Brisbane Times
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Rio Tinto’s water use dries sacred waterhole, Aboriginal group says
Rio Tinto's water extraction 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. Aboriginal representative Jason Masters told the miner's annual meeting that over-extraction caused irreparable damage to ancestral lands. Rio Tinto is building a $1.1 million desalination plant to reduce water.
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