Peru’s melting glaciers bring new harvests – and fears for the future

Water surplus has opened up short-term opportunities for a struggling community in the Cordillera Blanca – but what happens when it runs out?

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These "water paradoxes" where melting glaciers provide short term increased water availability is really setting these impoverished locations up for catastrophic failure
- If its momentary the real damages come in the long term. The devastation from these events are going to be cataclysmic in the areas.