The effect of chlorine in water
Reports about Chlorine
- “Chlorine is the greatest crippler and killer of modern time. While it prevented epidemics on one disease, it was creating another. Two decades ago, after the start of chlorinating our drinking water in 1904, the present epidemic of heart trouble, cancer and senility began.”
SAINAW HOSPITAL
Dr JM Price MD.
- “Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than those whose water does not contain chlorine.”
US COUNCIL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
- “Drinking tap water that is chlorinated is hazardous, if not deadly to your health.”
HEALTH WATER FOR A LONGER LIFE
Dr Martin Fox
- “Known carcinogens are found in drinking water as a direct consequence of practice of chlorination. A long established public health practice for the disinfection of drinking water.”
MUNICIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEACH LABORATORY
Francis T Mayo, Director
- “Chlorine is used almost universally in the treatment of public drinking water because of its toxic effect on harmful bacteria and other waterborne, disease – causing organisms. But there is a growing body of scientific evidence that shows that chlorine in drinking water may actually pose greater long term dangers than those for which it was used to eliminate. These effects of chlorine may result from either ingestion or absorption through the skin.
- Scientific studies have linked chlorine and chlorination by-product to cancer of the bladder, liver, stomach, rectum and colon, as well as heart disease, arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), anaemia, high blood pressure and allergic reaction. There is also evidence that shows that chlorine can destroy protein in your body and cause adverse effects on skin and hair. The presence of chlorine in water may also contribute to the formation of chloramines in the water, which can cause taste and odour problems.
- “Showering is suspected as the primary cause of elevated levels of chloroform in nearly every home because of the chlorine in the water.”
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Dr. Lance Wallace
- “A Professor of Water Chemistry at The University of Pittsburgh claims that exposure to vaporized chemicals in the water supplies through showering, bathing and inhalation is 100 times greater than through drinking water.”
- “As chlorine is added to kill pathogenic micro-organisms, the highly reactive chlorine combines with fatty acids and carbon fragments to form a variety of toxic compounds, which comprise about 30% of the chlorination by-products.”
- “During the mid-1970’s monitoring efforts began to identify widespread toxic contamination in the nation’s drinking water supplies, epidemiological studies began to suggest a link between ingestion of toxic chemicals in the water and elevated cancer mortality risks. Since those studies were completed a variety of additional studies have strengthened the statistical connection between consumption of toxins in water and elevated cancer risks. Morever, this basic concern has been heightened by other research discoveries.”
THE NADER REPORT-TROUBLED WATERS ON TAP
Centre of Study of Responsive Law.
- “The National Academy of Science estimated that 200 out of 1000 people die in the United States each year from cancer caused by ingesting of contaminants in water. The major health threat posed by these pollutants is far more likely to be from their inhalation as air pollutants. The reason that emissions are high is because water droplets dispersed by the shower head have a larger surface-to-surface-value ratio than water streaming into the bath.”
SCIENCE NEWS. VOL. 130
Janet Raloff
- “The cause of arteriosclerosis and resulting heart attacks and strokes is no other than the iniquitous chlorine in our drinking water.”
CORONARIES/CHOLESTEROL/CHLORINE
Dr. J.M. Price MD.
- “In the vast majority of cases where germ-free water is required whether for public supply, or in the swimming pool, the process of disinfection will involve the use of chlorine in one or another.”
CHEMISTRY AND CONTROL OF MODERN CHLORINATION
Dr. A.T. Palin, Ph.D (O.BE.)
- “Chlorine gas was despicably used during WW1. When the war was over, the use of chlorine was diverted to poisoning germs in our drinking water. All water supplies throughout the country were chlorinated. The combination of chlorine (when in drinking) and animal fats results in arteriosclerosis, heart attacks and death.”
WATER CAN UNDERMINE YOUR HEALTH
Dr. N.W. Walker D.S.
