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How Lake Titicaca became a waste dump

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March 2, 2017

Tucked between snow-capped mountains, Lake Titicaca was once worshipped by ancient Incans, but now the shores of South America's largest lake are littered with dead frogs, paint buckets and bags of trash. Many of the people who live on the lake's banks suffer from health problems.

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