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Cornwall: Group wants fluoride removed from drinking water
City councillors got a mouthful from a local group which wants to see Cornwall ban the use of fluoride in our drinking water. Fluoride Free Cornwall made its pitch to city councillors because the group’s members say the addition of fluoride to drinking water poses a health risk. While councillors were keeping their cards pretty […]
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Phoenix: Fluoride debate hopes to impact City Council decision
Note from FAN: This debate is online – Click here to view In a first-of-its-kind debate on Wednesday night two experts gave Phoenix residents a lot to think about before they drink their next glass of water. Dr. Howard Farran, DDS, MBA, MAGD, an Ahwatukee Foothills dentist and one of the original proponents for fluoridating […]
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Zimbabwe: Villagers Sue Diamond Firms for Pollution
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) and villagers living along Save River are seeking a court order to bar three diamond mining companies in Marange district from polluting water sources. Zela is a common law trust established to promote environmental justice in the country. In a High Court application last week, Zela and the villagers […]
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Portland: Fluoride vote set for Wednesday
The City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance to fluoridate Portland’s water on Wednesday after a lengthy and contentious public hearing on the issue last Thursday. A majority of the five-member council has already declared they will vote for the measure. They are Mayor Sam Adams, Commissioner Randy Leonard and commissioner Nick Fish. […]
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Doubts as Portland Weighs Fluoride and Its Civic Values
A version of this article will appear in print on September 9, 2012, on page A18 of the New York edition. PORTLAND, Ore. — Who bears responsibility for an impoverished child with a mouth full of rotting teeth? Parents? Soda companies? The ingrained inequities of capitalism? Pick your villain, or champion. They are all on […]
United States, Oregon -
Fluoridation flap sinks Gilbert officials
Two high-ranking Gilbert administrators are out of their jobs after municipal workers halted voter-mandated fluoridation for more than a year at one of the town’s two water-treatment plants. Public Works Director Lonnie Frost is retiring after 28 years with the town, and Water Manager Chris Ochs has been dismissed, town spokeswoman Jennifer Alvarez said. Both […]
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Increasing the efficiency of pigment solar cells
Researchers succeeded in increasing the efficiency of solar cells by modifying optical properties of titanium dioxide layers coated on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass. Solar cells that have become sensitive with pigments have more durability and reasonable price in comparison to the silicone solar cells. “In order to synthesize the electrode, firstly a micron layer […]
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Health officials: Put fluoride back in drinking water. Lakeville, North Liberty, Walkerton stopped adding it.
SOUTH BEND — Noting that adding fluoride to drinking water helps prevent tooth decay in both children and adults, the county Health Department is asking that the towns of Lakeville, North Liberty, and Walkerton start doing so again, and soon. In a press release issued Thursday, the department noted that fluoride “has been shown to […]
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Multnomah County joins push for fluoridation in Portland
The moment 9-year-old Sara Hassa opened her mouth, the Multnomah County dental hygienist peering down at her knew one thing for certain. “You don’t live in Portland, do you?” Debra Mendoza said. Sara, a fourth-grader, shook her head. “Beaverton,” she replied. Neither she nor her sister, seated in another dental chair down the hall in […]
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Albany. Editorial: Why dentists are still busy
The city council in Portland is determined to order the fluoridation of the water on which Portland and surrounding cities depend. In most of the mid-valley we had this debate years ago, and more recently in Philomath. In Albany the water has been fluoridated for longer than anyone can remember. So you would think the […]
United States, Oregon