Credit: Kaleigh Beale Kaleigh Beale remembers when she was in elementary school in Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay some of her classmates had brown stains on their teeth. She was told the stains were a result of too much fluoride in the water. Fluoride is added to most people’s water in the US to prevent […]
Fifty-four years after an election on fluoridation of the Albany drinking water supply, the issue is back before the city council. Councilwoman Matilda Novak brought it up. On March 21, she said she understood that fluoridation had been approved years ago by ordinance, and now she wanted a new ordinance to reverse that decision. Novak […]
Wellington Water chair Lynda Carroll announces an independent inquiry into the fluoridation of water, and says Wellington’s water supply has not been fluoridated for up to ten months. Campbell Barry, the Hutt City mayor and chairman of the Wellington Water committee, says he is “absolutely appalled” at the utility’s failure to fluoridate the region’s water […]
City of Española water department workers Kaleb Charlie (back to camera) and Randy Almeda in September 2021 put salt in a vat at the Ranchitos well. The salt lowers the nitrate levels in the water before it’s piped to El Llano to be mixed with that well’s water. (SUNfoto by Robert Trapp) For years, Española’s […]
Fluoride could be added to the water supply across South Yorkshire to tackle Sheffield’s extremely high levels of tooth decay in children. The city has had high rates of child tooth decay for years but the problem has been exacerbated by families unable to get dental appointments during Covid. Sarah Roberts, a consultant in dental […]
Highlights Trends in fluoride concentrations in public supply wells occur across the state of California. High fluoride concentrations are related to geology, groundwater age and aquifer geochemistry. Elevated concentrations and trends occur in higher proportions in the southern California. Managed recharge in the desert and Los Angeles Basin are driving fluoride trends in groundwater. Abstract […]
Note from Fluoride Action Network: This opinion piece was written by Peter Griffin, a science and technology writer. Griffin should have a lot of credibility as he is the founding director of the Science Media Centre and founding editor of Sciblogs.co.nz. In August 2019 Griffin wrote an opinion piece on the Green et al. paper […]
The revelation that fluoridation levels in Wellington and Upper Hutt water supplies has been below, and often well below, “recommended” levels, yet tooth decay rates have been unaffected, confirms that water fluoridation does not reduce tooth decay. Parents can be reassured that the drop in fluoridation levels has not caused their child to have tooth […]
Rensselaer researchers will focus on developing a solution for effectively managing complex fluoride salt waste streams. iStock Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been awarded $607,505 from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to help develop technologies to resolve the waste and storage challenges associated with Advanced Nuclear Reactor fuel cycles. The project […]
Wellington Water chair Lynda Carroll announces an independent inquiry into the fluoridation of water, and says Wellington’s water supply has not been fluoridated for up to ten months. The lack of fluoride in Wellington’s water supply for 10 months will cause “pain and suffering” as people suffer from tooth decay, a dental expert says. Wellington […]
