Daily Monitor Tuesday December 15 2020 Advertisement In a remote village of Nakabaat in Rupa Sub-county, Moroto District, lives about 1,500 households who eke a living from gold mining. The miners here risk their lives to dig ore out of the earth, from which they extract gold. At Nakabaat mines, about 300kgs of ore must be excavated to extract one gram of gold. Traders buy a gram between Shs110,000 and Shs210,000. This is done under hazardous conditions worsened by lack of access to clean water, a health centre, a school and other basic necessities. River Nakabaat is the only source of water for bathing and drinking in the community. The same river is used by the animals.