As Sand Mining Grows, Asia’s Deltas Are Sinking, Water Experts Warn

Sand mining is the biggest extractive industry in the world. It powers the global economy since sand is the key ingredient in construction. However, it is being mined unsustainably and often illegally.

Along with dams, sand mining drastically reduces the flow of sediment in many rivers so deltas are sinking and shrinking

Learn more about sand mining’s impacts on the world’s rivers and solutions from WWF’s global expert on sand mining, Marc Goichot.

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STOCKHOLM (Sept 21)(Thomson Reuters Foundation): Sand mining from rivers is depriving many low-lying Asian deltas of the sediment they need to maintain themselves, raising the risk of worsening land loss to sea level rise, researchers say. Combined with losses of soil-holding mangroves and accelerat…

Source: http://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/sand-mining-grows-asia..

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