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Brazil’s Sweet River Still Runs Orange Seven Months After A Massive Mining Spill

Brazil’s Sweet River Still Runs Orange Seven Months After A Massive Mining Spill

by The Daily Eye Team July 13 2016, 10:57 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 43 secs

The millions of liters of waste — a volume roughly equal to the capacity of the Hoover Dam — that gushed out of the Fundão mining dam on November 5 last year left 19 people dead, and wreaked devastation on homes and land in its path. The spill also affected biodiversity much further afield as it flowed into the Sweet River, Rio Doce in Portuguese, and eventually to the coast.
"We were forced to give up our lives in an instant. Our habitat was destroyed by man's ambition," Jen said, wiping away tears as she spoke of the loss of her home in the town of Bento Rodrigues that, along with the village of Paracatu, were completely destroyed. "We belong to those lands, not in a city. We only want to get back exactly everything we had there."

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