Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

permaculture - [permaculture] Re:sodium in well water

permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: permaculture

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] Re:sodium in well water
  • Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:35:25 -0600




I didn't see your first post, so forgive the questions:

This is presumably ionic sodium in solution ... are we talking
about desalination? Depending on the chemistry of the water, the
techological fixes are ion exchange, precipitation and reverse osmosis
(this latter is very hard). Is the sodium caused by sea water
contamination or leaching from the local minerals? Do you also drink
from this well - are you in an arid area so that you have to 'mine'
irrigation water?

Thanks,

Amanda in the UK

--
treaclemine@intranet.org

Yes this is arid land and it is mined water and the sodium is from desolved underground material.

I am aware that I can use reverse osmosis but it would require a lot of water that would have to be disposed of, I am looking for a more simple and conservative solution. What about ion exchange? I don't have much chemistry so please explain as simple as possible.

Thanks,
Scott





  • [permaculture] Re:sodium in well water, Scott Pittman, 04/17/2005

Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page