{"id":144,"date":"2018-07-26T14:18:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloroinfo.wp.cwndesign.co.uk\/what-is-chlorine\/chlorine-as-a-water-purifier\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:18:22","slug":"chlorine-as-a-water-purifier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/en\/what-is-chlorine\/chlorine-as-a-water-purifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Chlorine as a water purifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chlorine, as such or in the form of\u00a0sodium hypochlorite, is the most widely used water disinfectant in the world cause to its effectiveness, low cost and easy use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According\u00a0to the World Health Organization: &#8220;Disinfection with\u00a0chlorine is the best guarantee of microbiologically potable water&#8221;. Due to\u00a0its properties, chlorine is effective to combat all types of microbes contained in water, which include bacteria, viruses, fungi and yeast, and algae and limes that proliferate inside the\u00a0supply pipes\u00a0and storage tanks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only chlorination\u00a0ensures that the treated water is kept free of germs during transit through deposits before reaching the tap, as well as being the most economical method.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-144 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sparkling-water.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tap.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the mid-nineteenth century the effects of chlorine were discovered to make water drinkable, the incidence of devastating infectious diseases -cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, gastroenteritis, etc.-\u00a0has diminished, in some cases to the point\u00a0of eradication. As the North American magazine Life describes: &#8220;The leakage of drinking water and the use of chlorine is likely to be the most significant public health advance of the past millennium&#8221;. The developed countries should thank chlorine for its outstanding contribution in the 30-year increase in the life expectancy of its citizens in the last century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, chlorination is the most widespread method of water purification on the planet, in the fact that 98% of the water supplied in Western Europe has been disinfected with chlorine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chlorine, as such or in the form of\u00a0sodium hypochlorite, is the most widely used water disinfectant in the world cause to its effectiveness, low cost and easy use. According\u00a0to the World Health Organization: &#8220;Disinfection with\u00a0chlorine is the best guarantee of microbiologically potable water&#8221;. Due to\u00a0its properties, chlorine is effective to combat all types of microbes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloro.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}