Does Your City Use Chlorine or Chloramine to Treat Its Water?

There's chlorine in your drinking water, America. Or maybe there's a different chlorine compound called chloramine. This isn't meant to alarm you, though of course it's alarming to many. An entire industry of faucet and countertop and shower filters has sprung up specifically to remove chlorine compounds from the water you drink and bathe in, whether for reasons of health or flavor or beauty. After all, chlorine tastes and smells bad; some people are sensitive to its aroma even in tiny amounts. It also potentially messes with your hair dye and dries out your skin. Plus, few people realllllly want to drink chlorine, if you ask them. Hence, water filters like WIRED's best-tested shower filter, the Canopy Filtered Showerhead, designed to remove chlorine before you wash with it. Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Canopy Filtered Showerhead $170 Amazon But note that the chlorine is entirely supposed to be there. The US Centers for Disease Control has hailed water chlorination as one of the gre ... Read full article.