Laguna Alalay — A Real Shame | South American Law & Policy

Laguna Alalay — A Real Shame | South American Law & Policy: "Laguna Alalay — A Real Shame
Posted on October 1, 2011 by fromherz| Leave a comment
We’ve really got to do something about this. Laguna Alalay and Rio Rocha, Cochabamba’s two most visible bodies of water, are both extremely polluted. In the lake’s case, one of the main sources is toxic discharge from jeans factories. I know the causes are manifold — and I’m sure solutions are easier to imagine than to execute — but we can’t allow this to continue without putting up a good fight. Sometimes I think it may even be more important to take care of urban streams and lakes than their wilderness counterparts. This is the water we see and interact with every day; if we can’t muster up the strength to keep it in decent shape, that’s a very sad commentary indeed.

-NF"