Is a portable/ handy purifier available capable of removing ions water hardness? If yes what is its cost?

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Marta Litynska

Filter with ion-exchange resin can help you.

Sanjay Chaudhri

Zeolite NaA is cheapest (0.5 USD/Kg) and greenest material to remove the hardness of water. Modern detergent powder are widely using Zeolite NaA.

Kruti Shah

Thanksl you Marta Litynska and Sanjay Chaudhri for your inputs.

Yoram Gerchman

The answer really depends on how much water do you want to treat and to what level. The BRITA water filters (and many others) are handy and remove much of the calcium and magnesium ions ( using a small ion exchange column) but they only treat small volumes at slow speed. There are larger columns but obviously much less handy

Yoram