UN report highlights urgent need to tackle impact of EV battery production boom
Green Car Congress
JULY 4, 2020
In Chile, lithium mining uses nearly 65% of the water in the country’s Salar de Atamaca region—one of the driest desert areas in the world—to pump out brines from drilled wells. It has also contributed to environment degradation, landscape damage and soil contamination, groundwater depletion and pollution.
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