The Real Price of Exotic Fruit & Veg: Living Without Water in Peru
What’s it like to live without running water? How are the fruit and vegetables – avocados, asparagus, exotic fruit – that end up on our supermarket shelves sucking Peru’s land dry? In Peru’s sprawling capital, Lima, this is the everyday reality for 1.5 million children and adults, forced to pay up to a week’s salary for just one day’s water.
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