Water Solutions: Tap Water Filtration

Water Solutions: Drinking Water Filters

 Water bottles stored in hot conditions can leach out chemicals that can lead to breast and other types of cancer. Bottled waters are subjected to extreme temperatures during their storage (warehouse) and transportation process.

Health can be damaged by toxic chemicals like Bisphenol_A (BPA), leached from bottled water. BPA intake can also cause cancerous cell in body.

Chlorine

Chlorine is a highly corrosive, greenish-yellow gas with a pungent odor that is derived from natural sources such as salt (sodium chloride) and produced in mass quantities for industrial use. It will react violently with organic substances. Chlorine is a building block for PVC plastics (vinyl) and for numerous chemicals, including pesticides, refrigerants, anti-knock compounds, and antifreeze. Dissolved in liquid to form sodium hypochlorite, or bleach, it is widely used as a disinfectant, in bleaching, and to purify public water supplies. Another form, hydrochloric acid, may be used in some toilet bowl cleaners.  Household bleach is a weak sodium hypochlorite solution. Household bleach is the most common cleaner accidentally swallowed by children. Children can also be exposed to dangerous gases when cleaners containing bleach are mixed with other cleaning agents, such as ammonia.  Concern about chlorine exposure also arises from its ability to form more toxic byproducts. Chlorine reacts with organic matter in drinking water to produce trihalomethanes, which may cause cancer and possibly developmental effects.  A recent study links children’s exposure to one byproduct, nitrogen trichloride, in chlorinated indoor pools to asthma. Chlorine bleaching of paper and the manufacture and incineration of PVC plastic results in the formation of highly toxic dioxins and furans.  Acute toxicity information below is for sodium hypochlorite (bleach).