After halting the practice six years ago, Albuquerque has decided to once again add fluoride to its water supply. “Water utility board members voted 5-2 to approve a $250,000 appropriation that will allow the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority to buy the equipment needed to resume supplemental drinking-water fluoridation,” the Albuquerque Journal reported. “The […]
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Petersburg: Voters have decided: fluoride to stay
Fluoride will remain in the Petersburg water supply and ATVs will remain prohibited to drive on borough streets, two of the many decisions made after 1,159 ballots were cast in the election on Tuesday. Propositions #6 and #7 were struck down handily by voters in Petersburg. The question that asked whether to keep fluoride was […]
Eight months after accident, OWASA to resume use of fluoride in water supply
CHAPEL HILL – The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will resume fluoridating drinking water Monday, Oct. 9, for Carrboro and Chapel Hill, almost eight months after equipment malfunction and human error resulted in an overfeed of fluoride at the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant in February. OWASA temporarily ceased fluoridation Feb. 2 after the […]
Low Prenatal Exposures to Fluoride: Are There Neurotoxic Risks for Children?
As a trace element, fluoride can help ward off dental cavities. Exceptionally high pre- and postnatal exposures, as seen in populations whose drinking water supplies are contaminated by natural fluoride sources, have been implicated in a number of adverse health effects.1,2,3,4 However, less is known about fluoride’s neurotoxic risks at lower levels of exposure. A […]
Fluoride Removal from Groundwater by Adsorption Technology. The occurrence, adsorbent synthesis, regeneration and disposal.
Note from Fluoride Action Network: “Since all methods [to remove fluoride] produce a sludge with very high concentration of fluoride that has to be disposed of, only water for drinking and cooking purposes should be treated, particularly in the developing countries.” Reference: Fluorosis (see Interventions), World Health Organization Excerpts from dissertation titled : Fluoride Removal […]
Bangladeshi youth wins Forbes award
Bangladeshi youth icon and social entrepreneur Minhaj Chowdhury has won the first-ever “Under 30 Impact Challenge” at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston in the US. Minhaj, cofounder and CEO of Drinkwell, aspires to bring positive changes to the world and is doing just that, as his firm offers a lifeline to a quarter […]
Chapel Hill: OWASA Will Soon Reintroduce Fluoride Into Its Water Supply. Critics Say the Authority Is Unethicall
Curtis Williams slowly steps up close to the microphone. Standing in front of the board of commissioners for Orange County’s water authority, he’s holding a faded red dictionary and a poster board on which he’s drawn the cell structure of fluorine. Any dictionary, he says, will tell you what you need to know about the […]
Fluoride Warnings Issued by International Group of Dentists
October is Dental Hygiene Month, but not all dentists will be touting the alleged benefits of fluoride. In fact, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) is using this month to raise awareness of the health risks associated with fluoride. This is especially timely because of recent news about a study linking fluoride […]
Northern Westchester Joint Water Works Amawalk Water Treatment Facility Discontinuation of Fluoridation to Town of Yorktown and Somers Water Supply
This notice only impacts Yorktown and Somers residents. On or about October 3rd, 2017, the Northern Westchester Joint Water Works (NWJWW) will no longer add fluoride to its drinking water produced at the Amawalk Water Treatment Facility. When it is implemented, all Yorktown and Somers residents will not receive fluoride from drinking water. Fluoride is […]
Fluoride removal from groundwater by adsorption technology: the occurrence, adsorbent synthesis, regeneration and disposal
Abstract In the Eastern corridor of the Northern region of Ghana, the presence of high fluoride concentration in the groundwater has made many drilled boreholes unusable for drinking. Little is, however, known about the factors contributing to the occurrence of high fluoride in the groundwater. Fluoride-contaminated groundwater can be treated by adsorption, but is hampered […]