Argentina just ripped up its pioneering glacier law. What does this mean for millions of people’s drinking water?

Javier Milei’s reforms to the law will open up high-altitude areas to mining and risk water reserves already strained by the climate crisis, say activistsSaul Zeballos was born and raised in Jáchal, a community tucked into the foothills of the Andes in , drinking water from the river that bears the town’s name. That changed in 2005, when the started operating in San Juan province.A decade later, a major polluted the rivers in the San Juan region, raising fears it could , although further studies have shown that cyanide levels remained at safe levels. Two further spills were reported in 2016 and 2017 and are still under investigation.