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Fluoride risks to children in Ireland highlighted by new review in Toxicology journal
Press Release, Dublin The risks to children exposed to fluoridated Irish water are highlighted in a scientific review just published in the peer-reviewed journalToxicology [1]. It adds more weight to the call by the report of the Oireachtas Joint Health Committee in 2007 (www.fluoridereports.com) to stop fluoridation to protect children from the irreversible damage to tooth enamel by dental fluorosis.
Age of Stupid Screening this Wednesday 24th at Dundalk IT
Come join VOICE at the screening of film that started the 10:10 campaign. The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future, with Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite staring as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: ‘why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance’?
SWAN and VOICE create mock beach scene outside Leinster House for World Water Day
To mark World Water Day today March 22nd, VOICE and other environmental groups from around Ireland today recreated a beach spoiled by pollution outside Leinster House, to highlight the lack of action to protect Ireland’s rivers, lakes and coastal waters.
World Water Day is the day new water plans for the protection of Ireland’s waters were due to be sent to Europe. The objective of these River Basin Management Plans1 is to pull together the numerous strands of water legislation and to manage water in an integrated way to prevent pollution and degradation of our rivers, lakes and bays. Environmental umbrella group the Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) 2 says the plans fail to do this.
Be Water Wise on World Water Day
VOICE calls for everybody to recognise World Water Day “The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. The United Nations General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water by adopting a resolution.This world day for water was to be observed starting in 1993, in conformity with the recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development contained in chapter 18 (Fresh Water Resources) of Agenda 21.” Taken from http://www.worldwaterday.org/
See VOICE’s Water Wise leaflet (2008) for tips and advice on how you can help reduce water waste and contamination. Click here: Waterwise