Cuninico: the fight for clean water continues

Mongabay
Dec 19, 2016, 2:00 pm303 pts
CUNINICO, Peru - Whenever there's a cloudburst, the sidewalk that serves as the main thoroughfare in this small Kukama Indian village is lined with plastic buckets and basins to catch the rain that drips from tin or palm-thatch roofs. The Marañón River — traditionally the villagers' source of water for…

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