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peterbecich
on April 11, 2024
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U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water li...
I'm not aware of that. I doubt asbestos cement water mains are a significant health risk to the end user. I think any asbestos that could become airborne is a risk. To the workers who installed those pipes, certainly.
jjtheblunt
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Asbestos is implicated in gastrointestinal cancers too.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856305/
armatav
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Luckily we can use common sense and intuit that razor sharp microglass embedded in the colon will cause cancer via immune response.
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