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  • Troubled Waters: Danger on Tap?

    Canada’s water is safe. Even most environmentalists agree. But many experts caution against consuming too much water from the faucet. Bacteria are not a worry with our heavily chlorinated municipal water. So what’s the problem? Sewage treatment plants release heavy metals (cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, lead and zinc) directly into lakes and rivers from which […]

  • Letter: Water fluoridation poses health risks for doubtful benefit

    Adding fluoride to Nova Scotia’s drinking water began in the ’70s as the result of a provincial health Initiative for what we were told would prevent tooth decay. Fluoride an extremely toxic compound. The chemical used to fluoridate Nova Scotia’s water supply (including that of Sydney, Glace Bay, New Waterford and North Sydney) is collected […]

  • A land that ‘waters down’ dreams of married life

    ONGOLE: Almost 600 young men in four villages are finding it to difficult to get a girl in marriage. For no fault of their own. The girls in the neighbouring parts find fault with the water they drink! Yes, boys raised on flouride-contaminated water are, they believe, unfit for marriage. A problem, hitherto considered a […]

  • Fluorosis plagues two Assam districts

    NEW DELHI: The Karbi Anglong and Nagaon districts of Assam are in the grip of hydroflouroside or flourosis, caused by the high content of flouride in drinking water. The fluoride content was found to be as high as 23 mg per litre in some areas of the districts, according to a survey by the Public […]

  • Bihar: Safe drinking water for Bihar villages soon

    Patna: There is good news for hundreds of arsenic- and fluoride-affected villages in Bihar as they will be provided with safe drinking water soon, official sources said Tuesday. Arsenic, an odourless and tasteless semi-metal element, occurs naturally in the environment and sometimes as a by-product of agriculture and industry. The state government has decided to […]

  • Karnataka: ‘Drinking water not safe in state’

    BANGALORE: An ongoing study has revealed that more than 30 per cent people in the state are consuming non-potable or chemically contaminated water, putting their health at risk. In many areas, fluoride content is more than five times the permissible limit. This causes fluorosis, which weakens the bones and cripples the person. Likewise, water in […]

  • Five die of fluorosis in Orissa

    Bhubaneswar, Apr 6 (IANS) – At least five people, including four women, have died of fluorosis, a water-borne disease, and nearly 50 have been afflicted in Orissa villages. The deaths were reported from Balasingha, Balasinghapatna and Singhpur villages in Khurda district, about 60 km from here, over the past week, a local legislator, Prasanta Nanda, […]

  • Fluoridation Forum. Defensive talk shop

    By the time this goes to print we may well have the long promised report from the so called Forum on Fluoridation. Or we may not, there have been several missed deadlines already. But it hardly matters. My prediction for the outcome of this most biased of talk shops is that the status quo will […]

  • The War Against Cavities Might Cause Other Diseases

    The Mekorot Water Company is currently preparing to implement the Ministry of Health decision to add fluoride to [all] drinking water in Israel. At present only half of the population are being supplied with water enriched with fluoride. Thus, a large number of new installations are expected to be in operation no later than December […]

  • High Court to rule on fluoridation today

    The High Court of Justice will today rule on the projected fluoridation of all municipal drinking water following a challenge to the plan by the Union of Local Authorities, which says that “concentration of fluoride cannot be controlled and thus the public may be exposed to excessive amounts.” The Health Ministry, which is pushing for […]