Utah City with the HARDEST WATER...

I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I know what hard water is.

It must be water that has a bunch of pebbles in it?

Here's the definition from USGS: (link to full article)

"The simple definition of water hardness is the amount of dissolved calcium and magnesium in the water. Hard water is high in dissolved minerals, largely calcium and magnesium. You may have felt the effects of hard water, literally, the last time you washed your hands. Depending on the hardness of your water, after using soap to wash you may have felt like there was a film of residue left on your hands."

So basically if you've got too many minerals in your water your hands and dishes are gonna have scum on them.

I grew up in Illinois and we had well water that was hard and we had to haul 50 pound bags of salt down to the basement every week.

But I think Illinois well water pales in hardness when compared to the great state of Utah with all of it's geological wonder.

According to hyrdroflow-usa.com: (link to full article)

"The largest city and state capital, Salt Lake City, has the lowest water hardness with 158 PPM. The next largest city in Utah is West Valley City which has hard water at a level of 230 PPM. Close to the State average water hardness of 340 PPM is the city of St. George with a water hardness of 342 PPM. The hardest water can be found in cities like Blanding, with 598 PPM, and Riverton with 574 PPM."

Blanding!

I knew it would be Blanding.

Beautiful country out to Blanding.

But a lot of rocks, let's be honest.

How hard is your water?

Here's a table to look check: (link to full article)

City	Water Hardness Data
Alpine 84004	359 PPM (mg/L) or 21 gpg
American Fork 84003	257 PPM (mg/L) or 15 gpg
Blanding 84511	598 PPM (mg/L) or 35 gpg
Bountiful 84010	513 PPM (mg/L) or 38 gpg
Brigham City 84720 \| 84721	325 PPM (mg/L) or 9 gpg
Cedar City 84720 \| 84721	417 PPM (mg/L) or 27 gpg
Coalville 84017	325 PPM (mg/L) or 19 gpg
Draper 84020	357 PPM (mg/L) or 21 gpg
Eagle Mountain 84005	323 PPM (mg/L) or 9 gpg
Ephraim 84627	517 PPM (mg/L) or 30 gpg
Goshen 84633	462 PPM (mg/L) or 27 gpg
Herriman 84096	359 PPM (mg/L) or 21 gpg
Hurricane 84737	393 PPM (mg/L) or 15 gpg
Layton 84040 \| 84041	352 PPM (mg/L) or 21 gpg
Lehi 84043	200 PPM (mg/L) or 11 gpg
Logan 84321 \| 84341	255 PPM (mg/L) or 15 gpg
Manti 84642	221 PPM (mg/L) or 13 gpg
Mapleton 84664	393 PPM (mg/L) or 23gpg
Meadow 84325	496 PPM (mg/L) or 29 gpg
Morgan 84050	513 PPM (mg/L) or 30 gpg
Midvale 84047	327 PPM (mg/L) or 19 gpg
Ogden 84404 \| 84401 \| 84403 \| 84405	170 PPM (mg/L) or 10 gpg
Orem 84057 \| 84058 \| 84097	301 PPM (mg/L) or 18 gpg
Park City 84060 \| 84098	444 PPM (mg/L) or 26 gpg
Payson 84651	428 PPM (mg/L) or 25 gpg
Pleasant Grove 84062	359 PPM (mg/L) or 21 gpg
Provo 84604 \| 84606 \| 84601	164 PPM (mg/L) or 9 gpg
Riverton 84065	574 PPM (mg/L) or 34 gpg
Roy 84067	384 PPM (mg/L) or 22 gpg
Salem 84653	324 PPM (mg/L) or 19 gpg
Salt Lake City 84118 \| 84121 \| 84123 \| 84106 \| 84116 \| 84107 \| 84115 \| 84104 \| 84117 \| 84109 \| 84105 \| 84108 \| 84124 \| 84103 \| 84102 \| 84111 \| 84101 \| 84112 \| 84113 \| 84180	210 PPM (mg/L) or 12 gpg
Sandy 84070 \| 84092 \| 84093 \| 84094	308 PPM (mg/L) or 18 gpg
Santaquin 84655	428 PPM (mg/L) or 25 gpg
Saratoga Springs 84045	376 PPM (mg/L) or 22 gpg
South Jordan 84095	146 PPM (mg/L) or 8 gpg
Spanish Fork 84660	427 PPM (mg/L) or 25 gpg
Springville 84663	393 PPM (mg/L) or 23 gpg
St. George 84770 \| 84790	342 PPM (mg/L) or 20 gpg
Tooele 84074	310 PPM (mg/L) or 18 gpg
Vernal 84078	410 PPM (mg/L) or 24 gpg
Washington City 84780	516 PPM (mg/L) or 30 gpg
West Jordan 84084 \| 84088	148 PPM (mg/L) or 8 gpg
West Valley City 84119 \| 84120 \| 84128	230 PPM (mg/L) or 13 gpg
Woods Cross 84087	342 PPM (mg/L) or 20 gpg