Water fluoridation will not change the taste or smell of your water

• Fluoride has no taste or smell, so water fluoridation will not change the taste or smell of your drinking water. Your local water authority will be able to confirm if your water has fluoride in it.
• Melbourne received the gold medal award in 2003 for the best-tasting drinking water in Australia. The silver medal went to Darwin and the bronze medal to Hobart. All of these cities have water fluoridation.
• Some people choose to boil their drinking water. Boiling water will not change the amount of fluoride.
• With the exception of reverse osmosis filters, most home water filtering systems do not change the amount of fluoride in water.
• Most bottled waters in Australia do not contain fluoride.