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Water is essential. You can't live longer than three days without it. So why is the most

essential thing in our life contaminated? Follow me down the rabbit

hole to find rabbit hole. I'm your host, Danny, and today we're talking about water contamination.

Thank you, Michael, for requesting this episode. First things first, this is not a conspiracy. This is real life facts.

So, if you think it's conspiracy, um, think again, sometimes I like to report on real things that are

happening that you should just be aware of. So this is one of those things. It's important that you know

what you and your family are being exposed to. Next week, we're covering forever chemicals because it ties directly into this episode, but also

another thing that your family and you need to be aware of. So, is your water contaminated?

First, let's define what is contaminated. So it's to soil, stain, corrupt,

or infect by contact or association, to make inferior or impure by adding mixture, and to make

unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.

So that's what's happening to our water. That's great. I'm loving that. Let's get into some

history first because I wanted to know kind of why we started to add chlorine to the water and what was the point of that.

This all started in 1846 when Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis instituted a requirement for physicians at a Vienna hospital to wash their hands with soap and chlorine water to reduce infections and fevers in patients.

In 1854, Dr. John Snow, not to be confused with the Game of Thrones, John Snow, used chlorine in an attempt to disinfect the Broad Street

Pump water supply in London. He had identified this water supply as a cause of a cholera outbreak

due to sewage contamination. In 1879, William Soper used chlorinated lime to treat the feces of typhoid patients

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