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Sinergy -> RE: I miss[ed] Chicago drinking water (3/12/2007 10:24:09 AM)
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
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However, LA has the highest amount of chlorine that I have every seen! When I turn on the tap I can *smell* the chlorine in the water. That may be why he got a sore throat. It's so bad it even strips the color out of my hair -- I can't imagine what it must do to the inside of someone that drinks it regularly -- keeping in mind that chlorine is a poison when ingested in large amounts. I agree that bottled water is probably not much better (though I only drink Pelligrino, not the *regular* stuff), but it sure beats having to taste/smell the chlorine.
Filtering water with a carbon filter removes some of the chlorine, if you filter it and then leave it in a pitcher on the counter, the chlorine will evaporate very quickly.
Technically, it is not chlorine.
In most large water supplies, as of about 30 years ago, it is chloramine. They have bonded a chlorine atom to an ammonium atom (I am not a chemist) in some way to slow down the evaporation of it.
Water treatment for tropical fish includes an enzyme or chemical to break that bond to release chlorine and ammonia. Since chlorine evaporates readily, and ammonia is a natural byproduct of the breakdown of metabolic wastes, it makes your fishes water safe for living things.
It will evaporate eventually out of the water.
Sinergy
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