But there is a downside to this idyllic scene: mining has polluted the Lofa River and creeks along it once used for drinking. Residents now depend solely on a couple of hand pumps as the only source of safe drinking water.......
“The children started vomiting and toileting, so we said to ourselves ‘This place is not safe again,’” he recalls. “You only go now to the Lofa River to take bath, wash your clothes and come home.”
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