Water bills will creep up next year in L.A. because we've conserved so much

Free chlorine reacts with organic matter and forms a wide range of substances known as disinfection byproducts (DBPs). The reaction happens when naturally occurring carbon compounds, such as decayed vegetation, fish, or aquatic organisms, disintegrate. Other chlorine-based disinfectants, such as chloramines and chlorine dioxide, also may form DBPs.

Some of these DBPs can cause cancer, as shown in experiments on animals in laboratory studies, and others can cause acute health problems, such as liver damage. The discovery of DBPs and their adverse health effects highlights the necessity for better understanding the disinfection process. And, it also means that researchers must strike a balance between preventing waterborne disease and the health effects that DBPs cause.

When chlorine reacts with organic matter, hundreds of DBPs may form. Two major classes make up the bulk: trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAA). THMs include chloroform, bromoform, bromodichloromethane, and dibromochloromethane. HAAs are commonly abbreviated as HAA5, and include chloroacetic acid, dichloroacetic acid, trichloroacetic acid, bromoacetic acid, and dibromoacetic acid.

Mmmmm, mmmmmm, mmmmmm!

So give yourself a break, grab a bottle of pure, refreshing, ice-cold Poland Springs (Maine) water and drink to your health.

I've always been concerned with the sanity of people who would pay a dollar for a bottle of water when, in all probability, it came out of a faucet somewhere.

The first person to sell that bottle was a marketing genius extraordinaire!!!!!!!!

Well we have pretty good water up here. We don’t actually have a city, just some big towns. Lots of ponds, lakes and rivers. It rains and snows a lot.

We live pretty close to Poland Maine, and I’m sure the Poland Spring water comes out of a faucet...just not out of a treatment plant (100% natural spring water)

I don’t drink the treated water...it tastes flat...or like chlorine.

So in a nutshell, my water taste just like Poland Springs water, only it comes out of our faucets.

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