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The Citizens Who Turned a Dying Lagoon Into a Legal Person

Fresh Water

🇪🇸 Spain

After nitrate runoff turned Europe's largest saltwater lagoon into green soup and washed dead fish onto the beaches, ordinary Murcians collected 640,000 signatures to give the water its own rights.

639.8ksignaturesCitizen signatures behind the legislative initiative
135square kilometres of lagoonLagoon and catchment recognised as a legal person
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