Moreover, this basic concern has been heightened by other research discoveries. The major health threat posed by these pollutants is far more likely to be from their inhalations as air pollutants. The cause of atherosclerosis and resulting heart attacks and strokes is none other than the ubiquitous chlorine in our drinking water. When the war was over, the use of chlorine was diverted to poisoning germs in our drinking water. All water supplies throughout the country were chlorinated.
Chlorine is the greatest cripple and killer of the modern times.
While it prevented epidemics of one disease, it was creating another. Two decades ago, after the start of chlorinating our drinking water in 1904. The present epidemic of the heart trouble, cancer and senility began. A long established public health practice for the disinfection of drinking water. But there is a growing body of scientific evidence that shows that chlorine in drinking water may actually pose greater long term dangers than those for which it was used to eliminate.