A river dweller walking on the dry bed of the Solimoes River, in the Pesqueiro Community, in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, northern Brazil in this file photo. — AFP
BEARING six-litre bottles of water on their shoulders, members of Colombia’s Indigenous Yagua community 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 in some spots of the world’s biggest river by volume has shrunk by 90%, leaving a desert of brown sand etched with ripples.
