“We have to beg God to send us water,” said Amanda Carrasco, a 54-year-old who lives near the Penuelas reservoir. “I’ve never seen it like this. There’s been less water before, but not like now.”
Analysis of tree rings going back 400 years shows how rare the current drought is, said Duncan Christie, a researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience in Chile. It is totally unrivaled for duration or intensity.
“There was just nothing,” he told Reuters. “There were so few precipitation events and such warm conditions that the snow melted that same winter.” Segundo Aballay, an animal breeder in the Chilean village of Montenegro, is praying change comes soon.
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