The Effects Of Chlorine On Drinking Water
For over 60 years chlorine has been the most extensively used disinfectant in the United States to kill organisms that cause waterborne diseases such as typhoid, cholera, dysentery, amebiasis, salmonellosis, shigellosis, and hepatitis A. It is the leading disinfectant for drinking water in most of the world. Ozone is now being used as the primary disinfectant in many drinking water treatment plants, largely in Canada and Europe. There is interest in the regulatory and scientific community concerning the use of chlorine composite to disinfect our drinking water. This comes from the adverse health effects, discovered in the early 1970’s, of the disinfectant by-products found in water as a result of them being used. When chlorine id put in the water it reacts causes a chemical reaction with any organic material found in the water. There’s always organic matter found in natural water. By-products of this chemical reaction include trihalomethanes (THMs)…