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Supreme Court: City water fluoridation illegal
Manchester is violating state law by putting fluoride in the water it pipes to customers in surrounding towns, the state Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The court gave the city until June 30, 2005, to stop fluoridating the municipal water supply — unless the Legislature amends current law before then. Manchester voters passed a fluoride referendum […]
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Court rules Manchester fluoridation is illegal
CONCORD, N.H. – The state Supreme Court says it’s illegal for Manchester to put fluoride in the water it pipes to customers in surrounding towns. The court gave the city until June 30, 2005, to stop fluoridating the municipal water supply, unless the Legislature amends the law before then or residents in the towns approve. […]
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MP’s anger at shock fluoride postcards
A BOLTON MP has hit out at a shock postcard campaign by dentists who want to add fluoride to water. The British Dental Association postcard shows the rotting teeth of a five-year-old child who, it says, has been denied the benefits of fluoridation. The BDA is calling on the public to send the postcard to […]
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Removal of fluoride from fluoride contaminated industrial waste water by electrolysis.
Abstract Wastewater containing fluoride are generally treated with lime or calcium salt supplemented with aluminium salts. Wastewater generated from different industries does not always behave in the same way due to the presence of interfering contaminants. A number of techniques have been developed and studied for the removal of excessive fluoride. Most of these are […]
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Coronet To Pump $400,000 In Plant
PLANT CITY – The Coronet Industries factory opened a few years before World War I. And like a battle-scarred veteran, the phosphate processing plant is showing its age. Environmental regulators say it is time for the plant to be brought up to date and better maintained. The county Environmental Protection Commission has cited Coronet for […]
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Fluoride to begin its flow in SLC this week
Salt Lake Valley residents will take their first sips of fluoridated water Wednesday, nearly three years after voters overwhelmingly approved fluoridation. Only three small water systems will not meet the Oct. 1 deadline, which means about 95 percent of the Valley’s homes and businesses will have fluoridated water flowing from the taps, said Royal DeLegge, […]
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Film firm challenges fluoride use in city water
VALPARAISO — In May the city’s water department was honored by the U.S. dental directors for helping prevent tooth decay by fluoridating the water for the past 50 years. In September the water board was asked to stop fluoridation because it is a danger to humans. Gary Foreman of Native Sun Productions, a Valparaiso company […]
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Shock tactics in fluoride fight
An image of a five-year-old child’s rotting teeth is being used in an effort to build up support for adding fluoride to tap water. The British Dental Association (BDA) has designed a postcard comparing the teeth of a five-year-old from Manchester, where fluoride is not put in water, with a child from Birmingham, where it […]
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Examining the water we drink: Concerns about C8 linger
Concerns about polluted drinking water began to emerge for more than 12,000 Washington County residents when a manufacturing chemical called C8 was revealed in some area public water systems in January 2002. But local water systems had been secretly tested by officials at DuPont’s Washington, W.Va., Works plant, the source of the chemical, decades earlier. […]
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Examining the water we drink: Family’s lost herd led to revelations about C8
When the Tennant family lost an entire herd of cattle to a mysterious wasting disease on their Washington, W.Va., farm they hired an attorney and went looking for answers. In the process of testing their land for clues as to the source of the problem that ruined their herd, studies revealed the presence of C8 […]
United States, West Virginia Perfluorinated chemicals