What's in your water?: Disinfectants create toxic by-products

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 08:49 in Earth & Climate

Although perhaps the greatest public health achievement of the 20th century was the disinfection of water, a recent study now shows that the chemicals used to purify the water we drink and use in swimming pools react with organic material in the water yielding toxic consequences...

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