On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:31:13 -0800, Dan Abel > wrote:

>In article >,
> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:
>
>> Mark Thorson wrote:
>
>> > When I was a kid, a friend of mine across the street
>> > had a water softener at his house. I always thought
>> > the water tasted terrible over there. Borderline
>> > undrinkable.
>>
>> The proper setup is to use softened water for washing, the hard water for
>> drinking, but it may still need filtering of some sort.
>
>Soft water doesn't taste any better than the hard water it was made from.
>
>> Softened water is
>> usually a bit higher in sodium content and avoided for that reason.
>
>If it isn't a whole lot higher, than you didn't need a water softener to
>begin with. Hard water just means that there is calcium and magnesium
>in there. That doesn't work well with soap. The water softener simply
>replaces the calcium and magnesium with sodium.

Ignoranus douchebag.