Chloramine is a toxin added to drinking water. It is a
secondary disinfectant used by many States as a primary
disinfectant. Chloramine is ammonia added to chlorine to
make chloramine. Chlorine has been shown from animal and
human research to cause breast cancer in humans. Listed
in the MSDS industrial chemistry book with an "X" and to
be used only in an emergency to attempt to destroy liver
flukes and Cryptosporidium in humans. Chloramine does not
have an antidote and is genotoxic, meaning DNA
destruction and is a mutagenic, meaning it causes tissue
mutations.

Chloramine cannot be boiled out of the water and can kill
fish in hobby tanks.

Hemodialysis patients have a special consideration not to
have chloramine in their blood. They could die in
minutes. Extensive carbon filters are not an appropriate
solution to take the nitrogen out of the ammonia.

Chronic kidney disease causes the organs to slowly lose
their ability to filter waste out of the bloodstream.
Many of the 20 million estimated to have kidney disease
do not know it. Water Utility Districts are asking humans
to be a human processing plant for the chooramine in the
body. There are presently known 1,500 disinfectant by-
products in the drinking water with several know
secondary carcinogenic products from the chemistry
pathway. Human as a processing plant can bioaccumulate
the nitrogen-toxins from an impaired kidney, liver or
impaired immune system such as AIDS. The bioaccumulation
of amine toxins and secondary cancer products such as
Bromides from the chemistry of water toxins are going to
accumulate even in various doseage of ammonia to chlorine
in the drinking water.

Chloramine in drinking water can enter the digestion and
blood stream in another form called nitrogen balance.
Nitrogen balance refers to the difference between
nitrogen intake and total nitrogen loss in urine, sweat
and bowel elimination. Ammonia derived mainly from a
breakdown of amino acid pathways is toxic to all animals.
Human tissues therefore, initially detoxify ammonia by
converting it to glutamine for transport to the liver.
Collateral health damage from ammonia upsets the pH
balance of the body. If the liver is functioning
properly, it releases ammonia converted into no-toxic
nitrogen-rich compound urea in the urine. If the amine of
the liver is compromised, ammonia accumulates in the
blood and generates serious consequences.

N-nitrosodiumethyamine (NDMA) is a probable carcinogen
and a likely by-product of drinking water. Collateral
health damage from this secondary cancer by-product,
NDMA, will probably decrease immunity in the human body.
Journal AWWA, Feb. 2001, Vol.93, No. 2 pp. 92-99.

Thyroid damage from perchlorate and other secondary
carcinogens in healthy men and the white cell damage to
decrease immunity is accentuated by iodite and haloacetic
acids in the drinking water chemistry pathway. Percholate
in the drinking water causes follicular thyroid cancer
and does NOT dissipate in nine days from the body as
proclaimed by Deans of Medical schools.

Collateral health damage occurs when chloamine interacts
with certain medicines, such as, antidepressants. Neural-
tube mutations and sperm head breakages are clinical
reseach areas that should be continued under several of
the clinical protocols I have reviewed from the peer-
review Government research that was not continued after
1989. The EPA directive was at that time for the States
to use chloramine as a disinfectant with knowledge that
animal studies showed cancer in the liver and leukemia in
animals. The past reseach does not fit the present EPA to
continue this research since the chloramine is considered
dose-related under the theory of present medicine, that
"a little bit of toxin will not harm you."

Chloramine has been identified in causation of
infrastructure pipe deterioation releasing lead and other
toxins from pipes eaten away by chloramine throughout
America. This could and is costing consumers billions of
dollars and adversely impacting public health. Health
officers throughout America are using antiquated
epidemiology models for continuing the use of chloramine
in water by stating, "there is not substantial adverse
effect" from it use. In clinical medicine this is called
medical negligence with unexplained American rashs and
metabolic disorders from patients with undiagnosed
symptoms.

The long-term solution is to eventually replace all
significant lead-bearing materials that are used in the
water system, such as, recycled water made from sewage
water that is blended with drinking water, in spite of
the denial of its use by city officials.

We need a national movement at the headwaters for
alternate enginnering technologies for ozenation and
ultraviolet light and reverse osmosis and plasma laser
technologies and replace the pipe infrastructure. Health
costs alone will provide the economy of scale for end-
organ diseases in America. After the installation of
alternative technologies we will not have to set tort
damage caps as in the Federal Tort Law from wrongful
death suits in different State jurisdictions and Appelate
Courts in equity. Since chloramine is a toxin added to
the water, water qualifies to be labeled nationally as a
toxin. Bottled water should have a label of ingredients
for disinfectant by-products. We as Americans should have
a right to vote what is in our water and in our food
supply irrigated by the toxic water.