More than 700 dentists and dental hygienists from across the country are in Portland this week for a national conference on oral health. As Kristian Foden-Vencil reports, Oregon’s continuing refusal to put fluoride in the drinking water is drawing attention. When San Diego and San Jose begin to put fluoride in their water this year, […]
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Pasco to accept $100,000 for water fluoridation
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 […]
Norphlet Chemical, Arkansas: Chemical cleanup operation begins in Norphlet
Authorities say workers have begun removing 7,800 gallons of hydrofluoric acid improperly stored at a chemical plant in Norphlet. Yancey Kyle, Union County’s emergency management coordinator, says workers began removing the acid from the plant yesterday morning. Kyle says the cleanup operation likely will last three or four days. Union County Judge Bobby Edmonds declared […]
Fluoridation debate revived
Fluoridating public drinking water is a controversial and expensive undertaking. Just the equipment to ready Lafayette Utilities System for fluoridation will cost $654,200. It will cost another $530,000 a year to operate the system once fluoridation is added, Don Broussard, water operations manager, said. Lafayette City-Parish Council Chairman Purvis Morrison has drafted a resolution for […]
Trenton resumes adding fluoride to water
TRENTON — The fluoride is flowing once again. Almost six weeks after two Lawrence councilmen angrily complained that Trenton Water Works never notified customers it had stopped adding fluoride to drinking water supplies, the city said fluoridation resumed this week. “On Tuesday, April 14th, the water utility returned to its practice of adding one milligram […]
Fluoride in Washoe water up for debate again
The sometimes emotional issue of adding fluoride to public water supplies in Washoe County is on tap again in a new bill before the Nevada Legislature. Supporters of Senate Bill 311, passed April 8 by the Senate Health and Education Committee, said it’s a safe and proven means to improve dental health of the county’s […]
Amesbury discontinues fluoridation due to difficulty in obtaining sodium fluoride
Director of Public Works Rob Desmarais requested the discontinuance due to the variability and unreliability of the sodium fluoride supply. Changes in the sodium fluoride market have caused significant difficulty in procuring a consistent high quality product for public water application. The Amesbury Board of Health voted at its April 16 meeting to discontinue the […]
Lebanon: Health Council asks why no fluoridation in water?
Wilson County Health Council members discussed the lack of fluoride in county water systems during their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday. The panel, which is made up of Wilson County and Lebanon Special School District health employees, Tennessee Department of Health employees and several members of the community, held a discussion about the lack of […]
Parents: Bottled Water Trend Poses Threat to Dental Health
CHICAGO, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Five billion gallons of bottled water were consumed in 2000, an increase of more than 200 percent from a decade earlier. Whether consumers drink more bottled water because it is an alternative to soda, or because it is convenient to do so is unclear, but one thing is certain: they […]
County plans to pipe water into Pioneertown
The environmental impacts of a proposal to supply water to this community’s 114 water customers was discussed at a Pioneertown Property Owners Association meeting at the church on Mane Street April 7. Guest speaker Jim Oravets, San Bernardino County engineering manager, began his presentation by outlining the well-known challenges this community has with its water […]