An intense drought in Colombia has lowered the water levels of the Amazon River, the longest and most voluminous river in the world. Indigenous communities in Leticia, the capital of the Amazonas department, and surrounding towns are unable to navigate waterways and have to walk up to four hours. Experts partly blame rampant deforestation in the Amazon, which in turn reduces humidity and rainfall, for the receding water levels.
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00:00The climate change is just one of the facets and edges that can affect the Amazon, but
00:28the fastest way is what we are doing with the Amazon, which is to destroy the Amazon
00:33gradually, to destroy its forests, its diversity and its potential capacity for water production
00:39as we see it, which we call the sea river, the largest and most caudal river on the planet
00:44because every time we are seeing it, that scenario that we saw a long time ago is no longer going
00:48to happen again.
01:07Now with this climate change, with the drought in our Amazon, we are affected and it makes
01:12it very difficult for our products to arrive and become scarce, they are even taking two
01:17months, three months, that has made it difficult and today it puts the quality of life of our
01:24citizens at risk, the cost of life of the citizens.
01:42The health, to get a patient out, you have to run four hours to get to a health center,
02:06you have to go to a health center, you have to go to a hospital, you have to go to a hospital,
02:22you have to go to a hospital, you have to go to a hospital, you have to go to a hospital.