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The Water Quality and Health Council is an independent,
multidisciplinary group sponsored by the Chlorine Chemistry Council. Its mission is to promote science based practices and policies to enhance water quality and health by advising industry, health professionals, policy makers and the public.

Did You Know?

In 1995, the U.S. had a population of about 267 million. Approximately 225 million people had their water delivered from a public-supply system.
U.S. Geological Survey

The biggest cause of water pollution in developing countries is sewage, and its most important effect is on human health.
The Economist, March 21, 1998

Public Health Increases Life Expectancy

Throughout human history, the major problems of health that [people] have faced have been concerned with community life, for instance, the control of transmissible disease, the control and improvement of the physical environment (sanitation), the provision of water and food of good quality and in sufficient supply, the provision of medical care, and the relief of disability and destitution.
George Rosen, A History of Public Health, 1993

Much of the increase in Americans' longevity, from about 45 years in the early 1900s to about 76 at present, and the decrease in infant mortality, from about 100 per 1,000 in the early 1900s to 8.2 in 1992, is due to the use of modern water purification methods including the use of chlorine.
James S. Todd, M.D., Executive Vice President, American Medical Association, 1994

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