Serbian farmers in Jadar Valley battle Rio Tinto's lithium mining project

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Serbia holds one of Europe’s biggest lithium reserves enough to power a million electric vehicle batteries per year.
Mining giant Rio Tinto wants to extract it, promising jobs and investment.
But people fear it will damage farmland and contaminate their water.

Al Jazeera’s Milena Veselinovic reports from Jadar Valley, western Serbia.

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