Why countries with deserts import sand

The world is covered by deserts and yet... people are killing each other over sand. Countries in the Middle East even import it from Australia and Canada. How short is the world on sand – and how can we stop it running out?

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Sand shortages:

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/rising-demand-sand-calls-resource-governance

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02042-4

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs41247-017-0023-2

Illegal sand mining in India:

https://sandrp.in/2020/11/22/193-dead-in-river-sand-mining-incidents-in-india-in-2019-20/

Recycling construction waste:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rashidul-Islam-2/publication/333601532_An_empirical_study_of_construction_and_demolition_waste_generation_and_implication_of_recycling/links/5dd77ab592851c1feda58856/An-empirical-study-of-construction-and-demolition-waste-generation-and-implication-of-recycling.pdf

Author: Ajit Niranjan

Camera: Henning Goll

Video editor(s): Frederik Willmann, Henning Goll

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