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The blog of Ecowater
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Hard water areas: Eastern England the most affected
Hard water is caused by rain water picking up hard minerals as it percolates through rocks such as chalk and limestone. The amount of mineral deposits in the water and therefore the hardness of the water will depend on which area you live in. In the home the results of hard water is the limescale deposits that it leaves behind. Water softeners are growing in popularity as the public become more aware about water ...
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EcoWater Systems: What is limescale?
Lime scale in a storage tankWhat is limescale? Limescale is the deposits left behind by hard water. Limescale is mainly made up of calcium and magnesium. The limescale deposits mixed with soap then ...
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EcoWater Systems: Water Softener Innovations
How EcoWater softeners work Creating soft water is a straightforward process. By installing a water softener to your mains water supply, hard water passes through a tank of resin beads which extract the calcium and magnesium (limescale) from the water. When the resin beads become saturated by the hard water deposits, the water softener automatically carries out a self-cleaning process called regeneration: a concentrated salt solution flows through the resin beads removing the ...
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Home water softeners: Drinking water filters and carbon
The UK water authorities do a great job bringing safe water to our homes. Many people who own water softeners, which will remove the limescale from hard water, will also choose to improve the taste and quality of their drinking water by using either a jug filter or a tap water filter. There are many different types of water filters but ...
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Beyond water softeners: The origins of water problems
Water is an indestructible resource; there is as much water on earth and in the skies today as existed 5,000 years ago. However, clean water is a precious resource fundamental to life as we know it. While our water supply remains constant, we are polluting it faster than nature can clean it. And, we are polluting it with more contaminants than ever before. The hydrological cycle Nature purifies ...
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Water Softeners: single and twin tank systems
Is less really more! Amongst the huge variety of ion exchange water softeners available in the UK there is a one question which is asked again and again, 'which water softener is better, a single tank system or a twin tank system?' For those people not familiar with the design of water softeners. All ion exchange water softeners use resin beads to provide an exchange process which, as the hard water passes through the beads, takes out ...
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EcoWater: a history of 80 years in water treatment
Since our founder Lynn Lindsay's first patent in 1925, we have singularly dedicated our professional lives to solving the challenges facing residential water supplies around the world. EcoWater Systems' Patent WallToday, EcoWater products and the technological advancement that make them possible, are built on 80 plus years of applied research and hundreds of patents worldwide of proprietary scientific ...
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How your EcoWater water softener can help this Christmas
Are you expecting extra people to be staying over for the Christmas holidays? If you own an EcoWater water softener, don’t worry about your soft water. Your EcoWater water softener will keep on producing lashings of soft water, even if your home is bursting at the seams. EcoWater's intelligent technology measures the home's water usage and collects information from the day it's installed, and it keeps a history of your home's water use. It ...
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A water softener: the best energy saving device
If you live in London and the south east, East Anglia and the Home Counties you will probably be experiencing some of the hardest water in the UK. Sixty percent of the UK suffers with hard water. Use our Hard Water Postcode Check to find out if you can benefit from the use of a water softener. Hard water is water ...
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How a water softener will save you money
We often take the water that comes into our homes for granted. Water is vital to our wellbeing, we use it to drink, cook, wash and heat our homes. The quality of the water coming into our homes is controlled by water authorities who ensure we all have safe, good quality water. But there are some issues they cannot fully address. Sixty percent of homes in the UK have 'hard water', that is water containing calcium and ...
