A survey of fluorine content in drinking water of Yi County in Hebei Province in 2012 / 中华地方病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To find out fluorine content in drinking water in Yi County,and to provide ascientific basis for prevention of endemic fluorosis and children's dental caries.Methods According to FluorideDistribution Survey Program in Drinking Water of Hebei Province,an administrative village was taken as a unit,one drinking water sample was randomly collected from every village with centralized water supply.For villages withdecentralized water supply,five drinking water samples were randomly collected according to directions (east,west,south,north and centre) if there were more than five water sources in the village;samples from all the water sourceswere collected if there were less than five.Fluorine content was determined with drinking water standard testmethods (GB/T 5750.2-2006).Analysis and comparison of fluoride content in drinking water of different landscapes,water types and different well depth were carried out.Results The range of water fluoride content was 0.00-18.39 mg/L,and water fluorine median was 0.24 mg/L in 1 024 water samples in 27 towns in the county.Watersamples of 490,505 and 29 copies were collected in the hills,plains and mountains,and water fluorine medianwas 0.26,0.22 and 0.21 mg/L,respectively.Concerning water fluorine content in drinking water,mountains werehigher than hills and plains (x2 =71.71,17.74,all P ＜ 0.01).There was no significant difference between waterfluoride content in hills and plains (x2 =2.48,P ＞ 0.05).Water samples of 742,228 and 54 copies were collected,respectively,in household well water,tap water and mountain spring water,and water fluoride median was 0.22,0.24 and 0.33 mg/L,respectively.Concerning water fluoridation content in drinking water,spring water were higherthan tap water and household well water (x2 =53.16,50.85,all P ＜ 0.01).There was no significant differencebetween water fluoridation content in tap water and household well water (x2 =2.97,P ＞ 0.05).Water samples of583 and 441 copies were collected,respectively,in well depth ＜ 40 m and well depth ≥40 m,and water fluoride median was 0.24 and 0.23 mg/L,respectively,and there was no significant difference between water fluoridation content in the well depth ＜ 40 m and the well depth ≥40 m (Hc =0.17,P ＞ 0.05).Conclusions Fluoride content of drinking water in Yi County is not high,endemic fluorosis disease does not occur.