Yes, the water table around here is very strange. You can drill a well and find water that is undrinkable, but then can drill another one not but 200 or 300 meters away and that one will be clean. It is so weird!!!

I've thought about having another well drilled farther from the house, but that is expensive haha.

I have heard stories that the old-timers used to soften their well water by putting it in big barrels and mixing a little bit of washing soda in. Then they would let it sit for a couple of weeks and the minerals would sink to the bottom and they would skim drinkable water off the top.

But I am a little dubious about drinking washing soda! One would think that it would cause, erm, intestinal problems... D: Seems like it would be a lot easier to just set up some rain barrels, heh.