{"id":16638,"date":"2025-03-06T14:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/?p=16638"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:21:22","slug":"water-shortage-at-lake-titicaca-how-activists-are-fighting-against-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wassermangel-am-titicacasee-wie-aktivistinnen-gegen-die-zeit-ankaempfen\/","title":{"rendered":"Water shortage on Lake Titicaca: How activists are fighting against time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The water level of the culturally rich river between Peru and Bolivia is sinking ever deeper, tributaries have dried up. Crop losses and contaminated water sources are causing the population to migrate. Environmentalists are now working hard to protect the Lake Titicaca ecosystem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"My ancestors performed rituals and ceremonies at Lake Titicaca,\" says Miriam Lupaca. She works as a lawyer and activist for the protection of Lake Titicaca - and adds: \"Forecasts say that the lake will only exist for another 15 years.\" To ensure that this gloomy prediction does not come true, she is working in a network of committed people in Bolivia and Peru to preserve the Lake Titicaca ecosystem. This includes workshops, binational meetings, but also a legal process and political initiatives - read more about this in the current \"begegnen\" magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"827\" height=\"1170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gzd2_m21_begegnen_1-25_magazin.jpg\" alt=\"gzd2 m21 encounter 1 25 magazine\" class=\"wp-image-16640 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gzd2_m21_begegnen_1-25_magazin.jpg 827w, https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gzd2_m21_begegnen_1-25_magazin-636x900.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gzd2_m21_begegnen_1-25_magazin-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gzd2_m21_begegnen_1-25_magazin-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gzd2_m21_begegnen_1-25_magazin-300x424.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gzd2_m21_begegnen_1-25_magazin-600x849.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gzd2_m21_begegnen_1-25_magazin.pdf\">The magazine \"begegnen\" from March 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in this issue: At the Protestant University of Central Africa, the \"Ecotheology\" project sensitizes students to the sustainable use of resources. A visit to the most environmentally friendly campus in Cameroon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/web_m21_begegnen_4-2024_magazin_def.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u25ba Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yumpu.com\/de\/document\/view\/70043700\/begegnen-1-25\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/app.missionspresse.org\/de\/profiles\/1fbeb62bce96\/editions\/0ccc4bade4d6e87ea225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u25ba Read directly in the app<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/projects\/lake-titicaca-in-need-strategies-for-climate-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u25ba Mission 21 supports the project to protect Lake Titicaca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The magazine <strong>\"encounter\" <\/strong>is Mission 21's donor magazine and is published four times a year. The magazine contains information and stories about Mission 21's projects and the people behind them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other things, the current issue focuses on projects in sustainable agriculture so that particularly vulnerable people can feed themselves and their families reliably and responsibly, even under the conditions of the climate 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