An effort in the California Assembly to ban water softeners failed recently as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill.
According to the Sacramento Bee (http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1146604.html), the bill would have allowed “cities, counties and special districts—whichever entity oversees wastewater—to ban water softeners.”
The proponents of the bill argued that salt levels from water softeners make it more difficult [...]