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Water softeners: Health and drinking water?

The short answer is no. People who live in Cornwall, Wales or Scotland and other soft water areas do not suffer from mineral deficiency because their water is naturally soft, and neither will you when you have a water softener. All your mineral requirements are satisfied by the food you eat, not by the water you drink.

Typical examples are - two slices of bread contain 375 mg, and two glasses of milk contain 325 mg of sodium. For comparison, an adult in a average hard water area drinking 4 pints of artificially softened water per day would add only 310 mg of sodium to their average daily intake.

Information above extracted from the independent Consumers’ Guide to Water Softeners by British Water.

Unlike the USA or the rest of Europe, in the UK there is a water bylaw in force today that means that one tap in the house is left un-softened. 

In practice this usually means a third mini tap at the kitchen sink.
The two main pillar taps are softened and the mini tap provides hard water.

Everyone can drink softened water unless they are on a medically supervised sodium restricted diet or a bottle fed baby less than six months old. It makes a stronger flavoured tea, you don't get a 'skin' on it and you don't get scale in the kettle.

The fact is unlike naturally occurring soft water, softened water has no link to increased occurrence of cardiovascular disease because it has exactly the same amount of dissolved solids in it as hard water. All we have done is exchanged calcium and magnesium ions that cause scale and soap scum for sodium ions that do not.

In fact, Gall stone treatments include the advice to drink plenty of softened water.

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