Adverse Effects
There are lawsuits over pinhole leaks in copper water piping in homes attributed to chloramination being handled by Newmeyer & Dillion LLP, a law firm located in California. Pinhole leaks cause expensive damage to people's homes, and builders are claiming that they must repipe houses at great expense to deal with the problem.
People have no trouble digesting chlorine or chloramine at the levels found in public drinking water; this water is not introduced directly into the human bloodstream. In the United States, the United States Environmental Protection Agency set minimum and maximum health-based safe levels for chloramine in drinking water. Elsewhere, similar oversight agencies may set drinking water quality standards for chloramine.
Chloramine is toxic to fish and amphibians. Chloramine, like chlorine, comes in direct contact with their bloodstream through fish gills) and must be removed from water added to aquariums and fish ponds. It must also be removed from water prior to use in dialysis machines, since water comes into direct contact with the bloodstream during treatment. Since the 1980s, most dialysis machines are built with filters to remove
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