0 present participle of fluoridate
1 to add fluoride (= a chemical that makes teeth stronger) to water or toothpaste
Fluoridating could continue for a few more months, or even for a few more years.
I see no reason to question the advisability of fluoridating water supplies.
This is simply an amendment to ensure that those authorities presently fluoridating their water will be acting legally that much more quickly.
There is, of course, the further option then of fluoridating the water supply in areas with high levels of dental decay.
We should try to demonstrate that that argument for fluoridating was based on false statistics and that misleading statistics were made to sound very authentic.
Is not the position that because of uncertainty about the law, few water authorities were fluoridating water supplies?
It is not a question of whether a water authority believes that there is a technical impediment to fluoridating the water to the required level.
Why have countries of any size stopped fluoridating?