FOUR water jugs belonging to Sumirah were neatly lined up on the porch of her house in Lelilef Sawai village, Weda Tengah subdistrict, Central Halmahera Regency, North Maluku. The 54-year-old woman was sitting waiting for the water delivery truck that comes twice a week. This has been her routine over the last seven years due to the clean water crisis caused by the contamination of wells with mud from nickel mining waste.

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