Okay first of all, the event in recent history that Bolivia is arguably most famous for is the Water War of 2000, where basically the whole city staged huge protests against the water company. The reasons for it were basically because people didn't like their water being owned by a foreign multinational, but the reason it got privatized to begin with is because historically, water provision in Bolivia sucks, and something like 50% of the people in Cochabamba didn't have running water.Second of all, it's the dry season, which means that for about six months, it doesn't rain. At all. And up here, we're way up in the mountains, so there's no humidity whatsoever and rain is even more rare.
So the question I have to ask is, why do people in Cochabamba care about having green grass? They don't even have sprinklers, so people just hose down their lawns, which I imagine causes all kinds of soil erosion and stuff, and it makes big mud puddles.
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