More Than Half of EU’s Strategic Mining Projects Located in Water-Stressed Regions as Brussels Prepares to Weaken Water Protection Law

Analysis finds more than half of the EU's 33 strategic CRMA mining projects are in areas that have been drying over two decades, as Brussels prepares to revise the Water Framework Directive to ease permitting — a move environmentalists call reckless given that six Spanish projects are already in highly water-stressed zones.