Chlorine mixed with ammonia = Chloramines in our tap water in addition to fluoride, pharma drugs, and other toxins!

Chloramines May Raise Your Water’s Level of Toxic Unregulated Disinfection Byproducts

November 27, 2012
Dr. Mercola

Story at-a-glance

• More than one in five Americans are drinking tap water that’s been treated with a derivative of chlorine known as chloramine. This disinfectant is formed by mixing chlorine with ammonia; chloramine is often used alongside chlorine as a “secondary” disinfectant designed to remain in your water longer as it travels through the water system
• Water treated with monochloramine (the most common form of chloramine used to disinfect drinking water) may contain higher concentrations of unregulated disinfection byproducts (DBPs) – the risks of which are unknown
• When chlorine is replaced with chloramines in drinking water, it raises the amount of lead that leaches into water from lead pipes
• No scientific studies on chloramine’s effects on your skin or respiratory tract via inhalation (such as exposure during a shower or bath) have been conducted
• Chloramine is toxic to frogs and other amphibians, reptiles, fish and other aquatic and marine life
• A whole-house filtration system is therefore your best choice to remove chlorine, chloramine, ammonia, DBPs and other contaminants from all of your water sources (bath, shower and tap)