WATERLOO CITY HALL FILTERS ITS TAP WATER

O.K. when it comes to governments they always leave themselves some wiggle room. This is a tough one however. In today's K-W Record Jeff Outhit has a story headlined "Waterloo City Hall filters its tap water". The sub heading is "Fluoridation critic says city being hypocritical". This is so wrong on a number of levels. First of all Waterloo residents have been guinea pigs for decades with levels of Trichloroethylene in their drinking water courtesy of Sunar and Canbar. These levels do not magically increase and decrease as the drinking standards change over time. Secondly as I have long suspected the City of Waterloo (and Kitchener, Cambridge) are indeed running interceptor wells. The purpose of these wells, based on their geographical positions, are to intercept the known industrial contaminants, thus keeping them out of the other nearby wells. These wells may also be called purge wells. W14 is the purge well at the William St. wellfield beside Waterloo City Hall.

All of this is merely in addition to the concerns of Robert Fleming mentioned in Jeff Outhit's story. I admit that I was biased in the beginning. I doubted there were health issues regarding Fluoridation. I was wrong. Why in the name of all that is incredibly stupid in this world would we INTENTIONALLY ADD anything to our drinking water? Removing contaminants makes sense, adding them does NOT. For any reason.