Chlorine or Chloramine - Alberta
The Alberta chlorine or chloramine data presented in this chart have all been verified by Aquatell directly from primary sources. Typically, this means we located the data in municipal water reports or contacted municipal water utilities directly to confirm whether they use chlorine or chloramine as their primary disinfectant. If your city or town isn’t listed, please let us know — we’ll verify it and add it right away.
If you’re looking to remove chlorine or chloramine from your household water, Aquatell has the right solutions. We offer a wide range of products designed to target the specific disinfectants used in your municipal water supply. Whether you’re looking to improve your drinking water, protect your home’s plumbing, or enhance your filtration system's performance, we make it easy to find the right setup for your needs. Explore the right solution below based on your water disinfectant type and application.
Disinfectant Type by City - Alberta, Canada
Understanding the data - Chlorine & Chloramine
The disinfection of city drinking water is a two-part process. Step one, usually called primary disinfection, is the process where a city treats the water it draws from the environment to destroy all pathogenic organisms - bacteria, cysts, viruses, etc. For the vast majority of cities in Canada, this is accomplished using free chlorine. Free chlorine is an aggressive oxidizer and essentially destroys the tissues of these organisms and kills them.
But just killing the organisms at the water extraction point isn't enough. This water now has to travel through thousands of kilometres of pipe to reach every home in the city. To ensure that the treated water isn't contaminated on its journey, the city adds a residual disinfectant that travels with the water as it's distributed.
When we talk about Chlorine vs. Chloramine we're talking about the choice of the residual disinfectant. Most cities in Canada still use chlorine as the residual, but more and more cities are making the move to Chloramine. Why?
Simply put - Chloramine persists in the water longer than Chlorine. It's a more stable molecule and won't naturally dissipate into the air or aggressively react with every compound or surface it comes into contact with. This means that chloramine added at the source is much more likely to be present at the point of use - your home. More persistence = better disinfection = safer citizens.
But the stability of chloramine also makes it a lot hard to remove from water than chlorine. Both compounds are removed well using activated carbon, but chloramine removal necessitates the use of a special type of activated carbon called catalytic carbon.
Here at Aquatell, we sell multiple different systems that can be used for the removal of chlorine and chloramine. These systems fall into two broad groups - systems that treat the water for your whole home, and those that treat the water for a single dispensing point (these are usually called point-of-use systems).