We are told our home drinking water is safe. But even after treatment by the municipal utility, the water still contains chemicals and foreign substances. Many of these chemicals and substances have been recently discovered to be dangerous to our health.

Chlorine is used as a disinfectant in almost every municipal water supply. It is added to water to kill the bacteria, viruses, and other organisms that can cause diseases like typhoid, cholera, dysentery and others. That’s the upside of chlorination of the water supply.

Researchers now link chlorine in drinking water to higher incidences of bladder, rectal and breast cancers. Reportedly chlorine, once in water, interacts with organic compounds to create trihalomethanes (THMs which when ingested encourage the growth of free radicals that can destroy or damage vital cells in the body.

The link between chlorine and bladder and rectal cancers has long been known, but only recently have researchers found a link between common chlorine disinfectant and breast cancer, which affects one out of every eight American women. A recent study conducted in Hartford, Connecticut found that women with breast cancer have 50-60 percent higher levels of organochlorines (chlorine by-products) in their breast tissue than cancer-free women.

In addition to the chlorine the water from your tap contains other harmful substances that chlorine has no effect on.

All sorts of pharmaceuticals, synthetic chemicals, organic and inorganic compounds are being found in our water. After the disinfectant effect chlorine is just one more harmful contaminate in your drinking water.

There is an even more serious problem with chlorine. In your steaming hot shower Chlorine becomes less soluble as the temperature rises. up to two thirds of our harmful exposure to chlorine is due to inhalation of steam and skin absorption while showering. A hot shower opens up the pores of the skin and allows for excelerated absorption of chlorine and other chemicals in water. The steam we inhale while showering can contain up to 50 times the level of chemicals as tap water. The inhalation of chlorine is a suspected cause of asthma and bronchitis, especially in children… which has increased 300% in the last two decades.  Hot Showers are suspected as the primary cause of elevated levels of chloroform in nearly every home because of chlorine in the water. Chloroform a known carcinogen levels increase up to 100 times during a ten-minute shower in residential water.

In addition, all sorts of pharmaceuticals, synthetic chemicals, organic and inorganic compounds are being found in our water.

It seems the only sensible thing to do is have the water filtered to remove the harmful substances before it enters the home with a whole house water filter.

At the very least one should use a shower filter to remove the chlorine.

 
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