Laguna Piuray
High-altitude Andean lake supplying roughly half a nearby city's drinking water, ringed by wetlands and grazing cattle.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Laguna Piuray near Cusco opens in June two thousand nineteen, with a farmer named Rocío Cjuiro Mescco wading into these shallows to film pipes being dragged toward the reeds without a permit. It follows her fight against crews building Cusco's new international airport across the highway, and the neighbors who wrote to officials that construction workers had begun pulling water from the springs feeding the lake. You'll hear about the arrangement the city's water utility has run with upstream families since twenty thirteen, and what that money is meant to fund. Look at the reeds and grazing cattle ringing the shore, and consider what a farmer decided was worth refusing to look away from.
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