If you're wondering about how effective water treatment equipment can be, here are some examples from recent water treatment installations

Contaminant Level

 

Complaint 

Where:

Source:

Before Treatment

After Treatment

Hard Water

Ellinger, Texas

Private well

20 grains

0 grains

Iron Water

Bastrop County, Tx.

Private well

4.72 ppm

.637 ppm

Stinky Water/H2S

Waelder, Texas

Private well

< 5 ppm

>.2 ppm

“Rural Water” (*)

Smithville area

Municipal water

 

 

Total dissolved solids

 

 

141 ppm

8.67 ppm

Alkalinity

 

 

26 ppm

4 ppm

Conductance

 

 

197 umhos/cm   

10 umhos/cm

 

 

 

(*) no specific complaint, "just want a better quality water, if we can get it."
Source: Texas Water Savers Co. (2012)