RE: RE: Enviros, Homeland Security Threaten Drinking Water Safety

Steve Brenneis responds to Behethland B. Clark:

"Yet another reason to drink well water!"

I can't abide city water, but that's just personal preference. Sadly, if every family in America dug a well, the ground water table would go dry, with pretty disastrous environmental consequences, in a very short time. Recycling water is the only solution, and I am somewhat amused to find environmentalists are so rabidly opposed to the practice. I doubt people really want to have to boil their tap water, so chlorination is about the only economically feasible solution.

"I've always questioned the safety of putting fluoride in drinking water."

Fluoride was introduced, at first anyway, to help prevent tooth decay in children. Unfortunately, you are not really supposed to ingest fluoride, since it is a poison, so the levels they could use in public water were so low that the effects were not all they could be. I have also always been doubtful about the intelligence of the use of fluoride in public drinking water, but I have heard dentists rave about it. One has to wonder, are fewer cavities worth the risks of long-term slow fluoride poisoning? Personally, I'd rather just brush my teeth more often.