How Hard Water From Your Taps Could Be Harming Pets

Living in Berkshire means hard water emerges from your taps every day and that has some familiar consequences. The taste of it, the filmy effect on your skin and hair when you bathe with it and the build-up of limescale in your kettle will all be common issues.  All...

Study Shows Healthiest Hair Comes From Soft Water Areas

Soft water areas in the UK have people with the healthiest-looking hair, with Cumbria coming out on top.  Europe’s largest hair clinic Elithair looked at the softness of water from different locations around the country.  They subsequently found that Cumbria, due to...

Why Soft Water Is Better For Your Skin And Hair

If you find your hair is dry all the time and your skin feels itchy after showering it may not be due to the products you’re using, but actually, your water which is causing the issues. Many people don’t realise how many issues hard water can cause. Not only does it...

Why You ‘Havant’ Got Soft Water in Buckinghamshire

News that the first major new reservoir built to bolster domestic water supplies in England since the 1980s is to be constructed near Havant in Hampshire may make a few people across the south-east of England curious about where their water is coming from.  Portsmouth...

What Are The Main Reasons For Softening Your Hard Water?

You might have lived in a hard water area all your life and not even realised it, but once you experience life with soft water, you’ll certainly notice the benefits of switching.  Hard water has a high calcium and magnesium content, and you’ll be able to recognise...

How Water Softeners Improves Shower Experience

Nobody likes to have a shower with a weak water flow. Not only is it impossible to wash shampoo or conditioner out when the power is not forceful enough, but it simply does not wake you up and invigorate you in the same way that a strong shower would.  If you’re fed...

Water Company Fines Will Be Used To Improve Environment

The government has unveiled plans to use money from water company fines for environmental improvements around the UK.  Currently, the money accrued from fines for polluting rivers and seas are returned to the Treasury. However, these will now be ringfenced for the...

What Makes Water Sources Harder Than Others?

If you see two glasses of water, it is impossible to tell the difference between the two. However, one of these glasses of water is very different from the other, and contains minerals that the other does not contain. Hard water and soft water have their uses but for...

EA Encourages Brits To Drink Reprocessed Sewage Water

Britons should get used to drinking reprocessed sewage water as this might be the way of the future, according to the Environment Agency (EA).  Head of the organisation Sir James Bevan wrote in the Sunday Times that people need to “change the way they think about...

Does Hard Water Cost More To Heat?

The cost-of-living crisis has been on everyone’s radar for the last couple of months, and Brits have already seen their household bills soar. So, it might be interesting to know those living in hard water areas could be spending more on heating their water than...