Lithium liabilities: The untold threat to water in rush to mine American lithium https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020124_lithium_liabilities/lithium-liabilities-untold-threat-water-rush-mine-american-lithium/
U.S. officials are encouraging the domestic expansion of lithium mines by dangling federal incentives, and now there are a surge of proposals to open mines that will need billions of gallons of water to operate at a time when much of America’s West is emerging from a megadrought.
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