We have 4 main purification methods

Reverse Osmosis

This is used mostly for drinking water and is the only way to achieve "Pure Water" meaning through the process it takes out 99%+ of the impurities. Thus, there is nothing good, bad or indifferent in the water. We often go an extra step and remineralize the water after it has been purified giving it a PH of around 9.5 and creating "alkaline" water.

Conditioned Water

This application consists of hooking up a whole home system at the water main of a home or business and processing the water through two medias. First being Catalytic Carbon which takes out 80-100% of the contaminants and specifically the chloramine (chlorine and ammonia) which is what they use to disinfect our water at the municipal level. Second, an anti-scale media (ScaleNet or Fibersorb) for scale reduction (TAC--template assisted crystallization) to attach some of the minerals to pass through which give you results of scale reduction.

Traditional Soft Water

This application consists of hooking up a whole home system at the water main of a home or business and processing the water through 2 medias.  First being softening resin beads where undesirable minerals attach to the beads and are removed and second the brine tank (sodium or potassium) that is used to recharge the resign through regeneration solution.

Hybrid carbon/softening

First process the water through catalytic carbon removes the impurities and then goes through the softening resign and brine. It is not much more expensive than traditional softening and why would you soften water that still has contaminants in it? This is the most popular treatment next to conditioned water or Scale Armor.