‘This is the first time since I was born it has dried up like this,” says Rita Suaña, 48, one of the female leaders of the Uros, an ancestral people of the Altiplano who live on the waters of Lake Titicaca, on the border between Peru and Bolivia.
“We used to fish here, but now you can’t do it any more. There used to be fish here, seaweed, seaweed for the birds of the lake, but now there’s nothing. Everything is dry, white and very sad,” says Rita as she navigates her boat through the strait that connects the floating islands of the Uros with the main part of the lake.
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