Alarm bells have been sounded over Buffalo City Metro’s apparent inability to protect vital infrastructure after metro staff were reportedly chased off sewage treatment and water infrastructure sites by vandals and scrap metal thieves. Local activists and opposition councillors have accused the city of failing to address the crime, neglecting to make necessary repairs and ignoring the ticking environmental and health timebombs caused by effluent flowing into watercourses because of non-functi.
The River Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed is a powerful, earthy and harrowing story of how, in the early 2000s, a community in northern El Salvador fought together with international allies to prevent the Canadian gold mining giant, Pacific Rim, from destroying their country’s main water source, the Lempa River.