Marco Arango News Today

The community is in a continuous struggle against the permanent water shortage, one of the most devastating impacts of the climate crisis for those whose livelihoods depend on subsistence agriculture.

CUZCO, Peru, Dec 18 (IPS) - Before, when it didnt rain in the summertime, we children used to pray to God to send us water from the heavens, and the rain would come. But now its different; the climate has changed and no prayers work—Juan Hilario Quispe, president of the small farming community of Muñapata 
 "The rich world has caused the climate change that is drying up our water sources, and here we are doing everything we can to recover them because otherwise we will die," s...