I CANNOT think of any more important concern than the content of our drinking water.

Regrettably, chlorine, a noxious substance, is needed to ‘purify’ water to make it safe for drinking.

But this is not the case with the much more toxic fluoride.

Boiling fluoridated water does not remove the fluoride but, on the contrary, concentrates the fluoride.

As medical opinion is not unanimous in the belief that fluoride benefits children’s teeth, and seeing that other countries have discontinued expensive fluoridation schemes started in good faith, I find it outrageous that health authorities with no expert scientific knowledge of the matter are clamouring to force us all to consume artificially-fluoridated water.

This is clearly an issue about which we should have the right of choice!

JESSIE HORROCKS, Southampton.