Quarries do damage you can see - and some you can't
State inaction allows industry to imperil water resources and depress property values
By Hani M. Bathish
Special to The Daily Star
Monday, February 26, 2007
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Some of Lebanon's most picturesque areas bear the unsightly scars of quarrying, a frequent visual reminder of what can happen when the state consistently fails to regulate an industry whose work has so much potential for far-reaching side-effects. But the damage is more than skin-deep:
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