water softening in the Parliament

The political focus on the health risk of water softening does not concern LAGUR We stand for everything opposite – chemical-free water treatment , which does not affect the healthy properties of the water. But the matter is good to learn more about.

health consequences of water softening

Our Danish water quality is in turmoil. Both locally, where there is generally great attention to the quality of the water from the country's many waterworks, and now also at the highest political level, where SF will raise the issue of the health consequences of water softening in the Danish Parliament.

Actually, the matter has nothing to do with it at all. LAGUR to do because we stand for the opposite : We do not use chemicals, and we do not reduce the lime content in the water. Instead, we minimize limescale problems in the home by simply changing the structure of limescale from sharp, sticky crystals to round, smooth granules.

But for many of our customers, the water treatment market can be difficult to understand, and for their sake, we would like to explain what has given rise to the current political debate.

The overview is missing

SF raises the matter in the Danish Parliament after researchers from DTU Environment have said that private, decentralized water softening plants , which lowers the hardness of the water by reducing its content of limescale may pose a “significant health risk”.

You can read more about this in this and other articles on the subject from Ingeniøren.

Associate Professor Martin Rygaard and Professor Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen have warned politicians in the Danish Parliament's Environment and Food Committee that there is a lack of overview of a number of aspects of water softening , e.g. the risk of bacterial regrowth in the systems, what level is best to soften to and the location of responsibility for water treatment on behalf of others.

Healthy water treatment with lagur

It is also well known that water softening plants , which uses salt in the process, as a consequence increases the water's sodium content, which is not healthy in the amounts we humans already consume.

Now SF's environmental officer Carl Valentin has raised the issue of so-called decentralized water softening to Minister of the Environment Lea Wermelin (S).

IN LAGUR We are also passionate about good, healthy drinking water, and therefore the matter naturally interests us and our customers.

LAGUR 's solution has no negative consequences for health. On the contrary, it preserves LAGUR all the healthy properties of water, because together with limescale contains a lot of minerals that our body benefits from.