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Barpeta, Nagaon top toxic water list
Guwahati, May 28: Testing of drinking water sources by the Assam public health engineering (PHE) department has revealed that Barpeta and Nagaon districts are the worst affected by arsenic and fluoride contamination. Testing of drinking water sources by the department up to March 31, 2017, revealed 2,485 water sources in Barpeta were contaminated with arsenic […]
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To Fluoridate or not to fluoridate Nipawin Water
Councillor Ray Serack cautioned his fellow councillors on the Town’s proposed referendum for the fluoridation of the water. Council took Serack’s recommendation that it be tabled to the next meeting. If Council decides to hold a referendum, Nipawin residents will be asked to cast their vote alongside their ballot at the municipal by-election schedule for […]
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Sarnia: City seeking public comment on drinking water fluoride
Residents with an opinion on the divisive issue of fluoridated water can weigh in when a public meeting is held May 29 at City Hall. The 3 p.m. session will include presentations by Dr. Sudit Ranade, Lambton’s medical officer of health and a fluoride supporter, and Dr. Hardy Limeback, former president of the Canadian Association […]
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Fluoridated Water Destroys Your Brain and Teeth
Story at-a-glance – In the U.S., 57 percent of youth between the ages of 6 and 19 years have dental fluorosis When fluoridation was first started in the U.S. in 1945, it was promised that only 10 percent of people would suffer from mild dental fluorosis Public health officials often brush off fluorosis as purely […]
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Bihar researcher takes to masses mango, jamun leaves as antidote to arsenic laced water
Researcher Syed Mumtazuddin is ready to put to good use his finding that a few leaves of mango and jamun tree can purify arsenic and flouride laced water, which affects millions across the country. A university don in Bihar is taking to the masses the handiest of solutions to the problem of contamination of drinking […]
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Albuquerque. Editorial: Bad governance bogs down good water policies
The antics at Wednesday’s Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority board meeting are a good example of how not to conduct public business. Two key items on the agenda – formal passage of an already approved 5 percent rate hike and approval of the utility’s fiscal 2018 budget – turned into a confusing circus that […]
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Skeletal fluorosis cripples many in Nuapada village
Komna: Even as people of Jhinkidunguri, a remote village in the hilly terrains of Pendarabandh panchayat of Komna block in Nuapada district, are counting days after being affected by skeletal fluorosis for years now, the administration has done little to help them thanks to official negligence. The main problem is consumption of fluoride-content water from […]
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Latehar, Palamu, Garhwa high on arsenic water list
RANCHI: The drinking water and sanitation department (DWSD) has begun a survey of handpumps that have become unfit for use because of presence of fluoride and arsenic contents in their water. Over the past one week, the DWSD, on the direction of the state high court, has conducted surveys in 1,609 villages in 19 districts. […]
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Albuquerque: Fluoridation battle to be waged again
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Let the fluoride wars begin, again. The public will have two opportunities to voice its opinions about drinking-water fluoridation when the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority takes up the issue in June and August. The utility board will hear a presentation about fluoridation at its June 21 meeting. On Aug. 23, […]
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Albuquerque: Open government group calls for another vote on fluoride
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority members should redo a vote on a controversial fluoridation program in a meeting that gives opponents and proponents a chance to have their say, says the leader of a government transparency organization. On Wednesday, the board approved a plan to add fluoride to the municipal water supply. The fluoride […]
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