Who: Oral Health Task Force When: Wed, 05/31/2017 – 6:00pm The Oral Health Task Force is offering free fluoride well-testing for families, day-cares, and other homes where children either live or visit on a consistent basis. This offer includes pre-natal moms and young adults up to 26 years old. More information is available from Georgene […]
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Johnstown: Water Authority considers eliminating fluoride from city water supplies
The Greater Johnstown Water Authority is considering no longer adding fluoride to water it supplies to customers. But, before making a decision, board members want to receive input from the community. So a public meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, beginning at 10 a.m., at the authority’s headquarters, located at 640 Franklin St. “It’s a […]
Fluoridated Water Destroys Your Brain and Teeth
Story at-a-glance – In the U.S., 57 percent of youth between the ages of 6 and 19 years have dental fluorosis When fluoridation was first started in the U.S. in 1945, it was promised that only 10 percent of people would suffer from mild dental fluorosis Public health officials often brush off fluorosis as purely […]
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 […]
Fluoride issue won’t go to Dover voters
DOVER — The member of the Utilities Commission who sought to have the City Council add a question to November’s ballot on whether the city should continue adding fluoride to the public drinking water said on Thursday the City Council does not have that authority. In an email, Norman Allie wrote, “Upon further review, the […]
Sheridan: City Hosts Public Meeting on Fluoride
The community conference room at the Sheridan Memorial Hospital downtown location on Gould Street was the site of a public meeting hosted by the City of Sheridan Thursday night on the topic of fluoridation of the City’s water supply. Speaking on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Dental Association, […]
Sheridan: Fluoride issue returns to table
SHERIDAN — Sheridan Mayor Roger Miller, Sheridan City Council members and other city employees heard another round of discussion for and against having fluoride in the water system that serves city and Sheridan Area Water Supply System customers Thursday night. “It’s been educational for me for sure and I think that the council has also […]
Fluoride opponents pinning hopes on federal lawsuit
Opponents of Arkansas water fluoridation failed to remove the state mandate and must now wait another two years until the legislature is in session. But a lawsuit was recently filed in federal court in California by the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) and other groups to get fluoride out of drinking water all across the country. […]