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Southampton: Frank admission by Southern Water ‘on the record’ for very first time
WATER bosses have admitted for the first time they don’t want to put fluoride in Hampshire’s supplies. Chiefs at Southern Water have said they wouldn’t add “unnecessary chemicals” if they didn’t have to, but their hands are tied by a change in the law giving the final say to health officials. The declaration has been […]
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Southampton: What is happening to the fluoride scheme?
HEALTH chiefs had hoped fluoride would be in Hampshire’s water by the end of this year, but the scheme has been on hold since last June because of a legal challenge. The High Court is to rule whether South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) should have taken more account of public opinion before backing the […]
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Alcoa abandons Anglesea project in win for worried locals
ALCOA has abandoned an alternative-fuel trial planned for Anglesea’s power station, in a win for the town’s residents. The company was hoping to process a waste product called HiCAL40 carbon fuel, which would have increased airborne fluoride emissions. Similar emissions at an Alcoa facility in Portland led to Kangaroos that grazed in the area developing […]
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Huber Heights: Teenagers want fluoride-free water
HUBER HEIGHTS — A group of 2010 Wayne High School graduates are calling on city council to help their efforts of getting fluoride removed from the city’s drinking water as a matter of public safety. “We were shocked to see there was a substantial amount of fluoride in the water supply,” said Chase Warden, 18, […]
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Nearly 90 Iowa communities receive CDC flouridation [sic] award
Fluoridation among top 10 public health achievements of 20th Century The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced today that 86 Iowa communities have received a Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fluoridation is the adjustment of fluoride in the water to an optimal level for preventing […]
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Waterloo accused of tap-water hypocrisy
WATERLOO — Robert Fleming says city government is hypocritical for using water filters to clean the drinking water at city hall, all the while assuring residents their drinking water is safe. “It is hypocritical at a minimum for city hall to take care of itself before it takes care of its citizens,” said Fleming, a […]
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Is Fluorine the Battery Chemistry of the Future?
If Contour Energy Systems is right, you might die well before your heart defibrillator gives out. Contour — founded by a blue-ribbon group of chemistry and battery scientists — has come up with a way to make high-power, long-lasting batteries with fluorine ions instead of lithium. The batteries will initially be targeted at the military […]
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Angry mums battle Alcoa trial at Anglesea
ANGRY parents have vowed to remove their children from Anglesea Primary School if a controversial trial at the nearby Alcoa power station goes ahead. More than 100 parents and residents packed an Alcoa-run meeting last night to discuss the mining giant’s plan to trial a by-product called HiCal 40 carbon fuel. The project is on […]
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Cape Fear Public Utility Authority getting calls on fluoride addition
If it’s so good for you, why did the New Hanover County Health Department decide to send out a release noting the health benefits of it? And why does the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority have information from the Centers for Disease Control on its Web site promoting its virtues? So goes the country’s complicated […]
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Dangerous Ideas. #1: Drug Our Drinking Water
Adding trace amounts of lithium to the drinking water could limit suicides. Two studies, a recent one in Japan and an older one in Texas, have shown that this naturally occurring substance, used as a psychotropic drug to combat bipolar disorder, could have beneficial effects for society: Communities with higher than average amounts of lithium […]
United States, National USA