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Global map project for arsenic and fluoride contaminated groundwater.
EXCERPT from Drinking Water: The Need For Constant Innovation … Taking precautions and identifying risks … Risk identification of a quite different kind is the subject of the “Water Resource Quality” research project (WRQ). Worldwide, millions of people rely on groundwater contaminated with health-threatening arsenic or fluoride of natural (geogenic) origin. With the aid of […]
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High level of fluoride in the water in Tobin Lake since March 2006
Excerpt: A moment with Maggie Jo By Margret J. Johnson Tobin Lake, Sask. We are on a drinking water advisory and have been since March 2006 due to a high level of fluoride in the water. This came to light after the water had been installed. Government regulations changed after the installation thus the problem. […]
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Fluoride finally back in Dorval’s tap water
Since Sept. 17, the City of Dorval has fluoride back in its drinking water. After having fluoride in its water for 50 years, the municipality had to stop adding it in 2003 because its installations had become obsolete. At the time, the Borough of Dorval/L’Île-Dorval had repeatedly requested financial assistance to upgrade the installations. At […]
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Get the lead out, says councillor
Worries about lead in the water in some of Waterloo’s older homes led Waterloo city Coun. Angela Vieth to volunteer her house up as a testing site for Ministry of the Environment officials. But living in the relatively newer area of Lakeshore Village, she thought there was no way her postwar home would have any […]
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Southampton: Council vows to hold fair inquiry into water plans
SOUTHAMPTON council chiefs are confident their own inquiry into controversial plans to fluoridate the city’s water will be fair to both sides of the debate. A select panel of councillors is holding an independent probe into the benefits and dangers of adding fluoride to the tap water of around 200,000 residents. They have set up […]
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O’Malley will join water supply talks
PRINCESS ANNE– Somerset County officials are scheduled to meet this evening in Baltimore with Gov. Martin O’Malley and Secretary of the Environment Shari Wilson to address ongoing issues with the local water supply. The meeting is likely to be a roundtable discussion — first proposed by Wilson several weeks ago — on how to resolve […]
United States, Maryland -
Water Fluoridation to start in Warrnambool, Allansford and Koroit.
PUBLIC NOTICE WATER FLUORIDATION IN THE WARRNAMBOOL DRINKING WATER SYSTEM DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES. STATE GOVERNMENT OF VICTORIA. Water fluoridation at one part per million helps protect teeth against decay and is the safest way of allowing everyone access to the benefits of fluoride. In particular, children who live in fluoridated areas of Victoria experience […]
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Holmen committee sets wording for Nov. 4 fluoride referendum
Holmen residents will get a say on whether fluoride should be in the water supply come Election Day. Tuesday, the Holmen Village Board’s Finance and Personnel Committee approved wording for a referendum that will be on the Nov. 4 ballot. The question will read: “Are you in favor of implementing the fluoridation of the village […]
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Editorial: Cutting fluoride funding a step backward for public health
In 1985, the city of Brooksville became the first in the region to add fluoride to its municipal water supply. This week, the City Council will consider dropping the common cavity-prevention method as it adopts its budget for the coming year. The savings? Mostly, $7,000 for chemicals plus labor and ancillary costs that have not […]
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Does fluoride promote dental health, or jeopardize its users?
For 46 years, residents of Vancouver have been downing a fluoride compound with every glass of tap water they drink. In Vancouver, Camas and Battle Ground, people consume fluoride in infant formula, with bourbon, in instant hot chocolate and tea. They also water their lawns with it, wash their clothes with it and flush it […]
United States, Washington State