“It might not be long before we begin to experience strange diseases in Gbani as a result of drinking water with cyanide, lead and mercury. The more they pollute the little water we have, the more expensive and distant it is to get good drinking water, if not packaged water. But you know the big problem? The kids will drink anything as they play around, I mean anything, especially when the weather is extremely hot and clean water is beyond reach,” lamented the bare-chested miner, wearing only brown shorts.
The community’s only river is on its knees on the blazing altar of pollution, praying for feet to flee the raging mining chemical floods
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