Should new housing plumbing code standards include easy hookup of softeners in hard water areas?
Hard water causes a significant amount of scaling in plumbing, heaters and appliances. The costs to maintain or replace these facilities is enormous. Water softening is the cheapest and most practical way of getting rid of this problem. However, a significant amount of the costs associated with water softening systems is due to their high installation costs. These would be made much more reasonable if new housing plumbing codes are adjusted to include the easy hookup of softeners in hard water areas. California water softener ban California Assembly Bill AB 2270 , which was written by Assemblymen John Laird and Mike Feuer, was designed to amend the state’s water code relating to water quality. It would have given greater autonomy to regional water quality review boards to ban water softeners in new construction and mandate the removal of previously installed softeners. The effort by the California Assembly to put through the ban failed as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill
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