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We use chlorine to clean/disinfect the water. Chlorine are used widely, it is exist in your potable (drinkable) water pipe at home. (Source: Ranhill SAJ)
We use chlorine to clean/disinfect the water. Chlorine are used widely, it is exist in your potable (drinkable) water pipe at home. (Source: Ranhill SAJ)
What is chlorine?
What is chlorine?
Chlorine is a chemical element, one of roughly 90 basic building blocks of matter. Chlorine’s tendency to combine with other elements and compounds has been used to produce thousands of essential products, from drinking water disinfectants to solar energy panels to replacement knee and hip joints. Due to its chemical reactivity, chlorine is rarely present in nature by itself as elemental chlorine, and typically exists bonded to other elements in the form of chemical compounds such as sodium chloride (table salt).
Water
Water
Chlorine chemistry helps keep drinking water and swimming pools safe. Before cities began routinely treating drinking water with chlorine-based disinfectants, thousands died every year from waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery and hepatitis A. Chlorine-based pool and spa disinfectants help keep recreational waters safe by destroying waterborne pathogens that can result in illnesses, such as diarrhea, swimmer’s ear or skin rashes, including athlete’s foot.
Pool Chemical Safety
Pool Chemical Safety
When used properly, chlorine-based disinfectants help protect swimmers from bacteria and other germs that can cause problems like swimmer’s ear or diarrhea. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), chlorine and pH are the first line of defense against germs that can make swimmers sick.
A little bit extra about chlorine.
A little bit extra about chlorine.
Why is chlorine added to drinking water?
Why is chlorine added to drinking water?
Chlorine destroys disease-causing germs and helps make water safe to drink. Waterborne diseases once killed thousands of U.S. residents every year. Following its first use in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1908, drinking water chlorination spread rapidly throughout the United States, and helped to virtually eliminate waterborne diseases like cholera and typhoid fever.
Drinking water chlorination played a major role in increasing Americans’ life expectancy by 50 percent during the 20th century. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls drinking water chlorination “one of the most significant public health advances in U.S. history.”
Besides killing dangerous germs like bacteria, viruses and parasites, chlorine helps reduce disagreeable tastes and odors in water. Chlorine also helps eliminate slime bacteria, molds and algae that commonly grow in water supply reservoirs, on the walls of water mains and in storage tanks. In fact, EPA requires treated tap water to contain a detectable level of chlorine to help protect against germs all the way to consumers’ taps.
Is chlorine in drinking water safe?
Is chlorine in drinking water safe?
The small amount of chlorine added to disinfect drinking water in accordance with EPA regulations is safe for consumption. According to EPA, allowable chlorine levels in drinking water (up to 4 parts per million) pose “no known or expected health risk [including] an adequate margin of safety” while providing for “control of pathogens under a variety of conditions.”
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