The Guardian reports: Brown and barren land: Bolivia’s historic drought – in pictures During Bolivia’s worst drought in 25 years, photographer Marcelo Perez visited the reservoirs that supply drinking water to its biggest cities, to find a stark and arid landscape La sequía histórica de Bolivia – en imágenes All photographs by Marcelo Perez del Carpio…
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Drought: CEPB says that lacked seriousness in decrees
ANF reports in Los Tiempos: Drought: CEPB says that lacked seriousness in decrees After nearly a month of the approval of 12 decrees issued by President Evo Morales to address the effects of drought, the Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia (CEPB) described them as “unserious” and “irrelevant”. Warned that failure to take serious action…
Are we ready? Rain will bring floods in Beni, Bolivia
This cartoon is from El Diario (9/22/11), Beni is the department who “receives” most of the rain waters from the highlands and valleys of Bolivia. Every year there is flooding and cattle and housing is lost. In the cartoon, the son says: “…dad! why don’t we take the cattle to higher lands, before the flooding…
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