Lake Titicaca strangled by pollution: more than 12 million cubic meters of sewage water dumped yearly, fish poisoned by mercury
May 20, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
The uncontrolled dumping of sewage waste and tailings produced by more than 30,000 small-scale miners are causing widespread environmental damage in Lake Titicaca, the largest lake in South America and the highest commercially navigable lake in the world.
