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In the villages along the hundreds of rivers of the Amazon rainforest it is told that at the heart of every river or “cocha” (lagoon), lies the Yacumama or ‘mother of the waters’, a giant boa that rarely emerges because of its size, feeding only on aquatic animals. It may remain […]

Abstract: One of the greatest wealth of the planet earth is water, and not in vain it is the creative element of life par excellence. Since Peru is a country with 3 large sheds of water (Pacific, Atlantic and Titicaca) whose courses cross the coast, the Andes and the Peruvian […]

This past January, Mexico suffered one of the most alarming droughts in 80 years. The country is now experiencing water shortages trends, resulting in less food harvested due to the lack of access to water for irrigation. The drought has affected mainly the north part of the country –the states […]

The other day I was in a taxi shuttling between Bhutan’s capital city of Thimphu and the Paro Valley along the Chhu River. I sat cleaved between two ladies in the back seat and as we passed the beautiful 14th century monastery of  Thangtong Gyalpo, the woman next to me tipped the last […]

Bangladesh is grappling with a massive crisis of arsenicosis or chronic arsenic poisoning. A World Bank report shows that arsenic was first detected in the groundwater of Bangladesh and West Bengal in India in the 1990s while a recent study in  the  British Medical Journal ‘The Lancet’  found that 35-77 million […]