{"id":33561,"date":"2025-02-17T11:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/water-chlorination-levels-in-us-and-eu-likely-increase-cancer-risk-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T11:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:24:23","slug":"water-chlorination-levels-in-us-and-eu-likely-increase-cancer-risk-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/water-chlorination-levels-in-us-and-eu-likely-increase-cancer-risk-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bladder cancer risk increased 33% and colorectal cancer by 15% in using chlorine to disinfect water<\/p>\n<p>Chlorinating drinking water at levels common in the United States and European Union probably increases the risk of several cancers, a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/39837568\/\">new analysis<\/a> of recent research from across the globe finds.<\/p>\n<p>The process of disinfecting water with chlorine creates trihalomethane (THM), a byproduct found in virtually all public drinking water systems across the US and EU \u2013 nearly 300 million people in the US have concerning levels in their water, by one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewg.org\/tapwater\/contaminant.php?contamcode=2950\">estimate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/17\/water-chlorination-cancer-risk-us-eu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bladder cancer risk increased 33% and colorectal cancer by 15% in using chlorine to disinfect water Chlorinating drinking water at levels common in the United States and European Union probably increases the risk of several cancers, a new analysis of recent research from across the globe finds. The process of disinfecting water with chlorine creates &#8230; <a title=\"Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk, study finds\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/water-chlorination-levels-in-us-and-eu-likely-increase-cancer-risk-study-finds\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk, study finds\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}