they just started fluoridating our water here about 3 years ago... why the sudden urge to do that???

Because the mining/manufacturing industries - especially the aluminum and nuclear ones - need to dispose of all the toxic sodium fluoride they produce.  What better way than to create the big lie that sodium fluoride is good for us and sell it at a 20,000 times markup?

We drink part of the water, and flush much, much more of it down the shower/bath drain, kitchen sink and toilet, as well as water our yards, fill our pools and hot tubs, etc.  Thus we dispose of their toxic fluoride for them, putting it into our bodies and back into the environment, and they make a tidy profit.  What a solution, huh?  Too bad for our health and the environment though - but since when did those industries ever care about such things?  And government . . . well, anyone with open eyes can see that they serve monied interests ahead of the citizens time and again - whether they are duped or bought off or both.