A horse wades through a sea of plastic bottles, tin cans and green sludge that fills El Salvador's largest freshwater lake, a stark image that shows how a key drinking water source is neglected, even as global environmental concerns are on the rise.
Known locally as Suchitlan — meaning "place of flowers" in the indigenous Nahuatl language — the Cerron Grande reservoir's ecosystem is home to native fish, waterbirds and mammals such as cougars and ocelots.
A protected site on paper, in reality it is one of Central America's most-polluted bodies of water.
