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The water department treats your water by adding, typically, chemicals to the water
such as chlorine, which we've talked about. Lime, they also sometimes add aluminum by
product which is fluoride and one of the newer things they add to the water now is bromine.
Bromine is ammonia. And then there's chloramine which they're using in place of chlorine now
in a lot of parts to try and reduce the level of triomethylines. However, their finding
that when they use chloramines, it's actually causing excess amounts of lead to be in the
water in a lot of cases. And also their finding it creates new triomethylines that they don't
know about. So, now the reason why they treat your water by adding these chemicals or poisons
to the water is very simple. They actually have to treat the water as you can realize.
But they treat your water with chemicals and poisons because of the cost. If you consider
all the water that they process in the United States, 98% of all that water is going to
be used for commercial, industrial purposes. Things like manufacturing, processing, street
sweeping, fire fighting, filling your swimming pools, washing your cars, farming irrigation
and things like that. Only 2% is what's actually used inside of our homes. So, understand that
if they clean that 2% as we would like them to do they would also have to clean that 98%.
You can't separate it. It comes through one pipe. And simply put, if they clean that 2%
they have to clean that 98% and they don't want to clean that 98%. It's just too costly.
And that is why they add the chemicals to the water. It's cheaper to do.