The land is dry and grows the struggle for water in the Andes
climate change.
Peru is the country that have global warming in the world. Ecuador also suffers. Temperature rises, glaciers are melting but there is sudden frost. Crops and threatens ancient lifestyle. Silvina
Heguy
For Cusco. Peru. Special Envoy
Gumercinda Catunta have long walks with the intention of "sowing and harvest rain." But when he goes to seek help from authorities Pampamarca get the same answer: no budget. Gumercinda
repeats his order in the town square of the province of Cusco, Peru. 41, three children and stand under the monument recalling that these lands are those of Tupac Amaru and his partner, Micaela Bastidas.
These are lands that are part of the country that suffers the effects of global climate change and where no state aid or the countries responsible for global warming come.
More than 3,800 meters, the lack of water, the shrinkage of glaciers, blurred seasons, the sudden cold, rainy seasons becoming shorter and intense, rapidly chilling cold and the heat higher and higher are concrete manifestations of climate change, these variations of the time directly or indirectly attributed to human activity. Gumercinda
talks while a band of musicians sounds within the municipality of this town about two hours from the resort of Machu Picchu and anticipates the departure of a newly married couple followed by a swarm of relatives and friends and a cloud of confetti, the only cloud that is seen thousands of kilometers.
Climate change threatens life as it is lived for years in the region of Cusco.
"Before we knew when to sow because rain started. Before there were three sources from which we drew water for irrigation. Are gone, but they are the new pests and chips that are undermined, "lists Roberto Lazo, one of the neighbors involved in a project involving 6,500 families to adapt to climate change. Ararina association is responsible for conveying clean 24 techniques aimed at improving soil productivity, water management and conservation.
"Three years ago the temperatures are so cold that our kids get sick of things not seen. In addition to suffering malnutrition, dying of pneumonia, "says Gumercinda. About two hours
Pampamarca is Espinar, another of the Peruvian provinces forming the region of Cusco. "Aquicito the grass does not grow as before and the dry Puna is increasingly drier.
The mountain range surrounding rural communities is dark brown. "Before had snow and glaciers, vast grasslands, but no ice and no water, "said Adriano Paucara, one of its inhabitants.
Peru and Ecuador are the two Latin American countries that have tropical glaciers, icy surfaces between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, and according to scientific studies are disappearing.
Beyond the retraction and advancement of these ice masses is a natural process, human intervention changed this cycle. And there is no water ice and no water, no life. So the struggle for water is not a prediction of science fiction. A 2007 study by the Andean Community in Latin America forecast to tensions involve the water between 7 and 77 million people.
And that happens in Peru, where cities like Espinar have only two hours of water.
This country lost 40% of ice blocks in the last 30 years and almost the same proportion melted in Ecuador. The two countries are listed to receive the compensation fund and for adaptation to climate change was launched at the Copenhagen Summit. But little progress has been made.
The funds will be the subject of next December during the Cancun meeting.
But neither the money nor the negotiations are, by now, these highlands of the Andes.
Only farmers, NGOs and cooperation international.
Paucara Adriano is one of the few that planting and harvesting and rain. Thanks to funding from the NGO Oxfam regional projection Association built a water reservoir and a sprinkler system that makes its plot is a mole among both dry green. A model that try to copy other people.
Camanoccla 4,400 meters in six months ago that it is copying.
"There's no grass as before. The sun burns like never before. Before walking on legs, now we need shoes. Sudden frosts that ruin crops. Hurricanes and diseases originate in children, "says one of its inhabitants of the community of 500 families. So far this year "30 little angels we went to heaven. Not stand the cold and pneumonia that was none before, but now yes. " Source
http://www.clarin.com/mundo/america_latina/tierra-seca-crece-lucha-Andes_0_338966142.html
