Hard water contains an excess of naturally occurring minerals, most commonly calcium, magnesium, and iron. While hard water is generally safe to drink, it can be extremely tough on your plumbing, appliances, and fixtures. Mineral buildup, staining, and reduced efficiency can quickly become frustrating and costly over time.
At American Water, we help homeowners and businesses take control of hard water problems with proven, effective solutions designed to protect your water system and improve everyday water use.
Hard Water Solutions
The most effective way to treat hard water starts with understanding it. We begin by testing your water to identify the type and concentration of minerals affecting your supply. Using these results, we can recommend the right water softener to reduce or eliminate calcium, magnesium, and iron from your water.
- Water softeners: Installed just after the incoming water enters the house, water softeners remove hardness, calcium, and iron from your water supply by utilizing a process called the ion exchange. Through the ion exchange, the resin in your softener attaches onto hard water particles and exchanges them for sodium or potassium, depending on your media. The salt that you choose to fill your water softener cleans and recharges the resin for water that is continuously softened and refreshed. Having the hardness in your water removed provides you with additional benefits, including:
- Less wear on appliances: With softened water, the hard water minerals will not build up or clog your washing machine, dishwasher, and other common household appliances, reducing the wear and tear that your hard water causes
- Eliminate staining on appliances, showers, & sinks: The high iron levels in your hard water can leave unsightly reddish or orangish stains, by softening the hardness in your water supply, you can reduce the iron content and eliminate staining.
- Utilize less soap, shampoos, & detergents: Hardness in your water causes soap scum, making it difficult to remove soap from your skin, clothes, and surfaces. With softened water, you can benefit from using fewer products to successfully clean.
Having hard water in your home or office creates mineral buildup and unsightly staining on your appliances, faucets, and sinks. At American Water, we are proud to provide our customers with effective hard water solutions to remove or reduce the unwanted minerals in your water, leaving you with soft, clean water to cook, clean, and enjoy. Our dedicated team provides you with home delivery of your softener salts to guarantee you have the products to help your water treatment equipment.
At American Water, we deliver the best hard water solutions for your needs. Each water softener installation can be modified to meet your demands, call or contact us today.