Guatemala: Pollution Threatens Lake Atitlán’s Indigenous Communities

Guatemala: Pollution Threatens Lake Atitlán’s Indigenous Communities Louisa Reynolds, 2010   Indigenous communities that live along the shores of the Lake Atitlán’s are bearing the consequences of a huge environmental disaster that has turned the lake’s normally clear blue waters into a thick, brown scum.   Located 50 kilometers west of the iconic colonial city of Antigua, in the highland department of Sololá, Atitlán is the deepest lake in Central America. Estimates of its maximum depth...

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