Topic: Mining, water and human rights: making the connection (Read 194 times)
You do realise this forum is about crypto mining and not mining in the traditional sense of the word right?
The minerals industry interacts with water in many different ways that can affect the environment and communities. In the context of emerging debates about the status of access to water as a distinct human right and the mining industry’s engagement with human rights discourses, this article highlights points of disconnection between technical, scientific and engineering-based approaches to water management on the one hand and human rights perspectives on the other.
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