[jyl]

The other problem with bottled water, beside the expense, wasted plastic, and general pointlessness of it, is that you don't get the flouride that is in most municipal water systems. Better for kids to get flouride. No, it isn't a Commie plot.

In Portland, they don't flouridate the water. My dentist says that the difference between the teeth of a locally-raised person and an import is immediately obvious. The first time she saw me, she said "you're obviously not from around here".