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  • Minería y agua: caso Cerro Blanco (Guatemala-El Salvador)

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    Abstract: In El Salvador, where access to potable water is yet to be acknowledged by the law as a guarantee to all citizens, therefore forcing the government to ensure it will be available to anyone, most water comes from Lempa River, which is highly contaminated. Being fed by many streams […]

  • Esperando con temor la lluvia en Haití

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    Abstract: The rainy season in Haiti will begin in April and it can mean an intensification of the cholera epidemic which has already claimed 7,000 deaths among 520,000 cases. A vaccination program is waiting to be implemented but it’s being delayed due to bureaucratic problems. The epidemic doesn’t seem to […]

  • Troubled Waters: Ecosystem Issues in Peru

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    In the villages along the hundreds of rivers of the Amazon rainforest it is told that at the heart of every river or “cocha” (lagoon), lies the Yacumama or ‘mother of the waters’, a giant boa that rarely emerges because of its size, feeding only on aquatic animals. It may remain […]