water line unsoftened to the kitchen for drinking and cooking but most of my basement is finished and I don’t want any walls ripped open to install plumbing! I don’t want to buy bottled water and I don’t want extra sodium! What do I do!
Hi Sarah
You will need to remove the sodium from your drinking water before you consume it. There are two ways you can do this:
- Use a water distiller
- Use a reverse osmosis unit
The distiller works by heating up the water, collecting the water vapor and condensing it again. This leaves all the dissolved ions, including sodium behind and gives you nothing but water. The reverse osmosis unit works by passing the water through a membrane where only the water can get through it and it leaves dissolved ions like sodium behind. I recommend you look into a reverse osmosis unit for the simple fact it produces water on demand. Home distiller units require time to make water and then you have to cool it before consumption.
I hope that helps.
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distiller, reverse osmosis, rinking, sodium removal, soft water, water softenerWhy Do You Need a Softener and a Filter?
Published June 8, 2011 | Jaspal writes:
We bought a house, it had water softner installed. My wife called kinetico and get installed the Kintico K5 water purifier under the sink in kitchen. She asked technician to chek if the water softner is OK. He said it is fine and after installing he also told her that the water softner also has whole house water filter system that needs service too. My wife asked why we need two filters one for whole house and one in kitchen. he gave explanation that whole house system just filetrs the water, K5 will purify the water. Are these not doind the same job. Please reply.
Hello Jaspal Thanks for writing. A water softener does indeed do the whole house, but it is very common that a second, point of use ‘under the sink’ system is installed as well. This is because a water softener will not necessarily make the water drinkable. A softener takes the calcium, or hardness out of the water so soap works better with using less, less or no scum and scale are formed. A water softener also adds sodium, which is not necessarily good for your health.
This is why a point of use system is put in the kitchen, to remove the sodium and other impurities so you can use it for drinking and cooking. It is much less expensive to do it this way.
I hope I’ve answered your question, please let me know if you need further clarification.
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