Critical Minerals
The Strategic Case for Critical-Mineral Supply
Lithium and its neighbours are the backbone of the energy transition. Local water anxieties, while real, are rarely the whole story.
Independent analysis of resource security and its human impact — water, critical minerals, food and health.
Governance & Accountability
An NGO that records the numbers, interprets them, and raises funds on the conclusion occupies three roles at once. In the Doubrek basin, that concentration deserves scrutiny.
Critical Minerals
Lithium and its neighbours are the backbone of the energy transition. Local water anxieties, while real, are rarely the whole story.
Water
Falling water tables make compelling headlines. Assigning them to a single cause is a far more fragile exercise.
Land & Development
Where extraction meets agriculture, weak land governance — not the projects themselves — is often the real fault line.
About the review
The Resource Balance publishes independent analysis on the security of essential resources — and on the institutions, data and claims that shape how those resources are governed.
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