Sand bags, Mumbai, India. Photo courtesy of: © Denis Delestrac
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Rampant sand mining will have dire ecological consequences, warn environmentalists.
As day breaks, one can see the pipes and pumps lined up all along the beach, with huge mounds of sand waiting to be ferried by trucks to Mumbai and its suburbs where the raw material will feed the city’s insatiable construction industry.
The way our beaches, creeks and rivers are being mined for sand for use as aggregate in concrete is shocking. This destructive illegal practice leads to erosion along the shoreline…
Illegal Sand Mining is New Gold Rush in India
Sand Thieves Are Eroding World’s Beaches For Castles Of Cash, By Martine Valo, Le Monde / Worldcrunch
The pillaging of sand is a growing practice in the world. Taken by hand, three or four meters deep in the Maldives archipelago, or transported on a donkey, or sucked up by huge sand boats in Asia, coastal sand mining, authorized or unlawful, is exploding…
Sand Wars; An Investigative Documentary, By Denis Delestrac
Based on encounters with sand smugglers, barefoot millionaires, corrupt politicians, unscrupulous real estate developers and environmentalists, this investigation takes us around the globe to unveil a new gold rush and a disturbing fact: the “SAND WARS” have begun…
