Chlorine is a chemical that is used in municipal and industrial water treatment as an "effective" way to kill bacteria. However, it does not kill all pathogenic microorganisms, such as cryptosporidium cysts, and thus does not guarantee completely safe water.

Chlorine also gives water a very unpleasant odor and taste. This discourages people from drinking as much water as they should be every day.

Worst of all, recent studies have shown that chlorine in the water that people are using for drinking, bathing, and showering is damaging to people's health! Hot showers are particularly bad, because the heat and atomization causes the chlorine in the water to be released as chlorine gas. This is the same gas that the German's used against France in 1915, killing over 5000!

Chlorine related reactions can produce poisons as well. Chlorine reacts with decaying organic material in the source water, creating Trihalomethanes, a group of four organic halides that contaminate about 90 percent of our country's water. All four halides are known or suspected carcinogens.

In many local communities (such as Chesapeake, VA) these THMs are suspected of elevated cancer rates and spontaneous abortions amongst pregnant women. Several local and national news publications have reported a proposed class-action, wrongful death lawsuit from nearly 200 women in Chesapeake, Virginia. They've sued their water system for nearly two billion dollars claiming that miscarriages they suffered are traceable to trihalomethanes.

A Superior Water Systems water treatment system utilizes activated carbon and/or membrane filtration to remove chlorine, trihalomethanes, and taste and odor problems that are associated with chlorine contamination. Get a safer and better-tasting water source for you and your family.

Call Superior Water Systems to review your options, affordable purchase options start at $250.00 and rental solutions starting as low as five dolalrs a week.