Consumers will have to wait another month to find out whether the water utility will resume supplemental fluoridation of Albuquerque’s drinking water. After hearing passionate appeals from 32 speakers both for and against fluoridation, members of the utility board on Wednesday voted against taking up a funding measure for immediate action, postponing the decision until […]
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Albuquerque: Vote to add fluoride to metro’s drinking water deferred
A decision on a proposed plan that would once again add more fluoride to drinking water in Albuquerque will have to wait another month. Wednesday night the Water Authority’s Governing Board voted 4-3 to defer a vote until September 20. Fluoride operations were halted in 2011. The issue was brought up again due to many […]
Albuquerque: Fluoride could be added to metro’s drinking water; final vote tonight
Citizens will be able to weigh in on a proposed plan that would once again add more fluoride to drinking water in Albuquerque. Members of the water authority board are expected to make a final vote on a plan to spend more than $200,000 for equipment and facilities to allow the city to resume fluoridation. […]
Albuquerque: Water fluoridation plan faces key vote this week
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The public debate about drinking water fluoridation in Albuquerque appeared to have been settled in the 1970s, both at the ballot box and in the courts. In a November 1970 election, a 57 percent majority of city voters supported an ordinance to fluoridate the Albuquerque’s water supply. The city began fluoridation in […]
Small New Mexico communities struggle to deliver water free of uranium and other toxins
SANTA CRUZ, N.M. (AP) — Eloy Jacquez lives in the house his parents built on Los Lujans Road in 1948. There was no water in Santa Cruz then. The family waited several more years before the first well was drilled just up the street, next to land used as an informal waste dump. Old cars […]
Albuquerque: County water authority might add fluoride to water
A proposal facing the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority would add supplemental fluoride back into drinking water. Albuquerque voters approved fluoridation of drinking water in the early 1970s. The Water Authority stopped adding it in 2011, while the federal government looked into changing the recommendations for how much fluoride is healthy. In 2015, the […]
Albuquerque: Fluoridation Information — UPDATED
JUNE 22, 2017 — The Water Authority’s June 21 Board included a discussion of supplemental fluoridation of the community’s drinking water, which will be up for a final vote in August. About 70 people were in attendance, with 28 offering comments to the Board. The vote is slated to take place during the Water Authority’s regularly scheduled […]
Albuquerque: Water authority hears opposing sides on flouride
Does resuming the practice of adding fluoride to Albuquerque’s community water supply aid in the prevention of tooth decay or lead to a host of other health problems? Public comments offered Wednesday before the board of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority were pretty much split between those opinions, and members of the water […]
Albuquerque: Public can sound off on fluoride in water
ALBUQUERQUE — The public will have the chance to sound off about a plan to resume drinking water fluoridation when the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority board takes up the issue today. The board will hear a staff presentation about fluoridation and public comment at 5 p.m. at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Government Center, One […]
Albuquerque: Water authority seeking input before final fluoride vote
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s a question that’s sure to generate heated debate on both sides of the issue. Should fluoride once again be added to the metro area’s drinking water? The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority stopped adding fluoride to its drinking water six years ago. But when you turn on the tap you’re […]