US EditionThis City Removed Water Fluoridation and Is Now Reinstating It. Here’s What It Cost Residents.
- Calgary reinstated water fluoridation on June 30 after ending it in May 2011 due to cost cutting and city-province disagreements.
- The fluoridation removal followed a long-standing debate fueled by anti-fluoride activists and officials citing health concerns and cost issues.
- A citizens group, Calgarians For Kids' Health, formed by community health experts and dentists, successfully pushed for fluoridation's return through a 2021 ballot question.
- An estimated $20 million in capital infrastructure costs supported the city's reinstatement, while officials noted increased child cavities and public support for fluoridation.
- Calgary's experience illustrates that ending fluoridation can negatively affect dental health and that reinstatement involves substantial expense and community division.
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Jim Heffernan column: Einstein kin had role in Duluth fluoride fight
Yikes! The fluoride-in-the-drinking-water issue is back! And I don’t use exclamation points indiscriminately (there goes two). I allow myself about a dozen a year. But I can’t help it because the fluoridation issue was so large a part of my early professional life, if you can call a neophyte “cub” newspaper reporter a professional. I really shouldn’t. I came to work at this newspaper in the first half of the 1960s and ran smack-dab into the same…
City Council subcommittee votes to maintain fluoridation of water
FITCHBURG — The City Council’s legislative affairs committee, chaired by At-Large Councilor Beth Walsh, voted to maintain fluoridation of the city’s water, an issue that carried some heated discussion during the Tuesday evening meeting at the Legislative Building. Proponents for abolishing fluoride, At-Large Councilor Marcus DiNatale and Ward 3 Councilor Andrew Couture, brought guest speakers, including Karen Spencer of Leominster, who is a “sem…
After more than a decade of not using it, fluoride is now being added back into Calgary's drinking water.
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