Rio Tinto’s water use dries sacred waterhole, Aboriginal group says

Rio Tinto's water pumping has dried a sacred waterhole in Western Australia's West Pilbara for the first time in living memory, the Robe River Kuruma Traditional Owners said Wednesday. Representative Jason Masters told the mining company's annual general meeting that over-extraction caused irreparable damage to ancestral lands. Rio Tinto is building a desalination plant to reduce water.

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