Danielle Medgyesi, Ph.D., from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York City and others wrote a new JAMA Network Open study that brought up important questions about how regulated drinking water contaminants might be making the chronic kidney disease (CKD) burden worse.

More than 90% of people in the U.S. get their water from community water systems that utilize chlorine to kill germs. Trihalomethanes (THMs) are a category of long-regulated compounds that are linked to bladder cancer and bad reproductive results. They are a consequence of this activity. Brominated THMs, which are found in higher amounts in coastal and high-bromide source waters, have been proven in animal models to harm the kidneys, make filt

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