" Here in Vermont, there's a lot of hard water especially when you've got well water. We drilled our well about a month ago, and this is basically the holding tank, but what we wanna talk about now is the Kinetico System, and the reason it's called Kinetico is that it doesn't use any electricity. It's all kinetic energy. The flow of the water itself is driving the filtration system, so that if you do have a power outage, you're still gonna have nice, clean, soft water. The basic parts of the system arise here and you have 2 purification tanks because 1 of them is working while the other 1 is cleansing it so. These tanks are filled with this resin beads that attract the particles of magnesium and calcium, and these are the things that make it hard to get the clothing washed or even to have a shower and feel it right after your shower. I mean, from what I've read, you can increase the life expectancy of your clothing and your bed linens by up to 15% by using softer water in the laundry. When the resin beads are full of the mineral particles they need to be recharged with sodium ions, and that's done with a solution of this salt that's right here in this tank, and more softened water, which flushes through the tank, releases the minerals, and then of course, the minerals has to be exited from the system through here. Now the other big concerns that people have are about drinking and cooking water, so the 2nd half of the Kinetico System is right here, and it's really your drinking water segment. This is where you're dealing with all sorts of problems including arsenic contents of the water and other mineral particles. The 1st system is here is filtering out any of those larger particles so that it's getting rid of any sediment, any particulate that has made it somehow through this process at this stage. Then, the reverse osmosis filter is getting rid of any kind of micro, you know, really miniscule particles of traced elements and other elements like arsenic in the water, which is such a concern these days. and then once this has gone through here, it goes to a storage tank where it's kept circulating up there, and then, when there is a demand for drinking water up at the kitchen, it goes through a final stage in our carbon filter, which is getting rid of any kind of bad taste whether it's from chlorine that might still be coming through. Anything that might make the water just not taste right."