Dream to Cure Water

Peru is home to 70% of the world’s tropical glaciers, but 40% of their surface area has disappeared in the last half century alone. According to Peru’s National Institute of Natural Resources, all of the country’s 200 glaciers are under threat. Due to this glacier melt, rocks are exposed to the air for the first time in thousands of years, dumping acid-heavy metals and minerals into the rivers. Two remote mountain communities in Peru that depend on the water attempt to fight back against these effects of climate change through innovative adaptation – combining ancestral