| Why is there chlorine drinking water? |
| Just as water is essential to life, chlorine is essential to safe drinking water. Public health officials overwhelmingly agree: In a 1992 survey of public health officials, 92% agreed that chlorine drinking water is safe and 87% said they view chlorine as the safest way to assure quality drinking water. Experts also agree that chlorine's introduction early this century into the U.S. drinking water supply is one of history's great public health advances. Safe, chlorine drinking water has played a key role in: a 50% plus increase in life expectancy, from about 45 years in the early 1900s to about 76 years at present; a dramatic decline in infant mortality rates and the virtual elimination of cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery and gastroenteritis, as well as many other waterborne diseases which once killed tens of thousands of Americans. Home Page | FAQs | Glossary | Contact Us |