Shifting sands: Concrete-hungry Singapore orders a million
In the past, Singapore has sourced sand from Southeast Asian countries, but a UN report last year warned that unregulated sand mining in the Mekong basin was Large barges are dredging up tons of sand from the river to supply concrete for developing Southeast Asian cities. The sand is exported to places like Singapore, where nearly 50 square miles of land How Sand Mining Is Destroying Cambodia's
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Sand mining threatens ways of life, from Cambodia to Nigeria
By Vince Beiser Published April 23, 2019 • 5 min read If you were disturbed by the damage done to Cambodian coastal fisheries by the industrial-scale Driven by the growing demand for sand, either for concrete for construction, or in Singapore’s case for expanding its territory, the demand for sand has been outstripping the supply. The Observatory Cambodian sand could build a foundation for
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Sand prices: Singapore's sand import price from
Download scientific diagram Sand prices: Singapore's sand import price from Cambodia and Myanmar (US$/m ton). Note: The price of sand was derived by dividing import value by import quantity.Singapore is the world’s biggest importer of sand and has increased its land area by more than 20% in the last 40 years by dumping aggregates into the sea. Much of the sand comes from Cambodia and Sand from Cambodia contributing to Singapore
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Trading Sand, Undermining Lives: Omitted Livelihoods in the
We situate our sand case in Southeast Asia across three sites, namely, in Singapore, the world’s top sand importer; Cambodia, a top-ten global exporter of sand; It was the free-for-all nature of Cambodia’s sand mining industry from 2011 to 2016 that allowed for major discrepancies in reported sales and purchases between Cambodia and Singapore. This ledMining the Mekong: Land and livelihoods lost to
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Is Cambodia’s thirst for sand putting communities
Phnom Penh has been experiencing a construction boom, which in the past decade has seen 16 lakes filled completely. Another 10 are currently being filled. This has put lakeside residents’ livelihoods at risk Mother Nature was instrumental last year in exposing a $700 million reporting gap in sales of construction sand to Singapore between 2007 and 2015, setting off a government investigation thatDiscrepancies in Cambodian Sand Exports Spark Fraud Allegations
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As Myanmar farmers lose their land, sand mining for Singapore
Cambodia made a similar move in 2017, while Indonesia banned exports to Singapore in 2007, causing a “sand crisis” that brought building activity almost to a halt.Phnom Penh has been experiencing a construction boom, which in the last decade has seen 16 lakes filled completely. Another 10 are currently being filled. This has put lakeside residents’ livelihoods at risk and has led to a rising demand for sand in Cambodia, which is often taken from the Mekong River.Is Cambodia’s thirst for sand putting communities and the Mekong
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Singapore is dredging our home away: hands off our sand!
Singapore, the world’s largest sand importer, is fueling its building and land reclamation boom by dredging away neighboring countries’ beaches, riverbeds and whole islands. Cambodian fishermen and their families are protesting the destruction and three activists have now been jailed. Call to action. To: Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun SenPhoto taken from Sim Chi Yin, “Shifting Sands,” Photo Exhibition, Singapore, (2017). [Image description: A bird’s eye view of a sand-dredging project in Singapore in 2017, with many construction trucks shifting white sand along the island’s coast.] Land reclamation in Singapore began under British rule in 1822.Building on Sand: The Forgotten Roots of Singaporean Land
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Measuring the real cost of sand mining in the Mekong
In 2015, the total amount of sand mined in the Mekong Delta was 38,000,000m3. Three years later, in 2018, the estimation was 43,000,000m3 — more than twice the amount officially declared. The volume kept increasing in 2020, registering at an estimated 47,000,000m3. Mining sand may sound strange — unlike gold or diamond, it is An environmental and human rights group has called on Singapore to suspend all sand imports from Cambodia. A new report released by London-based Global Witness today claims that Cambodia’s sand trade is thriving despite a recent sand export ban by its Prime Minister, and that Singapore is the primary consumer of sand exported S'pore urged to stop Cambodian sand imports Eco-Business
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Sand mining threatens ways of life, from Cambodia to Nigeria
The bad news is that environmentally destructive sand mining continues in other parts of Cambodia, throughout Southeast Asia, and in fact around the world. Since the mid-’00s, fishers inThe Dirty Business of Sand Sand Dredging in Cambodia Page 2 of 16 Introduction . 19th May 2010. It was just over a week since Global Witness had released the ‘Shifting Sand’ report. George Boden, spokesperson for Global Witness, called for an urgent meeting with Singapore was buying sand unsustainably dredged from the rivers in theThe Dirty Business of Sand Sand Dredging in Cambodia
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Cambodia bans sand exports to Singapore after
Meng Saktheara said Singapore was Cambodia's top market for sand until last year when the temporary ban came into force, and had it imported some 16 million tonnes of sand since 2007.In India, the amount of construction sand used annually has more than tripled since 2000, and is still rising fast. China alone has likely used more sand this decade than the United States did inWhy people are dying for sand BBC
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How Singapore’s demand for Cambodian sand threatens
Cambodia’s sand sector exposed by Global Witness in Country for Sale 5 2. ill-GottEn GrainS: Key players in Cambodia’s sand sector in 2009 2010 7 3. drEdGinG up dirt: The impact of Cambodia’s unregulated sand sector 18 4. ShiftinG SandS: Failure of regulatory frameworks to govern Cambodia’s sand sector 22 5. thE rolE of SinGaporE:Cambodia, recognized as a large exporter of sand, supplied more than 7.2 million tonnes of sand to Singapore alone, fuelling the demand from nearby countries (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) as well as its own construction and infilling projects (Ng and Park, 2021).Sand mining: Stopping the grind of unregulated supply chains
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Singapore and Cambodia: A Relationship Built on Sand
Singapore, however, tells a different story. It says 73.6 million tons of sand was imported from Cambodia by Singapore, and this was reported to the Commodity Trade Statistics Database at theCambodia made a similar move in 2017, while Indonesia banned exports to Singapore in 2007, causing a "sand crisis" that brought building activity almost to a halt.As Myanmar farmers lose their land, sand mining for Singapore
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Singapore sand imports, 2007 to 2016. Source: DESA/UNSD
Between 2007 and 2016, for example, Singapore trade statistics recorded imports of 80.22 million metric tons of sand from Cambodia and more than 27 million metric tons from Myanmar, comprising 44Since 2010, Cambodia has seen increasing production of cement, crushed stone, sand and gravel in response to the country’s booming construction sector. Approved investment in the construction industry in 2015, at $3.3 billion, was 33% higher than 2014, according to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. Local Gravel and limestone Open Development Cambodia (ODC)
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Sand Dredging Rampant Despite Ban, Group Says The Cambodia
Despite last year’s government ban, Cambodia continues to feed Singapore’s desire to expand its island state, exporting millions of tons of sand without environmental and social safeguards and without proper financial oversight or regulation, according to environmental campaigners Global Witness. In a report to be released
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