Snaking beneath Regina’s streets are 600 kilometres of water mains built with asbestos-cement. Increasingly, some scientists and communities are questioning the wisdom in having drinking water flowing ...

The program will update the register of asbestos-cement rooftops on public and private properties throughout Italy through an ongoing, phased workflow that is refined as new imagery is acquired and ...

The government has issued mandatory quality norms for asbestos or fibre cement-based products to curb the import of sub-standard goods and boost domestic manufacturing. A notification 'Asbestos or ...

The government is exploring options to manage the risks associated with the use of construction materials which use asbestos, an extremely hazardous fibrous mineral that poses grave health risks.

When Andrew Stevens first began hearing resident concerns about Regina’s asbestos cement water pipes a few years ago, he was scared. He knew inhaling asbestos particles in the air can cause serious ...

For much of the 19th and 20th century, the mining and use of asbestos saw near-constant growth, with virtually every material used in the construction of homes, offices, ships, road networks and ...

Millions of tonnes of asbestos are being removed from buildings around the world – can this dangerous mineral be disposed of permanently? Or even be put to good use? At a small industrial unit in ...

The scattering of tonnes of asbestos-contaminated mulch throughout Sydney’s schools, playgrounds and parks has been an accident waiting to happen. With an estimated 6.4 million tonnes of asbestos in ...

Ward councillor Lori Coogan is urging the city to trial new piping technology after repeated failures of an ageing asbestos ...

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