Safe water campaigner dies

As a founding and still active member of the Safe Water Campaign fore Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire this is a sad loss. Nic Brugge, died after a brief illness at 79 - he was secretary of the National Pure Water Association (NPWA) for many years and ran the Safe Water Information Service until 2001. As the Guardian writes: "He probably did more than anyone else at the time to counter what he saw as misinformation about fluoride and public water fluoridation proposals...Among decisions that he influenced were the refusal of Tyneside water authority to accede to any fluoridation requests and the formation of the North West Councils Against Fluoridation. He had persuaded John Colquhoun, the Auckland principal dental officer - and former fluoridation advocate for the New Zealand government - to write and speak out against public water fluoridation proposals in the UK." See Guardian obituary here.