Why do you add chlorine to your drinking water?

Answer 1

deactivation of pathogenic microorganisms. Chlorine can be easily applied, measures and controlled. Is is fairly persistent and relatively cheap.

Chlorine has been used for applications, such as the deactivation of pathogens in drinking water, swimming pool waterand waste water , for the disinfection of household areas and for textile bleaching, for more than two hundred years. When chlorine was discovered we did not now that disease was caused by microorganisms. In the nineteenth century doctors and scientists discovered that many diseases are contagious and that the spread of disease can be prevented by the disinfection of hospital areas. Very soon afterward, we started experimenting with chlorine as a disinfectant. In 1835 doctor and writer Oliver Wendel Holmes advised midwifes to wash their hands in calcium hypochlorite (Ca(ClO)2-4H2O) to prevent a spread of midwifes fever.

However, we only started using disinfectants on a wider scale in the nineteenth century, after Louis Pasteur discovered that microorganisms spread certain diseases.

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Answer 2

cholrine is used to kill disease-causing microorganisms

Answer 3

So if you decide you need to take a leak, it will still be fine to drink.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Chlorine is most commonly used to keep Swimming Pools clean, but in emergency cases it can be used to sterilize water but it will affect the taste of the water...