Giant freshwater aquifer in southern Africa under threat from mining

Potential damage
Experts fear that propoed in-situ uranium leach mining in the Stampriet basin could contaminate the aquifer system with radioactive leach fluids.
Surina Esterhuyse and Anton Lukas
A huge underground water resource the size of Austria, the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System, stretches for 87 000 square kilometres (km²) across Namibia, South Africa and Bo
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