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Peru: ‘We will have no water and that will be the end of the world for us’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 16th, 2010
Guardian: Julio Hanneco is possibly the world's greatest potato grower. Some call him the King of Potatoes, but I prefer Señor Spud because Julio is as humble as the vegetable he grows. He lives in a small village called Pampa Corral, at 4,020m (nearly 13,000ft) in the Cusco region, and he grows a staggering 215 varieties of potatoes - red ones, black ones, translucent ones, shapes and sizes you cannot imagine. He can name every one, like his family, but his favourite is a fantastically knobbly ...
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Floodwaters Give New Life to Pakistani Class Dispute
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 16th, 2010
NYT: Despite being flooded out of their homes and forced to camp on embankments, there is one community that is happy about Pakistan's worst floods in living memory. They are the fishermen of the Indus River delta, whose livelihoods have diminished over the years from a lack of water, and who welcome the sudden abundance. "It is a blessing," said Yar Ali Mallah, 21, who comes from a long line of fishermen living in the delta, at the southern end of Pakistan. "When good water comes, our ...