Unearthing Water Risks of the Global Mining Industry

Grave economic hazards await companies that fail to anticipate the potent allegiance that people have for freshwater resources.

Special Report

Circle of Blue

Floods, dam failures, public opposition batter big hard rock mines.

Opposition campaign, occasionally violent, prompts end of disputed mine.

Circle of Blue director J. Carl Ganter documents Peru’s frontline contest over water, mining, and informal settlement.