Fast Facts Chlorine, Tap Water And Health

This Fast Facts Chlorine page lists quotes about facts on chlorine taken from sources including the U.S. Council of Environmental Quality, the National Cancer Institute, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

• Facts Chlorine: According to the U.S. Council of Environmental Quality, "Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is as much as 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine".

• Chlorine Facts: "Each day, millions of Americans turn on their taps and get water that exceeds the legal limits for dangerous contaminants".
  USA Today, Special Report "How Safe Is Your Water".

• Facts Chlorine: "Drinking chlorinated water may as much as double the risk of bladder cancer."
  National Cancer Institute - Kenneth Cantor

• Chlorine Facts: "We are learning the hard way that all the time we thought we were preventing epidemics of one disease‚ we were creating another. Two decades after the start of chlorinating our drinking water the present epidemic of heart trouble and cancer began."
  Dr. Joseph M. Price‚ PhD

• Facts Chlorine: "One common factor among women with breast cancer is that they all have 50-60% higher levels of these chlorination by-products (THMs) in their fat tissue than women without breast cancer..."
  BreastCancerFund.org

• Chlorine Facts: "Up to 2/3 of the harmful effects of chlorine are due to inhalation and skin absorption while showering."
  The American Journal Of Public Health

• Facts Chlorine: "We have known for a long time that chloramines can trigger, rather than cause asthma.
  Ralph Riley, head of the National Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group

• Chlorine Facts: "Each day in America, about 30 cases of rectal cancer may be associated with THMs (chlorination by products) in drinking water."
  Natural Resources Defense Council

• Facts Chlorine: "The one thing we know for sure about toxins in our drinking water, is that the more we look... the more we find."
  Jacquelyn Warren, Council for the Natural Resources Defense Council

• Chlorine Facts: "Although concentrations of carcinogenic chlorine by-products are low, it is precisely these low levels that cancer scientists believe are responsible for the majority of human cancers in the United States".
  The Environmental Defense Fund.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has an excellent page on chlorine that looks at the origin and uses of chlorine, how to recognize chlorine exposure and how chlorine exposure is treated.