18 Mar 2025

Court to decide if Whangarei's water is fluoridated or not

From Checkpoint, 4:27 pm on 18 March 2025

A court will decide whether Whangarei's drinking water is fluoridated or not after councillors reluctantly voted to back down on their long-running stand-off with the Ministry of Health over the issue. Whangarei District Councillors yesterday revoked a decision to defy government orders to fluoridate the city's water supply from 28 March. Northland reporter Peter de Graaf spoke to Lisa Owen.