Join us in the JPL Assembly Room 4.04.22 to launch the photo exhibit Life and Politics of Water: In Peru’s Fast-Melting Andes, A Short-Term Water Surplus Spells Disaster with award-winning international photojournalist Peter Yeung.
Peru’s Cordillera Blanca is the highest tropical mountain range in the world. Its glaciers supply a massive “water tower” that stretches across the entire continent of South America from the Pacific Coast to the Amazon Basin. These glaciers are rapidly melting under the warming climate. Farmers living immediately below its peaks are navigating a new era where glacial melt temporarily brings more water to some communities as others dry up. This photo exhibit explores how water shapes life in the Cordillera’s northernmost province of Huaylas. Learn more with photographer Peter Yeung’s reporting Peru’s melting glaciers bring new harvests – and fears for the future in The Guardian.