Friday 12 December 2014

In desert suburb of Lima, poorest pay most for scarce water

By Alister Doyle NUEVO PACHACUTEC, Peru (Reuters) - On a desert hillside north of Lima, a worker with a hose splashes water from a truck into plastic containers in a dusty neighborhood where the very poorest people pay most for water. Water will become scarcer in sprawling settlements such as Nuevo Pachacutec on the Pacific coast as the population of Peru's capital surges and global warming thaws Andean glaciers, reducing flows in coming decades as the ice disappears. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

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