In Bolivia, water and ice tell of climate change

[Louisiana1976]

EL ALTO, Bolivia — When the tap across from her mud-walled home dried up in September, Celia Cruz stopped making soups and scaled back washing for her family of five. She began daily pilgrimages to better-off neighborhoods, hoping to find water there.

Though she has lived here for a decade and her husband, a construction worker, makes a decent wage, money cannot buy water.

“I’m thinking of moving back to the countryside; what else can I do?” said Ms. Cruz, 33, wearing traditional braids and a long tiered skirt as she surveyed a courtyard dotted with piglets, bags of potatoes and an ancient red Datsun. “Two years ago this was never a problem. But if there’s not water, you can’t live.”

The glaciers that have long provided water and electricity to this part of Bolivia are melting and disappearing, victims of global warming, most scientists say.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/science/earth/14bolivia.html?hpw

[Taverner]

1. And where is private enterprise trying to sell people their own water?

[chandler2]

2. Beat me to it. The article is little more than a press release...

from private interests. I personally know a guy who was involved with IMF's assistance to co's that were trying to privatize
water resources in South America. And, he is NOT a lightweight. As a matter of fact, he was the Treasurer for S.America, for
one of the largest co's in the entire physical universe (energy co. that most DUers who aren't in a coma would instantly know)