Peru Andean water insecurity and community displacement

Kuvaus

Water used to arrive on schedule in the high Andes. Not by clock or calendar, but by memory. Elders knew when the streams would swell, when irrigation channels would carry enough flow to plant potatoes or water alpacas. That rhythm is breaking. There is no single failure point, instead, water slips out of sync. Springs fail mid-season. Irrigation plans turn into guesses. Across Peru’s Andean regions, communities are adjusting to a resource that no longer behaves as memory says it should.