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Speaker 1: Totong is considering a pretty creative solution to satisfying the

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Speaker 1: anti fluoride crowd. So what they're thinking of doing is

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Speaker 1: setting up a fluoride free tap on the outskirts of town.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have a little think about this. Totng is

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Speaker 1: me and my head rise down is with us?

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Speaker 2: Now, Hey, my hair morning, Heather.

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Speaker 1: How big is the crowd in Totung who doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to drink the fluoride?

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Speaker 2: Well, we have, We've had a couple of hundred at

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Speaker 2: our council meetings and there's yeah, there's suddenly a very

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Speaker 2: vocal group of people that don't like, don't like having

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Speaker 2: florid adds to the water.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so how far out of town are you going

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Speaker 1: to put this tap?

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Speaker 2: We're looking at options as close to the city boundary

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Speaker 2: as we can.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you have to on the other side of the

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Speaker 1: boundary or something like that.

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Speaker 2: So the reason that it is is Western Bay currently

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Speaker 2: don't fluoridate. They have a mandate that comes in next year,

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Speaker 2: so this is a temporary option up until the point

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Speaker 2: when they're fluoridating. But yeah, it's it's the the easiest,

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Speaker 2: I guess option for us because it's not it's not

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Speaker 2: that easy to take it out once you put it in.

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Speaker 1: So how far are people are going to have to

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Speaker 1: drive potentially to go and get this fluoride free water.

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Speaker 2: Well, it depends on where you live as to to

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Speaker 2: how far it is. But you know, we're not a

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Speaker 2: big city in geographic sort of map traffic problem.

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Speaker 1: We don't people actually going to Are they actually going

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Speaker 1: to go to the effort driving all the way to

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Speaker 1: this tap just to get water there hasn't got fluoride

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Speaker 1: in it.

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Speaker 2: Look, it's about giving people options and if they're that

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Speaker 2: passionate and wants want to do that, then you know

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Speaker 2: we need to give them some some options. And this

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Speaker 2: is one that that financially you know, makes sense. But

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Speaker 2: you know we're we're looking for for other options that

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Speaker 2: we can do, you know, to to solve.

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Speaker 1: A problem, you're going to drive to tap my hair.

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Speaker 2: I probably won't drive to the tap. No, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think the main thing for me around fluoride is

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Speaker 2: is it should be a choice. Obviously, we're finding out

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Speaker 2: how hard it is to get it out once you

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Speaker 2: put it in, and you know there's plenty of options

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Speaker 2: with toothpaste and et cetera. That that you can get

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Speaker 2: florid if you want it. I fluoridate my kid's teeth.

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Speaker 2: That's that's my choice. But you know that's that's something

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Speaker 2: that putting it in the water, you don't get that choice.

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Speaker 1: Somebody sent me a text before and said Hastings is

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Speaker 1: already doing it. I thought, I thought this was a

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Speaker 1: particularly novel idea from you guys, but might have already

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Speaker 1: been done around the country.

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Speaker 2: Uh, there's there's definitely some taps so like Hamilton have

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Speaker 2: a non fluoridated tap. Yes, but as I say, it's

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Speaker 2: quite hard to satisfy as a council our requirements for

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Speaker 2: having safe water and and taking it out. So this

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Speaker 2: is this is one way we can do it at

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Speaker 2: a reasonable price. My head.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for chatting us through that, mate, that's my head,

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Speaker 1: Driiseyle tot ang Amir. Apparently the text here we've got

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Speaker 1: an anti fluoride tap in central Parmeerston North as well,

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Speaker 1: so you go, I don't mind. I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: don't want to drink the stuff, you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: mind drinking this stuff. But if you don't want to

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Speaker 1: drink the stuff, fair enough that there's a tap for you.

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Speaker 1: You're just gonna have to make a bit of an

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Speaker 1: evidentn't you. You're gonna have to drive this. For more

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