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Primary municipal water disinfection chemicals; ~98% of US community water systems use chlorine or chloramines; liquid sodium hypochlorite most common for smaller systems; COVID caused chlorine shortage as pool demand surged; Olin Corporation and Occidental Chemical are major US producers
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What depends on it
1 essential American goods rely on chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, and chloramine (disinfection chemicals) somewhere upstream in their supply chain.
Who makes it
1 company produce chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, and chloramine (disinfection chemicals).
Olin Corporation ammunition division; operates East Alton IL (historic Winchester site) and Oxford MS factories; ~30% of US primer production through Winchester-branded primers; East Alton has produced primers since 1892; also makes lead styphnate in-house for Winchester ammunition
