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Changes to Moberly's Water COLUMBIA, MO (KBIA) - The city of Moberly is changing its drinking water disinfectant from chlorine to chloramine. Officials say chloramine is safer and also tastes and smells better. Moberly's Director of Public Utilities, Keith Phipps, says when chlorine reacts with other organic compounds, a risky product can develop.

Some of these compounds or by-products are Trihalomethanes and Haloacetic Acids. These by-products in rarer cases have been found to cause cancer.

Not only do chloramines prevent any cancer causing by-product, it stays in the water system longer and makes it taste and smell cleaner. The conversion from chlorine to chloramine will take one to two days. There is no set date, but Phipps says changes will be made sometime next week.
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