50 years nobedy knew that these cancer-causing chemicals were in our water supply. Now, 400

THMs have been identified. But that's not all: for chlorine and ammonia to bond together, the pH

must be raised, necessitating the GVRD to dump tons of sodium carbonate into the drinking

water. Sodium carbonate can overload the kidneys and also causes urinary tract infections. Those

persons with kidney diseases will be at much greater risk.

From London, England, the Martindale Extra Pharmacopoeia, 1989, outlines chloramine’s adverse
known effects, which include: vomiting and cyanosis (circulatory collapse). Frothing at the mouth
and respiratory failure can occur within a few minutes of chloramine ingestion. Fatalities have
occurred. The Pharmaceutical Press of London also states that chloramine in tap water has caused
methaemoglobinaemia (excessive amounts of dark brown compound in blood), and haemolysis
(blood disorder) in patients undergoing dialysis. Bronchospasm (constriction of the bronchial

tubes) has occurred after inhalation.

In Germany, chloramine has been banned for more than 30 years. In the U.S.A., EPA will

mar:date that chlorine and chloramine cannot be used on unfiltered water after 1996.

3rd Reason: THE OZONE OPTION

The solution offered, besides the immediate banning of all logging in the watershed is, as the
Coacemed Citizens Against Chlcramine Committee recommends, Mother Nature's best remedy: —
OZONE. Ozone is a naturally occurring gas. OZONE IS NOT A POLLUTANT. It is not created
from car exhaust or from an industrial process. Ozone is an ideal purification and disinfection

agent.

OZONE IS GENERATED WITHOUT THE USE OF CHEMICALS, AND DOES NOT
ADD ANY CHEMICALS INTO THE TRE.ATED WATER. IT DOES NOT CREATE

THMs.

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