12/6/21 Caucus Excerpt: Milady Tejeda spoke up and asked Petrick if he would like to speak about R-657-12/21 – Prohibiting the use of fluoride in the city drinking water. Tejeda questioned how people would feel about this. Councilman B.J. Torres spoke up, “Fluoride might be a carcinogenic in the long run, and it’s been known […]
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Interesting that The New York Times found this story from Alaska compelling enough to produce an article on it by their journalist Michael Levenson who reports on political events. In publishing it, the paper reveals it’s shallowness on the issue of fluoride and water fluoridation. The paper highlights at the […]
Jasper, Tenn. – As infamously scarce in the marketplace as many electronic components have been affecting car production and the availability of many popular home products, the Town of Jasper learned they might be victim to the supply chain issues in a different way. The Jasper Water Plant has historically inserted fluoride in the water supply […]
Note from Fluoride Action Network: • Brita filters are mentioned. They do not remove fluoride from water. • See 2020 Levels of Fluoride in the State’s Drinking Water and Fluoridation Status: 199 Public Water Systems with fluoride levels over 0.71 ppm. Growing up in Isle of Wight County in Virginia’s tidewater region, Kaleigh Beale ’22 […]
Updated: 1 hour ago [7 am, Dec 15] Published: 8 hours ago The Eklutna Water Treatment Plant, photographed Tuesday, July 31, 2018, provides safe drinking water for much of Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) After a spokesman for Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson denied it happened, the mayor’s office said Tuesday that Bronson temporarily halted fluoridation […]
Mineral Commodities has produced a high-purity graphite anode material comparable in efficiency and capacity to industry standards. Credit: FIle ASX-listed Mineral Commodities has delivered a breakthrough in the purification of large flake graphite for use in battery anode material without the use of traditional and highly toxic hydrofluoric acid. Electrochemical testing of graphite sourced from […]
Today, Mayor Dave Bronson’s office released the following statement regarding the fluoridation of Anchorage’s water supply, explaining that the fluoride was briefly reduced from the water supply because staff complained that their eyes and throats were burning from the fumes. The statement is in response to an attack by various left-wing bloggers and the Anchorage […]
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson had the fluoridation of the city’s water turned off for about five hours in October, according to a statement Tuesday from the mayor’s office. City code requires the fluoridation of Anchorage’s water supply. Bronson decided to stop the fluoridation while visiting the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility Eklutna Water Treatment Plant […]
Dear Editor: We are strongly in favor of discontinuing the 18-year-old practice of adding fluoride to our drinking water for the following reasons: -While commonly available topical forms of fluoride are proven to be effective in reducing cavities, the risks of ingesting it in our water outweigh the benefits. -High levels of fluoride have been […]
Excessive use and mismanagement of groundwater are leading to its contamination by geogenic sources, posing a great threat to the ecosystem. There is an urgent need to draft and implement a roadmap for minimising the depletion of groundwater and mitigating water pollution. Educating farmers and the public at large about increasing food production while protecting […]
