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LA PAZ, - Under a scorching sun, more than three hundred Bolivians on Friday (Oct 6) marched to a dusty plain near the Incachaca dam that overlooks the city of La Paz, gathering to pray for rain and an end to a severe drought that has threatened their water supply. The ten reservoirs that supply La Paz - one of...
Hundreds of Bolivians have marched to a dusty plain near the Incachaca dam that overlooks La Paz, gathering to pray for rain and an end to a severe...
Under a scorching sun, more than three hundred Bolivians on Friday marched to a dusty plain near the Incachaca dam that overlooks the city of La Paz, gathering to pray for rain and an end to a severe drought that has threatened their water supply. The ten reservoirs that supply La Paz - one of the country's largest cities with about 2.2 million inhabitants - only contain 135 days of water combined, Bolivia's state-owned water company EPSAS has warned. "We have come to the summit to cry out for rain," said Susana Laruta, a member of a local evangelical Christian church.