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Chlorine/Fluoride In Water

Chlorine effectively destroys bacteria and algae and fluoride is good for your teeth, but while chlorine alone is relatively harmless, it reacts with minerals and chemicals in your water to create cancer causing agents. And ingesting fluoride is simply ridiculous. Why would anyone want to drink a poison? Why are these chemicals added to our water anyway?

Well, the chlorine is there for good reason and because it’s easy to remove just before you ingest it, chlorine for killing bacteria and fungus is a good idea. But I cannot come up with a good reason for fluoride in our water at all. Fortunately, for whatever reasons it’s added to your water, both can be removed with reverse osmosis. Actually, chlorine can be neutralize with a simple carbon filter, but fluoride requires at least reverse osmosis.

You can test for chlorine levels in your water with a simple water test kit. You can neutralize the chlorine completely with a whole-house carbon filtration system available here.

March 16, 2007 Posted by watervalue | Blogroll, Business, Daily News, reverse osmosis, water treatment | | No Comments