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5 years for fluoride benefits to appear
After a 30-year wait for perfect pearly-whites Queensland kids may have to wait another five years before the benefits of the new fluoridated water to sink in. Fluoridation of South-East Queensland water supplies began yesterday at a water treatment plant in Moledinar, north of the Gold Coast, but it could take nearly two weeks to […]
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Premier in line for more water torture
QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh’s spectacular backdowns on recycled water and on the controversial Traveston dam project will not save her at the next state election. Not unless she shelves her plan to add fluoride to the drinking water. Those who think the introduction of fluoride is a minor issue should think again. It was, after […]
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Fluoridation chemical for Gold Coast will come from Belgium
IT could now take up to two weeks before fluoride is added to the Gold Coast water supply. Deputy Premier Paul Lucas said the fluoride plant at Molendinar was ‘commissioned’ yesterday but that meant a raft of testing and technical activities would take place before powered fluoride was added. Meanwhile, Health Minister Stephen Robertson has […]
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Pottstown debates cutting fluoride from water
POTTSTOWN — There are only nine water systems in all of Southeast Pennsylvania that add fluoride to their water and Pottstown is one of them. In fact, Pottstown is the only water system in Montgomery County that adds fluoride. That may soon change and Montgomery County may become a “fluoride-free zone.” In the midst of […]
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Halton: Flouridation up again for debate
Regional council members appear poised to bring the issue of fluoride in Halton’s drinking water back into debate. Halton health officials will make a verbal update on the controversial issue at tomorrow’s (Tuesday’s) health and social services committee meeting, at which time regional councillors will likely have to decide whether to deal with the issue […]
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Redland City: Row on water rows
REDLAND City Council has come close to starting a war of words with the State Government over the introduction of fluoridated and recycled water in South East Queensland. Division 9 Councillor Karen Williams last week called on the council to ramp up pressure on the Bligh Government over the process used to implement its water […]
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The Russians aren’t coming! The Russians aren’t coming!
Saginaw officials aren’t worried about a communist takeover anymore. The City Charter advisory panel that is discussing changes to the 70-page governing blueprint discovered a half-century-old chapter likely authored under the heat of the Red Scare. The panel wants to delete Chapter 18, added in 1954, that forbade the City Council from ordering fluoride-based chemicals […]
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Dalton: Water worker fired for opposing fluoridation
DALTON, Ga. — A national debate about fluoride in water spilled into North Georgia last week when Dalton Utilities fired an employee over his concerns about the fluoridation of water here. Water plant worker Wally Babb, 45, was a purchaser for the utility when he first became uneasy several years ago about fluoride — a […]
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Tennessee: Lawmaker campaigns against fluoride bill
Tennessee Rep. Joey Hensley, R-Hohenwald, wants all water systems in Tennessee to stop adding fluoride to water. “It has too many side effects, and the benefits are not there to warrant giving mass drugs to the population whether they need it or not,” said Rep. Hensley, who also is a family practice physician. A national […]
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Fluoridation of southeast Queensland water begins
THE first batch of powdered fluoride will be added to southeast Queensland water on Monday, with some residents drinking it by the end of the week. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh yesterday confirmed that most southeast Queensland residents will be drinking fluoridated water by Christmas. Poll: What do you think of fluoridated water? Northern parts of […]
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