The state of california taxpayers pay millions of dollars each year to replace plumbing corroded because of hard corrosive water. This cost could easily be avoided and save the prison budgets and taxpayers well over $1 million per year. How. By installing water softening and reverse osmosis equipment in each water plant in each prison. This would save the pipes and plumbing fixtures and the cost of the systems would be paid for within 3 months of installation. The only reason it is not done is the prison guards union does not want inmates to have soft water. Force the legislature to act immediately to install this equipment in California prisons and save the taxpayers the cost of constantly replacing pipes and plumbing fixtures, corroded because of caustic water.