RE: [compost_tea] Flouride in water question...

From: Tom Jaszewski <tom_at_livesoil.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:20:12 -0700

Please contact me off list..

Chlorine removal requires contact time with activated charcoal. Not all
carbon filter material is created equal! 1 cu ft will dechlorinate at
approximately the rate of 4 gallons per minute.

 

Regards,

tomj

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Giannou [mailto:thomas_at_tandjenterprises.com]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:04 PM
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Flouride in water question...

 

Hi Tom,

 

Thank's for the link and the info. We have turned down fluoride addition t=
o
the drinking water here in Spokane three times in a vote of the city
residents. The dentists and public health people keep bringing it up. I
don't mind having the dentist treat my kids teeth with fluoride, but I do
mind having it in the drinking water. It usually comes with additional
heavy metals like arsenic, lead, mercury and zinc as contaminants of the
fluoride source. It's about a 50-50 split between Spokane residents over
the issue.

 

I'm beginning to think I should invest in a system wide water filter that
runs this side of the water meter. I'm a little apprehensive of filtering =
a
lot of minerals out of the water for health reasons, but that's based more
on a hunch than facts. Do you sell or have something to do with water
filters? Can you recommend a good system wide water filter that I could
install and maintain myself in my home? What are some of the things to loo=
k
for in such a critter?

 

Here in Spokane, we have an aquifer which is supposedly delivering pristine
pure water. I should collect some of the really weird stuff we have
filtered out of the city water supply using just a Brita water filter for
drinking water. The wiggly jell like things have my curiosity going. Smal=
l
gnats seem to be common. Flakes off the inside of pipes always seem to be
present.

 

I'd like to have a filter that gets the chlorine out and fluoride out shoul=
d
the city voters ever vote fluoride addition into law.

 

--Thomas Giannou

http://www.tandjenterprises.com

----- Original Message -----

From: Tom Jaszewski <mailto:tom_at_livesoil.com>

To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 4:16 PM

Subject: RE: [compost_tea] Flouride in water question...

 

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/fluoride.htm

 

 

A recent analysis of the Canadian food basket indicates that a typical Nort=
h
American diet delivers about 1.8 mg of fluoride per day (Dabeka, 1995). Thi=
s
is nearly twice the amount of fluoride one would receive from drinking one
liter of fluoridated water. Some of this fluoride we can do little about,
but the one source we should not have to contend with is that introduced by
organic farmers. When we pay extra money to avoid pesticides, we don't
expect to get doses of an extremely toxic pesticide! Thus, even though thes=
e
new National Organic Standards permit organic farmers to use bone meal and
sodium fluoride, we urge them not to do so. We also urge them to avoid the
use of powdered phosphate rock. We urge readers to make their voices heard
on this issue. In the future, we will be looking for labels which say
"organic" and "fluoride free".

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Giannou [mailto:thomas_at_tandjenterprises.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 10:41 PM
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [compost_tea] Flouride in water question...

 

Elaine,

 

What do you think about Fluoride additions to water? Fluoride certainly ha=
s
a killing effect upon sugar eating bacteria in a person's mouth and when th=
e
bacteria produce their amino acids, the fluoride is released to kill them.
Have you done any tests with fluoridated water vs. unfluoridated water to
see if there's any detectable differences?

 

I'm also interested in the effect of adding fluoridated water to soils and
what the effect might be over a period of time. Is there a cumulative
effect like heavy metals?

 

--Thomas Giannou

http://www.tandjenterprises.com






 






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