Asbestos Laden Water Pipes!

Over 40,000 klm’s of Australia’s water pipelines, mainly made by James Hardie, contain asbestos that is wearing out. Supposedly, there are millions of pipes around the country that remain in the ground that are now up to 70 years old and have come to the end of their life and need replacing. This means they are shedding asbestos into the drinking water!

Now water utilities are monitoring those pipes to see how they are holding up.  Although there is no evidence to suggest that drinking water contaminated with asbestos might be harmful to your health there cannot be many people in Australia that would be wanting to take that risk.

The pipes are mostly concentrated in regional areas, where up to half of all water pipelines are made with asbestos.

Authorities are not going to rush in and replace the pipes either, rather doing it a section or pipe at a time. Every time an asbestos pipe is removed it allows more asbestos fibres into the pipes that remain. Asbestos that enters our homes through your taps.

It’s a scary thought that you may be drinking asbestos!