Water fluoridation in Victoria and Australia

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Overview

The department has progressively extended water fluoridation throughout the state, to those rural and regional areas currently without this important public health initiative.

Victoria has achieved 90 per cent coverage.

To confirm if fluoride is added to a particular town’s water supply visit the Fluoride by postcode page.

Other facts

• The first Australian water fluoridation program commenced in 1953 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania
• Portland, Nhill, Port Fairy, Barnawartha and Kaniva have naturally-occurring optimal amounts of fluoride in the water supplies
• Most Australians have had the benefit of water fluoridation for 30–50 years. Melbourne has had fluoridated drinking water since 1977
• Currently 90 percent of Australians have optimally fluoridated drinking water.
  

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