Lithium can be extracted via two ways - hard rock mining which is used in Australia or brine recovery which is used in South America.

Lithium brine recovery is a time consuming process. Water is pumped to the surface and into a series of evaporation ponds. Over a period of months, the water slowly evaporates and a variety of salts precipitate out, leaving a brine with an ever-increasing concentration of lithium.

Lithium extracted by brine recovery requires enormous amounts of water to produce a single ton. The creation of the infrastructure required to produce "clean” energy is a ecological disaster in the making. In fact locals in South America say that already there has been irreversible damage to the aquifers in the deserts.

1 Nearly 1 billion people in cities around the world face water scarcity today and the number is likely to reach between 1.7 billion and 2.4 billion within the next three decades, according to the UN World Water Development Report.  Could it be the same people pushing suicide by EVs are going to make sure by making drinking water scarce?

2 America say that already there has been irreversible damage to the aquifers in the deserts.