Alamosa, Colorado: Water, Water Everywhere But Not a Drop Worth Drinking.
November 21, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Drink, Exposed!, Historic Health, Prevention
Did you know that this year marks the 100th year of America’s reliance on chlorine to disinfect drinking water?
Jersey City, NJ was the first US city to routinely chlorinate it’s municipal drinking water, followed by Chicago’s union stockyards and many, many more cities around the country. Today, pretty much all U.S. public water systems rely on chlorine in some form for safe drinking water
As a result, waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid are virtually eliminated.
But as this guest post by the Chairman of Water Quality & Health Council highlights, there are always cracks in the system…
The Waterborne Outbreak in …read more
