California Bans Water Softeners

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Assembly Bill 1366 (AB 1366) into law, the Pacific Water Quality Association (PWQA) said in an October 12 press release. News of the signing was also carried in an October 12 report on California Newswire®.

The law will make it easier for regional water and wastewater agencies in California to impose local bans or restrictions on water softeners. Some of the agencies have been seeking to reduce salt discharges from water softeners into local wastewater streams, saying those discharges make it difficult to remove enough salt to be in compliance with state wastewater regulations. They also say softener discharges return unwanted salt to natural water supplies which are already stressed.

In a few communities in the state, bans on new softener installations or orders to remove existing ones have been implemented in the past few years under the older process, which required extensive studies and public ballot approvals. Under the new law, agencies would have to go through a less extensive “findings” process to implement softener bans.

 

Alternatives to manage the single biggest reason Californians have purchased a softener -- limescale -- are limitedbut one solution has been tested and proved effective at eliminating existing as well as pre-existing conditions is the Hydrocare unit.

 

This legislation is being considered in other states as the tainting of the ground water has created problems within local municipalities as they try to cope with the additional amount of salt they are seeing in their treatment plants.

 

Hydrocare costs pennies to operate, is easy to install, and requires NO maintenance. 

Comments

[phoenix air conditioning]

So...they're forcing people to have hard water? That seems similar to a very weak form of torturing your voters, no?