Re: I would like to add my support to Janice Priest's letter ‘Adding another chemical' in last week's Sun, regarding adding fluoride to our drinking water. Why the Government wishes to fund our council to assist in polluting our water with the addition of a poison is beyond belief.

As Janice points out, the Government has no justification in flouting the legally binding referendum to reduce the pollutants in our water so that it is safer for all members of the community to imbibe, especially we older citizens! Unfortunately, it is impossible to filter out fluoride from our water so we are all forced to drink it in our cappuccinos.

I appreciate the state of our children's teeth is appalling, but it is the responsibility of their parents or caregivers to prevent such decay – not that of the city council, unless they can ban the sale of sugary soft drinks, and enforce compulsory teeth cleaning in schools.

I am all for the US Environmental Protection Agency calling for less (fewer) toxins in our water, as it is affecting marine life and the world's future.

If the council wishes to improve our health, then the addition of chondroitin, glucosamine and turmeric for we oldies could be helpful – plus a drop of G&T around 4pm would be very nice!

Alan Reynolds, Pyes Pa