...Joel Mancilla, Commissioner of El Vergel, accuses “the mining company [Goldcorp] of using in one hour, the amount of water a local family would use in 25 years.”...Before operations began, a contract between community members from the ejido of El Vergel and Goldcorp, stipulated the perforation of only 10 water wells for industrial use...by the end of 2009, Goldcorp was already operating 30 wells...local residents justifiably fear for the contamination of the aquifers due to cyanide leaching processes...[and] are already complaining about strange odors, lack of water, respiratory problems, cattle and wildlife showing up lifeless near the mine...crop diseases never experienced before... Lauro Herrera, community leader from Cedros, claims Goldcorp “’took advantage of our ignorance and poverty by drafting a lease contract in which they agree to pay us only half a Mexican Peso per square meter during 30 years”...