Wisconsin Rapids committee to consider ban on adding fluoride to city’s drinking water

Wisconsin Rapids city leaders will discuss creating an ordinance to ban added fluoride in its drinking water. The proposal cites a recent study suggesting a possible link between fluoride exposure and lower IQ in children. The American Dental Association maintains that fluoride in drinking water significantly reduces cavities throughout a person’s lifetime. WISCONSIN RAPIDS ? […]

Fluoride in water again on city agenda

MONROE — The issue of fluoride in municipal drinking water has resurfaced here with city officials, after being hotly debated and narrowly dismissed late last year. But this time the choice is not fluoride vs. no-fluoride in city water — although that is still very much a thing nationally — it is to tighten up […]

Village of DeForest postpones vote on removing fluoride from water supply

DEFOREST, Wis. (WKOW) — The Village of DeForest Board is postponing its vote on removing fluoride from the village’s water supply. Discussions around the issue have been happening since November 2024. Village President Jane Cahill Wolfgram made a motion at Tuesday’s board meeting to postpone the vote. She said there needed to be more listening sessions […]

DeForest Village Board to consider removing fluoride from drinking water

DEFOREST, Wis. — The DeForest Village Board could vote Tuesday to remove fluoride from the community’s drinking water. The board is slated to discuss resolution on whether to remove the mineral and could take action during its regularly-scheduled meeting. The village’s Public Services Committee voted 5-2 last month in favor of removal. Fluoride has been […]

Anti-fluoride activists target Wisconsin cities

Madison began fluoridating its drinking water in 1948, an action that the Centers for Disease Control says reduces tooth decay in children and adults by about 25%. The decision by the city council was part of a strategy meant to reduce cavities, particularly among children with little access to dental care. Eight decades later, members […]

DeForest Village Board discusses potential fluoride removal from water

Village of DeForest residents could potentially lose the fluoride from their public water supply depending on future actions by the village board. The Village of DeForest Board began discussing removing fluoride at their meeting on Nov. 18. Municipalities around Wisconsin and the nation have been debating or already taken such steps. The DeForest Board has […]

What Wisconsin experts say about the safety and benefits of putting fluoride in drinking water

In the last year, at least nine Wisconsin communities have decided to stop adding fluoride to their public drinking water, concerned that possible health risks outweigh the benefits. Community water fluoridation became widespread throughout the U.S. in the 1960s and is heralded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the 20th century’s greatest public […]