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 […]
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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 […]
Albuquerque. Editorial: Bad governance bogs down good water policies
The antics at Wednesday’s Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority board meeting are a good example of how not to conduct public business. Two key items on the agenda – formal passage of an already approved 5 percent rate hike and approval of the utility’s fiscal 2018 budget – turned into a confusing circus that […]
Albuquerque: Fluoridation battle to be waged again
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Let the fluoride wars begin, again. The public will have two opportunities to voice its opinions about drinking-water fluoridation when the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority takes up the issue in June and August. The utility board will hear a presentation about fluoridation at its June 21 meeting. On Aug. 23, […]
Albuquerque: Open government group calls for another vote on fluoride
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority members should redo a vote on a controversial fluoridation program in a meeting that gives opponents and proponents a chance to have their say, says the leader of a government transparency organization. On Wednesday, the board approved a plan to add fluoride to the municipal water supply. The fluoride […]
Albuquerque: Water authority approves rate hike, fluoridation
In a bizarre evening at the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority board meeting, a measure to raise water and sewer rates failed on a tie vote and then passed 3-2 when the proposal was revisited after one of the members who voted no left the meeting. And if that were not enough to keep […]
Durango residents sound off on water fluoride issue
Durango residents weighed in Monday night on whether to keep fluoridating their water. The city council held a special meeting after a petition was presented asking them to reconsider adding fluoride to the water. The Durango Herald reports residents against the practice argued consuming fluoride should be a choice, while those in favor pointed out […]
Reducing fluoride levels in water part of larger effort in Ranchos Valley
Andrew Chavez says it’s easy to tell which people in Llano Quemado have a lot of fluoride in their drinking water. “I used to live down this road and my teeth were completely brown,” he says, driving past old adobes and mobile homes that flank State Road 382. If you’ve got brown teeth, he says, […]
Albuquerque. Editorial: Voters should be given chance to fluoridate water
Now that the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority board has inexplicably voted to ignore 70 years of scientific research on the benefits of fluoridating public water systems, as a fallback, we have to agree with board member and City Councilor Ken Sanchez, who told fellow board members this important public health issue “should not […]
Fluoride won’t be added to Albuquerque area’s water
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Water authority board members killed a move to resume fluoridation of the municipal water supply to prevent tooth decay by voting 4-2 to cut funding for the program from the water utility’s 2017 fiscal year budget. The $212 million budget, which the board approved during its Wednesday’s meeting, had included $250,000 for […]