Cannot find anything on #DisinfectantByProducts. Learned this term at a #Riverkeeper water quality meeting. Did not know that treating water with chlorine or would cause byproducts that can cause cancer. Also known as #DBPs.
"Disinfection by-products (DBPs), also called #trihalomethanes, are formed when chlorine and bromine interact with natural organic materials in water, such as in chlorinated drinking water and chlorine-treated swimming pools."
@Iragersh
"The amount of THMs formed when drinking water is disinfected is thousands of times lower than the amount that could cause severe poisoning."
"The health risks linked with THMs in water are very small, compared to the risk of potentially deadly infectious diseases in drinking water that is not disinfected. This is especially true for water supplies in compliance with the federal Safe Drinking Water Act limit for total THMs."
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