February 26, 2008
This post has been updated for 2009.
I recently wrote about Filtering Your Drinking Water Very Efficiently, but let us turn now to your shower water. When we shower, we absorb the substances dissolved in water through our skin quite readily. For example, 60% of the chlorine absorbed daily comes from showering in chlorinated water. The [...]
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July 29, 2004
Recently, municipalities around the world have begun to use
chloramine (a mixture of chlorine and ammonia) to disinfect water. This
is done to reduce free chlorine’s ability to combine with organic matter
in the water thereby producing potentially harmful trihalomethanes, or
THMs. Because chloramine has less disinfecting ability than free chlorine,
a higher concentration of chlorine is usually used to [...]
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