Here's a link to Wikipedia which shows water fluoridation by country:

Wikipedia: Fluoridation by Country

I found the Israel one particularly interesting:

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Mekorot, Israel's national water company states, "In the South of the country, it is unnecessary to add fluoride because it is found naturally in the water."[17] Water fluoridation was introduced in Israel's large cities in 1981, and a national effort to fluoridate all the country's water was approved in 1988.[18]

In 2002, the Union of Local Authorities (ULA) and others petitioned Israel's High Court to stop the Health Ministry from forcing cities to implement water fluoridation. The court soon issued a restraining order,[19][20] but after half a year ULA withdrew its petition upon the request of the court.[21]

By 2011, about 65% of the municipalities and local authorities in Israel had agreed to allow fluoridation, and there was active opposition to the spread of fluoridation to the towns where it has not yet been instituted.[18] In 2011, the Health and Welfare Committee of the Knesset criticized the Health Ministry for continuation of water fluoridation.[22]

In 2013 the new Minister of Health Yael German has signed a new regulation setting water quality and not requiring fluoridation, that will take effect in the following year. She has insisted that it was better to provide fluoride in other ways to “target audiences” such as poor children, who were unlikely to brush their teeth regularly with fluoride toothpaste. “It must be known to you that fluoridation can cause harm to the health of the chronically ill and pregnant women,” German wrote in the letter. She argued that only 2% of water is used for drinking by the population, with the rest used for dishwashing, bathing, industry and other uses."[23][24]

On May 5, 2013, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled to ban all water fluoridation as of 2014.[25]

Why, I wonder?

 

"And the reason many Eurpean countries stopped fluoridisation in the water is not because they didn't need it, but because Eurpoeans generally (particularly in the colder climates) consume less water than we do (or the amercans do). Hence quite a few Eurpopean countries introduced fluoride to every day foods that WOULD be consumed as part of their diet. For example, in Germany salt is fluorinated."

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five-laughy face award

How do they not perish from thirst, I wonder?

Specially after eating all that fluorinated salt?

DLA's post:Anti-fluoride scaremongers are putting the health of Australian children at risk by perpetuating ignorant, irrational, paranoid  lies about fluoride in Australian Water.....

If you really  cared about the health of Australian children........you would want them to have access to fluoride in their water!!

I agree with the above.

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 some faceless government official putting poisonous substances in my drinking water, 

 

 

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So you  have  a picture  in your head of a trench coat wearing shady official carrying around a bag of Fluoride at night, tipping it into pools of drinking water?

research Dr Stan Monteith - put a link up previously.

I did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gae_MMybyg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Monteith

Books

• Brotherhood of Darkness - (Hearthstone Publishing, Ltd 01/09/2000) 
• Aids. the Unnecessary Epidemic. America Under Siege - (Covenant House 01/0/2000) - ASIN: B0011DUAWI
• Hidden Agenda: The Fluoride Deception (Training Manual for Parents, Physicians, and Dentists) (Book with DVD) - (Radio Liberty 2004)SIN: B000NC8NZO
• IRAQ: The Untold Story - (Book With DVD) (Radio Liberty 2004) - ASIN: B0018QJLCS
• Filmography
• Secret Mysteries Of America's Beginings Volume 1: The New Atlantis - Expert Interviewee, Dr Stan Monteith - (2006)
• One Nation Under Siege - Dr. Stan Monteith - (2006)
• Rape of the Soul - Dr Stan Monteith, Himself - (2006)
• Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings Volume 2: Riddles in Stone - The Secret Architecture of Washington D.C. - Expert Interviewee, Dr Stan Monteith - (2007)
• Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings Volume 3: Eye of the Phoenix - Secrets of the Dollar Bill - Expert Interviewee, Dr Stan Monteith - (2009)
• 12 Biggest Lies - Dr. Stanley Monteith, Himself - (2010)
• The Truth Is Out There  - Himself - (2011)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH2FYZoI4J8

Your forgot the part where he believes in a new world order.

Doug Cross (UK) CSci, Cbiol, FSB

UK Councils Against Fluoridation website

11 August 2013

Israeli Court did NOT ban fluoridation

The media and internet are throbbing with excitement. 'The Israeli Supreme Court has banned fluoridation' scream the headlines.

'Fluoridation will now be forced to end everywhere !' shriek the spamming emails that circulate the globe.

And its all so very wrong - if only it really were true! Once again, opponents of this despised practice of contaminating perfectly wholesome drinking water with a cumulative toxin have gone off half-cocked, relying on ill-advised media reports
that have failed to research their latest sensational story adequately. The result is that a new urban myth is in the fascinating
process of birth and hyper-inflation.

What Yaacob Gurman’s Petition before the Court sought to achieve

In Israel, the control of drinking water quality is regulated under the legal framework of health and sanitary legislation, and
not water and food law as in most Western nations.

When Yaacob Gurman began this action, in November 2012, the existing Sanitary Health Regulations 1974 contained a mandatory requirement for all water supplies for populations of over 5,000 to be fluoridated. Gurman sought to ask the Court to overturn this power of the State.

But in April this year, before Gurman’s Petition could be heard, Health Minister Yael German introduced the new Public
Health Regulations (Sanitary Quality of Drinking Water and Drinking Water Facilities), 2013). These were approved by
the Knesset and came into force in July.

The new Regulations specify that fluoride must be added in certain circumstances (section 20). But this is then modified by
section 40, which states that Section 20 shall only remain in force for a period of one year. Thereafter the requirement for
mandatory fluoridation will be abolished.

And last week the Court decided that this effectively dealt with the petitioner’s complaint, and terminated the hearing.

So the sad news from Israel is that there was no Supreme Court ruling banning fluoridation. Indeed, the case in question was
terminated prematurely, when it became evident that events had overtaken the petition and the case was ‘exhausted’.

The only ‘ruling’ was that the Respondents - the Health Minister and the State - should pick up the Applicant’s legal bill!

Sagmon is a colleague of Yaacob Gurman, the leading Applicant in the Supreme Court action. When I asked them
what the Court had said, this is what they confirmed:

''Doug, Your understanding of the changes re. fluoridation laws in Israel are accurate. I can easily see how journalists will see what they want to see without the due-diligence required.

First and foremost, the Supreme Court did NOT ban fluoridation in Israel.

As the petition process progressed, far from any apparent ruling, the new Minister of Health that took office 6 months ago made a quick move to change the Water Act and ‘remove the compulsory fluoridation statute’. (She petitioned herself some 10 years
ago against this practice while serving as the Mayor of Herzlyia city). It basically ‘leaves the decision to each municipal entity’.

If no obstacles run in the way, this updated act is expected to take power one year from now.

This changed the course of the legal rout and brought the case to a close for lack of relevance.

In the final ruling the judges did write: "we took note of the fact that the State aims to bring Fluoridation to a halt in a yeartime...", however, as I said, it is more of a wishful thinking, or a hint, if you will, rather than a committing ruling.''

(Personal communication from Mor Sagmon, 8th &9th August 2013, confirmed by Yaacob Gurman, Principal Petitioner, 10th August 2013))

Read more http://www.ukcaf.org/files/israeli_court_did_not_ban_fluoridation.pdf

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

research Dr Stan Monteith - put a link up previously.

 

I did.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gae_MMybyg

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Monteith

Books

• Brotherhood of Darkness - (Hearthstone Publishing, Ltd 01/09/2000) 
• Aids. the Unnecessary Epidemic. America Under Siege - (Covenant House 01/0/2000) - ASIN: B0011DUAWI
• Hidden Agenda: The Fluoride Deception (Training Manual for Parents, Physicians, and Dentists) (Book with DVD) - (Radio Liberty 2004)SIN: B000NC8NZO
• IRAQ: The Untold Story - (Book With DVD) (Radio Liberty 2004) - ASIN: B0018QJLCS
• Filmography
• Secret Mysteries Of America's Beginings Volume 1: The New Atlantis - Expert Interviewee, Dr Stan Monteith - (2006)
• One Nation Under Siege - Dr. Stan Monteith - (2006)
• Rape of the Soul - Dr Stan Monteith, Himself - (2006)
• Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings Volume 2: Riddles in Stone - The Secret Architecture of Washington D.C. - Expert Interviewee, Dr Stan Monteith - (2007)
• Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings Volume 3: Eye of the Phoenix - Secrets of the Dollar Bill - Expert Interviewee, Dr Stan Monteith - (2009)
• 12 Biggest Lies - Dr. Stanley Monteith, Himself - (2010)
• The Truth Is Out There  - Himself - (2011)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH2FYZoI4J8

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He's a crackpot nutter that the gullible will latch on to.......... he's not even a Dentist!!!.........Dj with a short attention span.....

It's a huge controversy isn't it? 

Not just confined to a few unwashed hippies in northern NSW.

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@icyfroth wrote:

It's a huge controversy isn't it? 

 

Not just confined to a few unwashed hippies in northern NSW

 They are the main objectors in Australia

Too much anti,unconfirmed propaganda stirring up the gullible and uninformed.

 The person I quoted in the Israeli post is against fluoridated water, but is very scathing of all the tripe published by the anti's on the net.