Most of Iowa City and Coralville drink water sourced from the Iowa River and area wells. It comes out safe to drink, but like most of Eastern Iowa, it arrives at your tap hard, mineral-heavy, and chlorinated. That's the chalky film on your shower glass in a North Liberty new build, the crusty scale on the faucets in an older Goosetown or Longfellow home, and the funny aftertaste that sends a lot of campus-area renters to bottled water.
Curious what's already coming out of your tap? See our free Iowa City water quality report, built from public Iowa DNR and EPA testing data.
Here, the kind of water you're treating depends heavily on which side of the city line you're on. Inside the city, on Iowa River water, the headache is hardness and chlorine. Just outside it, in Solon, the acreages around Lake Macbride, and the rural stretches toward Tiffin, families on private wells deal with iron staining, the occasional sulfur 'rotten-egg' smell, and sediment. And across the whole area, agricultural nitrate runoff is a growing concern that many local homeowners ask us about directly. Wherever your water comes from, the fix starts with actually knowing what's in it.
We build a system around your home and your water source, not a one-size box off a truck. For city homes on Iowa River water, that usually means a whole-home water softener to strip out the calcium and magnesium that wreck water heaters and dishwashers, paired with carbon filtration to pull the chlorine taste and smell out of every tap.
For the best-tasting drinking and cooking water, we add a 7-stage reverse-osmosis system right at the kitchen sink. RO is what gives renters and homeowners alike a real alternative to hauling bottled water, and it's the most thorough way to reduce dissolved solids, including contaminants like nitrates, that hard water and a basic filter leave behind.
Out on wells around Solon, Tiffin, and the county's rural edges, we install well-water packages: iron and sulfur removal, UV purification, and a sediment pre-filter to protect everything downstream. Prefer to skip the salt? We also offer salt-free conditioners, plus XL and dual-tank systems for larger homes and big families.
Kind Water Co is family-owned, founded in 2021 by Ryan Brunton, and run out of Cedar Rapids, so we're your neighbors, not a national chain routing you to a call center. The crew that shows up in Iowa City is made up of licensed local plumbing professionals we vet, schedule, and stand behind, who handle the job start to finish, and every truck rolls fully insured and bonded.
What goes in your house is genuinely better hardware. We build around NSF-certified Jacobi carbon, USA-made ResinTech resin, and a lifetime-rated ceramic-disc control valve, then plumb full 1-inch lines rated to 28 GPM, so a busy Iowa City household can run two showers and the dishwasher without the pressure drop a lot of softeners cause. As for the warranty, you're covered for life on parts, for five years on the media, and for a year on labor, and with 0% financing available, clean water doesn't have to wait.
We treat water all over the Iowa City corridor and Johnson County, including Coralville, North Liberty, Tiffin, and Solon, plus the acreages and rural wells in between. Whether you're in a brand-new North Liberty subdivision, a century-old home near downtown Iowa City, or a place on well water out past Lake Macbride, we'll come to you, test what's actually coming out of your pipes, and recommend only what your home needs.
You shouldn't have to take anyone's word for what's in your Iowa City water, and you don't have to. We'll come to your home, run a free in-home water test, and show you exactly what we measure for hardness, chlorine, iron, and more, then recommend a system sized to your house with no pressure and no obligation. From there you'll get a clear, no-surprises quote. Call 319-536-1924, email ryan@kindwaterco.com, or request your free quote online to schedule a time.
Yes. Iowa City and Coralville draw mainly from the Iowa River and area wells, and like most of Eastern Iowa it comes out hard and mineral-heavy, which is what causes scale on faucets, spots on glassware, and dry skin and hair. A whole-home softener is the standard fix, and our free in-home water test shows you exactly how hard your water is before you spend a dime.
Yes, and it's a big part of what we do out there. Private wells around Solon, Tiffin, and the edges of Johnson County tend to show up with rusty iron staining, a sulfur smell, and gritty sediment. For those homes we put together a well-water package built around iron and sulfur removal, UV purification, and sediment pre-filtration, sized to your test results and installed by licensed local plumbing professionals we vet, schedule, and stand behind.
Agricultural nitrate runoff is a growing concern many Eastern Iowa homeowners worry about. A 7-stage reverse-osmosis system at your kitchen sink is the most thorough way to reduce dissolved solids, including nitrates, for cleaner drinking and cooking water. We'll test your water first so you know what you're actually treating.
Whole-home water softening, filtration, and reverse-osmosis drinking water — professionally installed and built to last a lifetime.
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