#Regram #RG EverydayClimateChange: Photo by James Whitlow Delano jameswhitlowdelano for everydayclimatechange Kichwa woman barters with owner of livestock at the weekly animal market in Saquisili. Highlanders come down to the main altiplano, or high plateau, market town to trade their livestock. Ecuador. Climate change has melted 40 of the glacial mass of Ecuador's volcanoes and reduced the highland paramo grasslands' ability to retain water, and act as a living reservoir for the Kichwa communities living in the mountains, and give birth to the greatest water system on the planet, the Amazon basin. In the Peruvian Andes, where there are more pronounced wet and dry seasons, water has become scarce in highlands where water was never in short supply, leading to conflict between thirsty cities and farmers versus indigenous rural communities. #climatechange #globalwarming #Andes #water #azdarya #paramo #kichwa #indigenouspeople #rainfall