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21. Fight for water legislation intensifies in El Salvador
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... of liters of underground water daily in the city of Nejapa, and road closures in various locations, including the town of San Luis Talpa where chemicals from industrial cotton plantations have contaminated ...
Created on 22 August 2013
22. The Rights Clash
(Commerce Group)
... consumption is “a daily quantity that would satisfy your average Salvadoran family for twenty years,” asserted congresswoman Lourdes Palacios at the conference. …contamination would be deadly for millions ...
Created on 15 July 2013
23. International delegation confronts mining in El Salvador
(2013 Fact Finding Mission)
... it.  Economically, it is very difficult for families to purchase water because of the high costs, on average spending about half their daily earnings; workers earn around $7/day. They explained that ...
Created on 08 July 2013
24. Sign Your Organization On to Support the Mesa
(2013 International Support for Mining Ban)
... Salvadoran families use daily, based on average water consumption in rural El Salvador. The gold mining industry has repeatedly been called one of the most contaminating industries in the world.  For ...
Created on 31 October 2012
25. Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away
(2013 International Support for Mining Ban)
... in the department of La Union, is confronting on a daily basis the consequences of more than one hundred years of mining.  A Wisconsin based company has been responsible for the mining project in that ...
Created on 26 July 2012
26. Mining Ambition Impedes Environmental Justice
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... water levels in its rivers over the last fifty years, except for the Acelhuate River, which has had an increased flow because it transports 600 tons of feces daily.   Along these lines, there are water ...
Created on 18 July 2012
27. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders
(Mining and Human Rights)
... fueled by foreign investors and the Honduran government. “We are in danger daily — all the leaders of the Garífuna community, all the defendants of the land in Honduras,” says Carla Garcia, international ...
Created on 17 August 2020