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UK Against Fluoridation

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Australia - Call to install water tanks and filter systems

Fluoride delay after sacking
By DI THOMAS
LAST week’s sacking of Victoria’s chief health officer Dr Robert Hall has delayed the fluoridation of Wodonga’s water supply by about a month.
Fluoride was expected to be added to Wodonga’s water from the middle of this month.
However, the Department of Human Services has recalled flyers which were to be distributed to 30,000 households in Wodonga that had included Dr Hall’s name and photograph.
Dr Hall was sacked by Health Minister Bronwyn Pike following the deaths of elderly patients at Melbourne’s Broughton Hall nursing home.
New flyers that do not mention Dr Hall will be received by North East Water next Wednesday, authority spokesman Matt Lane said yesterday.
Mr Lane said the flyers would accompany a letter from North East Water that would be mailed to households a week before fluoridation of water supplies is to begin.
However, he said commissioning of Wodonga treatment plants, where new equipment has been installed, would go ahead as planned on Monday.
“We will not receive the new flyers until Wednesday and then the mail house will take two to three days to send out 30,000 of them with our letters,” Mr Lane said.
“We have been aiming to give our customers seven days between giving them notice and having the fluoridation begin,” he said.
Mr Lane said the situation remained unchanged at Wangaratta where fluoridation plans were delayed because of the drought.
North East Water’s switch to more than one water source for the city, including bores in Kerr Street, forced the postponement of fluoridation.
Ongoing drought conditions and low levels in Lake Buffalo and the Ovens River, which support Wangaratta’s water supply, resulted in the need for the authority to sink the bores.
North East Water has spent $750,000 installing equipment in both cities.
Wangaratta anti-fluoride campaigner Norm Ryan yesterday urged householders to install water tanks and filter systems to counter the fluoridation when it began.

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