People are stealing sand now.

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In the dead of night we've come to film a mafia at work. We know the dangers. We've been told our lives could be at risk. But this is the vision we must have to expose an extensive network of underworld criminals, known as the "sand mafia", which is destroying beaches and riverbeds across India. Foreign Correspondent travelled to the drought-stricken Bundelkhand region in central India to film them at work, stealing sand — a resource that's now so valuable it's been dubbed "India's gold". Sand is vital for India's booming construction industry, which is tipped be in the top three in the world in less than a decade. It employs over 35 million people and is valued at well over $126 billion per annum.

I never would have guessed that sand would be that essential that you have to steal it. (The sand business isn't worth 126 billion per annum. That's the construction industry).

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