"The number of conflicts is increasing, over water, over extensions of mining rights, over pollution of rivers, over the displacement of populations," said economist Jose de Echava, Peru's former vice minister of the environment.
"But above it's all over water," he told AFP.
Environmental groups have been angered by the millions of gallons of water diverted for mining and the use of toxic cyanide to separate gold from rock, particularly in open pit mines.
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