> This I don't understand. Have you got chlorined water in France? In
> the U.S. it is very common and I found it terrible. I felt like in
> a gas chamber when I was under the shower. Here in Germany there was
> a lot of talk about fluoridation and chlorination (sp?) of water but
> finally people decided that forcing others to drink such water would
> be wrong so it is still not allowed. Lots of people here drink tap wa-
> ter (like me) because they can't afford buying mineral water or find
> it too hard to take those heavy bottles home.

I noticed once when I filled the bathtub that it smelled heavily like
bleach.  No one had cleaned the tub with bleach.  Mary J.