"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , Oren
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On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:06:55 -0400, Tony
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Doug Miller wrote:
In article ,
FatterDumber&
Happier Moe wrote:
I read up on this a little. Anyone use it? Does it really work?
http://www.easywater.com/
Sounds like one of those things you stick on a fuel line and claim to
get 99 miles/gallon gimmicks to me.

It's snake oil. I heard one of their ads on the radio yesterday -- said
that

it "leaves the beneficial calcium and magnesium ions in the water".

Well, if it does that, it's not softening the water. By definition.
Water
that
contains calcium and magnesium ions is hard water. Not soft water.

Ah, yes indeed. But it makes no claims of "softening" water, only
"conditioning" it.

Somehow, my local water district had a link for this gizmo. Months
later it is gone from the web site..

Sounds like they figured out that it's bogus...

I have the hardest water in the nation.

Where?

Well, where I am in upstate NY our water is off the chart hard when not
softened. Tastes great, so at least that's a plus. We take the softened
water from the sink and run it through a fridge filter and drink that. We
first tried to not soften the cold water, and then the minerals built up in
the pipes and we had to replace them. So...filtering is better and easier
and cheaper. 25 years of experience is quite valuable!