The Water Defenders av Robin Broad, John Cavanagh

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<b>Winner of the 2021 Duke University Juan Mendez Award<br><br>Named one of <i>The Progressive</i>’s “Favorite Books of 2021” and one of the “Best of Books 2021” by <i>Foreign Affairs</i></b><br><br><b>The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country’s main water source</b><br><br>At a time when countless communities are resisting powerful corporations—from Flint, Michigan, to the Standing Rock Reservation, to Didipio in the Philippines, to the Gualcarque River in Honduras—<i>The Water Defenders</i> tells the inspirational story of a community that took on an international mining corporation at seemingly insurmountable odds and won not one but two historic victories.<br><br>In the early 2000s, many people in El Salvador were at first excited by the prospect of jobs, progress, and prosperity that the Pacific Rim min