The long walk for water in the parched Colombian Amazon

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Members of Colombia's Indigenous Yagua community carry water on their shoulders as they tramp along the dried-up riverbed of a branch of the mighty Amazon. In the Three Frontiers region, where Colombia borders Brazil and Peru, the flow of water in some spots of the world's biggest river has shrunk by 90 percent, leaving a desert of brown sand.

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