chlorine chemistry

Everyday life would be very different without the benefits of chlorine chemistry. Combined with the power of human innovation, chlorine chemistry yields products essential to public health, the economy and national defense.
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The chlor-alkali industry contributes over $46 billion to the North American economy annually and helps provide thousands of essential products, including clean drinking water, energy-efficient building materials, electronics, fiber optics, solar energy cells, medical plastics, 93 percent of life-saving pharmaceuticals, 86 percent of crop protection compounds and much more.

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Disaster Relief for Haiti
ACC is collecting donations to raise money for earthquake relief for Haiti through the Chlorine Chemistry Foundation, a tax-exempt charity that works to provide safe drinking water to underserved communities and areas ravaged by natural disasters. The foundation will direct these funds to International Action, a well-established relief group that has been working in Haiti for years to provide clean drinking water. International Action is currently working with the U.S. military to provide portable drinking water tanks and water-treatment chemicals at the Port-au-Prince harbor.

Tell Scientific American to Stand Up for Science! Retract Bogus Claims About Drinking Water and Chlorine!
In the 1/25/10 “Earth Talk” column, Tapped Out?, Scientific American offers an alarming, but highly inaccurate discussion on the safety of chlorinated drinking water. By highlighting unsupported claims from water filter manufacturers and linking to their product websites, the column reads more like an advertisement than an objective article. This does a disservice to Scientific American readers and to public health.

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