Lourdes Molina, El Deber: Justice prohibits settlement in the Lomas de Arena aquifer and recognizes the environmental damage caused by the encroachers Representatives of the Departmental Legislative Assembly (ALD) revealed that by constitutional means they granted protection of rights to the environment and water, within the framework of the class action filed The Departmental Legislative…
Tag: water
Pilcomayo in peril | Pilcomayo en peligro
Editorial, Página Siete: Stop killing the Pilcomayo It is not new that the waste from Potosi mining, especially that practiced by cooperative members without any control or ecological awareness, is contaminating the Pilcomayo River, a source of life and food that runs through no more and no less than three countries: Bolivia , Argentina and…
Bolivia: Without plan due to uncontrolled use of mercury | Sin plan ante uso descontrolado de mercurio
El Diario: The UN rapporteur, Marco Orellana, expressed concern about the little effort to prevent the use of the chemical in mining that affects the country’s indigenous peoples. Likewise, he said that the trafficking of mercury from Bolivia to the countries of the region frustrates international efforts to eliminate its use in the extraction of…
Tailings dam wall collapses | Dique de colas colapsa
El Potosi, Correo del Sur: Técnicos de la Gobernación potosina realizan el monitoreo de las aguas en el río Tarapaya, antes de que llegue a territorio chuquisaqueño. | Technicians from the Potosi Government carry out water monitoring in the Tarapaya River, before it reaches Chuquisaca territory. | GENTILEZA Tailings dam wall collapses in Potosí and…
Potosí: History of water | Historia del agua
Juan José Toro · El Potosí: Well find recalls long history of water When Potosí was born, it did not have a distribution system for the liquid element. As expected, the maintenance and renovation works in the second Mint House gave rise to a discovery, this time of a well that would have been covered…
Titicaca: A polluted lake | Un lago contaminado
EFE, Los Tiempos: Vista del lago Titicaca. | View of Lake Titicaca. | Foto archivo They identify more than a hundred polluting sources of Lake Titicaca More than a hundred polluting sources harm the quality of the waters of Lake Titicaca, according to the latest inventory carried out by the Binational Authority of Lake Titicaca…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 