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John Byrne
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LINKWell, they’ve never really been in the Twentieth Century, have they?
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Matt Reed
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| Posted: 28 March 2025 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | 2
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So, so stupid. People with no historical context for what it was like pre-fluoride enacting a ban based on nothing more than fear.
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 28 March 2025 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | 3
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The town my wife grew up in didn’t add fluoride to the water until she was
an adult. She has horrendous teeth problems to this day.
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Mark Haslett
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I recently moved to Connecticut where I love the tap water.
In California, everyone I know hates the tap water and drinks bottled or
distilled water.
It’s crossed my mind to wonder what we were doing to our teeth in CA.
Edited by Mark Haslett on 28 March 2025 at 6:29pm
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 28 March 2025 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | 5
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Connecticut does have great water!
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 29 March 2025 at 7:52am | IP Logged | 6
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I worked 15 years in the water industry. The tests tap water has to meet in
the UK vs those that bottled water has to meet are on another level.
I get people drinking tap water in the home for taste reasons, but that’s
about it.
And even taste, for the most part, can be countered by filling a bottle and
placing it in a fridge.
Unless I’m in another country where the water is not potable, or in a hotel
where I am unsure if the water comes from storage, I will always choose tap
water.
On fluoride, it’s a no brainier. It protects the teeth. End of.
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Matt Reed
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We drink tap+, in other words tap from our fridge dispensed with a filter. I live in LA and, like Mark mentioned, no one really drinks straight from the tap. But tons of people drink tap water, just through a filter in the fridge or another filtration system. Florida tap water, at least in Gainesville, was far worse.
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 29 March 2025 at 9:12am | IP Logged | 8
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The taste really does depend on the ground around the water, depending in
how the water is sourced - groundwater/river etc.
I do admit that the taste of hard water I struggle with, coming from a soft
water place and then moving to a hard water place (or rather, harder water).
But I will drink straight from the tap pretty much all the time. I do go
through a lot of squash though
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John Byrne
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I’m on well water, with a filtration system in the basement. I admit to a small delight in knowing the water I drink has not passed through the city plumbing multiple times!
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 29 March 2025 at 5:48pm | IP Logged | 10
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I do wonder, how many people actually know how water is treated, and how
sewage is treated, and the reality between the two.
I do suspect that many think sewage treatment works either a) discharge
straight into the water supply system, or b) discharge directly into a water
treatment works. Neither of which is of course true.
I know few people I talk to understand a water distribution system, and the
typical view is best illustrated by the scene in BATMAN BEGINS showing the
chemical being added to the water supply system via an open water pipe.
Those things are under pressure - no way could that happen in real life, in
the method shown.
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Koroush Ghazi
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| Posted: 29 March 2025 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | 11
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James Woodcock wrote:
| On fluoride, it’s a no brainier. It protects the teeth. End of. |
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Nice try, but I can’t find anything about Flouride in the Bible.
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 29 March 2025 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | 12
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I don’t even know where to start with that comment. Care to elaborate?
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