Look at Nauru’s map, Today, 90% of the land in the country is useless. It was destroyed due to mining. The middle of the island is uninhabitable. It cannot be farmed. People live only on the edge of the island. In February 2017, the Australian Lawyers Alliance wrote a letter to the Australian government telling them that due to the phosphate mining, the groundwater of the country was contaminated by a highly toxic heavy-metal Cadmium.
Due to this, the residents of this nation are at a higher risk of irreversible kidney damage, lung damage, bone damage and cancer. This means that this country doesn’t even have access to clean drinking water. Once, you could fish in the natural coral reefs around the island, But not any longer. This toxic heavy metal would be present in the fish too. 200-300 years ago, fruits and vegetables were grown here. When European traders came to trade.
But according to the United Nation’s FAO report, Fruits, vegetables, and other nutritional foodstuffs cannot be grown here now. An anthropologist Amy McLennan, of the University of Oxford, spent 11 months living on this island recently. She said that on this island, finding even 1 vegetable in a week is a matter of luck. The people living here do not have clean drinking water.
They have to rely on imported water. No domestic food, no domestic water. Everything needs to be imported from other countries. Mainly from Australia and New Zealand because they are the closest.
