7-year-old Alejandra lives with her parents in the Andes mountains of Peru, nearly 13-thousand feet above sea level! Their only source of water is a small stream that runs through their village during the rainy season. “I help my mom at home and take care of the animals,” Alejandra told us. “I also go and collect water.”

When the rainy season ends, the stream dries up leaving behind small murky pools. The water in them is not fit for human consumption.

“We struggle to find clean water here,” said Nieves, Alejandra’s mom. “We have to use the pools of water for drinking, cooking, and for our animals.”

They try to boil water to drink when they can but sometimes that doesn’t help. “The water smells like manure,” added Nieves. “It’s contaminated and tastes sour. But we have no choice. We h

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