“We are being sued in the World Bank by those owners for $100 million, supposedly in lost revenue,” Br. Domingo said. “They’re suing free trade agreements as a legal frame work for submitting the lawsuit.”
Br. Domingo said the scientists at the University of El Salvador tested the water in the river. The bottle of water that was passed around the audience contained traces of cyanide, residuals of acid drainage, lead, iron, copper, gold and silver.
“All at levels above what can be sustained by humans,” Br. Domingo said. “This has got to the point where only two percent of the 300 rivers that cross El Salvador… have drinkable water.”
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