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Originally Posted by CFrance
I disagree with the person who said the water is fine for clothes/dishes washing and showering. We use a whole-house filter system coupled with potassium chloride water softener (no salt). With nothing, clothes are dingey and glasses get filmy. I can tell the second we need to refill the potassium chloride, because after showering my skin itches.
But like VT, we've had a softener since the late '80s, so we're used to the softer water.
The taste of the water in TV is probably the worst of any place we've lived save one huge old apartment building. The whole house filter took care of it, and the TV water now tastes great.
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Potassium chloride is a salt just of potassium instead of sodium.
The salts replace calcium and magnesium in the water at the same concentration. The salt is in parts per million and you can not tasted it. It will not damage the ice maker.
The Villages water is hard and as others said it is a preference as to whether you prefer soft water.
I own a Puronics softener and it uses only about 1.5 lbs of salt per 1000 gals of water.