Communities in the Himalayan and Andes depend on glaciers to get their daily water. But since the average global temp. Has risen by 0.6 degrees Celsius the temperature of glaciers has increased by 1.5 degrees in just two decades. Over 10 million people depend on water from the glaciers and on top of that many city's depend on the irrigation that the glaciers give off to the food around Lima.
One stated "The availability of water is changing. For a short period of time, there will be more water. In Bolivia, for example, people are not necessarily unhappy about the warmer temperatures because they are able to grow more crops in the warmer climate. But it is not sustainable"
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