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Re:Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet for mankind by hammock on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @08:02PM (#2783664)
You guys are going to rail me bc I don't have any sources, but I remember hearing that in many cases in the third world where purified clean water is introduced, health actually deteriorates because there is much disease and the clean water prevents children from developing antibodies to the these.
Re:Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet for mankind by sorbus on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @08:35PM (#2783750)
Sounds possible, though barely. A quick search hasn't found any sources for that, and I don't feel like wading through the millions of research papers about clean water, so I'm going to have to assume that this is untrue unless you can find sources. Good sources, because it goes in the face of all of the knowledge about the horrible things that unclean water cause [you're making the claim that there are "many cases" where people become sicker over the course of decades (or at least several years, due to the mechanism you point to) when they have clean drinking water. I think that I'm allowed to be skeptical].

EDIT: This sound similar to the "autoimmune diseases and allergies are due to a lack of parasites and other bacteria" theory (or is it still a hypothesis?).