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Cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, and hepatitis A killed thousands in the U.S. annually before water chlorination and filtration became a routine part of municipal water treatment
June 15, 2017
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Chlorine chemistry is critical in the manufacture of almost 90% of the top-selling prescription medications sold in the US and Canada
Dr. John L. Leal, physician and public health expert, pioneered continuous water chlorination in 1908 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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