Sand mining pushes River Aswa to exhaustion

“We know that sand mining is destructive to the environment, but we do not have alternatives for survival,” Acan says, adding that she is ready to quit sand mining if she gets a better source of livelihood. 

Anne Acan, a miner, extracting sand from River Moroto, a tributary of River Aswa, in Lira recently. (Credit: Gerald Tenywa)