Yes, and here’s why. Oral health and general health are not separate. Dental care is the most prevalent unmet health need of children in the United States and dental caries (the #1 childhood chronic disease causing tooth decay) is five times more common than asthma. Untreated dental decay can lead to malnourishment, bacterial infections, pain […]
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Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
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Fate of fluoride in Buda’s water to be decided in Nov. 7 election
Highlights • Town had fluoridated water until San Marcos residents voted in November 2015 to stop fluoridating their water. • Most of the costs of fluoridation in Buda would be covered by the Texas Fluoridation Program. The debate over whether to add fluoride to the water in Buda, reignited early this year by community activists, […]
Buda: Is there support for fluoride?
Buda voters have a fairly simple choice on one issue. The wording on the ballot: FOR/AGAINST Shall the Code of Ordinances of the City of Buda, Texas be amended to adopt an ordinance resuming the use of fluoride additives within the allowable level as recommended and regulated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in… […]
Buda voters to decide if fluoride should be added back to water
BUDA, Texas (KXAN) – People living in Buda have the chance to decide whether or not they want the city to put fluoride back into the city’s water supply. The city of Buda receives its water from the San Marcos treatment plant. In 2015 residents in San Marcos voted to remove fluoride from their water, […]
Fluoride, voter districts top Buda forum
Single member districts, fluoridation and management of growth were a handful of topics candidates vying for a pair of Buda city council seats took on in Monday’s forum held at City Hall. The event, held by the Buda Area Chamber of Commerce, featured candidates Jose Montoya and Paul Dagereau, who are vying for the unexpired […]
Ferris notifies residents of lowered fluoride levels
FERRIS – On Jan. 20 The City of Ferris notified customers drinking water being supplied to customers had exceeded the Maximum Contaminant level for fluoride. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency established the MCl for fluoride at 4.0 milligrams per liter based on running annual average. Recently the city was notified levels have receded below the […]
Marathon Petroleum Company chemical leak in 1987
Excerpt from long article: It’s become an unfortunately appropriate symbol for Texas City, which has suffered disaster after disaster in the years since. In 1987, a chemical leak at a Marathon Petroleum Company facility released hydrofluoric acid into the air, sending 140 people to the hospital, with 900 more treated for respiratory and eye problems […]
Colonias on the border struggle with decades-old water issues
The following is an excerpt from a much longer article: All along the U.S.-Mexico border, about 840,000 mostly low-income, immigrant Latinos have settled in colonias – cheap plots of land outside city limits without basic infrastructure such as water and sewage systems, electricity and paved roads. Twenty-three years ago, Olivia Figueroa left her neighborhood in […]
Testing water quality – How do neighboring cities compare?
CENTRAL TEXAS – After Sonterra MUD, a development in Jarrell, was alerted about higher-than-safe levels of fluoride in their water supply, KVUE wanted to see if their situation was isolated or mimicked in nearby communities. Sonterra’s high fluoride level stems from naturally occurring fluoride sources in their groundwater. The MUD has to then dilute to […]
Electro Dialysis Reversal: Despite Wolfforth water improvements, citizens will still receive notice
WOLFFORTH — After going active on May 10, the city of Wolfforth has seen results from its Electro Dialysis Reversal (EDR) plant. Wolfforth city manager Darrell Newsom announced that the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ) gave the city the go-ahead after a nearly five-year wait. Construction of the $6.7 million EDR project was approved […]