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COPYRIGHT 2005 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News
By Angie Leventis, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 28--Forty-two-year-old Beth Swift of Lacey recently all but retired her kitchen faucet. She now drinks and cooks with only bottled water, ever since the city began temporarily disinfecting parts of the water supply with chlorine.
"I don't like the taste of it. I don't like the smell of it," she said. "I guess I'm just not used to it."
Lacey customers once drank from the largest nondisinfected water source in the state. But over the next three months, the water provider plans to permanently chlorinate its entire supply, due to strong recommendations by the state Health Department....
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