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We cannot drink gold: The price Ghana is paying for galamsey
By GhanaSummary Newsroom1 min read
We may extract gold from the ground and sell it for money, but what happens when the water needed to sustain the people who live there is destroyed?
What happens when a country becomes so desperate for gold that it begins to destroy the water, land and livelihoods that keep its people alive?
There are people who finance operations, provide machinery, facilitate access to land and buy the gold.
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