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We use chlorine to disinfect countertops, clothes and rinse water, but should we be drinking it? Chlorine is added to our tap water to protect us from bacteria and other micro-organisms, but what is rarely reported, is the fact that the amounts of chlorine go unregulated and are only checked when ordered. One simple way to drastically reduce your chlorine intake is by adding the Encore water filter purifier that includes a chlorine water filter. By using an activated carbon water filter, the Encore water filter purifier offers a high level of chlorine reduction.
CHLORINE and its byproducts
It is widely understood that the use of chlorine requires training in the handling of hazardous materials. Chlorine is a highly irritating, greenish-yellow gaseous element, used to purify water. It is used as a disinfectant, a bleaching agent, and in the manufacturing of chloroform and carbon tetrachloride.
Studies have linked chlorine with cancer, high blood pressure, anemia, heart disease, and strokes. When you add chlorine to water it reacts with ammonia, organic matter and other contaminants in the water. This combined form of chlorine known as chloramines, a cancer causing carcinogen, have little sanitizing power and are actually the cause of some unpleasant problems associated with chlorine.
The EPA's Safe Drinking Water Act was passed by Congress in 1974, and amended in both 1986 and 1996, with
intentions of improving the safety of public drinking water.
As in all cases, passing a law does not stop violations, it only provides guidelines for compliance and penalties for
breaking the law. Each year there are over 200,000 violations to the Safe Drinking Water Act – involving over 20
percent of water treatment facilities.
Typically, lab testing rarely represents real life conditions, so the EPA standards are based on a 175 lb. male drinking
water with only one chemical present.
In real world conditions, if 2 or more chemicals exist at the same time in your tap water, the interacting toxicity of
those two chemicals greatly magnifies the negative effects.
Imagine what happens when you have 6 or 7 chemicals in your water...
Please understand that these statements are not made to scare you into buying our activated carbon water filter, but to inform you that what you do not know can harm you. In actuality, these statements are just a sample of the ill effects of chlorine. These are some of the reasons why we include the chlorine water filter in the Encore water filter purifier.
Chlorine and your tap water
Expert opinion of chlorine from Dr. Joseph Mercola
Please note that the posting of this video does not constitute any endorsement from Dr. Mercola for our activated carbon water filter.
This video is posted for educational purposes only.
Our government cannot control it
In 1972, chloroform, a particularly deadly poison, was detected in chlorinated drinking water. This detection sparked numerous epidemiological studies. The proponents of such studies intended to investigate the potential health risks of drinking chlorinated water. As a result of these epidemiological studies, scientists discovered a large number of chlorine byproducts found within chlorinated drinking water. Chlorine, in addition to killing or inactivating pathogens in water, reacts with natural organic matter and/or the chemical compound bromide in water to produce various organic and inorganic byproducts. These byproducts include bromate, chlorite, haloacetic acids (HAA5), and total trihalomethanes (TTHMs).
Many epidemiological studies indicated an association between ingestion of chlorinated water and occurrences of bladder cancer and rectal cancer. A 1991 report, a compilation of 12 different studies, indicated that 9% of bladder cancer cases and 15% of rectal cancer cases in the United States could be attributed to chlorinated water and chlorine byproducts (Xie, 2004). These numbers translate to 10,000 cases of cancer a year that can be credited to chlorinated water!
Each of the four main chlorine byproducts contributes to increased cases of bladder and rectal cancer, but some byproducts lead to other adverse health effects, as well. Chlorite can cause anemia in infants and young children It can also affect nervous system functioning in both children and adults. TTHMs can cause nervous system problems, in addition to triggering kidney and liver problems. There is a positive correlation between TTHMs in drinking water and spontaneous abortion, as well (Xie, 2004).
The EPA has set MCLs for chlorine byproducts in drinking water, but these chlorine byproducts continue to be present, and, even in small amounts, they can lead to damaging health problems.
Source: www.historyofwaterfilters.com/chlorine-byproducts.html
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