The Real Price of Exotic Fruit & Veg: Living Without Water in Peru | Water Shortage Documentary

What’s it like to live without running water? How are the fruit and vegetables – avocados, asparagus, exotic fruit – that end up on our supermarket shelves sucking Peru’s land dry?

In Peru’s sprawling capital, Lima, this is the everyday reality for 1.5 million children and adults, forced to pay up to a week’s salary for just one day’s water. And the problem isn’t confined to the capital, across the country, the shortage of water is putting lives in danger and provoking conflict, as it displaces communities and threatens their agricultural livelihoods.

In Lima we meet some of the families struggling to live without one of life’s basic necessities. With only a few litres of water a week, their children’s health is at risk, and they’re at the mercy of unscrupulous businessmen, whose water trucks sell allegedly contaminated water at inflated prices. For others, the situation is even bleaker – we meet the community without access to any form of water supply – forced to beg their neighbours every day for enough water to wash and cook.

This film goes right to the heart of the water crisis – showing how society’s poorest are caught in the middle of a struggle between business, climate change and international politics.

This documentary was produced by and directed by SAMUEL KINGSLEY & HENRY RICHARDS . It was first released in 2016.

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