of an argentinian and when we were in argentina we also travelled to the choir turkalo goon and we saw this incredible sight i mean hundreds of flamingoes the whole lagoon is full of flamingoes it's get us the lagoon is as good as sold to mining companies so in the next few years it'll be covered with concrete pools and it's very clear the farming goes will disappear on his guns can address the flamingos freshman. the government recently auctioned off mining concessions for the extraction of lithium in the massive salt flats salinas clandestine the indigenous population feels transported back to the time when colonial powers robbed the land the neat their feet today it's their own government that's in the past they have no formal land rights it's land that they have cultivated for centuries. but it belongs to the government and whoever owns the land controls the water. and the group was in the it's a matter of life and death if they pump so much water out of here in such a short space of time and we know what a huge amount it is then in the next 5 or 6 years we will do so much water th