I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. Abraham Lincoln
Chloramines, the chemical water treatment of upwards of 130 million people in the United States, has very dangerous disinfection by products. Sadly, drinking water utilities, EPA and state water officials have not shared the true threat of chloramines to public health.
The truth of the matter is this: Parents who allow their children to swim in public pools with chloraminated water subject their children to risk of severe and perhaps irreversible lung damage. The facts are in. The studies are done. As wonderful as it might seem to see infants taking naturally to water, no parent should let a child, especially an infant, swim in a chloraminated public pool.
All of this was made known publicly in August 2012 at the Gordon Research Conference on Drinking Water Disinfection By Products at Mount Holyoke College. Please see: http://www.grc.org/...
No one to date has told the truth. Not the EPA. Not state water officials. Not the drinking water utilities. Not the Chlorine Institute. Not the AWWA. Shouldn't you be able to know such important information? And yet you have been kept in the dark.
Things have to change. You have to change. You have to become informed. You have to become proactive. People who care more about profits than innocent children need strong regulation and oversight. You need to see that happens. At the moment water treatment special interest groups have Congress tied in knots. They are very powerful, but not as powerful as 130 million Americans who turn the lights on all at once.