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Chlorine and Your Shower
"Taking long, hot showers is a health risk, according to research presented last week in Anaheim, California, at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. Showers-and to a lesser extent baths-lead to a greater exposure to toxic chemicals contained in water supplies than does drinking the water. The chemicals evaporate out of the water and are inhaled. They can also spread through the house and be inhaled by others. House holders can receive 6 to 100 times more of the chemicals by breathing the air around showers and bath than they would by drinking the water."
NEW SCIENTIST 18 SEPTEMBER 1986
Ian Anderson
"Studies indicate the suspect chemicals can also be inhaled and absorbed through the skin during showering and bathing."
"Ironically, even the Chlorine widely used to disinfect water, produces carcinogenic traces."
"Though 7 out of 10 Americans drink chlorinated water, its safety over the long term is uncertain."
'Drinking chlorinated water may as much as double the risk of the Bladder Cancer, which strikes 40,000 people a year."
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT - July 29th 1991
Is Your Water Safe-The Dangerous State of Your Water
"Along, hot shower can be dangerous. The toxic chemicals are inhaled in high concentrations."
BOTTOM LINE/AUG 1987
Dr. John Andelman,Ph.D.
" On one hand, chlorination has freed civilization from the constant dangers of waterborne epidemics. On the other hand in the mid-70s scientists discovered that chlorination could create carcinogens in water."
"80% of the population drinks chlorinated water."
"There was a higher incidence of cancer of the esophagus, rectum, breast and larynx and of Hodgkin's Diseases among those drinking chlorinated surface waters."
"Volatile organics can evaporate from water in a shower or bath."
"Conservative calculations indicate that inhalation exposures can be as significant as exposures from drinking the water, that is, one can be exposed to just as much by inhalation during a shower as by drinking 2 liters of water a day."
"People who shower frequently could be exposed through ingestion, inhalation and/or dermal absorption."
IS YOUR WATER SAFE TO DRINK?
Consumer Report Books
"Skin absorption of contaminants has been underestimated and ingestion may not constitute the sole or even primary route of exposure."
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Dr. Halina Brown
"Chlorine is the greatest crippler and killer of moderns times. While it prevents epidemics of 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."
SAGINAW HOSPITAL
Dr. J.M. Price, MD
"Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than amongst those whose water does not contain chlorine."
U.S. COUNCIL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Dr. Martin Fox
" Known carcinogens are found in drinking water as a direct consequence of the practice of chlorination. A long established public health practice for the disinfect ion of drinking water."
MUNICIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 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-products to cancer of the bladder, liver, stomach, rectum and colon, as well as heart diseases, arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) anemia, high blood pressure and allergic reactions. There is also evidence that shows that chlorine can destroy protein in our 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 odor problems." "Since chlorine is required by public health regulations to be present in all public drinking water supplies, it is up to the individual to remove it at
the point-of-use in the home.
KEMYSTS LABORATORY
Dr. Riddle, Ph.D.
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