Visitors come for the icy azure waters and Andean mountain backdrop, but environmentalists worry about the long-term impact pollution is having on Lake Titicaca
Callizaya and his son read comics at his home.
"When I was a child in the nineties, all families on the island lived off fishing. Today only three families are fishing, catching just some 20 fishes per day," Callizaya says. He himself now has a home in the nearby city of El Alto.3 Jul 2018Houses built from totora plant sit on a manmade floating island as seen from Qewaya hill.
Its high-altitude environment is of major interest to climate change researchers, too, because ecosystems of its kind are highly sensitive to global warming, making it an early-warning marker of changes happening more broadly to the planet.Lazzaro shows a team member on a map where samples will be taken as they head to a polluted site in Cohana bay.
Lazzaro, who has been closely following pollutants in the lake for many years, is using a solar-powered buoy to do real-time measurements of water quality. He says there is not yet enough data to reliably illustrate the size of the problem.. Cohana Bay, BOLIVIA. Reuters/Manuel SeoaneA member of Professor Lazzaro's research team takes samples during a field trip in Cohana bay.
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