I am trying to decide if I need a water filter, living in an area with “moderately hard” water supply, according to this fairly decent website:

[https://www.water.ie/help/water-quality/hard-water/](https://www.water.ie/help/water-quality/hard-water/)

What I have found surprising is this:

“There are no health risks involved in drinking and using hard water”

Um… What? What happened to “may increase kidney stone risk” which a lot of studies quote (you can Google)?

7 comments

  3. Never heard that hard water was actually bad for you. Tastes better too, don’t filter mine and it’s quite high on the hardness scale. Have not had a kidney stone, yet anyway.

    Chocolate, tea, nuts, foods that are high in salt, and various other foods have been shown to increase the risk of kidney stones. Sure what are you gonna do, seems there’s risk in everything. Doc tells you not to eat cheese cos your cholesterol is too high, but cheese (a fermented food) is good for your gut health. Eating red meat can increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease, but not eating it can cause low iron.

  4. I find it tends to taste nicer. Are you local scheme or public system or private well?.

    You can get what called a scale inhibiter. M3 make on call aquapure I think. Looks like a filter. You could put it on the line before the boiler, just to protector the rads, pipes, pumps. It dont remove the limescale, just stops i attacting to the services. Filters are make 80 euro per year or so. Water is still foodsafe.

  6. Hard water is bad for appliances but no harm to you personally. Buy a cheap washing machine / kettle and fuck it out when it’s done.

  7. You probably don’t need a filter, but could maybe do with a softener system if you’ve budget for it. It’s like a night and day when it comes to taking a shower or washing clothes.

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