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more than interested, I heard this morning in bed the news: a dead prisoner, attempted rape, a traffic accident and a sensation a pregnant man, the usual mixture of horror, crime and sex, considered here as newsworthy I. to realize until I suddenly the word "corte de agua" hear. The water is shut off. that in several districts of Lima today from 9:30 am until around 2:30 early off the water for repairs. My neighborhood is among them. A look at the Clock: 7.30; not hoard like to get out of bed and water. All empty plastic bottles, I can find are filled with water. Then quickly rinse all dishes from the previous day. Reserve the water bucket on the roof terrace is empty - and from the tap drips less and less water. The "Corte", the water shutdown has already begun. At least I still manage to take a shower, come out as long as a few drops. At 8.15 the line is dry - one of the few things that can happen before the announced time. My two friends, who announced himself for 11 clock tomorrow have to be a shower can not stop - so much water could hoard no more.
that water is not taken for granted, you sense only when there is no time. That in the metropolitan Lima often not mind missing borders on a miracle actually. For Lima's 8 million residents live in the desert, literally speaking. Geographically, Cairo and Lima are damn similar. This is any alien immediately clear when looking at the barren sand hills around the city or the dusty plants and palm trees look sad, the visual appearance despite extensive casting never really lush and green. It is therefore surprising that the residents of Lima have hardly worried about their future Water treatment account. Even in the slums, which are inadequately supplied with water, and in which one hardly sees a green leaf, the problem is reduced to the fact that one should lay pipes or the water company is corrupt. But what if there comes no more water from the tap, because it no longer exists?
Lima fed with water of the river Rimac and Chillon. In the pass Ticlio, at 4800 meters, flow the stream, forming gradually the Rimac River. "Just a few years ago I saw snow when crossing the pass," said Archbishop Pedro Barreto. Today you have put on quite a spectacle, a few snow fields in the distance to . Recognize The tropical glaciers have melted in the last 5 years by 22% - the Peruvian Ticlio is no exception.
Just below the Ticlios start flowing waste water from mines in the small streams, below is a tunnel that is stored in the mountainous rubble for decades and who has since seeped into the groundwater, further down in the Rimac valley, there where the outermost settlements Lima begin flowing industrial effluents, domestic wastes and agricultural pesticides in unfiltered river. That is, the water is not only less: it is also highly polluted in Lima. If
Lima run out of water, is here also start the light: Peru is by its geography, the steep Andean slopes, able to cover one third of its energy requirements through hydroelectric power stations. Question is, how long, when the water recedes.
All these questions have been taboo in the Peruvian society and politics. Because Peru is a society in modernization. Through sustained economic growth is the need for water and energy, not only for industry, but especially for personal use. Since it is not popular, if politicians continue to households with water and energy.
good that the Catholic Church - finally - is their prophetic role just here: today, Archbishop Barreto, the national campaign "Water, God's gift to life, "inaugurated. In all katholsichen communities are the Christians for dealing with water resources to be made aware.
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