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December 21, 2004
The Cure May be Worse than the Disease
Apparently EPA agrees that chorine being used to remove bacteria from municipal water supplies is not healthy and a substiute should be developed. Apparently according to "Drinking water treated with chloramines found to contain highly toxic chemicals, says EPA" the search for alternative additives to chorine for the municipal water systems, have been shown to be much more toxic than what they have found using the chorine.
According to Michael J. Plewa a genetic toxicologist in the department of crop sciences,"This research says that when you go to alternatives, you may be opening a Pandora's box of new DBPs(disinfection byproducts),and these unregulated DBPs may be much more toxic, by orders of magnitude, than the regulated ones we are trying to avoid."
Well, just get one of our maintenance free water filters and you will never have to be concerned about when and if the EPA mandates a change in the standards for the disinfection of municipal water systems.
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Posted by Stephen Betheil at December 21, 2004 03:36 PM
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