On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:07:07 -0600, John Hines wrote:

(Rex B) wrote:
|
|Can someone recommend a good brand and source for an under-sink RO unit?
|My mom discovered her water softener has been malfunctioning, adding salt to
the
|water and increasing her blood pressure. At least that's the theory. So I'd
like
|to get her an RO to solve the problem.
|
|Water softeners by default take salt and substitute it for the mineral
|ions in the water.
|
|Changing from sodium cloride (table salt) to potassium cloride (potash)
|as your water softener salt, will add potassium and not sodium to your
|drinking water.
|
|Check and see if you can get muriate of potash for use in the softener.

Good suggestion, we'll check into that.
The other issue is they have had several people come "fix" the water softener,
but they don't think it's working correctly. So how do you tell??
Rex in Fort Worth