Water shortage threatens the world s most abundant lithium reserves

Get the Full StoryFreshwater essential to lithium mining is running low in the world s Lithium Triangle, a mineral-rich region in the Andean Plateau that stretches across parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile and contains more than half of all global lithium reserves.

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