[Bill & Carolyn]

Run screaming from anyone telling you the water is dangerous or a health hazard! They are snake oil salesmen.

The water in TV is hard (14) and the chlorine content is higher than other areas (5ppm), but that alone is not dangerous to your health.

You might consider a water softener (to remove the hardness) and carbon filter (to remove the chlorine) as we are, but that is for cosmetic, taste purposes, not for health reasons.

I've seen the 'pitch' by EcoWater and Kinectico, neither of whom mentioned anything about 'health' or 'lucky to survive', but their systems (a combo of whole house water filter/softener) and under sink Reverse Osmosis systems run about $3500-4K. I'm still trying to figure out what the difference between their offerings and the $800 combo whole house unit the Sears offers is.

The Ecowater guy said the main difference is that the Sears unit is made in China and will not last as long as theirs, but, I tend not to listen to what Ford has to say about Chevy. I'm trying to verify it myself. The Sears unit appears to be on a timer regeneration system, although I'm not certain. But given the difference in price that makes for a lot of water usage before you reach parity.