"Don't contanimate our drinking water with hydro-fluoride."
Posted on 03/22/2006 8:24:13 AM PST by Pharmboy
The high levels of fluoride that occur naturally in some drinking water can cause tooth and bone damage and should be reduced, the National Research Council said Wednesday.
The study did not analyze the benefits or risks of adding fluoride to drinking water. Instead it looked at the current maximum limit of 4 milligrams per liter. Approximately 200,000 people live in communities where that level occurs naturally in water.
The Council suggested further studies to establish a new maximum level, but noted that the problems associated with exposure to fluoride are very small at 2 milligrams per liter and less. Approximately 1.4 million people have drinking water with natural fluoride levels of 2.0 to 3.9 milligrams per liter, said the Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences.
More than 160 million Americans live in communities with artificially fluoridated water, which contains between 0.7 and 1.2 milligrams of fluoride per liter.
Fluoride is added to water to help strengthen the teeth.
Drinking water with levels above the maximum can cause tooth discoloration and weaken the enamel, and long-term accumulation in the bones can result in an increase in fractures, the Council reported.
The National Academy of Sciences is an independent organization chartered by Congress to advise the government on scientific matters. The study was requested by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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true, it is added that is not what the article is about. I quoted their comment noting the Fluoide that "naturally occurs" in some areas.
"The disease is more prevalent in rural areas where drinking water is derived from shallow wells or hand pumps. The disease is also more likely to occur in areas where the drinking water has a fluoride content of more than 1ppm (part per million), and in children who have a poor intake of calcium."
That was probably cloridation or something similiar that killed your fish. (Depending on the city and the state of your pipes and time of year, different additives are including to kill bacteria and other nasties.)
You don't need to filter.
Next time, fill a drum or a wheelbarrow from your hose and then let the water sit out for a hot weekend before dumping into the pond.
The additives will bake out and/or become inert.
My sisters teeth were darkened by an excess of flouride in the water in Colorado Springs many years ago. Many people from the Springs have this condition if they lived here in the 40's or early 50's.
Drinking too much tea can cause the same condition.
You are sharp as a tack this morning...extra cuppa Joe? Nice pickup.
"Don't contanimate our drinking water with hydro-fluoride."
Thanks for the info. It was horrible losing all those fish. I will try that for sure.
No problem.
Be sure to leave any lid off --- the chlorine needs to be exposed to air for this to work.
Some places have very high fluoride naturally. It depends on the minerals near the water table in that area.
Must have worked too..
Republicans could care less about massive democrat voter fraud..
or insurgents flooding across the Mexican Border..
Whats the floride content of Washington D.C. WATER?.. Hmmm...
Beat me to it.
There was a boy in my grade school classes with yellow bands on his visible front upper teeth and his twin sister told us it was from fluoride in the water in the little west Texas town they lived in previously. She didn't have them, as I recall.
It was strange to us kids because this was right at the time they were *adding* fluoride to our town's water for the first time, in the 1950s, and we were a little askance at the idea of it, just because of that little boy.
The National Lampoon once did a series of flowcharts on the evils that flouridation of water could cause to children. Although there were about ten different paths, each one led to the same horrific result - turning innocent children into Communists.
Yeah. Along with Col. Jack Ripper from Dr. Strangelove.
Fluoridation is part of the International Communist Conspiracy.
AHA! Just as I suspected... ( ;-D
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