If fluoride hastens water pipe corrosion, what is it doing to our children’s health?

THE recent hardship caused by burst water pipes highlighted the precarious condition of our water supply network.

That approximately 40% of all water in Ireland is lost in leakage was widely publicised in recent weeks when so many pipes failed in the freeze. Though many people were previously unaware of the dire condition of the national network of water pipes, the rate of leakage – the highest in the EU – has been criticised by Brussels for some time.

The excuse we are being given for this level of leakage is that the pipes are old, but this is not the whole story.