GRU stops adding fluoride to drinking water
Press release from Gainesville Regional Utilities
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – GRU has stopped supplementing its drinking water with fluoride in accordance with a new Florida law that “prohibits the use of any additive to a public water supply that is not for the explicit purpose of improving water quality.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 700, the Florida Farm Bill, into law on May 15. The law requires public utilities to stop adding fluoride in the water treatment process on July 1. In anticipation of the law, GRU stopped ordering the chemical and consequently ran out on June 26.
Fluoride naturally occurs in GRU’s water supply, the Floridan aquifer. The level of fluoride in the aquifer — about 0.3 milligrams per liter (mg/L) — is well within drinking water standards.
For more information about GRU’s drinking water, please see our Water Quality Report.
I’m glad my son , my grandchild & I all grew up with fluoride. I lived & taught in New Zealand for a year & everyone was amazed that I have NO cavities. They have a dental nurse’s office on every primary school campus,
because the children have terrible teeth & yet New Zealand has the highest quality of dairy products, but NO fluoride in anyone’s water.
I respect that you’re glad you and your family grew up with fluoride-like additives in the water. Many do not feel that way and it should not be forced en masse via a public utility. By definition it is a blanket medical treatment.
Why do you need to ingest it, isn’t fluoridated toothpaste enough?
The anti-science, pro-conspiracy Q-anon nuts are going to kill us all if they have their way. The fluoride levels in our water were perfectly safe and incredibly helpful in developing strong teeth for babies in the womb and as children grew and their teeth continued to develop.
Children whose parents have money for dentists and fluoride treatments will be okay. But not the ones who start off behind on so many levels. Poor oral health affects a child’s ability to eat, sleep, and learn in school.
But Q-Anon MAGAts don’t care about those children anyway.
I guess i’ll add a few facts as a counter-balance to your post.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5285601/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-fluoride-drinking-water-federal-court-ruling/
The federal judge was an Obama appointee, fyi
Science, is rarely, if ever a settled issue, nor should it be. it should always be constantly re-evaluated.
Can you find a few things to blame on Biden? Trump will.
Oh, sick burn 🔥
J, from your study:
“Fluoride has been advised since a long time as the ideal preventive, therapeutic agent for dental caries. However, like a coin that has two sides, fluoride has both favorable and harmful effect. In the present study, it was observed that IQ level was negatively correlated with fluoride concentration level in drinking water and it is highly significant (P < 0.0001). Therefore, it is necessary to devise solutions for preventing the harmful effects of excessive intake of fluoride ion in the body. Because fluoride has the capability to be toxic to many organ systems, further toxicity studies must be conducted to evaluate this further. It is essential to evaluate the current situation and control the drinking water fluoride level if the fluoride concentration in a community's water supply is significantly above the permissible level of 1.5 mg/L."
You are ignoring the actual results which found harm only when flouride was added above permissable levels. The benefits are undeniable.
You sound unhinged. You also completely ignore the associated neurological harm that was proven in federal court. There is nothing “perfectly safe” with consuming Hexafluorosilicic acid, especially small children and pregnant women.
Opponents have been fighting this for decades…way before magatard q-anon was ever a term. Turn the TV off
You can get Fluoride in toothpaste. That is where you need it. I never appreciated consuming it.
Seeing as how fluoride has been in the water for decades, there must be more keeping some from eating, sleeping and learning in school.
Just sayin’.
Finally.
Gainesville’s water already has natural occurring fluoride. If you want more, just double the amount you usually drink.
Brush your teeth, use floss, and stay away from sweets.
The Nazis put fluoride in the water to keep the people docile, not to prevent tooth decay.
Fluoride is a byproduct of aluminum production and very poisonous.
They had to get rid of the poison and “the solution pollution, is dilution”.
There was no informed consent to us getting dosed with fluoride as a medical treatment to improve our teeth.
The ADA was complicit in this poisoning of us…you do know fluoride is a poison…take this poison , it’s good for you…it prevents canaries.
There was no informed consent with those Covid shots either.
Typo; It prevents cavities, not canaries.
Sherman, glad we agree flouride prevents cavities. Since no harm was found in testing if the amounts added to water did not exceed permissable levels, there was no reason for this stupid decision by our state GOP, who once again took control from local governments.
No one was forced to get a covid shot, but those who did not were 2.5 times more likely to die from covid.
Right. Both my wife and I were told you get the shot or are fired. Tell me how that wasn’t force?
Well u had a choice to not to get it ..so that’s not forced … Forced would mean u had no other options and someone gave you the shot against your will
Unless you were unqualified for any other employer or work, you weren’t forced. The state has an interest in controlling highly contagious diseases that supercedes individual rights, and that’s why and how all our kids – and us, back in the day – get shots in order to attend school.
My body, my choice. Covid was a lie. Jazz, you are a lying devil.
You’re a fool. Stay out of our schools.
“The study found that unvaccinated patients with COVID-19 are 2.46 times more likely to die from the infection compared to those that are vaccinated. Additionally, the study highlights the importance of vaccination in reducing the severity of the disease and mortality, particularly in older patients with comorbidities. Based on the findings of this study, it is recommended that individuals receive the COVID-19 vaccine as a means of protecting themselves against severe disease and mortality associated with COVID-19 infection.”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10492612/
Yeah…Jazz old boy has selective memory…
if by ‘selective memory’ you mean ‘the disposition of a power hungry bolshevik’ then yes
GFY comrade
You have none, except whatever you pull from your butt last night.
““The study found that unvaccinated patients with COVID-19 are 2.46 times more likely to die from the infection compared to those that are vaccinated. Additionally, the study highlights the importance of vaccination in reducing the severity of the disease and mortality, particularly in older patients with comorbidities. Based on the findings of this study, it is recommended that individuals receive the COVID-19 vaccine as a means of protecting themselves against severe disease and mortality associated with COVID-19 infection.”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10492612/
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/yale-proved-covid-vax-injury-exists
It’s better in toothpaste so it’s not ingested.
Once again, experts = 🤡 once again. The same experts gave us the Food Pyramid 50 years ago, said butter and eggs were bad for you, advised we eat margarine and more carbs instead 🤡💩👿👹👺
You’re sure they were “the same experts”.
How about how many quarts of oil to put in your car or not mixing medications? Forget the experts?
Great!! My GRU bill will go down.
Your bill will always go up Mary.
Modern science proves that fluoride isn’t a nutrient or essential for healthy teeth – meaning that, if one consumed a fluoride-free diet, it wouldn’t cause cavities. Rotten diets make rotten teeth and no amount of fluoride has changed that