My water pipe gets ruined as a result of hard water. How do I prevent it?

Question

We derive underground water in our village for daily uses, which does not receive any kind of treatment. The problem is that the pipes and taps all get ruined very fast because of that.how do i prevent that? Is it a result of hard water or lass salinity. Do i need to get any specific tests?
Will adding washing soda decrease the menace, and if i do add it, what needs to be done to render the water drinkable?
Will any other step be required, the resources are less being in an Indian vilage?

Answer 1

None of the above answers are definitely correct. To find the real problem, you need to get the water tested by an independent lab, especially for pH, hardness, iron, and manganese. The local lab you choose may suggest testing for other problems that may be indigenous to your region (salinity may be one of those). Any recommendation made without a proper test is possibly a wrong recommendation. Many different water problems exist and any one or several could be causing your problem. When you say Indian village, if you mean American Indian, there may be special funds available from the Feds to help you.

Answer 2

It is the result of disolved Calcium in the water. The water molecule itself has calcium attached to it as an ion. The processed used in a water softner is an "exchange" process in which Zeolite is loaded with sodium, then the water is passed thru a tank of Zeolite crystals and the calcium ion is exchanged for the sodium ion, leaving the calcium ion attached to the Zeolite. After a while, the Zeolite gets loaded with the calcium ion, then a huge dosage of sodium called a back flush rids the Zeolite of the calcium. This is basically how a water softner works.

Water softners using sodium also present health problems for people with high blood pressure as they add sodium to the drinking water if one uses a water softner in line and conditions all water that method.

I suggest for drinking water, one should use an RO unit, this stands for Reverse Osmosis filter, and this filters out the water molecules that have sodium ion attached to them and allows those without or pure water to pass thru due to sheer size. These RO units are mounted under the sink, the have a direct well line running to them and dont go thu the water softner.

I would assume your well water is fine just as it is for drinking, the calcuim in the water hurts no one. So in your case on a limited budget , do nothing with it for the drinking end of water.

On the wash, disolving washing soda does noting. I think you mean like Borax, which is useless. Detergents are unaffected by hard water. That is the great benefit of detergents, Soaps using stearic acid like hand soap certainly are, but washing clothes, hard or soft water makes no difference regardless of which water softner sales man might have said otherwise. Chemistry say not so.

I hope this helps, you might consider a water softner to clean improve the water for Baths, hand wash, hair wash, and the like, its costly , salt is costly. On laundry, use detergents as ive noted above. Drinking dont drink from water softner.

Answer 3

You need to get a water softening system, which once hooked should take care of the problem.

It wouldn't hurt to add a reverse osmosis filter system to the drinking water either. But a water softener will keep the hard water from eating away at your pipes.

Answer 4

I have a culligan system that is attached to my water supply system. In my village the water has raduim in it and the water supply company has yet to get the problem in hand. I just have to purchase the filters from cilligan, (which they come in and replace) and I add bags of salt every couple months. Good Luck and I hope this help.

Answer 5

Install a water softener or filtering system.

Answer 6

You can buy in line water filters, that connect into your in coming pipe. They are small and you should be able to do it your self