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Metropolitan Water District ups fluoride in water
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is bringing its fluoridation system up to par with other regions with its decision to add fluoride to Southern California’s water supply. The MWD will start bringing fluoridation systems online at its five massive filtration plants over five weeks starting next month. The Robert B. Diemer Plant in […]
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Jensen Camp: Lawsuit over 7 years of dangerous levels of naturally occurring fluoride at a Cachagua mobile home park
More than 80 residents of a Cachagua mobile home park turned to the 6th District Court of Appeal in their quest to sue the county for failing to tell them for seven years that their water was contaminated with dangerous levels of naturally occurring fluoride. If questions from the judges were any indication, the three-judge […]
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Juneau. My turn: Time to put fluoridation behind us
“Water Fluoridation is obsolete. Nations who still practice it should feel ashamed of themselves,” said Dr. Arvid Carlsson, pharmacologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology. Much scientific and social progress has been made in the 60 years since water fluoridation was introduced. In August, more than 600 dentists, medical doctors, […]
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Lithgow meeting to determine fluoride support
Lithgow City Council will convene a public meeting in the next few weeks to gauge public opinion on putting fluoride into the central western New South Wales town’s water supply. Mayor Neville Castle says there has been some unhappiness about a poll of residents’ attitudes to fluoridation which was conducted recently by the Western Research […]
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Fluoride protesters go directly to the leaders
MORE than 70 protesters filled Warrnambool’s council chambers last night as the campaign to crush moves to fluoridate the city’s water heated up. A month after the councillors spurned a public rally on the controversial issue, the people decided to deliver their message directly to them. They came with placards bearing slogans such as “Fluoride […]
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Dubai may introduce water fluoridation
Water fluoridation may be on the cards for Dubai residents, Middle East Dentist has learnt. The public health proposal is being considered by the Dubai Health Authority, a government source said, as part of measures to tackle the rocketing levels of decay among the Emirate’s school-age children. “We’ve been fighting for it for a while,” […]
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Water districts to dilute fluoride
Most water agencies in Southwest County plan to go along with regional plans to fluoridate water starting in October, but only passively. Metropolitan Water District, which distributes hundreds of millions of gallons each day to about 18 million customers in the southern half of the state, plans to begin in early October to add fluoride […]
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Fluoridation is coming to San Diego County
Like it or not, thousands of county residents will soon be drinking fluoridated water. Beginning Nov. 5, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which provides 80 percent of the water used in San Diego County, plans to begin fluoridating the treated water it sends to customers here. That means faucets around the county will […]
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Juneau: Fluoride issue tops spending for election
The issue of fluoridating Juneau’s water is leading the campaign spending for the October city election. In terms of spending, Citizens Promoting Dental Health, a group funded by dentists, has dwarfed all other campaigns so far, with $46,000 raised, according to filings with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, which monitors campaign finances. Carolyn Brown, chairwoman […]
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Call to put fluoride into Lancashire county’s water
Health chiefs want to put fluoride into drinking water in central Lancashire. Youngsters in Preston have some of the most rotten teeth in the country and more than half of five-year-olds in the city have had experience of tooth decay. Now dental health specialists want to reduce overall levels of cavities by supporting the introduction […]
United Kingdom, England