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Probe urged into fluoride in water link to cancer
THE Government has been urged to investigate the link between bone cancer and fluoridated drinking water after a study found 40% more people in the Republic contract the disease than in the North. Research carried out at Boston University of School of Public Health, using data from the Irish National Cancer Registry and its northern […]
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Salmon producers, doctors, environmentalists, criticize Noranda’s proposed Aluminum plant in Chile
The Association of Salmon and Trout Producers said they reject the Region XI Alumysa project because of a number of problems detected in the Environmental Impact Study (EIA) carried out by Environmental Management Consulting for the salmon farmers. Victor Hugo Puchi, president of the association, said the project could devastate the salmon sector in southern […]
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Bennington Dental Health Committee Recommends No Fluoridation
BENNINGTON — The Committee on Community Dental Health does not recommend fluoridation of the Bennington water system, it said in a recently released report. The one-page document includes the unanimous conclusions of the committee. It is signed by the committee’s chairman Ted Doucette. “We can not recommend fluoridation of the public water system of the […]
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Cross Border Fluoride Cancer Link?
New research of bone cancer figures has shown a 40% elevated rate in Republic of Ireland (fluoridated) compared to Northern Ireland (unfluoridated).(1) The bone cancer in question called osteosarcoma is one of the most prevalent cancers in young males, aged 9-20. There are both animal and human studies linking osteosarcoma and water fluoridation/fluoride.(2,3) One study […]
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Fluorosis in Yavatmal
In mid-2000, as incidents of severe fluorosis in a village in Yavatmal district came to light, the Maharashtra government declared a special Rs 200 crore package for safe drinking water in tribal-dominated areas. The incidents had sparked off a major uproar and in an unprecedented move, the National Human Rights Commission too had passed strictures […]
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Potable water supply problem addressed in northern China
YINCHUAN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — More farmers in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region are drinking potable water due to the efforts of the regional government. One year after the People and Livestock Drinking Water Project was launched, about 457,000 farmers in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region have gained access to potable water. The […]
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Nalgonda leaders plead for drinking water project
HYDERABAD: In response to a report carried in The Times of India, leaders of various political parties from Nalgonda district on Tuesday appealed to Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu to consider immediate sanction of the Madharam reservoir drinking water project, to solve the fluoride problem in 36 villages. In a representation submitted to Naidu under the […]
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Fluorosis affects eight districts in Rajasthan
JAIPUR: Fluorosis has engulfed eight major districts of Rajasthan causing serious human, dental and skeletal abnormalities, according to a UNICEF report. Atleast 16,560 out of 33,211 villages in the country, about 51 per cent, have reported excessive concentration of fluoride in the range of 1.5-3.0 ppm (parts per million) affecting people of all age group […]
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Troubled Waters: Danger on Tap?
Canada’s water is safe. Even most environmentalists agree. But many experts caution against consuming too much water from the faucet. Bacteria are not a worry with our heavily chlorinated municipal water. So what’s the problem? Sewage treatment plants release heavy metals (cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, lead and zinc) directly into lakes and rivers from which […]
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Editorial Criticizing Fluoride Action Network
In the Eisenhower era, right-wing crackpots portrayed water fluoridation as a sinister communist conspiracy. Today, fluoridation phobia has found a new political home among a vocal segment of environmentalists. When environmental activists formed a group calling itself the Fluoride Action Network in May 2000, they quickly stooped to characterizing fluoridation as “medication without consent,” a […]
United States, Nebraska