Can you walk us through that? What's the purpose of each step, and where might operators cut corners where they shouldn't?

Uh, yes, I can.

Um, each step, a-and we've, we've kind of delineated them here, at least in the list that I have.

You have a backwash, brine injection, slow rinse, and fast rinse steps.

So eventually, any ion exchange system, you know, it is... and in sodium softeners, it is taking out hardness, uh, and, and exchanging hardness for sodium, which then goes into the water.

And sodium doesn't cause the scale problems that hardness does.

So exchanging hardness for sodium, putting that in the water.

Now, what, what are some of more of the advantages RO brings that sodium softening can't, and are there drawbacks?