We are becoming more aware of the contaminants in our water supplies and many are installing water filters or water coolers to purify our drinking water.
Yet most of us continue to bathe and shower straight from the tap, unaware that inhaling unfiltered vapors (steam) is more harmful than actually drinking the water itself. During a shower, toxic chloroform evaporates into the surrounding air you breathe.
The chemicals evaporate out of the water and are inhaled. They can also spread through the house and be inhaled by others. The steamy air of a shower contains significant amounts of a least two cancer-causing chemicals that evaporate out of water. The longer and hotter the shower, the more chemicals build up in the air.
Exposure to vaporized chemicals in our water supplies through showering, bathing, and inhalation is 100 greater than through drinking the water. It is estimated that 200 to 1000 people die in the United Kingdom each year from cancers caused by ingesting the contaminants in water.
The major health threat posed by these pollutants is far more likely to be from their inhalation as air pollutants. The reason that emissions are high is because water droplets dispersed by the shower head have a larger surface-to-value ratio than water streaming into the bath.
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