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Accelerating Shrinkage

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Mountain glaciers … are in retreat around the Earth, taking with them vast stores of water that grow crops, generate electricity and sustain cities and rural areas … The steady supply of water [farmers] need to grow crops has become erratic. “There is less water now. If there is no water, this land becomes a desert,” said Benedicto Loayza, a 52-year-old farmer … Cuzco, a city of 400,000, has already resorted to periodic water rationing and started pumping from a river 15 miles away for its drinking supply. In Peru’s capital, Lima, engineers have urged successive governments to drill a tunnel through the Andes and build big lagoons to ensure that the city’s 8 million residents have water … Cities in China, India, Nepal and Bolivia also face drastic water shortages as the glaciers shrink.

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