By Aimee Gabay Seven years after an environmental administrator and three secretaries of the environment were charged with negligence that resulted in a toxic cyanide spill at Canadian miner ...

Just 1 to 2 °C of atmospheric warming – which is expected by 2050 – could be enough to evaporate the top few metres, which would shut down the Desaguadero River and dry up all the water ...

"At the moment there's no water because the Desaguadero River has got much lower. It's what provides us with water because the water from dug wells here is salty," Edwin Churata told Reuters at ...

Lake Poopó gets most of its water from the Desaguadero River, which flows from Lake Titicaca (Bolivia's largest lake). According to the published management plan, ...

It was formed in 1960s after the Desaguadero River was diverted. The lake is ripe with wildlife, home to dozens of species of birds, including about 120,000 flamingos, per Spanish news agency EFE .

The lake is filled by the Desaguadero River, flowing from Lake Titicaca, which is in good shape. But the Desaguadero is increasingly diverted for agriculture and mining activities, ...

The high altitude Desaguadero River. Stefan Haider / shutterstock. But during the past few decades, much of the Desaguadero was diverted for irrigation, so there was less water left to top up the ...

"In a typical year, rainfall during the wet season (December through March) recharges the lake directly and via increased inflow from the Desaguadero River.

It has a surface of 8.400 km2, of which 3,690 km2 are on Bolivian territory. Its altitude is 3,810 meters above sea level. Several rivers, primarily born on the mountain range, nourish the lake. On ...

As the local climate has heated up over decades, rivers and lakes have also shrunk. "At the moment there's no water because the Desaguadero River has got much lower.