The waters of South America's largest freshwater lake have severely receded leaving the Indigenous people around its shores struggling to maintain their livelihoods 'This is the first time since I was born it has dried up like this," says Rita Suaña, 48, one of the female leaders of the Uros, an ancestral people of the Altiplano who live on the waters of Lake Titicaca, on the border between Peru and Bolivia. "We used to fish here, but now you can't do it any more. There used to be fish here, se...
'Everything is dry and very sad': Lake Titicaca gripped by drought crisis
The Guardian - 22 Nov 2023 13:00
The waters of South America's largest freshwater lake have severely receded leaving the Indigenous people around its shores struggling to maintain their livelihoods 'This is the first time since I was born it has dried up like this," says Rita Suaña, 48, one of the female leaders of the Uros, an ancestral people of the Altiplano who live on the waters of Lake Titicaca, on the border between Peru and Bolivia. "We used to fish here, but now you can't do it any more. There used to be fish here, se...
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