it's hard work and years of sandridge ing have altered the river because of the oil there's now less sand you can see it now instead of sand we can see rocks on the riverbed well when you get the middle of but over there but as long as there's sand to dig people to dig it salaries here are relatively high for mali around eight euros a day and there's hardly any other work here. in the dry season one truckload of sand costs around one hundred euros two hundred trucks full of sand leave here every day most headed for the capital. city don't go well the people in bamako need a lot of sand i think the construction sites there take almost ninety percent of what we dig here so. the full article in the forthcoming. money's capital is one of the world's fastest growing cities new homes and even new districts so springing up everywhere. as for them it suggests that by twenty fifty they'll be eight million people living here three times more than today which means there's likely to be no shortage of work dredging sand from the niger with the at the heart of the electric vehicle is the battery