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You forgot to mention that DHMO is a major industrial solvent, a nuclear reactor coolant compound, a strong greenhouse gas contributing to global warming, and known to be corrosive to several metals. There's also a syndrome known as "DHMO Intoxication", caused by ingesting too much of the substance, symptoms of which include dizziness, vomitting, swelling of the brain, and eventual death.
Seriously, it's pretty dangerous stuff.
In the UK there was a national outcry when Leah Betts died of a DHMO overdose.
Not to mention the many people who die each year because of DHMO inhalation.
Those people died after ingesting impure DHMO, which is 'watered down' by relatively unharmful minerals, making it only fatal after ingesting large amounts. 100% pure, distilled DHMO is actually extremely dangerous even in small quantities, as it leeches essential nutrients from your body through a nefarious process called 'reverse osmosis'.
[EDIT: this is actually not true, according to the wisdom of the interwebs. Thank you, extremely expensive European public school system, for filling my young impressionable mind with this untrue factoid. Nevertheless, the dangers and risks of DHMO ingestion remain poorly understood.]
Yeah I was tempted to go nuts, but I wanted a short post. That and adding too much (especially stuff like "caused erosion of our natural landscape", "accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals") would have given it away too easily and killed the original point.
It's a major component of acid rain!