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It has become especially sought after as electrical cars which also use lithium in their batteries are becoming increasingly popular. Argentina is the worlds number four lithium producer but some residents of Jujuy say not only are they not benefiting from the industry but that their way of life is under threat as a result of it. Lithium extraction requires huge amounts of water about two million litres per tonne. And locals like Nati Machaca who live off the land and raise cattle in this.
Predominantly rural area fear it is drying the soil and polluting the water. If this goes on we will soon starve and become ill she warns. IMAGE SOURCENATALIA FAVRE Image caption The protest has been going on for months The position of the more than indigenous groups inhabiting these mountains Mobile App Development Service is complicated by the fact that many lack legal titles to the land where they have lived for centuries long before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the s. in point.
She lives on a piece of land her grandfather bought from the landowner he worked for. Back then it was all verbal agreements she explains but theres no proof. She and many like her who have no legal documents to back up their claims to the land could now face eviction under a controversial constitutional reform approved in June by the governor of Jujuy Gerardo Morales. IMAGE SOURCENATALIA.
Predominantly rural area fear it is drying the soil and polluting the water. If this goes on we will soon starve and become ill she warns. IMAGE SOURCENATALIA FAVRE Image caption The protest has been going on for months The position of the more than indigenous groups inhabiting these mountains Mobile App Development Service is complicated by the fact that many lack legal titles to the land where they have lived for centuries long before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the s. in point.
She lives on a piece of land her grandfather bought from the landowner he worked for. Back then it was all verbal agreements she explains but theres no proof. She and many like her who have no legal documents to back up their claims to the land could now face eviction under a controversial constitutional reform approved in June by the governor of Jujuy Gerardo Morales. IMAGE SOURCENATALIA.