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Albuquerque: No fluoride yet for ABQ water
Fluoride will not be added to the water supply in the Albuquerque metro area, at least for now. The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority board avoided voting on a resolution that would have required the utility to add fluoride to the water supply by approving a substitute measure that prohibits supplemental fluoridation until federal […]
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Union: City may stop adding fluoride to well water
The city will likely discontinue fluoridation of city well water. The parks, building, development and public service committee agree to recommend the city not repair broken equipment used to add fluoride to drinking water. City Engineer Jonathan Zimmermann said it would cost between $25,000 to $30,000 to fix the broken equipment. It has not been […]
United States, Missouri -
Dallas Council members support dropping fluoride
Critics of putting fluoride in the Dallas water supply received a surprise Wednesday when three Dallas City Council members agreed with them. The fluoride opponents have been making regular visits to Dallas City Council meetings for several months asking that Dallas stop the addition of fluoride which has been done for nearly 50 years to […]
United States, Texas -
Nuapada: No respite from fluoride yet
Safe potable water is a luxury in Nuapada district where content of fluoride in water is very high. Despite several schemes with outlay running into crores of rupees have been lined up to mitigate water scarcity in the State, residents of Boden and Komna blocks of the district have to walk miles together in search […]
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Simcoe, Courtland & Delhi: Fluoride query motion shot down
The fluoride question will not be on the ballot in this fall’s municipal election. Simcoe Coun. Peter Black’s idea to let the public decide whether to continue putting the substance into the drinking water of Courtland, Delhi, and Simcoe came to halt Tuesday night when no one would second his motion. Elected officials turned down […]
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Doctors urged to oppose fluoride in water
The Irish Medical Organisation is being urged to take a stand against the practice of adding fluoride to public drinking water. Elizabeth Cullen of the Irish Doctor’s Environmental Association, will make her “commonsense” proposal on ending water fluoridation at the IMO’s annual conference in Maynooth, Co Kildare, on Friday. Dr Cullen’s motion urges the IMO […]
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GM outlines Kempsey Shire Council’s priorities
CHANGES to Kempsey Shire Council’s operations in the new financial year will include a focus on cutting red tape, a review of its recreation assets and progress on water fluoridation. The council will also undertake major projects already flagged, such as the $2 million beautification of Kempsey’s CBD; the $2 million project to create an […]
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Albuquerque: Board to weigh measure Wednesday to fluoridate drinking water
Water board members on Wednesday will consider an ordinance to require fluoridation of Albuquerque’s drinking water. Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority will take up the issue at 5 p.m. at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Government Center, One Civic Plaza, basement chamber. Albuquerque began fluoridation after a 57 percent majority of city voters supported the practice in […]
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Boyne City Commission to discuss fluoride in the water; Gazette investigation reveals county H20 ranges from no fluoride to too much
Broach the subject of “fluoridated water” and prepare yourself for a veritable tsunami of information, disinformation, science, pseudoscience, myth and conspiracy theories that just may rival the JFK assassination. Nonetheless, the issue of fluoridated water recently arose during a Boyne City Commission meeting when one public official suggested immediately discontinuing the city’s practice of adding […]
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Simcoe. Fluoride query on ballot will be costly: report
Asking residents of Delhi, Courtland, and Simcoe if they want fluoride to remain in their drinking water will be an expensive and time-consuming task, a report to council warns. Simcoe Coun. Peter Black is proposing the question be put on this fall’s municipal election ballot. But the logistics of carrying out the vote is complex, […]
Canada, Ontario