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Filtering San Francisco Water
chlorine / amonia
Until a year or two ago, when SF and other Municipal Water Supplies switched from Chlorine to Chloramine,
All you needed was a simple carbonsediment filter to take out the chlorine.
Or, you could just let the chlorine evaporate out of the pitcher over a day or two.
Now instead we have Chloramine which is a compound of chlorine and amonia.
How do we remove Chloramine?
Why are citizens not allowed to participate or even know about the chemicals in their water?
They just told us: don't put it in your fishtank, it kills fish, and have a good day.
All you needed was a simple carbonsediment filter to take out the chlorine.
Or, you could just let the chlorine evaporate out of the pitcher over a day or two.
Now instead we have Chloramine which is a compound of chlorine and amonia.
How do we remove Chloramine?
Why are citizens not allowed to participate or even know about the chemicals in their water?
They just told us: don't put it in your fishtank, it kills fish, and have a good day.
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I am concerned about the affects chloramine has on humans and have a page on my web site with information about what is happening. Scroll through it and you will see people in other places in this country are not in favor of it. Tomorrow (3/4/07) I will be posting a new article where in Virginia Tech civil engineering professor Marc Edwards who studied the affects of chlormine on people in Maui confirms chlormine should not be in our water. His comments are enlightening.
Aside from the havoc chloramine wages on our health, it has been proven cause problems with water pipes in our homes, not to mention the fish and dialysis problems.
Citizens Concerned About Chloramine ( http://www.chloramine.org/ ) is a volunteer organization dedicated to trying to wake up governing bodies about chloramine. Visit their web site and get involved. Until a large number of us group together and speak out profoundly will the politicians do something other than dismiss us as a bunch of crackpots.
Aside from the havoc chloramine wages on our health, it has been proven cause problems with water pipes in our homes, not to mention the fish and dialysis problems.
Citizens Concerned About Chloramine ( http://www.chloramine.org/ ) is a volunteer organization dedicated to trying to wake up governing bodies about chloramine. Visit their web site and get involved. Until a large number of us group together and speak out profoundly will the politicians do something other than dismiss us as a bunch of crackpots.
For more information:
http://www.joannegardiner.com/Chloraminein...
First, chloramine can be filtered. Multi Pure filters filter it, and several other companies make filters that will filter it, also.
Regardless of what you are told, ALL chemicals added to water will have negative effects on your health; the question is, what are those effects and how severe are they? (I rarely hear people complain about the fluoride added to drinking water, but this is just a waste product of the aluminum industry and was originally added so that the industry could sell it instead of paying to get rid of it.) Chlorine is known to cause cancer when it mixes with other pollutants found in municipal water supplies, which is why water agencies are switching to chloramine. Chloramine is nowhere near as reactive as chlorine, so it doesn't mix with other chemicals and create even worse ones like chlorine does.
As to why chemicals are added to purify drinking water, it's the problem no one wants to talk about: overpopulation. Municipal water supplies must have some form of purification, or people who drink the water will get cholera. In the Bay Area, the native people drank from natural water ways, and even slightly overpopulated white people lived off the ground water until the area got so overpopulated that they had to steal water from the mountains in order to survive. So don't complain about purifying chemicals in your municipal water supply if you have more than two kids, because the cause is right in your mirror.
Regardless of what you are told, ALL chemicals added to water will have negative effects on your health; the question is, what are those effects and how severe are they? (I rarely hear people complain about the fluoride added to drinking water, but this is just a waste product of the aluminum industry and was originally added so that the industry could sell it instead of paying to get rid of it.) Chlorine is known to cause cancer when it mixes with other pollutants found in municipal water supplies, which is why water agencies are switching to chloramine. Chloramine is nowhere near as reactive as chlorine, so it doesn't mix with other chemicals and create even worse ones like chlorine does.
As to why chemicals are added to purify drinking water, it's the problem no one wants to talk about: overpopulation. Municipal water supplies must have some form of purification, or people who drink the water will get cholera. In the Bay Area, the native people drank from natural water ways, and even slightly overpopulated white people lived off the ground water until the area got so overpopulated that they had to steal water from the mountains in order to survive. So don't complain about purifying chemicals in your municipal water supply if you have more than two kids, because the cause is right in your mirror.
Dear Mr. Da Costa,
Thank you very much for your comments about chloramine. Chloramine went into our water system in 4/06 and since then, People Concerned About Chloramine (PCAC), a grassroots citizens organization that was born on the heals of the conversion from chlorine to chloramine, has heard from 185 people who believe they are suffering from skin, respiratory and/or digestive health effects since the conversion. We are a water district of 68,000 people, and the largest one in Vermont.
We are fighting hard to get chloramine out of our water and will not stop until it is. Ours is the only public water system in Vermont to have converted to chloramine. May it be the last!
The best way to get the word out is by writing letters to the editor and writing law makers.
I recommend anyone who wants to learn more about the major drawbacks of chloramine as a water disinfectant go to chloramine.org. This wonderful and very informative website put together by the San Francisco Bay area grass roots citizens organization Citizens Concerned About Chloramine.
Thank you very much for your comments about chloramine. Chloramine went into our water system in 4/06 and since then, People Concerned About Chloramine (PCAC), a grassroots citizens organization that was born on the heals of the conversion from chlorine to chloramine, has heard from 185 people who believe they are suffering from skin, respiratory and/or digestive health effects since the conversion. We are a water district of 68,000 people, and the largest one in Vermont.
We are fighting hard to get chloramine out of our water and will not stop until it is. Ours is the only public water system in Vermont to have converted to chloramine. May it be the last!
The best way to get the word out is by writing letters to the editor and writing law makers.
I recommend anyone who wants to learn more about the major drawbacks of chloramine as a water disinfectant go to chloramine.org. This wonderful and very informative website put together by the San Francisco Bay area grass roots citizens organization Citizens Concerned About Chloramine.
For more information:
http://www.chloramine.org
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