Bottled Water Hardness

sheff69

We always run off our tanks, even when parked for the winter.
It saves on worrying about low water pressure, and I get to condition the water when I fill the tank.
Since doing that, however, we have relied on bottled water for the coffee maker and the tea kettle.
Couple of days ago, my DW said, have you seen the hard water salt build up in the kettle?
Duh! No, I never looked. I always assumed the bottled water would be soft.

So I went and measured the hardness of some of the bottled water. What a surprise.

Anything over 5-7 grains is considered hard.
Winn Dixie spring water – 15 grains per gallon.
Publix spring water – 15 grains per gallon.
Wal-mart spring water – 15 grains per gallon.
Evian spring water – 25 grains per gallon
Publix drinking water – 7 grains per gallon.
Publix purified water – 0 grains per gallon
Wal-mart drinking water – 0 grains per gallon.

Wal-mart drinking water wins out. Tastes good too.

Kind of interesting.

Sheff

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Posted: 10:49 AM – Aug 31, 2014

papacliff

Sheff,

Notice that all the hard water samples have the word “spring” in them. That makes sense. Spring water will naturally have some minerals in it. It depends on which of those minerals affect the taste. I drank (chilled) water directly from the AR hot springs. I didn’t test it, but my guess is that it is pretty hard. It is, after all, 140° water that bubbles out of the ground. It was delicious. On the other hand, drinking just distilled water is harmful. It will eventually leech essential minerals out of your body.

Water hardness, in and of itself, is not bad for you. It makes washing more difficult, and affects taste, but some minerals may make water taste better, not worse.

Cliff

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