Pregnant women urged not to drink tap water

Date
    January 23, 2014


Pregnant women in the Queensland town of Kingaroy are urged not to drink tap water because of elevated levels of chemicals known as trihalomethanes.   

Women in the town became concerned after Kingaroy Hospital posted signs around its wards warning pregnant women not to drink tap water, according to the South Burnett Times.

The local council issued an alert later on Wednesday after routine testing at the Kingaroy water treatment plant detected elevated levels of trihalomethanes, commonly referred to as THMs.      

The problem is the latest in a series of issues to mar Kingaroy’s water supply over the past four years.


THMs can form naturally when organic matter in water reacts with chlorine used to disinfect drinking supplies and can be absorbed by breathing, swallowing or through the skin.

The council’s infrastructure general manager, Russell Hood, said the water treatment process at the plant was being reviewed.

‘‘Further advice will be provided when the levels of THMs have been reduced below the guideline values,’’ Mr Hood said.

‘‘Pregnant women who have concerns or questions regarding their health should contact their local doctor.’’

Scientific studies have yet to show conclusive evidence that THMs are harmful to humans, but South Burnett Regional Council and Queensland Health said pregnant women were asked not to drink town water as a precaution.

Some international studies have shown THMs could cause some forms of cancer in the liver, kidneys, colon, bladder, rectum and reproductive areas of the body.

The 2004 Australian Drinking Water Guidelines recommends that THM levels in drinking water should not exceed 0.25mg/L.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/pregnant-women-urged-not-to-drink-tap-water-20140123-31b3u.html#ixzz2rCnKgcwB

Gnads wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2014 at 6:23pm:


Trihalomethanes are formed from CH4 methane where 3 Hydrogen are replaced by halogens including both chlorine (Cl) and fluorine (F) both of which are added to water supplies. The halogens also include Bromine, Iodine and Astatine and are all highly reactive.
I take there is fracking/gas drilling in the area which could account for the methane getting into the water supply in the first place.

Cougar Energy has it's CSG project at Kingaroy halted because of contamination of landholders underground water.

Despite the town water being treated with chlorine it's still not good drinking & Sth Burnett Regional has axed any Fluoridation of it's water towns water supplies

it's a waste of money as people don't drink it anyway.....

it's also a scientific fraud that oral ingestion prevents tooth decay...

http://southburnett.com.au/news2/2013/01/fluoride-axed/

Don't trust the meddling of town water, never have and never will!
We have been on tank water all our lives, and know the damned difference of what chemical free water tastes like.
When we go to a restaurant and get a bottle of water on the table, and try it out, I wince, and say quiety to the OH "It still tastes like swimming pool water!"
And just cannot stomach it.

My son lives in a built up suburban area, and has complained how unappealing the tap water is, and either buys water, or brings containers here to yours truly, and fills them up with our fluoride free rain water. 

We are never wasteful with water as a result of our own supply of it....and especially during drought times.

You know, the interesting article I read in one of them free magazines we get from the health food store....was about the introduction of flouride by Hitler, into the neighbouring countries of Germany, because it works on that part of the brain that makes people resist less and would be easy takeovers.
I also went to hear a talk by Peter Taubert, and learnt a lot about chemicals in our water and food. He himself is also on tank water.

http://www.nutri-tech.com.au/products/education/dvd/peter-taubert-silent-killers.html

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Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:46am:


So you are using this to say that the drinking water in Kingaroy is safe?

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Yeah I always had a big issue with the price as well and the fact that it was guaranteed out, I think from memory, 25 years. God knows who negotiated that.