Showering with volatile-contaminated water delivers far more toxin than drinking it

Evidence

And indeed, the test showed that as water flowed out of the shower head at the rate of six gallons a minute, TCE did vaporize, accumulating in the confined space of a bathroom at concentrations two to three times higher than in the tap water. … But every ten-minute shower they had taken would release to the air most of the TCE contained in sixty gallons of water, which would have found its way inside their bodies through inhalation. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 1118

Categorization

• CANDY: Perfect elevator fact: the shower routinely doses you with more chemical than the drinking glass does.
• DEFINE: Introduces the inhalation route of exposure, correcting the intuition that ingestion is the main pathway.
• XREF: connects to: Skin absorption during bathing can rival or exceed the dose from drinking contaminated water — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action , 1119; Suds from household detergents in suburban wells nationalized water pollution concern — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 1530; Modern hygiene conceals rather than cures the psychic ills it represses

Broader Connections

• Skin absorption during bathing can rival or exceed the dose from drinking contaminated water #corroborates (1.00) — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 1119
• Suds from household detergents in suburban wells nationalized water pollution concern #complicates (0.80) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 1530
• Modern hygiene conceals rather than cures the psychic ills it represses #complicates (0.70)