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The two forms of lithium mining (brine and rock extraction) also present social and environmental risks. For example, indigenous communities that have lived in the Andean region of Chile, Bolivia and Argentina (which holds more than half the world’s supply of lithium beneath its salt flats) for centuries must contend with miners for access to communal land and water. The mining industry depends on a large amount of groundwater in one of the driest desert regions in the world to pump out brines from drilled wells. Some estimates show that approximately 1.9 million litres of water is needed to produce a tonne of lithium.193 In Chile’s Salar de Atacama, lithium and other mining activities consumed 65 per cent of the region’s water. That is having a big impact on local farmers – who grow quinoa and herd llamas – in an area where some communities already must get water driven in from elsewhere.194
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