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Lack of research as contaminated Yaqui River poses health risks
Amid a water crisis, Yaqui communities in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora lack safe drinking water due to contamination by arsenic, salinity and heavy metals as unveiled by several studies over the years. The water crisis, driven by decades of …