Sunday, Dec 01, 2019 at 16:50
Hard water is usually fine tasting, softening is generally only for other uses, e.g. protection of boilers, scale in lines, laundry use. There are some towns with very hard water say >200 mgCaCO3/L.
Jabiru in the NT for example is one of them. Coffee dripolators lasted about 1 month before becoming blocked due to scaling. Kettles had to be descaled regularly. I used to clean ours by boiling about 10% acetic acid, the old wire wound jug heating elements lasted a couple of days. Hot water systems were on a regular maintenance schedule. The water tasted fine, but you never boiled water in the jug twice unless you wanted foul tasting tea. Some towns I have visited eg
Springsure (40 years ago not sure about now) had a town
water supply laden with iron. Can't see the need for treatment for RV use perhaps in hot water systems and if you were staying in a hard water town for an extended period? As Dave B18 said nowadays RO would be the way to go, softening for drinking water would be a two stage process, addition of sodium carbonate (aka washing soda) to precipitate calcium, then ion exchange to get rid of the sodium. Many older houses in
Adelaide had water softeners for laundry water and for swimming pools, not sure what the situation is currently.
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