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Posted by: Alek Miller

21 October 2009 - 10:00am

Lima's poorest residents are using nets to capture the moisture from the fog that shrouds the city. They don't have access to running water and often pay a high price to get it.

"'It's incredible that this is happening, there's internet, telephone and cable TV connections but no water - the most basic necessity for human life,' he [Abel Cruz, head of the group Peruvians Without Water (Peruanos Sin Agua)] said.

More than 250,000 people in this neighbourhood rely on private water trucks. They pay up to 10 times more than residents of middle-class Lima suburbs like Miraflores who have water on tap."

Full Story: How Peru is netting water supplies
Source: BBC News, October 20, 2009
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