The Pacific Water Quality Association (PWQA) on April 28 issued a “call to action” to its members regarding a new California bill that threatens bans on the use of residential water softeners.
The new bill, Assembly Bill 1366, “looks virtually no different” from last year’s ill-fate anti-softener bill AB 2270, the association said.
In vetoing AB 2270 last fall, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said at the time that the bill “includes provisions that go too far in limiting residential use of water softeners.”
The new call to action asks PWQA members to, within the next two weeks, contact the state legislative committee that now is considering AB 1366 to “make sure it does not pass.”
The PWQA said AB 1366 would allow any local agency with a community sewer system to ban the use of residential water softeners by local ordinance, based on a “finding at public hearing.”
According to the PWQA, “If it becomes law, municipal water softener bans could start emerging very quickly,” and such bans “could be set in place with no scientific data and no meaningful studies or hearings.”
Additionally, a website –www.savemysoftener.com — has been set up to inform the general public of the folly of the new proposed legislation., as well as to
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