Dechlorinate water without chemicals

If you are sensitive to chemicals or just want to eliminate them from your life as much as you can, you can dechlorinate water without chemicals so you feel good about it.  Plus, we should all strive to live with less chemicals.  I’ll show you why and how!

Chlorine – is it harmful?

Chlorine is a toxic substance and a pale green gas – plus, it’s an irritant.  And, it’s something that is added to drinking water (albeit small amounts) in order to sterilize it.  While we don’t want our water contaminated, it isn’t good to intake the chlorine either.

In fact, dechlorinate water for plants and they will grow even better.  So, it is a good idea to dechlorinate water.  Did you know that there are still trace amounts of chlorine even in filtered water?

How to Dechlorinate water without chemicals

There are 2 preferred ways and one way is by letting it sit out and one is the boiling method.

Boiling to dechlorinate

One very easy and quick way to dechlorinate your water is by boiling it.  Follow these easy steps:

1.  Bring a pot of water to a boil and boil for 20 minutes.
2. Let stand until comes to room temperature.
3. Use for drinking, watering plants, or whatever else you need to use de-chlorinated water (i.e. kombucha or ginger beer)

Dechlorinate water by sitting out

It couldn’t be more simple.  But, obviously this one takes longer.  Here are the steps:

1. Fill a glass or ceramic container full of water.
2. Let sit for 24 hours for the gas to evaporate

Note:  do NOT cover the container.  The gas needs to escape somehow and the only way this can happen is if the gas has somewhere to go (dissipate).