Chlorine, the most common chemical used to disinfect drinking water in the United States, creates previously unidentified toxic byproducts in the very water its meant to disinfect, according to a new ...

Most consumers of drinking water in the United States know that chemicals are used in the treatment processes to ensure the water is safe to drink. But they might not know that the use of some of ...

Chlorine has long been used as an effective way of removing microorganisms, including bacteria, from drinking water but it has been linked to health problems. In a new study, researchers looked at how ...

AT the recent annual meeting of the British Waterworks Association, Prof. P. S. Lelean dealt with the history and present state of the methods of chlorina-tion of water supplies. The process was used ...

Polluted water in urban poor communities transmits water-borne diarrheal diseases, such as cholera and typhoid, which can be particularly deadly to children. This evaluation studied whether an ...

A water disinfectant created on the spot using just hydrogen and the air around us is millions of times more effective at killing viruses and bacteria than traditional commercial methods, according to ...

One of the first reactions that students learn in college-level organic chemistry is hydrochlorination—adding hydrogen chloride to a carbon-carbon double or triple bond. The classic textbook version ...