Chloramine Disinfects but Still Harms

No matter what you "call" it, it is still a contaminant that we all
need to be aware is being used to disinfect our water. Chloramine by
any other name is still toxic.

Along with the health care system and the economy, contaminated
drinking water is another hot button for most Americans. Sadly though,
there are many people who still feel that this isn't really an issue,
simply because their water looks and smells fine. If it were only that
simple.

It's not too much of a stretch to say that just about every day
there is something in your local newspapers about what is in your
drinking water that will shock and dismay you. The long laundry list,
which is staggering and includes over 2,000 diverse toxic chemicals,
would be too long for this article, but suffice it to say that the list
includes things like fertilizers, various drugs (prescription and
otherwise), hormones, rocket fuel, viruses, lead, mercury, arsenic and,
and, and. It's bad and we need to do something about this, if not for
the nation as a whole, then for our own families.

Municipal water treatment plants were routinely in the habit of
using chlorine bleach to disinfect water, and some may still be doing
that as you read this article. However, many municipalities are
beginning to switch over to chloramine (a blend of ammonia and
chlorine) to do the deed. The trouble with chloramine is that it
remains in the water supply longer and has a superb record for leaching
lead from fittings and pipes. Just what we need, more lead in the
water. Lead of course is a cancer-causing agent.

We're not quite sure why the powers that be in their infinite wisdom
think that going to yet another highly toxic chemical, that is worse
than bleach, will improve our drinking water any time soon. Everything
we pitch down the drain, and that includes the chloramine added at the
treatment plant, winds up in our taps. Yes, everything, even those
pills that someone in the house may have flushed down the sink drain
because they weren't going to take the rest of them.

If every house on the block, in the city, in the county, in the
state, etc., did that, imagine what you would have in your water. The
trouble is, everyone "does" do this to a certain extent. The neighbor
who uses lawn chemicals for a nice yard, the farmer who fertilizes his
fields for a higher yield, the drug manufacturer who sneaks his waste
water from the drug plant into the main river flowing past the plant –
every one of those people is adding toxins to our water supply.

How do we avoid the chemical soup that comes in out taps? The only
way to make sure we're safe at home and get the purest, freshest water
we can, is to buy a water distillation system. No other method of purification is as effective as distillation.

Larry Wardell is with H2olabs.com, a provider of water distillers and water distillation systems. To learn more about Water distillers, water distillation systems, water purification systems, visit H2olabs.com.