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MINING AND WATER POLLUTION
Water is essential to life on our planet. A prerequisite of sustainable development must be to
ensure uncontaminated streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. There is growing public concern
about the condition of fresh water in Canada. Mining affects fresh water through heavy use of
water in processing ore, and through water pollution from discharged mine effluent and
seepage from tailings and waste rock impoundments. Increasingly, human activities such as
mining threaten the water sources on which we all depend. Water has been called “mining’s
most common casualty” (James Lyon, interview, Mineral Policy Center, Washington DC). There
is growing awareness of the environmental legacy of mining activities that have been
undertaken with little concern for the environment. The price we have paid for our everyday
use of minerals has sometimes been very high. Mining by its nature consumes, diverts and can
seriously pollute water resources.
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