Soft Water for your 'Bird

[ryanjm]

Worth separating two things here: salt-based portable softeners (like the Watts RV-PRO) genuinely reduce hardness, while citric acid systems like NuvoH2O condition the water without actually softening it. If you want to avoid hauling salt bags, a quality Salt Free Water Softener using template-assisted crystallization is a closer middle ground than the NuvoH2O approach. Not the same as salt-based, but a real step up from citric acid.