Quote Originally Posted by mcoffey View Post
You couldn't possibly be any more wrong when it comes to water hardness. Has absolutley nothing to do with the country you live in. It has to do with the lime desposits and other disovled minerals in the ground around the water supply where you live. No municipality that I know of in the US softens the water supply. That why water softening is a billion dollar industry in the US alone.

The main concern is the lime desposits and impurities collecting in the loop over time. It's just not a smart thing to do. You'd be insane to use common tap water in a PC loop where I live when considering distilled water is around 1.00 a gallon.

andyc
Yeah....

Hard was the wrong word . Someone will say the word later on. What I mean is having high concentrations of heavy metals in your water. No one filters out any metals but contamination of water supplies is what I was insinuating before.

Distilled water is much more expensive here but meh it's not that expensive.



Oh and reverse osmosis is not distilled. It's more commonly known as deionised. It removes all charged particles [like metals] but organic matter remains.