The municipal water that your child drinks, bathes and plays in is a complex chemical mixture of dissolved minerals, contaminants and chemical additives. Chemicals are added to clarify the water, remove solid particulates and disinfect. And, when fluoride compounds are added to water supplies, polymers are added to inhibit corrosion of the water pipes. The skin is the largest organ of the body.
Children are most at risk.
Children's bath times may range from 45 minutes to two hours. Children's tissues, organs and biological systems are still developing, with several stages of rapid growth and development occurring from infancy to adolescence. This rapid development, combined with the immaturity of body organs and systems, predisposes children to potentially more severe consequences within certain age ranges and windows of vulnerability Circulatory flow rates are generally higher in children, which may increase a child's susceptibility to toxic effects. Despite these elevated risks, most toxicological data is based on occupational exposures for adults. Acute Iymphocytic leukemia is up 10 percent and brain tumors are up more than 30 percent.