Many people have soft water in their home because they use a water softener. If you use a sodium or potasium based water softener [or if you live in an area that has very high levels of sodium in your water] you will most likely need to pre-filter it or it will end up too salty. How would you know if your water is coming out too salty? You'd probably taste it. In this case you should read http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/sodium for more information on that.

The other cases of soft water in the country are people who naturally have soft water. The softness is caused by a lack of minerals. To get good water ionization you need sufficient minerals in your water.

If you buy a water ionizer and find your water is too soft and you are not able to get the adequate levels of ionization that you want, then you will be glad to know you can remineralize your water very easily and the minerals are a very high quality of organic minerals.

* If your water ionizer has a calcium port, you can add minerals that way... http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/product/Calcium

* If your water is so soft [or you use reverse osmosis] you can insert a remineralizer in-line with your input water hose pretty easily and cheaply: http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/product/Remineralizer

If you live in a hard water area [over 200 ppm of hardness or over 12 grains] with extra calcium in your water you will want to go to our Hard Water page: www.alkalinewaterplus.com/hard-water .