The elixir of life

Water. Everything I read before arriving in Cuenca said that the water here is safe to drink. It’s treated with chlorine and everyone drinks it, and it won’t make you sick. And, well, that’s sort of true. Apparently, Cuencanos have built up an “immunity” against the tiny microbes that live in the water here in […]

No one escapes the drought

You’d think that a small city at high altitude in the valley of the Andes next to a rain forest would be the last place where you’d see drought conditions. But you’d be wrong. For the past week, the city has been using rolling blackouts to conserve electricity, because the water levels are so low […]