Nam Quai Loi is dying!
(NAO)...On both sides of the river, there were thousands of square meters of tin mining sites, mined by bandits.3Mud and waste after ore washing are dumped into the river, hundreds of hectares of rice fields in the downstream lack water, thousands of households live with red polluted water...
Nam Quai Loi is running out, Nam Quai Loi is dying!
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Mineral exploitation is the economic strength of Quy Hop district. With rare, abundant and large reserves of valuable economic resources such as white stone, tin ore, etc., exploited by companies, factories, state-owned and private enterprises inside and outside the province, many of which are mines and enterprises organized on a large scale and operating seriously have turned Quy Hop into a large-scale industrial district, attracting many workers inside and outside the district.
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However, recently, the exploitation of resources by some organizations and individuals has caused environmental pollution, affecting the lives of people who use red muddy water from upstream streams every day.
Following the Nam Quai Loi stream from the Chau Thanh Intersection area upstream, along both sides of the river are scattered tin ore mining sites in the bandit style of dozens of groups of people with manual tools digging indiscriminately. In this section of the river, there is only a small red stream, where no living thing can live.
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In Quai Loi village, since the end of 2007, a licensed mining company has been operating at full capacity every day, digging deep into the two banks, inside the mountain, using large dump trucks to transfer the ore to upstream gutters to wash the ore, thousands of cubic meters of mud and waste after washing are dumped into the river, gradually filling the flow, the main water source for hundreds of hectares of rice fields and domestic water for thousands of households in the downstream area.
The Nam Quai Loi River flowing through Chau Thanh and the upper Chau Cuong commune is drying up and facing the risk of disappearing. The Nam Quai Loi River is becoming a dead river!
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Ms. Ngan Thi Mai, 61 years old, in Cham Hieng village, Chau Thanh commune, whose house is right next to the Na Loi spillway on the Nam Quai Loi river, expressed her frustration: “For more than a year now, since the Quai Loi tin mine has been in operation, people in the villages below have been suffering because the river water is now just a muddy stream. There is also a shortage of water for irrigation, and water for daily life, eating, drinking, and bathing used to depend on this river, but now…”
It's time for authorities and agencies to step in to save a river!
Article and photos: Le Ba Lieu