ProvWater Lauded For Flouridation
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga., gave quality awards to five Rhode Island water systems.
The Rhode Island Department of Health recently announced that five public water systems in the state — including the Providence Water Supply Board which serves Johnston — received a Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Awards were given to systems that maintained an approved level of fluoride in the water in 2010.
Other water systems in Rhode Island were Bristol County Water Authority, Newport Water Department, North Tiverton Fire District, and Pawtucket Water Supply Board.
“We congratulate these water systems on being recognized for their contributions to public health prevention efforts,” Director of Health Michael Fine, MD, said in a statement. “Their efforts to maintain fluoride in the water supply helps to prevent tooth decay for more than 135,000 Rhode Islanders.”
Fluoride in water prevents tooth decay in children and in adults and has been recognized by the CDC as one of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th Century, the health department reported. For every dollar invested in fluoridation, nearly $38 is saved on dental costs.
For more information on flouridation, visit the RI Department of Health Water Flouridation web page.
jwillie6
10:29 am on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Many large studies show fluoridation is totally ineffective in improving tooth decay. THe World Health Organization studied 16 countries and showed fluoride is of no value.
Fluoridation not only causes cancer, brittle bones, etc., (see www.fluoridealert.org) but is an absolute waste of tax money. People drink only 1/2% (one-half percent) of the water they use.
For example, for every $1000 of fluoride chemical added to water, $995 would be directly wasted down the drain in toilets, showers, dishwashers, etc., $5 would be consumed in water by the people, and less than $0.50 (fifty cents) would be consumed by children, the target group. If you doubt any of this, check with your water department.
That would be comparable to taking 1 gallon of milk, using six-and-one-half drops of it, and pouring the rest of the gallon in the sink.
Can you think of a more wasteful government program? Giving away fluoride tablets free to anyone who wants them would be far cheaper and certainly more ethical.
Joseph Hutnak
2:29 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
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Mary Sparrowdancer
11:39 am on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Many people have awakened to the dangers of this chemical additive, and are resorting to drinking only bottled water. However, most of us cannot avoid the bath water. It has been known since the 1930s (by German and Austrian physicians and scientists) that bathing hyperthyroid patients in baths containing minute amounts of fluoride will cause their thyroids to stop functioning. We now have an epidemic of thyroid malfunction in the US. This is a "government sponsored" epidemic.