"Dan White" wrote in message
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"muddyfox" wrote in message
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Unbelievable - I just can't fathom how someone with a veterinary
background could write stuff like that.

Interesting reading!


The only way I could interpret the thing about ammonia in the drinking
water
is if he's talking about decaying organic matter in the water supply, as
in
the reservoir. We're talking very small amounts of ammonia, I would think
too small to detect by smelling, so is it possible that the drinking water
has the trace ammonia in it? I don't know if water treatment plants
remove
any ammonia or not.

Water treatment plants add ammonia in the final stage to turn chlorine
into chloramine. But, I think the author of the article probably just mixed
up and misquoted what the professor was saying....