USA - Pennsylvania Water Supplies May Soon Have Fluoride Added

Pennsylvania Water Supplies May Soon Have Fluoride Added
Reported by: Scott Hershberger
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007 @04:32pm EST

WAYNESBORO, PA - You might think that all public water systems put fluoride in the water, but that is not necessarily the case in Pennsylvania. "2/3rds of the community water supplies in this country are fluoridated," said Dr. Robert Zimmerman, Cornerstone Family Dentistry.
The Pennsylvania Dental Association is hoping to see a bill passed that would make it mandatory for water companies with at least 500 customers to add fluoride.
"The fluoride that is in toothpaste or the fluoride that is given in the treatment in dental offices only gets into the surface of the teeth while the fluoride that is in drinking water gets in, all the way through the tooth, when the tooth is being formed," said Zimmerman. While mandatory fluoride may be good news for dentists, a new law could cause more than a toothache for companies that produce and distribute water. "We have multiple water sources. We have nine separate water sources in our system here in Washington Township. We would need to inject fluoride at each one of those sources," said Sean McFarland, Washington Township Municipal Authority.
McFarland’s employees would have more work, but he said they would have time to make sure changes are made if the law would pass.
"My understanding of the legislation is that it goes into effect 120 days after it's passed, and the Department of Environmental Protection starts regulating and enforcing it one year from that date," said McFarland.
Officials said about half the state of Pennsylvania’s water customers already have fluoride in their systems.

There is a video report as well - click title to access - no comment on the negative aspects just the problem of the water industry in implementing fluoridation