Paraguay’s drying river stokes water tensions between fishers and farmers

VILLA OLIVA, Paraguay, (Reuters) – A sharp decline in the Paraguay River, which hit a record low this month due to drought upstream in Brazil, is fueling a conflict between the country’s fishers and rice farmers over water use in a southern wetland region bordering Argentina.

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