subject: Taking Chloramine Out of Our Water [print this page] Taking Chloramine Out of Our Water Taking Chloramine Out of Our Water
For my high school science fair project last year, I decided to take a look at taking chloramine out of our water. You see, my mom and dad had recently installed a water filter under our kitchen sink because my mom was freaking out about germs and stuff that she had seen on some show like Good Morning America or Regis Philbin or something like that.
And so my dad bought a really strong filter that had this stuff called activated carbon, and the guy at the store said that one of the things it would remove was called chloramines. Anyhow, I thought this would
be a good science project, much better than the year before when I tried to do open-heart surgery on my goldfish. So I took water samples from a bunch of my friends' houses and from this cute girl who sits next to me in math, and from my kitchen sink, and then I sent them to a lab to have them measured for chloramines. This process did not take too long and then I took the results and made a bunch of pie graphs and stuff like that.
Well, I did not win the science fair--I didn't even come close--but I did have the pleasure of knowing that my tap water is free of chloramine, so if it is ever proven to cause diseases, then my friends might get some of those diseases but I won't.
My point is that my science project taught me that not all of us get clean water that is safe for drinking. While we can rally to whatever government agency, it is best that you prepare your family the best way you can; that is, by getting yourself an efficient water filter system. This is not just to remove chloramines in drinking water but also other contaminants as well.
