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ArticleBody:For decades, utilities in the U.S. have used a family of disinfectants known as chloramines to disinfect drinking water. Municipalities turned to these substances as an alternative to chlorine, because chlorine’s byproducts in water have been associated with possible adverse health effects such as elevated risks of colon and bladder cancer, low birth weight, and miscarriage.
” Even chlorine, with its well-understood and well-documented risks, continues to be used to disinfect water–both in the U.S. and elsewhere–because the benefits of clean drinking water far outweigh chlorine’s potential dangers. McCurry says that at individual level, “The risk presented by a typical water contaminant is not worth losing sleep over on an individual basis.
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