아래 내용은 캐나다 CTV News의 11월 11일자 기사입니다.
캐나다에는 수천키로미터의 석면포함 노후 수도관이 매설되어 있으며 수돗물에 석면이 배출될 가능성이 있음. 실제로 위니펙과 리자이나 지역 검사 결과 수돗물에서 석면이 검출되었음.
이탈리아의 Dr. Agostino Di Ciaula(researcher in the department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology at Bari Poly Clinic)는 음용수에 포함된 석면과 위장관 암의 연관이 있을 수 있다, 는 보고서를 작성하였다.
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Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has tabled a petition calling on the federal government to take urgent action on Canada’s aging asbestos-cement pipes due to the potential dangers of drinking tap water containing the deadly fibre.
“This is an understudied and unregulated problem,” May said Thursday in the House of Commons. “Believe it or not, many municipalities rely on old cement water pipe delivering water to millions of Canadians, and the pipes contain asbestos fibres.”
A W5 investigation discovered(opens in a new tab) there are thousands of kilometres of asbestos cement pipes underground still delivering water from coast to coast. And as these pipes age they’re prone to fail catastrophically, potentially releasing asbestos into the water.
At least one Canadian municipality, St. Albert, Alta. started testing its water(opens in a new tab) following W5’s investigation due to “community concerns.”
The petition — initiated by a number of concerned citizens, non-governmental organizations and grassroots groups — is calling on the federal government to assess the health risk of asbestos in drinking water and establish limits while developing a plan to replace the pipes nationally.
The petition is also calling for the government to take complete inventory of asbestos-cement pipes. W5 created its own database in the absence of a federal inventory and found close to 100 communities with asbestos cement pipes still in use, however, the number of actual communities is likely much higher.
While the dangers of inhaling the deadly fibre are well-documented, the science on ingesting or drinking water with asbestos is still contested. But there is a growing body of research that suggests ingesting these fibres could elevate the risk of stomach and other gastrointestinal-related cancers.
Dr. Agostino Di Ciaula, researcher in the department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology at Bari Poly Clinic in Italy, has published papers that suggest possible links between drinking water containing asbestos and gastro-intestinal cancers.
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'Understudied and unregulated': Green Party pushes to investigate asbestos in tap water 
