During a global drought of historic proportions:
“Between 2015 and 2019 copper mines withdrew 13.6 trillion litres of water, with water use increasing at a rate 50% higher than copper production.”
University of Stockholm’s Stockholm Resilience Center
https://research.wu.ac.at/en/publications/increasing-water-use-in-global-copper-production-threatens-freshw/
Since 1900, the energy needed to produce a unit of copper is up 16-fold.
That's diesel, you know. Diesel.
But it's all green and clean.
