Too much salt discharge, finding its way to our lakes and streams. Not only does the salt that we put on streets, parking lots and sidewalks in the winter get washed into our lakes, streams and parks, but salt from your water softener eventually end up in your drinking water too. Salts (sodium) and (chlorides) in water is bad for the human’s, bad for the fishes and the beautiful plants in the parks, lakes and streams.
NOT a JOKE! This is True.
Water softeners contribute over 60% of the salt that every city receive daily in their wastewater. Region of Waterloo and city of Guelph financed ground breaking research into the performance of Nucleation Assisted Crystallization. (NAC) .