South America's Lake Titicaca nears record low water level as El Nino bites

FILE PHOTO: Isabel Apaza shows the area of Lake Titicaca without water in drought season, in Huarina, Bolivia August 3, 2023. REUTERS/Claudia Morales/File Photo

LIMA (Reuters) - The water level at Lake Titicaca on the Peru-Bolivia border is edging towards a record low, exacerbated by the weather phenomenon known as El Nino that is expected to get still more intense in coming months.

The waters of the sprawling freshwater lake nestled in the Andes mountains have fallen an average 4 inches (10 cm) per month since April, said Milagros Quispe, an engineer with Peru's national meteorology and hydrology service Senamhi.