“The challenge is, we don’t really know about the health impacts, because unlike the free chlorine disinfection byproducts, there just hasn’t been as much toxicology done on these compounds ...

It would be unthinkable to give that up to avoid the much smaller hazard posted by disinfection byproducts.” Even chlorine, with its well-understood and well-documented risks, continues to be ...

A group of chemical compounds used to disinfect water for one-third of the US population and millions of others globally ...

A mysterious byproduct of a chemical used to ... water system officials could potentially switch their disinfection practices, reverting to chlorine. But water systems that switched to chloramine ...

Though chlorine remains the most widely used ... micrograms per liter -- exceeding typical regulatory limits for disinfection byproducts, which range between 60 and 80 micrograms per liter.

“Chloramines have their own families of disinfection byproducts that they make, and so maybe the last 30 years we’ve seen a little bit of buyer’s remorse for this switch from free chlorine ...