The Bexar Metropolitan Water District board of directors took one sound and one troubling action last week. Board members voted to continue fluoridating water. The vote reversed a previous decision and eliminates the potential for a costly and futile fight with the city of San Antonio. In August, the BexarMet board voted to stop adding […]
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Fluoridation of Water: Communist Conspiracy, Genuine Threat or Both?
Who can forget the scene from Kubrick’s classic movie Dr. Strangelove of screws-loose General Jack D. Ripper pontificating to straight-laced British group captain Lionel Mandrake about the dangers of fluoride in water—even as machine-gun fire tears up his office? “Mandrake,” says Ripper, “Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?” “Well,” says […]
San Diego: Planned fluoridation of San Diego’s drinking water put on hold
The city of San Diego will not add fluoride to water as scheduled Wednesday, it was announced. Officials planned to increase the fluoride levels in the cities of San Diego, Coronado, Del Mar and Imperial Beach. Arian Collins, of the city Public Utilities Department, said Tuesday no new date has been set. “The staff just […]
San Antonio: Reversal of fluoride: BexarMet retracts decision
The Bexar Metropolitan Water District (BexarMet) has reversed a controversial decision it made only a few months ago. BexarMet board members have voted to put fluoride back in the water. In October, BexarMet ended its contract with its fluoride provider. The move came under fire for going against a city ordinance requiring water providers to […]
Sheridan City Council to move forward with fluoridation of public water
The Sheridan City Council Monday night listened to a room full of people give their opinion on fluoridating the public water system. The debate started with local dentists and physicians offering their support for the idea with an array of statistics showing the benefit of fluoridation. After hearing from the proponents of the idea, the […]
Fluoride in Water Linked to Lower IQ in Children
Exposure to fluoride may lower children’s intelligence says a study pre-published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (online December 17, 2010). Fluoride is added to 70% of U.S. public drinking water supplies. According to Paul Connett, Ph.D., director of the Fluoride Action Network, “This is the 24th […]
Potsdam: Connett Raising Fluoride Awareness
CANTON – He has spent 14 years fighting fluoride, but Paul H. Connett thinks next year might be his break-through year. The professor emeritus of chemistry at St. Lawrence University recently published a book, “The Case against Fluoride,” and has spent most of this fall traveling around the globe promoting it. Mr. Connett has espoused […]
Burlington: City panel recommends halting fluoride
The issue of whether Burlington’s drinking-water supply should be fluoridated has risen again, almost five years after city residents voted overwhelmingly to continue the practice. A subcommittee of the Public Works Commission this week unanimously recommended that the fluoridation of the city water supply be “deferred” until further scientific studies consider health aspects raised in […]
California American Water’s San Diego County customers to receive fluoridated water from City of San Diego
CORONADO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– California American Water’s customers in its San Diego County service district, which includes the cities of Coronado and Imperial Beach and portions of south San Diego and Chula Vista, will receive fluoridated drinking water beginning Dec. 22, 2010. This change is due to California American Water’s wholesale water supplier, the city of […]
Los Angeles: First 5 LA ignores requests for transparency in county fluoridation grants
A request by Coastal Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, a coalition of 15 local groups, to be heard on First 5 LA’s March 13 agenda has gone unanswered with the date for the First 5 LA meeting now past and the date for fluoridation contracts to be issued growing near, the group charged in a […]