Dear Shauna (radio talk show host who thinks it is better for London's children to drink unsafe >10 ppb increased lead in tap water (from fluoridation with HFSA) that violates Ontario's Safe Drinking Water Act, than to allow the sale of safe water in bottles that violates no laws at all)

Let’s see if I got this right.

Bottled water is now banned at many municipal and school board facilities because bottled water, whether in plastic or glass and fully recycled, is environmentally irresponsible.

But we can still buy bottled sweet drinks and throw them away.

It’s bad to bottle and sell natural spring water that doesn’t contain added fluoride, even though most of the bottled water is swallowed and little is wasted.

But it’s good to dump 99% of fluoridated municipal water that is never swallowed, with its pound of arsenic and up to eight pounds of lead from every tanker load of fluoridation chemicals, straight down the sewer and into the environment.

If your kidneys and digestive tract were damaged by E. coli infection from the Walkerton disaster, you get public sympathy and your choice of bottled water is justified.

But if your kidneys and digestive tract are damaged by fluoride poisoning, you get scorn from the public, the local dental associations and the media. You should hang your head in shame and apologize.

It’s wrong to transport bottled spring water even from a local source because it causes climate change.

But it’s fine to burn carcinogenic diesel to mine, process and transport thousands of tons of hazardous industrial waste fluoridation chemicals per year from as far away as China, and ship them all over North America.

It is wrong for a responsible commercial bottler to pay a per-gallon or per-bottle fee to the municipality to filter the industrial waste fluoride out of the tap water, bottle the purified water locally and sell it for drinking.

But it is okay for a municipality to pay nothing to take millions of gallons of irreplaceable, clean fossil water from one Great Lake, pipe it to the middle of Ontario, add industrial waste fluoride, collect money for the water use, and discharge it into a watershed that is already contaminated and flows into a different Great Lake that is source water for millions of other people.

Tap water has plenty of fluoride from industrial waste, is allowed to contain up to 10 ppb of lead and arsenic, and is not good for young babies, diabetics and kidney patients. Bottled sweet drinks have plenty of fluoride from industrial waste, are likely to contain detectable toxins including benzene, and are not good for babies, diabetics and kidney patients.

But bottled spring water has no fluoride from industrial waste, may not contain any lead, arsenic or benzene, and is safest for babies, diabetics and people with kidney damage.

I think I get it!