Safe Water AGM

What with the elections and all I'm getting behind on these blogs - last Saturday was the AGM in Stroud for the Safe Water Campaign for Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.

Photos: Our two speakers: Rissa and Bernard

You can see my report of the meeting on another blog site I run here. It includes some details of the presentations from Bernard Seward, Safe Water Campaign member and SERA member and Rissa Mohabir, a well-known local homeopath.

Both speakers were great - sadly only some 20 in the audience but it is hard to engage people in this important topic - there has to be some awareness about it and sadly too often people confuse fluoridation with chlorine being added - chlorine is of course added to make the water safe and there are certainly issues re that but fluoridation is a whole different ball game - see my leaflet that answers some of the common questions here.

Gloucestershire is not threatened at the moment by water fluoridation but other areas are and already 10% of the country is fluoridated - all this despite other countries stopping it due to health concerns and more. We need to build support for the campaign to keep our water safe.

Todays' SNJ also has a reasonable feature on water fluoridation with our beer mats and arguments for and against. It was also good to see the SNJ finally carried Derek Wall's visit to Stroud (see my blog for 16th April) and my letter in response to letters last week about being 'Green' (see my letter on 26th April blog).