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Is Chlorine Good for Your Health?Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - by Water2Drink![]() The
answer is both yes and no. There is little doubt that adding chlorine to public
drinking water supplies to serve as an affordable disinfectant has had the very
positive health effect of eliminating a host of water-borne diseases such as
cholera. Many people who have become accustomed to drinking tap water even
associate the smell of chlorine in their water with it being “safe” to drink.
The fact is that chlorine offers health benefits right up to the point where
you ingest it. But what then? The
chlorine in treated water is essentially bleach, and it’s unlikely that most
people would consider drinking bleach to be good for their health. Medical
studies have linked chlorine consumption and associated chlorine byproducts to
cancer, heart trouble, premature senility, hardening of the arteries, and a
host of other ills. And while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has
established “safe” levels of chlorine in drinking water supplies, most rational
people would prefer to consume none of it. So, what’s the answer?
Rather
than expect any governmental agency to intervene and change your water
treatment process in the near term, individuals can take matters into their own
hands and simply begin filtering their drinking water at the point of use.
Chlorine is fairly easy to filter out, while at the same time a variety of
other potential contaminants that may be present (e.g., cryptosporidium,
giardia, MTBE, lead, mercury, arsenic, asbestos, etc.) will be eliminated or
significantly reduced as well. The simplest and most cost-effective solution is
to filter water through a high quality compressed carbon block filter.
Would
you like to see a demonstration of how such a filter effectively strips
chlorine out of tap water?
Then
click on the link below to see a short 1-minute video on YouTube.com. Most swimming
pool owners are familiar with a chemical solution called OTO that is used to
test the concentration of chlorine in pool water – the darker the water color
after adding OTO, the more chlorine is present. The video shows a simple OTO
test of tap water and a comparison to water drawn from the same source but
pushed through a compressed carbon block drinking water filter.
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