[DavidHC]

I lived in the USA east of the river for several years during which/at the end of which my SFN developed. Regardless, our water, pretty much in most places now seems unsafe or at least the oversight for its safety is undependable.

http://www.theguardian.com/environme...P=share_btn_tw

[caroline2]

Hi David, you know how I feel about water fluoridation...one COULD do better living in one of these communities.

http://fluoridealert.org/content/communities/

[caroline2]

David, I read about every one of the comments at the end of the Guardian report. Emotions run rampant from the fluoridation (fluoride added to our water contains lead as most comes from lead smelters and other chemical industries, one person called it waste management, which is true) to old pipes, the govt, the corporations etc etc etc. In many ways we are doomed, so have to do our best to KNOW as much as we can and take best action that we can. Heads in the sand are just that.

[ElaineD]

four problems:

1. Quality of the water coming in from whatever source

2. Quality of the treatment of the water coming in from whatever source.

3. Quality of the plumbing/pipes. MANY older cities have lots of lead in all of the pipes leading from the water treatment facility to your house.

4. The mystery that most older cities don't even KNOW what pipes are where and how they were made.

Chickens coming home to roost.

Safe, clean drinking water supply is the number one problem in most of the world.

And now we're an old enough country, with a population unwilling to fix the decaying dangerous infrastructure.

When YOUR bridge goes down, or YOUR water stinks....think of those chickens coming home to roost!

When we lived in a suburb of Boston, the entire problem was addressed, pipes were dug up, things were more or less 'fixed'. Adequately for the time, but perhaps not for the long run.

Comes under the heading: It's always something, and, then, it's something else!

hugs, ElaineD

[caroline2]

Elaine, I agree about the pipes and I live in an apt bldg built in 1937,,,but our city NEVER added the lead laden fluoride until 2009...I was proud to live in this environmentally sound thinking city and NOW.....

All this "F" stuff starting moving into our waters in the 1940's thanks to Alcoa and Mellon family. This was in Pgh where I was born and raised in this water until I moved West. And I live with a body of OA and enough dental work to I believe prove it. Deep history on this issue.

As a commentor on the guardian article said: fluoridation is waste management.

So it can be said many health issues could be attributed to consuming this leaded water for decades (7)..

[DavidHC]

I hate to sound overly negative, but anyone who pays any attention to where we are today, will realize that we've poisoned our planet and ourselves. There's a reason why so many conditions are on the rise, including autoimmune. We just haven't evolved enough in the last few hundred years and especially in the last few decades to process the exponential increase in the toxic load that we've created. That's not how evolution works. Our bodies and the planet are ill equipped for our hyper-intense 'progress'. Set this aside our priorities, e.g., profit over people, and we're in for a real treat!