Drug Administration) has backed off slightly from its 100%
endorsement of the product, due to public exposure of the scam, but
today 130 million Americans in 9,600 communities continue to
drink fluoridated water.^14 Like the USA, about 50% of the Canadian
population has fluoridated water.
Mass fluoridation came to Britain in the 1950s, and currently
10% of the population is exposed, mostly in the West Midlands and
the North-East. The present UK government policy is to require all
water companies to adopt fluoridation. In Australia, some of the flu-
oride laws are so Draconian that people may be prosecuted for
speaking out against water fluoridation.^15
Barry Groves concludes, 'Fluoridation is the longest, most
expensive and most spectacularly unsuccessful marketing cam-
paign ever to come out of the United States.'^16
Viktor Schauberger was very concerned about industrial pollu-
tion of rivers and lakes, but the addition of poisons to our domestic
water supply was not an issue of the 1930s. Indeed, he insisted that
the way we transport and deliver water destroys the invigorating
qualities of healthy water, and he pursued enlightened research on
ways of maintaining water's energy. Viktor predicted that one day a
bottle of good water would be more expensive than a bottle of wine,
and commented on our treatment of public water supplies:
If we have any common sense remaining, we should refuse to
continue to drink water prepared in this way. The alternative
would be degeneration into cancer-prone, mentally and phys-
ically decrepit, physically and morally inferior individuals.^17Transmuting water's memory
Most communities make genuine efforts to remove physical pollu-
tants from public water supplies, but there are so many organic tox-
ins produced by industrial agriculture, that one is wise to consider
good filtration to reduce the dangers of these pollutants and of
heavy metals that, sadly, are now more common. There are now gen-
erally available good and affordable plumbed-in filters that remove
most of the physical contaminants.^18 However, what our water treat-
ment policies must urgently take on board is that the physical
removal of a pollutant is only part of making water safe.
- SUPPLYING WATER