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Wellington’s Water Woes: A Struggle to Keep Fluoride Levels on Target
FAN Note: Heavily biased, one-sided reporting below. In the heart of Wellington, a pressing concern has emerged from the depths of its water supply system, challenging the community’s expectation of clean, safe drinking water. Wellington Water, the organization responsible for managing the city’s water treatment, has disclosed a consistent struggle in maintaining the necessary fluoride […]
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Wellington Water fails to deliver fluoride targets because of “unexpected events”
There has been a drop in fluoride levels in the drinking water across the Wellington region over the past four months. This means that Wellington Water has not been able to meet the Ministry of Health (MoH) fluoride target levels of 0.7 – 1.0ppm, 95% of the time. This has been caused by a number […]
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NZ: Water Fluoridation court decision update.
A recent High Court judgment has kept in place directions issued to local authorities to fluoridate drinking water supplies. The judgment has also directed the Director-General of Health to assess whether each of the directions for local authorities is a demonstrably justified limit on the right of persons in those districts to refuse medical treatment. […]
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Bid to force14 councils to fluoridate heads back to court.
The Health Ministry is appealing a High Court decision that found its order forcing 14 councils to fluoridate was unlawful. Some councils have paused their plans to fluoridate town supplies, while they wait for the legal matters to be sorted. The High Court found in November that former Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield did […]
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Horowhenua Council pauses work on fluoridation
Horowhenua District Council (HDC) has paused work on fluoridating the Levin and ?hau town water supply while it awaits the outcome of a High Court hearing in February 2024. On 27 July 2022, Horowhenua District Council received the mandate to fluoridate drinking water supplies in Levin by 31 July 2023, later extended to 30 April […]
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Fluoride fracas flares up again at Whangarei District Council
The latest bid to pause fluoridation in Whangarei’s water supply has failed after a heated council debate. About 300 Whangarei residents will now be surveyed on what they think about the introduction of fluoride to the town’s drinking water. The phone survey comes after intense debate around the council table over whether to stop, pause […]
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Horowhenua District Council pauses work on fluoridation after High Court decision
Horowehenua District Council (HDC) hopes to have more clarity on whether it should proceed to fluoridate its water supply after the High Court found orders to do so were unlawful. The High Court found the Director-General of Health’s orders to 14 councils to fluoridate some or all of their drinking water supplies did not give […]
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Council to restart fluoridation
The Clutha District Council (CDC) will reinstate fluoridation of Balclutha, Kaitangata, Milton and Tapanui drinking water “early next year”, CDC group manager service delivery Jules Witt said. Council agreed to begin fluoridating the four towns in 2010, following public consultation which found the majority of residents were in favour at that time. But treatment ceased […]
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Fluoride battle continues
A Cambridge lobby group has started a battle to stop the town’s water supply bring fluoridated. The outgoing director general of health Ashley Bloomfield instructed the Waip? District Council to add fluoride to Cambridge supplies – but not elsewhere in Waip? – as a parting gesture when he retired in 2022. But the High Court […]
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Official Govt data show Fluoridation provided no benefit to Hastings or Havelock North children
Tooth decay in the formerly-fluoridated Hastings and Havelock North has continued to decline since fluoridation ceased in 2016, according to official School Dental Data says Dr Neil Waddell, former Professor of Dental Materials at the School of Dentistry, University of Otago. Dr Waddell, goes on to state that “It was declining at the same rate as the […]
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