Is chlorine in our water negative for better health?
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ldrosophila wrote: »dutchandkiwi wrote: »
That depends on whether you can upgrade the supply system and the filtering systems prior to treatment. Our water in the Netherlands is perfectly safe meets and greatly exceeds safety regs (ours our very very stringent) and still the water is not chlorinated. When set out against data fromother countries we are at the highest safest end of the scale.I wonder how much faster all the pathogens would kill you if the tap water was not chlorinated. Pretty dang quick, I would think.
We are lucky that a lot of our water goes through natural sandfilters (nature reseerves as well as water reserves) but about 1/3 to half of our water is sourced from our main rivers.
Our water tastes so much better than in the US as I recently found out. All of a sudden I understood the resentment to drinking tapwater.
Do you have an issue with water shortages in the Netherlands? I live in the West of the US and many states suffer from water shortages, and as a result some areas are forced to used recycled waste water or water transported from many miles.
In Houston, a large portion of our drinking water is reclaimed from the sewage produced by Dallas. Last time Texas had a huge drought, facebook was full of memes telling Dallas to keep flushing...
Few people comprehend the word "treated" though...
One of my favorite "how it's made" type shows showed a water bottling plant and talked about the different filtration process. The more entertaining part is that part of the water supply was bottled, and the rest of the water went into several other filtration process and treatments and then into the municipal system. So, because it underwent further filtration, the municipal system actually had cleaner water.
I love how much bottled water is RO water from the Plano water supply...
Believe there's still a bottled water company bottling up a CA public water supply source and selling it too...drought and all.0 -
It's because my hometown is awesome. :laugh:ldrosophila wrote: »dutchandkiwi wrote: »
That depends on whether you can upgrade the supply system and the filtering systems prior to treatment. Our water in the Netherlands is perfectly safe meets and greatly exceeds safety regs (ours our very very stringent) and still the water is not chlorinated. When set out against data fromother countries we are at the highest safest end of the scale.I wonder how much faster all the pathogens would kill you if the tap water was not chlorinated. Pretty dang quick, I would think.
We are lucky that a lot of our water goes through natural sandfilters (nature reseerves as well as water reserves) but about 1/3 to half of our water is sourced from our main rivers.
Our water tastes so much better than in the US as I recently found out. All of a sudden I understood the resentment to drinking tapwater.
Do you have an issue with water shortages in the Netherlands? I live in the West of the US and many states suffer from water shortages, and as a result some areas are forced to used recycled waste water or water transported from many miles.
In Houston, a large portion of our drinking water is reclaimed from the sewage produced by Dallas. Last time Texas had a huge drought, facebook was full of memes telling Dallas to keep flushing...
Few people comprehend the word "treated" though...
One of my favorite "how it's made" type shows showed a water bottling plant and talked about the different filtration process. The more entertaining part is that part of the water supply was bottled, and the rest of the water went into several other filtration process and treatments and then into the municipal system. So, because it underwent further filtration, the municipal system actually had cleaner water.
I love how much bottled water is RO water from the Plano water supply...
Believe there's still a bottled water company bottling up a CA public water supply source and selling it too...drought and all.
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People don't realize there's more jeopardy from flushed prescription medications than from any chemicals used in the treatment processes. Those prescriptions don't get filtered out, sometimes and can be still present in the tap water.0
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ldrosophila wrote: »dutchandkiwi wrote: »
That depends on whether you can upgrade the supply system and the filtering systems prior to treatment. Our water in the Netherlands is perfectly safe meets and greatly exceeds safety regs (ours our very very stringent) and still the water is not chlorinated. When set out against data fromother countries we are at the highest safest end of the scale.I wonder how much faster all the pathogens would kill you if the tap water was not chlorinated. Pretty dang quick, I would think.
We are lucky that a lot of our water goes through natural sandfilters (nature reseerves as well as water reserves) but about 1/3 to half of our water is sourced from our main rivers.
Our water tastes so much better than in the US as I recently found out. All of a sudden I understood the resentment to drinking tapwater.
Do you have an issue with water shortages in the Netherlands? I live in the West of the US and many states suffer from water shortages, and as a result some areas are forced to used recycled waste water or water transported from many miles.
In Houston, a large portion of our drinking water is reclaimed from the sewage produced by Dallas. Last time Texas had a huge drought, facebook was full of memes telling Dallas to keep flushing...
Few people comprehend the word "treated" though...
One of my favorite "how it's made" type shows showed a water bottling plant and talked about the different filtration process. The more entertaining part is that part of the water supply was bottled, and the rest of the water went into several other filtration process and treatments and then into the municipal system. So, because it underwent further filtration, the municipal system actually had cleaner water.
Yes that happens in Utrecht here in the Netherlands, though they are two companies next to eachother The Bar-le-duc bottled water pipe goes into the same aquifier as the muncipal supply, about 400m down further down. One costs about 100 times what the other costs. The water that comes form there is known to be very soft (very little calcium) and the best in the country.
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