The Government's Water Bill was voted past its second reading in the Commons recently.

If the pro-fluoridation amendments are not removed at committee stage and the Water Bill is voted into law after its third reading (expected in October) this opens up very real risks of public health catastrophes.

Sadly, even many anti-fluoridation MPs, including Norman Baker (MP for Lewes), voted for it, because the Bill represents much needed reforms of the water industry.

But the Government gave MPs an unacceptable choice when it hijacked the Bill in July with pro-fluoridation amendments, leaving antifluoridation MPs to either oppose the Bill or vote in favour of the illegal poisoning of our water supplies.

This doesn't alter the fact that MPs Des Turner, David Lepper and Ivor Caplin still support these pro-fluoridation clauses which give strategic health authorities powers to order our water supplies to be illegally contaminated with this virulent poison and legalise an illegal contract between Government and water companies to protect them from litigation.

The committee members now responsible for legally checking this Bill need to be reminded these clauses violate so much existing legislation they could open the floodgates for successful lawsuits against water companies.

Our MPs also need reminding that we vote them in and pay their salaries purely for them to protect our rights.

To support fluoridation is to steal those rights.

-Graham Parfitt, Brighton