Around our supermarket shelves are stocked with exotic fruit and vegetables imported from all over the world. But how often do we stop to think about where the water to grow these things comes from. Weve been to one of the worlds biggest exporters peru and south america theres an economic boom here but perus facing a crisis. Experts say water shortages are threatening to become the worlds number one problem but in peru that problem is already a reality. And its leaving the countrys poorest open to exploitation. Could the food we buy in our supermarkets be making this crisis worse and whats life like if you are one of the worlds three quarters of a billion people with no Running Water. With come to lima the capital of peru. This sprawling city on the pacific was once the nerve center of spains empire in the americas. Downtown life is no different than for the residents in any wealthy european city. To take a short drive out of a center and join another world. Via their Lawns Nursery School in the south of the capital lima has all the usual facilities except one. That. Dont. I would think that its stagnant water but we dont have any sanitation so what can we do we have to work with what we have but it means were always truly in need the children already know that when theres not enough water it means theyll get sick. Like much of peru the Nursery School is in a neighborhood that has no connection to the water mains. They have only one bucket of water to wash all the childrens hands. Nothing is wasted. There that wasnt. There whatever is a blessing. Had them that would make a huge difference. The children would be healthier and in better shape. Theyd be well fed they could wash and they could wash their food to. Water is truly vital. As they say you cant live without water. In twenty fifteen the World Economic forum declared that water crisis is the number one global risk in terms of impact on society. In lima that risk is already a reality. To understand why you only have to look at the river which feeds limas water system the remark its nowhere near enough for a city of nine million. And Scientists SayClimate Change is drying up the remark at an ever faster rate. Back in via the launch of the daily water delivery is underway. These private water trucks are a lifeline for most of the one point five Million People in lima who have no access to Running Water. But if they fill every house has its own tank which can last a family for two weeks. Where in. Back to the home of one of the boys from the Nursery School five year old jorge his parents say that the trucks arent enough to get by on. I was a sometimes we have to wait for a water truck to come in winter when it rains they sometimes dont come at all. So we have to find ways to save water water is precious to us because without water people cant live. They giving up on the idea that theyll ever get the Running Water they need from the government. I mean the element they left me and when you unfortunately the state hasnt reached the people here yet we still dont have the basics all we get our promises from politicians who always come to us around election time promising this and that. In reality though nothings been done about our water and sewage which are basic necessities for every human being. Weve managed to build a life here with ingenuity and skill. And that means we need to buy water or a collected using the ways weve set up. The people who live here are very resourceful they do whatever they can to be selfsufficient. They grow most of their own food using water collected from the fog covers these hills during the winter. The phone catcher has pipes running from it thats how we bring the water down here but right now the nets arent up. And you have your own system. You know the system is how we get the water down to our house but not at the moment only when its winter. And do you think that that is enough water to combine all of your native sea yes for washing clothes washing dishes for the animals. In the valley. Weve come to meet about a cruise limas foremost water rights campaigner he wants to show us his associations project to try and cover the cells with fogge nets of the type that the a modern family relies on. This is a fog net system and it captures water out of the fog. This. One of these can collect between two hundred and four hundred liters of water a day. Thats water can be used to your gate plant and help the families here become selfsufficient. A little less familiar if the who out so far organization has installed eight hundred see if one of them belongs to mount a. Laser to come us. They arent right pointed out. Mara runs a restaurant and guest house where she welcomes tourists from all over the world. Where look all the tourists always ask me to make my look im a cocktail they look ma using what she collects from her fog now and she can keep her own crops more to it but only to a point. You know they love to get our water and we take advantage of our fog catchers during the winter that goes to watering the plants or Drinking Water though has to come from the water truck. And i cook with that. When we thought. Forty eight dry months of the year and she relies on the water trucks. Going to be made all the beds here have their own Water Reservoir high up there. But beyond that we have to buy water you know this season were buying from the water truck every fifteen days and every fifteen days i have to pay fifty euros you know one way or another we have to get the money to buy water. At the moment tamara says that up to half of her income has to go on buying water every single month. We love with god its expensive water is expensive here. Mainly because we have so many plants if we didnt have so many we wouldnt use as much water but because we have a lot we do. I guess that theres the pool through here. What i got how do you feel it. Here the water comes through here so you buy the water yes. The people who buy from water trucks and beer to launch pay many times more than wealthy lemans do for the water they cant from the tap. Has three boys and the cost and stop. Down the hill people with sanitation paired most five or seven year olds for water thats a good value but im paying three times that here. And he says there are even more Serious Problems with the water from the trucks. Aside from the cost the water here isnt very good the big water trucks come here and sometimes you dont know if the tanks rusty inside thats why the children get sick sometimes. And so what is that like. When you know you cant trust the water. What can we do we just drink it because we dont have any other water sometimes the children drink the water before its been boiled its not good for them they get sick with things like chicken going a fever. The one. Its a terrible problem with stagnant water the insects lay their eggs in it you touch it and youre infected its dangerous for us we dont have even basic sanitation here in via lourdes there was much. The children have been watching us talk and i know its a serious problem. Down at the local clinic the doctor says they come across water related illnesses all the time. I think a lot of their what they know. Where their water shortage leads us to the question of hygiene it causes lots of skin diseases in children we see a huge amount of skin and diarrheal diseases theyre very common because of the lack of water mothers cant wash their food properly and when they do wash the water often hasnt been properly treated which is a basic necessity. When a child has been sick like this for a while what effect does it have. Is what it is here you see it in their nutrition stunted growth and weight loss all that has an effect of course and it affects their education the children have no energy they sit in class and just want to sleep theyre tired and cant concentrate because of the lack of water. The water from the trunks is supposed to be clean and good to drink many trucks even carry the logo of limas water board set up our as a mark of quality so why so many people getting sick. Weve heard a rumor that despite claiming to deliver treated and certified water many trucks are actually filling up from illegally dark secret wells but theres no guarantee of safety we want to check it out. Early the next morning we follow the trial to a corner of town thats way off the beaten track thats a scar off. The truck as the officials set up our logo but this doesnt look like an official filling point. That. We approach the driver and ask him what the water is for he says its intended for watering plants filling up roof tanks. He insists the water isnt for human consumption despite what it says on the side of the truck. During the night if i want to spot a lot of stuff. I snapped. On the side out because he was set up oh yeah i thought its not working there he said i think they think. That if we can look at it if it comes out well you know the driver insists that he stopped selling Drinking Water last year his water isnt making people sick. But im going to. Weve seen similar trucks selling water to households but we have no way of knowing for sure where this water is going. Were bringing our footage to the strikingly green offices of limos water. We saw on the other day a truck with a set of coal logo. That nobody. Knows the sort of polo go but its not from sort of paul show me the logo youve. Come a. Drug supply for but. Its not so. Good. And so this this is not a set of well then. Its yes. Its not controlled by us but its its quite confusing if it says it has the set up our logo people presume. That yes in this case effect of late they are selling water which is not authorized for consumption by set up all their consumer. And i saw a most and i moved and how do you feel about the fact that trucks are circulating with your low. They should be reported to the police. Also says that set up parlance investing hundreds of millions of euros into bringing water to limas poorest areas. Its clear that the water problem here doesnt affect everybody equally for the wealthy life continues like in any european city in fact despite the shortage a study five years ago found that the average person in lima uses twice as much water as consumers in the e. U. Its a problem lemurs format the human rights campaigners suzanne of iran wanted to do something about. It and. Were talking about people who have big swimming pools. Who waste Drinking Water. They have enormous gardens and impressive golf courses. They can reduce their water use by changing behavior and recycling water. On there now what is wrong with weve tried to show them that you can reuse water than doing the same you know they can sit where right now and we tried to reduce social inequality. Which leads to great differences in the way people use and can access water in. Here thing. About viren admit she only partially succeeded and she says it wasnt because of a lack of money. Before that mean that when theyre. On a basic level you need cooperation and shared goals among the Central Government the ministries and local municipalities and in at one point there why was. Norman the some problem as they got back their political. Often it comes down to the way people behave in politics. The thing theyre fighting among themselves over disagreements. And those disagreements have little to do with important issues. None of them what it means they lose sight of the fact that there is a population who need water in the city yeah what they can. And they need water of decent quality and water all day long in a city thats in the middle of the desert. They are some of the worst hit victims of Climate Change in the world and move. Weve seen how the lack of water is dividing this city into two but weve also seen how people without water find ways to make life continue as normally as possible. Now though were off to a neighborhood where the water crisis dominates every single aspect of peoples lives. In the dean area in the north of lima theres an electricity base even wife or i or there poor People Living on this steep hill have jobs and they have money to buy water. But no one is allowed to sell it to them and on one day we might find water but not the next we have to look for a down hill close to the main road theres none up here. Or without. The water trucks dont make it up here and the nearest Running Water comes to the homes half a kilometer down the rocky slope. Or that host oh paris and the other residents can do is go down the hill with their buckets and bank for water. Thats why i say i couldnt find water. The neighbors down the hill said they didnt have any. They said they couldnt give us water because theyve been told its not allowed. To ask from the bottom of our hearts we need someone to help us up here we are the Water Company to have some compassion. But no one has come to help us yet. Like everyone here ha stows extended family cant afford to rent a place down in the city. Were in this terrible situation out of necessity we have no other choice but to live here struggling from day to day. No stole my heart as household of eight people uses just three hundred liters of water a week thats a fraction of the amount the World Health Organization sense is required to meet a persons most basic needs. And their children dont understand if we have water or not they dont understand. We have to bring the water up here one way or another so at least they can have something to drink we also have to limit them and rational we cant just waste water thats how we have to live. When i was living across town in a rented place i could shower every day i could wash any time. Here i have to walk around like this dirty this is how we live. While were talking a number a neighbor comes over to tell us her story again her familys life is dominated by one thing water. I think we have to go house to house asking them to give us three or just two containers of water how often do you ask for water. Bowl every day the containers are small and they arent enough for two days they only last for one day are you the only one who carries the water cooler yes. So your son stays with your daughter i carry her i put my daughter on my back and carry the water. Has there ever been a time that youve not managed to find someone to give you water. I have to beg them to give it to me because the children are the ones who suffer the most we suffer here in this area on the hill. Every day at five am lydia straps her baby to her back sent off to get water and then goes to work her eight year old son walks down the hill to school and back alone. It must have been more complicated before the baby was born. I still had to carry even with the belly if you only knew with my belly like that i carried the water but thanks to my daughter was born normal i had to carry even with a big belly. As the heat goes down its time to look for water everyone who can pitch is in. As always they dont know for sure whether they can fill their containers this time. Success. This water will keep the families going for a couple of days at least. The day of the low home exhausted bringing up the water from down hill. Bringing the water home to kirk and there was. We have to bring it from all the way down there. Thats why we want to road up here. That mean that in the think were always tired when its over. There are mothers doing it too we carry up the water with pain in our arms all of us are suffering for lack of water. So we end up with a lower. This morning we head back to nineteen edia to find out why the water crisis is hitting these people so badly at the bottom of the hill we meet as to lead to us or saudi oh shes lived here for twenty seven years and is now one of the lucky few who has Running Water for half an hour a week. If im here weve had water for about ten years but we have to pay for everything the water board gave us a tank down the hill and we have to get the water up here without carrying it i cant carry any longer. The water board find her whole two months wages for giving water to the people up the hill. And theres this one to let people needed but we cant give it to them sometimes they say were mean but its not out of meanness its because were being threatened that the waterboard will find us or cut off our water if we keep giving it to other people so we cant. Go on she says the threat of sanctions by the waterboard has spurred people in her community to intimidate their neighbors into not offering help. People have even threatened to kill us theyve said theyll kill us one by one for giving water to the others imagine it people from our own community. Once we made our way to the top of the hill again were taken to see how dangerous the trip to fetch water can be. Common panga lima slipped carrying water and broke her leg. If the back of it. I didnt know it was broken my husband couldnt carry me alone he tried and i screamed my son said lets call the fire brigade but that would have taken forever it took ages to get to the hospital several neighbors helped if a disaster were to happen here a fire it would be a tragedy. What that meant that. She couldnt afford surgery so shell have to sit without moving her leg for months if that means that make it a doctor said i need surgery but i asked him to try to fix it with a cast he warned me it would take longer but i said ok our resources are limited. They wanted to put in plans. That lay out the doctor said they tried to send it and put the cast on but i cant move my leg we had to use a wooden stretcher to get back from the hospital it was like a procession thats how they carried me here. Because common card work her husband has to put in over time so the task of collecting water falls to the children believing that because they come back from school or leave their bags and go to look for water for an adult its sometimes easier but i send my child he still little how can he ask people for water and people are cruel sometimes its very worrying im a little bit more of a. Next door we catch up again with water rights campaigner cruz. The u. S. D. A. Along the course that we have this is me i am talking about Something Real. This is my job. Im interested in your problem well i can try to help with the situation im not offering to solve it just trying to help you know that that we knew that. If were going to try and do something tangible Something Real i think the best would be an access road. Where thats how we could get water here. Says that of the four thousand three hundred