"At the same time, a batch of copper smelting and metal processing enterprises have been established corresponding to the east and west coasts, creating a competitive relationship with our city's downstream industries."
"Foreign imported copper ore has a large output, low price, and causes little environmental pollution to the domestic environment, which has led the authorities to support the development of these enterprises that rely on imported copper ore."
Developing copper mines, or mining any mineral resources, is always accompanied by environmental pollution, but the cities in the East African Copper Belt are particularly severe in this aspect.
Because it is located in the heart of East Africa, as well as the confluence area of the Congo River and Zambezi River basins, each year the industrial wastewater discharged by cities in the East African Copper Belt severely impacts the downstream of the rivers.
