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Study shows Vietnam’s ethnic communities’ grapple with hydropower plant impacts

In Pakistan, desert irrigation plans spark protests & fears among Sindh farmers

Future of Mexican communal land in limbo as mining company overstays agreement

Report urges stricter mining standards to manage climate and social impacts

In Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley, communities share how to reduce lithium mining impacts

Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects

Lithium Triangle mining may strain water sources more than expected, study says

Groundwater overuse puts Brazil’s river flow at risk, study finds

Drowned lands and poisoned waters threaten Peru’s campesinos and their livestock

‘Silent killing machines’: How water canals threaten wildlife across the globe

Better government policies could help as migratory birds lose habitat in Bangladesh

Seeking the ‘humanity–wetland’ balance: Interview with Zimbabwean activist Jimmy Mahachi

Andes glacier melt threatens Amazon’s rivers & intensifies droughts

Western Kenya’s most important water-capturing forest is disappearing, satellites show

Organizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests

In Kenya, a water fund brings to light Indigenous cultural identity issues

A Kenya water fund partners with farmers to protect vital resources

Despite court ruling, Yaqui water rights abuses ignored

Community-led wetland restoration may hold key to Harare’s water crisis

Ever-smarter consumer electronics push world toward environmental brink

In Chile, a copper mining project tainted by environmental damage sues 32 locals

Lack of research as contaminated Yaqui River poses health risks

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Crop fields make way for profitable orchards in Bangladesh, imperiling food security

Polluting copper mine in Java suspended as farmers decry lost crops

Rio Tinto-linked mine still not fulfilling promises to Mongolian herders

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

Cerrado’s current drought impossible without human-caused climate change: Study

Loss of water means loss of culture for Mexico’s Indigenous Yaqui

Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal project: A catalog of worries (analysis)

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