may 1, 2020 - Negative impact of lithium mining on water resources is confirmed by scientific research

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As such, territorial disputes relate not only to ‘land rights’ per se, but
rather to environmental change more broadly, with water at its core.
Water became a banner of political struggle for human and territorial
rights through Indigenous resistance to mining (Romero-Toledo, 2019).
In these struggles, the articulation between identity, practices and traditions has been a key strategy to ensure ‘water rights’ for communities
in a context of privatization (Prieto, 2016). Communities have a longstanding and painful experience with the drying up of wetlands and
dispossession processes fostered by mining expansion (Morales and
Azocar, ´ 2015; Prieto et al., 2019). Nowadays, brine pumping is
considered an additional pressure on water resources (Liu and Agusdinata, 2021).

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