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Using Private Wells: A Drinking Water Safety Guide
Nearly one in seven Americans get their drinking water from private wells. Federal and state governments set legal limits for contaminants in public water systems, but those laws don’t cover private wells. If you’re one of the 44 million people relying on a private well for drinking water, here’s what you should know and do […]
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Rugby City: Fluoride repeal gets first reading
The Rugby City Council took another step in eliminating fluoride from the city’s water treatment process. In a regular meeting Monday evening, the council approved the first reading of Ordinance No. 408, which, if passed, would repeal Ordinance No. 84. Passed on Nov. 17, 1958, Ordinance No. 84 ordained that the city’s water supply would […]
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Jack Crowther: As systemic poison, fluoride is an elusive target
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jack Crowther, of Rutland, who is retired. He worked as a journalist and in corporate communications. It is ironic that because fluoride is a “systemic” poison, affecting the body generally rather than in one specific way, the fight against community water fluoridation is made harder. This seems contradictory. Why […]
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Marriguda water to be tested for fluoride
Nalgonda: Collector Gaurav Uppal has directed officials to send the water samples of borewells and RO plants in Marriguda mandal for fluoride content test and supply water which has the least amount of fluoride to the people. Marriguda is the worst fluoride-affected mandal in the district. Speaking at a meeting of District Fluoride Mitigation Committee, Gaurav […]
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Ghana: solar-based defluoridation plants
Excerpt from article on Top 200 Environmental Firms: Twenty-five years ago, German contracting and industrial giant Bauer AG, based near Munich, formed a corporate unit to contend with contamination on its global construction sites. Today, that unit is thriving, serving its municipal and industrial clients in the areas of remediation, waste management, water-wastewater treatment and […]
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Snow, soil and trees could help detect mineral deposits in Canada
Researchers on Vancouver Island have developed an analytical method that allows them to use snow, soil and trees to identify buried mineral deposits. According to their findings, the new series of techniques could help reduce the impact of mineral exploration work while lowering costs and increasing efficiency. Working at British Columbia’s Mount Washington gold-copper-silver prospect […]
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Fluoride expert willing to help Potsdam with issue
To the Editor: I am very pleased to hear that Potsdam is considering the possibility of ending water fluoridation. I have studied this issue for over 21 years and was very happy to be part of a team of people that persuaded the Canton Village Board of Trustees to end this practice in February 2003. […]
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Government mulls water testing labs in higher secondary schools
KOZHIKODE: The spread of waterborne diseases in Kerala after the onset of monsoon has once again exposed the serious health hazards posed by water contamination. There are thousands of laboratories offering blood test facilities across the state but, for water, there are hardly any takers. Concerned over the lack of facilities to test water quality, the […]
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Sandusky: 50 years ago, 1967
Sandusky’s water supply will be fluoridated. Over the objection of City Commission Harold Schaeffer, the municipal legislators forced through an emergency ordinance authorizing the introduction of fluorine to the city water system. Schaeffer, the lone dissenter, told the commission, “this affects every citizen in Sandusky. I think it should appear on the ballot.” *Original article, […]
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PFOA: Grand jury investigating DEQ, Chemours amid GenX concerns in the Cape Fear
RALEIGH — A federal investigation is underway into the Department of Environmental Quality and the release of the chemical GenX into the Cape Fear River from the Chemours plant in eastern N.C. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued a criminal subpoena to N.C. DEQ requiring permits, emails, notes, compliance […]
United States, North Carolina Perfluorinated chemicals