Don’t Take Away Our Right to Choose
NO ONE should be forced to ingest a drug they don’t
want through their drinking water.
PLEASE VOTE “FOR” 1A
TO END FLUORIDATION OF
DURANGO CITY WATER
Water Fluoridation Is Not
Just About Teeth Anymore
It is about citizens having a
CHOICE about what we put in
our bodies.
It is about fluoride’s questionable
SOURCE as an industrial waste
product from China.
It is about the growing research
showing the ill effects on the
HEALTH of our bodies, our
children and our pets.
VOTE “FOR” 1A
Learn More
www.CleanWaterDurango.org
www.FluorideActionNetwork.com
HERE’S WHY:
CHOICE
Sodium fluoride is considered a drug by the
FDA when used to treat a medical/dental
disease. www.fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/fda2000a.pdf
The delivery of sodium fluoride through our
Durango city water system is a form of mass
medication - without medical oversight.
Durango residents and visitors did not agree
to be treated with this drug. This policy
violates Informed Consent, a required
practice with any medical treatment.
Water fluoridation goes against the
Precautionary Principle, which demands
that the introduction of a substance whose
ultimate effects are disputed should be
withheld to protect public health.
Fluoride is difficult and expensive to
remove from drinking water. Most household
filters do not remove fluoride. Even reverse
osmosis does not completely remove it.
!
SOURCE
Durango’s water is naturally fluoridated with
calcium fluoride, a mineral fluoride present
in the water at 0.2mg/L (milligrams per liter.)
City of Durango adds sodium fluoride, a
non-naturally occurring industrial waste from
China, to our water at 0.5mg/L (mg/L = ppm.)
www.durangogov.org/DocumentCenter/View/7775
The “City of Durango 2016 Drinking Water
Consumer Confidence Report” state the
source of sodium fluoride added to our water
is “Discharge from fertilizer and aluminum
factories.”
www.durangogov.org/DocumentCenter/View/2585
Numerous sources add to our fluoride intake.
Foods and beverages made, processed or
grown with fluoridated water contain fluoride
such as fruits and vegetables, wine, beer,
coffee, tea and soft drinks.
Drinking water fluoridation is
harmful, we’ve been deceived to
believe it is safe, and with new
found knowledge we must all act
now to stop it.
Erin Brockovich
Safe Water Advocate
All Ballots must be in by April 4, 2017
HEALTH
! This warning is found on the sodium
fluoride bags used in Durango’s water: “If
swallowed: Immediately call a POISON
CENTER or a doctor/physician.”
www.cleanwaterdurango.org/durangos-fluoride-is-a-industrialwaste-from-china
!Fluoride accumulates in the body, building
up in bones causing skeletal fluorosis, in teeth
causing dental fluorosis and in organs causing
myriad health problems.
www.nap.edu/read/11571/chapter/2?term=fluoride+accumulatio
n#4
!Fluoride toxicity and its impact on overall
health is documented in the 2006 National
Academy of Science’s report “Fluoride in
Drinking Water,” a comprehensive 507-page
publication. Health impacts include diabetes,
hypothyroidism, kidney disease, cancer,
endocrine system disruption and impaired
brain development and function.
www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11571&page=1
!Fluoridated communities have a 40%
higher rate of hypothyroidism.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25714098
ŸHarvard University researchers have
linked fluoride ingestion to osteosarcoma
(bone cancer). www.fluoridealert.org/news/studylinks-fluoride-to-bone-cancer-in-boys/
ŸFluoride exposure increases blood
glucose and impairs glucose intolerance
affecting diabetes development and
management.www.researchgate.net/publication/2734
42062_Fluoride_Causes_Diabetes
ŸFluoride impairs the endocrine system by
calcifying the pineal gland, which is
responsible for producing melatonin, the
regulator of sleep and wake cycles.
www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/pineal-gland/
!Research published in 2014 by The Lancet,
a prestigious medical journal, reclassified
fluoride as a developmental neurotoxin.
This is one of over 300 studies that have
found low levels of fluoride can harm
developing brains. This includes studies from
the U.S. National Research Council and a
team of Harvard scientists.
www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS14744422(13)70278-3/abstract
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/
!In western Europe, 97% of countries reject
the addition of fluoride to water due to health
concerns. www.cleanwaterdurango.org/follow
!Pagosa Springs recently removed fluoride
from its City water due to the multiple deaths
of horses and dogs proven to have died
from fluoride poisoning.
!Mainstream public health science has failed
to prove that water fluoridation prevents tooth
decay on children’s teeth. A large survey
conducted by the National Institute of Dental
Research showed little difference in tooth
decay among children in fluoridated and nonfluoridated communities in the US.
www.icnr.com/articles/national-fluoride-tooth-decay-study.html
Fluoride has a protecting action
against caries (cavities), but this
is a local effect …If you drink it,
you are running the risk of all
kinds of toxic actions…This is
something you should not expose
citizens to.
Arvid Carlsson, MD, PhD
Swedish Pharmacologist
2000 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
A Brief History of Water
Fluoridation in America
!Prior to 1940
Health officials considered fluoride a toxic element
and advised the removal of excess naturally
occurring calcium fluoride from water supplies.
The only approved use of industrial fluoride, as
sodium fluoride, was as rat and cockroach poison.
In smaller doses, it was approved for an overactive
thyroid gland, but was abandoned after patients
suffered complete destruction of their thyroid
glands.
!1945
Just after World War ll, there was an excess of
fluoride from manufacturing airplanes and atomic
bombs. Industry, not science, led the way to
ascertain that adding fluoride to drinking water
reduced cavities.
!Today
In the U.S., 90% of fluoridated water contains
either hydrofluorosilicic acid or sodium fluoride.
These fluorides are obtained from the scrubbing
solution of the fertilizer industry and aluminum
manufacturing. By law, these scrubbing liquids
cannot be released into the atmosphere or
dumped into oceans, lakes, rivers or streams.
The EPA, however, allows these industrial waste
products to be added to our drinking water.
In 2015, the EPA recommended lowering fluoride
levels in drinking water due to 41% of adolescents
having dental fluorosis, a sign of fluoride toxicity.
www.newsweek.com/us-government-recommends-lower-levelfluoride-water-325760
Paid & Prepared (3/8/17)
by Clean Water Durango
www.CleanWaterDurango.org
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