Talk:Chloramine
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[edit] Removed text
I have removed the recently added section: Possible Health Effects because it seems to be making a POV argument without any attribution -- as far as can be told from the article, it could be someone's speculation. I think it points to a useful area for expanding the article, but it needs referencing, NPOV, and encyclopedic style revisions.
The text I removed follows: -Rholton 13:54, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
Chloramine is essentially a chemical compound which slowly degrades to chlorine. An argument could be made that it poses greater dangers to humans than the standard chlorinated water treatment.
The argument goes thus: Chlorine dissolved in water is dissipated as it reacts with organic matter in the water and also when air displaces it from solution. With Chloramine we have a stable compound that is being ingested intact into the human body, to breakdown to chlorine within the human body.
The fact that special tubing replacements are recommended for devices that are being switched from chlorinated water to chloramine should be indicative of a potential problem. Chlorine being one of the most powerful oxidizing agents on earth, we essentially are allowing a compound that generates chlorine be introduced into our bodies. Since one of the main water storage sites in our bodies is the bladder, one could suspect that if there is going to be a health problem with chloramine it would first be noticed with higher bladder cancer rates.
[edit] References for health complaints
Here's a link to an article about people who had health complaints after their city converted to chloramine: http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2004/2004_12_15.chloramine.shtml Jeff Fenstermacher 17:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Here's a link to the peer-reviewed manuscript documenting our investigation of the above-referenced health complaints: http://www.ehjournal.net/content/5/1/18 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JMWeintraub (talk • contribs) .
[edit] "Chloromine"
You might want to add something about chloromine as there is common confusion about this bleaching / photographic product in many net articles on the subject of water treatment for both brewing and aquariums. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.18.27.149 (talk • contribs) .
- What exactly is "chloromine"? As far as I can tell it's just a misspelling of chloramine. —Keenan Pepper 02:35, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Expansion
Seems to me that after a whole section on chloramine use as public water treatment, then saying under Safety the one-line "NH2Cl is toxic", requires a greater explanation. If NH2Cl is toxic, why is it safe to use in public water systems? - Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 21:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
