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(Olympia) — The state’s highest court will review an effort to get fluoride out of the city of Port Angeles water supply. The state Supreme Court agreed last week to review the case of two intiatives that sought to stop the city from adding fluoride to the water. Local environmental group “Protect the Peninsula’s Future” […]

PASCO — Four out of five dentists might have their opinion, but it was five out of seven council members who accepted a grant for water fluoridation on Monday. The city has put fluoride in its water supply for seven years to bolster the oral health of its public. But the practice was reconsidered recently […]

Pasco’s plans to build a new water treatment plant later this year has officially reopened the debate over an age-old controversy — to fluoridate or not to fluoridate the city’s water. “It looks like in the ’40s and ’50s, there was a high degree of argument in favor of fluoridation in water,” Councilman Bob Hoffmann […]

Skagit County commissioners, acting as the county Board of Health, voted 2-1 today to reverse their 2007 order requiring the Skagit Public Utility District to fluoridate part of its water supply. Commissioners Ron Wesen and Sharon Dillon voted to rescind the order, effectively ending a fluoridation program the PUD had hardly begun in the 21 […]

(MOUNT VERNON)- The Skagit County Commissioners are expected to change their minds about water fluoridation. They’ll vote Tuesday morning whether to reverse their 2007 order requiring Skagit Public Utility District Number One to add fluoride to its water system. Skagit PUD has been unable to negotiate a contract with the Washington Dental Service Foundation, which […]

Last June, the Longview City Council voted to switch the municipal water supply from the Cowlitz River to a deep aquifer that would be tapped through a series of wells drilled at the Mint Farm Industrial Park. The decision sparked outrage and disbelief among some community members, who were shocked that city leaders would choose […]

Fluoride may not be added to Skagit County’s water supply after all. A two-month deadline extension for fluoridating the Skagit PUD’s water supply apparently isn’t really about giving the utility district time to set up a system. It seems that it’s more about changing the plan altogether. Two of the county’s three commissioners confirmed Tuesday […]

Excerpt: … Spokane has a record of poor oral health; dentists and medical officials point to the community’s refusal to add fluoride to its drinking water. Most of the country’s major metropolitan centers fluoridate their municipal water supplies. Dentists say the failure to fluoridate amounts to health discrimination against the children of poor families. Those […]