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Christchurch City Council: Protecting drinking water should come before fluoridation
Christchurch City Council will tell the Ministry of Health that ensuring the safety of its water supply network is its priority and it has no funding for fluoridation. “We have a complex programme of work under way that is focused on upgrading parts of our water supply network to ensure it meets the safety standards […]
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Who pays for fluoridating Christchurch’s water? Not us, council says
ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff All Christchurch city councillors have agreed that if the Government forces the council to fluoridate the city’s water, the Government should pay the estimated $63 million cost. (File photo) Christchurch city councillors have laid down a clear marker that they don’t want to fund the “gobsmackingly eye watering” costs of fluoridating the city’s […]
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Fluoridation shows Government lacks respect for local councils’ independence
Mike Yardley is a Christchurch-based writer on current affairs and travel, who has written a column for Stuff for 15 years OPINION: Forcing local councils into toothless submission via far-reaching national policy directives and rushed legislative change is becoming a familiar refrain. The “takeover” of council water assets under the Three Waters reform model has […]
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Scope set for inquiry into Wellington’s fluoridation failure
Wellington Water released the scope of an independent inquiry into its failure to fluoridate water in Wellington, Upper Hutt, and Porirua. The inquiry into Wellington Water will look at the reasons for the failure to fluoridate, as well as broader systemic problems within the water entity. On Monday afternoon, Wellington Water released the scope of […]
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Christchurch infrastructure design makes fluoridation ‘cost significantly more’
ANALYSIS: Fluoridating water in Christchurch will be more costly than it would be elsewhere because of the city’s infrastructure design. Instead of having a few centralised water treatment plants where fluoride can be added, Christchurch has 49 pump stations in the city and the Akaroa water treatment plant where fluoride would need to be added. […]
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Fluoridating Christchurch’s water ‘costly and complex’
Adding fluoride to Christchurch’s drinking water supply would be complex and costly, with initial estimates putting the capital outlay required at more than $60 million. Additional operating costs are expected to exceed $2.5 million annually. These costs are detailed in a new Christchurch City Council report outlining the implications for Christchurch of the Health (Fluoridation […]
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Fluoridating Christchurch water to cost over $60m and take at least three years, council says
Adding fluoride to Christchurch’s water supplies is expected to cost over $60 million – and ratepayers will likely have to fund most of it. Upgrading infrastructure is also expected to take a minimum of three years and eight months, and cost at least $2.5 million each year to run. It is unclear when work is […]
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Wellington Water committee chairman ‘absolutely appalled’ by failure to fluoridate, demands facts
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 […]
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Opinion: Serious failures in Wellington’s fluoride system
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 […]
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Revelation Shows Fluoridation Should End
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 […]
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