National Water Center, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
         

National Water Center, Eureka Springs, AR

Updated: April 2014 Contact: Contact: NWC

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The National Water Center opposed the Fluoridation of water in Eureka Springs when the idea was first introduced in 1989 and more recently in 2001. Eureka Springs has voted down fluoridation on two separate occasions. In 1989, Fluoridation was defeated by referendum.  In 2001, there was a polling of water customers on their water bills.

It has been the position of the National  Water Center that if individuals choose to use fluoride they can find it readily available rather than medicating the entire population by adding it to the public drinking water supply.

Fluoride (unlike chlorine) cannot be removed from water by filtration or boiling -- only by reverse osmosis, distillation, or ion exchange (costly operations, equivalent to desalination of seawater). Cooking, dehydrating or baking with fluoridated water just concentrates the  fluoride -- it cooks-down.  Gardening with fluoridated water does the same thing -- fluoride concentrates in the leaves, fruits and roots of the produce.

Articles of interest on fluoridation - please click on the hyperlink of your choice.

Thanks to Ron Eheman who shares the above listing with us.  He suggests to view the following messages: message/3; message/11, message/12, message/73, message/86, message/87, message/111, message/115, message/136, message/139, message/198, message/200, message/201  You can email Ron at: rge@uplogon.com