What is a water softener? What does a water softener do?

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Posted by Parimal Gogai on 15 Aug 2012 at 01:49

Question: Hello, at my place we have a problem of hard water. Which is resulting in clogging in the pipes in irrigation systems. I want to know what exactly hard water means and what are the water softener and what they do and how long the effect stays if once applied.

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Water softener

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Posted by grace P on 17 Aug 2012 at 01:08

When water is referred to as 'hard' this simply means, that it contains more minerals than ordinary water. These are especially the minerals calcium and magnesium. The degree of hardness of the water increases, when more calcium and magnesium dissolves.
A water softener is a unit that is used to soften water, by removing the minerals that cause the water to be hard. A water softener collects hardness minerals within its conditioning tank and from time to time flushes them away to drain.

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Jim Wen
Jim Wen
16 Aug 2012 at 19:32

Hi, I think hard water is the water that has high mineral content, especially high Ca+ and Mg+. if the problem occurs in your pipe, a scale prevention is requested. but softener just one of these way. Softener normally apply exchange resin to shift Ca+ and Mg+ ion to Na, if its Na+ type resin to reduce concentration of Ca+ and Mg+ in water thus prevent scale.

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