Members of Colombia's Indigenous Yagua community carry water on their shoulders as they tramp along the dried-up riverbed of a branch of the mighty Amazon. In the Three Frontiers region, where Colombia borders Brazil and Peru, the flow of water in some spots of the world's biggest river has shrunk by 90 percent, leaving a desert of brown sand.
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00:00The first drought was in 1993,
00:29like this one, and now, in 2024, the same thing is happening.
00:36This is the second big drought.
00:38Of course, every year the same thing happens, but not the same as this one.
01:00Because the drought is too much.
01:04I've been living here for 39 years.
01:0829 years.
01:11I've been living here for 29 years.
01:13And this is the first time I've had drought.
01:16Today it's dry, really dry.
01:18And looking at all the rivers, wherever you go, everything is dry.