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Local October 17, 2011 | 8:50 am

Rivers’ death sentence: lumbering, cattle ranching, cash crops

Santo Domingo.- The situation of its rivers threaten Dominican Republic’s electricity generation, agricultural production and potable water consumption, as the basins have been victims of deforestation by humans.

As is a death sentence weighing over the water sources, the rivers are now agonizing; although as recent as the 1990s they had important volumes, but are only a mantle of sand... Read more