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In Chile, water resources - private property. Agricultural producers and mining companies pumped river water and provoke a lack of water supply. Drinking water is delivered to the settlement Quillagua tanks, because the river is that this former capital city at the oasis, is polluted and almost dry. Quillagua, called Guinness World Records as the driest place of the planet. The town reached a population of 800 people in the 1940s. Now 120 people live there.
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77-year-old Alejandro Sanchez, on the spot where in his youth in the fields of corn and alfalfa grown.



Senor Sanchez and his sheep



67-year-old Damian Vilca forced to leave the land to feed them.



Boarded Station. Through those doors passed all those who left the city in recent decades.



The main hope of the city now - it tourists, which expects to attract local vlst excursions to 108 meteor crater located near the city. In the picture - a place for parking of tourist buses and cars.



Senor Sanchez, showing the photo, since his youth, when the earth was still fertile. The median age Quillagua - about 50 years.



Buildings Quillagua and sand.



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