The cyanide-leach processes at the company’s El Dorado mine will use approximately 900,000 liters of water a day. In comparison, it would take 30 years for an average Salvadorean family to use that amount of water. Despite company assurances that water is reused for such processes, the contamination of water continues elsewhere in the country. In 2012, the Salvadoran Ministry of the Environment found that the San Sebastian River, where Commerce Group used to discharge wastewater, had nine times the acceptable limit of cyanide and one thousand timesthe Salvadoran standard for lead in potable water. Will water needed for the project aggravate the already perilous state of water access in the country?
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/12/elsalvador_mining/
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