Chlorine is added to public water supplies to kill disease causing bacteria but it also reacts with other properties to create dangerous levels of cancer causing THMS.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Chlorine-and-Cancer:-What-Can-a-Water-Filter-Do-for-You?&id=23998
http://environment.about.com/od/earthtalkcolumns/a/chlorine.htm
http://www.goodcommonsense.net/efofchinyowa.html


>>Not so different from the U.S. :o) Except that we never got the idea into our heads to give our children beer instead of water :o) One thing I noticed though in Germany which was much different than the states, almost everyone I knew didn't drink anything with their meals while here in the U.S. (not anymore but it was true back in the 80s) we drank milk or water
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>Back in the day: "boddrrrrr milk"! :-)
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>>with all of our meals. Now naturalists are claiming that no liquids should be taken with meals to promote digestion and when they are, they should always be tepid. Nowadays I think bottled water is probably the most common liquid taken with meals.
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>>For a year I lived in a rural community about 2.5 hours away and there was an extremely high iron and sulfur content in the water.
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>People pay good money to wallow in that sort of stuff in spa towns! :-)
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>>I had a special water filtration system for the house. I only realized it had broken when the water smelled like iron and it turned my hair orange in the shower! Where I am now the sand filters the water from the wells and it is very clean and loaded with minerals.
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>>The city water though smells like chlorine out of the tap (which is why I don't like it). It smells like you are drinking bleach.
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>We get that sometimes. Isn't that the fluorine though, which they add to strengthen teeth?
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