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Fluoride question will be on November ballot in Brooksville
BROOKSVILLE — Brooksville residents will decide in November whether the city will continue adding fluoride to their water supply, the City Council voted this week. The Council voted 3-2 to put the question to a vote after Mayor Betty Erhard questioned the expense of fluoridation and whether residents should be exposed to the substance without […]
United States, Florida -
Water SOS to corporates
Patna: Bihar State Pollution Control Board chairman A.K. Ghosh on Tuesday said a corporate-government approach will be more effective in dealing with waterborne diseases here, stressing that it was their social responsibility. Ghosh said companies which manufacture water-purification devices should work for mass water-purification solutions as part of corporate social responsibility, going beyond the limited […]
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Oberon becomes one of the last NSW towns to fluoridate its water
One of the last remaining towns in New South Wales without fluoridation has decided to add it to its drinking water. The Oberon Council on the state’s central tablelands has voted five-to-three to add fluoride to the town’s supply after several months of heated debate and campaigning. It is one of eight local governments in […]
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Oberon fluoride: council meeting approves addition to water supply
A DIVISIVE community debate has ended, for now, after Oberon Council voted to allow fluoride to be added to the town’s water supply. But the peace might not last long as fluoridation opponents are already warning that the battle isn’t over. Oberon councillors voted 5-3 in favour of fluoridation at their ordinary meeting on Tuesday […]
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Sheridan Council decides not to put water fluoridation to public vote
City council held a public hearing on the fluoridation of the city’s water Monday and ultimately voted not to put the issue on November’s ballot or conduct a public survey on the issue. Council voted 4-2 not to pursue the issue further. Mayor Roger Miller and Councilor Thayer Schafer voted against the motion to take […]
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Tinci Materials to Use NEV Battery By-Products for Drugs, Pesticides
A unit of Tinci Materials Technology will seek uses for by-products that form while refining materials for new energy vehicles’ batteries. Jimute New Materials will construct production lines for by-products, such as photoinitiators, methyl acetate, trifluoroacetic acid, and sulfuryl fluoride, which appear while processing lithium hexafluorophosphate, the Guangzhou-based chemical manufacturer said in a statement yesterday. […]
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Dozens of fish in North Toe River killed after quarry leak, state officials say
PRUCE PINE, N.C. (WLOS) — Dozens of dead fish have died and are washing up on the banks of the North Toe River after a reported hydrofluoric acid leak at a Spruce Pine quarry, state officials say. North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) Regional Supervisor Landon Davidson said the leak happened at Quartz Corp. on […]
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Springfield City commission to review fluoride ballot proposal
Springfield City Commissioners will vote Tuesday on whether to put a measure on the ballot this fall to fluoridate the public water supply. If approved, voters would likely decide in November on whether to add fluoride to the water in Springfield and New Carlisle, said Charles Patterson, commissioner of the Clark County Combined Health District. […]
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Are You Fluoridated?
It’s time we look at the fact that we are being dosed with a chemical, in an unmonitored and unstudied way, without our consent. What if I told you that your drinking water, and everything made from it – drinks to soups – was poisoned? What if I then told you that this poison was […]
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Assam adopts water management practices to keep pace with climate change
In a small village on the north bank of the Brahmaputra in Assam, farmer Horen Nath stood gazing at his partially submerged paddy field. The floods had kept their annual date, but mercifully, the farmer said, the waters have started receding. “The weather has become very strange of late. We always had ample rain, but […]
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