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UMA: A WATER CRISIS IN BOLIVIA

Specs: USA | 2020 | 78 min
Filmmaker: Ana LLacer
Theme:  indigenous, mining

Three indigenous communities in the Bolivian highlands fight to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a national water crisis. The government has consistently supported the expansion of mining and granted miners unrestricted water access. Uma, the Aymara word for water, takes viewers on a journey from the tropical Andean glaciers and the highest navigable lake in the world to the mines of Oruro, and the vanished Lake Poopó.

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