‘The source of all life is here’: plan to mine lithium in Chilean salt flat sparks fears of water scarcity

M iriam Rivera Bordones tends her goats in a dusty paddock in the russet mountains of Chile’s Atacama desert. She also keeps chickens and has planted quince and peach trees and grapevines, which are watered by a stream winding down the hills towards the Indigenous community of Copiapó. But now the...

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