local water supply

The crowd belted out The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, the words projected onto a large screen behind the choir.  Beneath the words, as their background, an American flag waved with a cross imposed over it.

Stainless steel. Cell phone batteries.  These require nickel.

I visited a community in the Dominican Republic today where nickel is mined by a U.S. corporation.  In this small community dozens of children have been born deaf mutes - some born without any ears at all and others born with additional birth defects like white hair or Down syndrome.