Chlorine produces many risks which are not always obvious to the summer. Chlorine reacts with organics and produces Trihalomethanes (THMs). These are absorbed through the skin or simply by swallowing pool water.

Studies have linked this exposure with cancer, organ damage, colon damage, and other health problems. After a day of swimming do you notice a weeze feeling in your lungs and a shortness of breath?! Studies have shown that competitive swimmer's lung enzymes are similar to a person who smokes 1-2 packs a day of cigarettes!!

Why Risk Long-Term Health Effects!

Breast cancer, which now effects one in every eight women in North America, has recently been linked to the accumulation of CHLORINE COMPOUNDS IN THE BREAST TISSUE. A study carried out in Hartford, Connecticut, the first of it's kind in North America, found that women with breast cancer have 50% to 60% HIGHER LEVELS OF ORGANOCHLORINES (chlorination byproducts) in their breast tissue than women without breast cancer!

I am expressing this because as a parent of young children I want their life to be as healthy as possible - as you do for your loved ones.

Chlorine, The Experts Agree..

• MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN:
  
  Dr. Robert Morris and colleagues at the Medical College of Wisconsin concluded after examination of 10 previous studies on the cancer-causing abilities of chlorinated water:
  
  "There is a clear pattern between consumption of chlorinated water and rectal and bladder cancer."
  
  --Dr. Robert Morris
  (Dr. Robert Morris has been the featured health/water expert on "Dateline NBC" and was a key presenter at the WQA National Show in March 1995.)

• AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH:
  
  Halina Szejnwlad Brown, Donna Bishop and Carol Rowan contrast their estimates of skin absorption versus drinking for three toxic chemicals: Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Styrene. Depending both on the compound involved and the body region exposed, skin can act as a fairly strong barrier to chemical entry or as no barrier at all.
  
  Their analyses were based on data published for the hand, one of the least porous areas of the body.
  
  Their most surprising finding was that for a swimmer, between 83 percent and 91 percent of the chemicals entering the body came through the skin.
• THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION:
  

  "Modern diets are marginally deficient in many elements, and therefore,the contribution of hard water or a daily intake of lithium or magnesium, or particular other elements may make a difference between optimal and sub-optimal intake. Also, chemical forms of many of these elements in water are different from what is food. In food, there may be some chelating agents that prevent immediate absorption of certain elements and even if they are contained in very high amounts in food, their absorption comes down to perhaps a few percent."

  --Dr. Masironi
  World Health Organization
  
  
  REMEMBER - The Eliminator (tm) delivers the calcium, magnesium and copper needed by people and plants while removing the toxics in your municipal or ground water.
• THE WASHINGTON POST
  

  The EPA has raised skin absorption of chlorine to its top 10 carcinogen watch list.

  June 1994

  REMEMBER - Skin absorption of chlorine occurs in your shower, bathtub,swimming pool or spa. -- Unless you have an Eliminator or Excalibar Ionic Purification System (tm).