Problems with water and pollution are very serious in Central America, where local peasants find themselves trying to raise crops in a water-stressed environment.
“It’s time for countries in Central America to advance water co-operation,” said Ian Thomson, Kairos co-ordinator for ecological justice through corporate accountability. “Threats to water are a concern to the Church. Those threats don’t stop at the border and those concerns don’t stop at the border.”
While Escobar is urging international arbitration in a dispute over a Canadian mine in Guatemala, another Canadian mining company is taking the government of El Salvador to an international tribunal because the Central American country has refused to issue it a mining licence.
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