Yes, great articles, and this as been the pattern of Health Canada, and all levels of government for many years. In my opinion who ever or what ever company bird dogs or supports that particular party is the one granted. I was so close in winning a Aboriginal water system back 4 years ago but lost out to a conventional chlorination system that is outdated by 100 years. The system turned the community into a very sick town, every person in the community got sick from chlorine.

'Strong evidence' links bladder cancer to chlorinated water by PATRICK YOUNG Newhouse News Service
WASHINGTON - Long term drinking of chlorinated water appears to increase a person's risk of developing bladder cancer as much as 80%, according to a major new study scheduled for publication later this month. The study, which will be published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, has raised concerns both inside and outside the federal government about how the public will react to the findings.

It is the latest in a series of studies since the mid-1970s to suggest a link between chlorinated water and bladder cancer, but the first in which people with the disease and people without were interviewed in depth about
their water consumption. Chlorine itself is not believed to be the problem. Scientists suspect that if the cancer link is true, the actual cause of the bladder cancers is a group of chemicals that form as a result of reactions
between the chlorine and natural substances and pollutants in the water. "If it is chlorine by-products, and we do not know that for a fact, there are ways to reduce them without stopping chlorination, Cantor said.

Findings from the new study are based on 1,630 people diagnosed with bladder cancer and 3,027 cancer-free individuals. They indicate the risk of developing the malignancy is related to both the amount of chlorinated water and the number of years it was consumed.

Chlorine & Heart Disease? from Health Freedom News March 1981 & February 1987 Ironically, the very process by which we cleanse our water of infectious organisms - chlorination - is responsible for creating carcinogens, or
cancer-causing substances, even from otherwise innocent chemicals in water. Worse, the chlorine can combine with those same dangerous pollutants in water that we've described to form such carcinogens as chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, bischloroethane, and other chemicals collectively labeled trihalomethanes.

At the start of the 1980's, more than 300 different organic chemicals had already been identified in American drinking water. Most of these are likely contributors to the ever-increasing rate of malignancy among our
populace: from one in five people coming down with cancer ten years ago to one in four today. Over 800,000 U.S. citizens are cancer victims each year. Chronic exposure to carcinogens from drinking one and a half or more quarts of municipal tap water every day of your life provides a significant cumulative health hazard.

Joseph M. Price, M.D., attending physician at Saginaw General Hospital, Saginaw, Michigan, says "In the process of atherogenesis, chlorine is the essential agent (atherogenesis does not occur to a clinically significant
degree in the absence of chlorine, regardless of diet and other contributing factors). "Chlorine is the greatest crippler and killer of modern times", he declares. "It is an insidious poison. Most medical researchers were led
to believe it was safe, but now we're learning the hard way that all the time we thought we were preventing epidemics of one disease, we were creating another. Two decades after the start of chlorinating our drinking
water in 1904, the present epidemic of heart trouble and cancer began."

Furthermore, Dr. Price strongly suggest that senility of the aged really is a combination disease with a single cause chlorine. The blood flow to the brain becomes impaired not only by the development of atherosclerotic
plaques in the arteries feeding the brain but also by a direct impairment of the micro-circulation of the brain itself - a second and distinct result of chlorine ingestion.

The potent cancer-causing trihalomethanes, created by the chlorination process itself, come about when chlorine combines with natural organic matter such as decaying vegetation. Then, trihalomethane chemicals such as
chloroform and bromoform are formed and able to permeate a city's water system. They are known also to be prime causative agents for athrosclerosis and its inevitable result, the heart attack or stroke.



Miracles of Water - Amazing Secrets for Health & Wellness excerpts taken from "Your Body's Many Cries for Water" by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj 1995

Water prevents and cures heartburn. Heartburn is a signal of
water shortage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a
major thirst signal of the human body. The use of antacids or tablet
medications in the treatment of this pain does not correct dehydration, and
the body continues to suffer as a result of its water shortage.

Tragedy: Not recognizing heartburn as a sign of dehydration and treating
it with antacids and pill medications will, in time, produce inflammation of
the stomach and duodenum, hiatal hernia, ulceration, and eventually cancers
in the gastrointestinal tract, including the liver and pancreas.

Water prevents and cures arthritis. Rheumatoid joint pain -
arthritis - is a signal of water shortage in the painful joint. It can
affect the young as well as the old. The use of painkillers does not cure
the problem, but exposes the person to further damage from pain medications.
Intake of water and small amounts of salt will cure this problem.

Water prevents and cures back pain. Low back pain and ankylosing
arthritis of the spine are signs of water shortage in the spinal column and
discs - the water cushions that support the weight of the body. These
conditions should be treated with increased water intake. Not a commercial
treatment, but a very effective one.

Tragedy: Not recognizing arthritis and low back pain as signs of
dehydration in the joint cavities and treating them with pain killers,
manipulation, acupuncture, and eventually surgery will, in time, produce
osteoarthritis when the cartilage cells in the joints have eventually all
died. It will produce deformity of the spine. It will produce crippling
deformities of the limbs. Pain medications have their own life threatening
complications.

Water prevents and cures angina. Heart pain - angina - is a sign
of water shortage in the heart/lung axis. It should be treated with
increased water intake until the patient is free of pain and independent of
medications. Medical supervision is prudent. However, increased water
intake is angina's cure.

Water prevents and cures migraines. Migraine headache is a sign
of water need by the brain and the eyes. It will totally clear up if
dehydration is prevented from establishing in the body. The type of
dehydration that causes migraine might eventually cause inflammation of the
back of the eye and possibly loss of eyesight.

Water prevents and cures colitis. Colitis pain is a signal of water
shortage in the large gut. It is associated with constipation because the
large intestine constricts to squeeze the last drop of water from the
excrements - thus the lack of water lubrication.

Tragedy: Not recognizing colitis pain as a sign of dehydration will cause
persistent constipation. Later in life, it will cause fecal impacting: it
can cause diverticulitis, hemorrhoids and polyps, and appreciably increases
the possibility of developing cancer of the colon and rectum.

Water and salt prevent and cure asthma. Asthma, which also
affects 14 million children and kills several thousand of them every year,
is a complication of dehydration in the body. It is caused by the drought
management programs of the body. In asthma free passage of air is
obstructed so that water does not leave the body in the form of vapor - the
winter steam. Increased water intake will prevent asthma attacks.
Asthmatics need also to take more salt to break the mucus plugs in the lungs
that obstruct the free flow of air in an out of the air sacs.

Tragedy: Not recognizing asthma as the indicator of dehydration in the
body of a growing child not only will sentence many thousands of children to
die every year, but also will permit irreversible genetic damage to
establish in the remaining 14 million asthmatic children.

Water prevents and cures high blood pressure. Hypertension is a
state of adaptation of the body to a generalized drought, when there is not
enough water to fill all the blood vessels that diffuse water into vital
cells. As part of the mechanism of reverse osmosis when water from the
blood serum is filtered and injected into important cells through minute
holes in their membranes, extra pressure is needed for the "injection
process." Just as we inject I.V. 'water' in hospitals, so the body injects
water into tens of trillions of cells all at the same time. Water and some
salt intake will bring blood pressure back to normal!

Tragedy: Not recognizing hypertension as one of the major indicators of
dehydration in the human body, and treating it with diruetics that further
dehydrate the body will, in time, cause blockage by cholesterol of the heart
arteries and the arteries that go to the brain. It will cause heart attacks
and small or massive strokes that paralyze. It will eventually cause
kidney disease. It will cause brain damage and neurological disorders, such
as Alzheimer's disease.

Water prevents and cures early adult-onset diabetes. Adult-onset
diabetes is another adaptive state to severe dehydration of the human body.
To have adequate water in circulation and for the brain's priority water
needs, the release of insulin is inhibited to prevent insulin from pushing
water into all body cells. In diabetes, only some cells get survival
rations of water. Water and some salt will reverse adult-onset diabetes in
its early stages.

Tragedy: Not recognizing adult-onset diabetes as a complication of
dehydration will, in time, cause massive damage to the blood vessels all
over the body. It will cause eventual loss of the toes, feet and legs from
gangrene. It will cause eye damage, even blindness.

Water lowers blood cholesterol. High cholesterol levels are an
indicator of early drought management by the body. Cholesterol is a
claylike material that is poured in the gaps of some cell membranes to
safeguard them against losing their vital water content to the osmotically
more powerful blood circulating in their vicinity. Cholesterol, apart from
being used to manufacture nerve cell membranes and hormones, is also used as
a "shield" against water taxation of other vital cells that would normally
exchange water through their cell membranes.

Water cures depression, loss of libido, chronic fatigue syndrome,
lupus, multiple sclerosis, and muscular dystrophy. These conditions are
caused by prolonged chronic dehydration. They will clear up once the body
becomes well and regularly hydrated. In these conditions, exercising one's
muscles should be part of the treatment program.