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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Australia - Gold Coasters to get fluoridated water

Gold Coasters to get fluoridated water
3:42p.m. 30th November 2008|
By Crystal Ja
Northern Gold Coast residents will be the first Queenslanders to sample fluoridated water when it is added to local pipes on Monday.
A water treatment plant in Moledinar, supplying the north of the Gold Coast, will be the first recipient of fluoride.
It marks the first step of the government's plan to provide fluoridated water to 90 per cent of the south-east and the remainder of Queensland by 2012.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said the introduction of fluoridated water would improve the state's dismal dental health record.
"By Christmas and New Year, all of the south-east corner will have fluoride in its water and the beginning of a turnaround in the dental decay of Queensland's children," she told reporters on the Gold Coast.
Ms Bligh said concerns fluoride caused health problems was unfounded, with major cities, including Sydney and Melbourne, enjoying fluoridated water for the past 40 years.
"There is no evidence of any health problems, no evidence that those cities suffer any particular health issues except that they have better teeth and their children have better teeth than ours," she said.
"That's what we've got to turn around."
Ms Bligh spoke while marking another first for the Queensland water system - the completion of the Tugun desalination plant on the Gold Coast.
While the plant would not be fully operational until next year, Ms Bligh claimed Sunday as its official opening, having processed its first batches of seawater.
"Two years ago we were facing Armageddon in the eye," she said.
"Well, we've stared it down and we will never be in that position again because this plant will keep us from running out of water."
Ms Bligh said the desal plant was an important part of the government's drought-proofing program, especially given it was not reliant on rainfall.
The plant at full operational capacity could provide south-east Queensland with 125 million litres of water each day.
Hundreds of locals took the opportunity to tour the plant on Sunday and taste test the water, which received an overall thumbs up.

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