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The Fluoride Debate: Should It Be Added To Our Water?
Many public water supplies throughout the United States contain fluoride that has been added to the water by the water supplier. Of course, fluoride is not naturally found in drinking water. It is placed there by many companies that sell us our drinking water. The popular, although not ONLY, opinion today is that it is […]
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Fluoride Malfunction in Massachusetts Water Plant
The difference between Wakefield and Norfolk is roughly 30 miles. But in terms of notifying residents about problems with the water system, it’s about 24 hours. “They tried to poison us and they didn’t even bother to tell us,” said Linda Collins of Wakefield after an overdose of fluoride seeped into the town water supply […]
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Residents vote against fluoridating city’s water in referendum
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. – Voters on Tuesday rejected a proposal to fluoridate the city’s water system, 54 percent to 46 percent. Although the proposal was in a nonbinding referendum, members of the city’s Board of Aldermen expect to vote on the issue in coming weeks. How the board will vote is still in question, however. […]
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Spokane pro-fluoride group pays $2 for each signature
Spokane — Hard work and $25,000 guaranteed that Spokane residents will be able to vote on adding fluoride to their water. People for Healthy Teeth delivered 12,742 signatures to City Hall on Tuesday, 50 percent more than state law requires to place an initiative on the ballot. While the city clerk’s office will have to […]
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Lonaconing taking steps to fluoridate
LONACONING — A representative from Miller Environmental will be attending the September meeting of the Lonaconing mayor and council in an effort to answer some questions about fluoridating the town’s water supply. “George Smith is going to be here if he can,” said John Winner, the town administrator. “He will tell us what it would […]
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FLUORIDATION: Fiction, fact and the Internet
The truth is out there. Just ask any faithful fan of television’s “The X Files.” Or, better yet, ask former Ste. Genevieve mayor Mike “Buck” Jokerst, who has used information obtained on the Internet in a campaign against fluoridating that town’s drinking water. “The pro-fluoride people today never counted on the truth being so easy […]
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Brazil’s ‘Valley of Death’ breathes again, barely
CUBATAO, Brazil, Aug. 6 — At the base of tropical mountains as green and dense as broccoli lies Cubatao, a city many Brazilians still know as the place where babies were born without brains 20 years ago. Cubatao’s chimneys still belch smoke and flames into the air 24 hours a day and a stale industrial […]
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Let voters have say on fluoride
It looks like Utah County may be the odd county out when it comes to putting fluoridation on the ballot. Salt Lake and Davis counties have already agreed to put the fluoridation issue before voters in November, and Weber County is on the verge of making the decision. Utah County is the only remaining Wasatch […]
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Executive: Dayton plant blast did not release toxic gases
DAYTON – A recent explosion at a nitrogen trifluoride production facility did not release toxic gases, Michael Koonce, president of Advanced Specialty Gases Inc., said Friday. Nevertheless, the chief of the Central Lyon County Fire District said the plant makes “nasty stuff” and doesn’t belong in the community. Hydrogen fluoride was not involved in the […]
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Fluoride Accident cleanup could cost $200,000
The cost of repairs and cleanup of a chemical spill at the Hanahan Water Treatment Plant that cut off fluoride treatment for 350,000 area residents probably will be between $100,000 and $200,000, a Charleston Commissioners of Public Works official said Friday. That figure could rise, however, if the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control […]
United States, South Carolina