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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba

The Kiribati island survived droughts due to sacred caves that captured rainfall but rampant phosphate extraction ruined this precious resource

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The last decent rain on Banaba was more than a year ago.

Without rain, people on the isolated central Pacific island, which is part of the country of Kiribati, have been forced to rely on a desalination plant for all their water for drinking, bathing and growing crops.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3xc5U5f

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