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Growth in illegal sand mining threatens weak lakes and rivers


Growth in illegal sand mining threatens weak lakes and rivers
Environmental researchers have warned that post-pandemic growth in infrastructure spending is causing illegal sand mining to damage some of the world’s most vulnerable lakes and rivers.
Sand, mixed with cement to make concrete, is the most widely consumed material on Earth, apart from water. In countries like this there is a small threat of the virus as well China sparks renewed construction activity. They fear that gangs of criminals who play a leading role in the industry will dredge even more sand from delicate ecosystems.
“From now on, we will see governments include a lot of funding for infrastructure to boost the economy, which will lead to high demand for sand and gravel,” said Pascal Peduzzi, head of the UN Environment Program’s Global Resource Information Database. Geneva. ....

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Global sand mining is destroying the planet and costing lives


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“The nature of the crisis is we don’t understand this material well enough.”
It makes up the concrete of our houses, the tarmac of our roads, the glass in our windows and the silicon chips in our phones.
But sand, a building block of modern life that sits at the heart of a destructive and sometimes illegal industry, is in increasingly short supply and nobody knows how soon it will run out.
Sand is the most used material on the planet but also one of the least well monitored. Unlike most other commodities, policymakers only have rough estimates of how much of it is used each year. A landmark report from the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) in 2019 had to rely on data for cement which sand and gravel are mixed with to make concrete to land on a ballpark figure of 50 billion tons. ....

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Sand crisis: mafias thrive as shortages loom | Environment| All topics from climate change to conservation | DW


Sand crisis: Mafias thrive as shortages loom
Demand for construction sand is rising faster than supply, pushing even countries in the Middle East to import it from as far away as Australia and Canada.
Mining so much sand is destroying ecosystems and fueling violence
It makes up the concrete of our houses, the tarmac of our roads, the glass in our windows and the silicon chips in our phones.
But sand, a building block of modern life that sits at the heart of a destructive and sometimes illegal industry, is in increasingly short supply and nobody knows how soon it will run out. ....

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