The first UN water summit in almost 50 years is taking place this week in New York City, where thousands of delegates will meet to discuss a looming global water crisis caused by overconsumption and overdevelopment.

Reuters news agency sent a photographer to the Las Vacas river in the Chinautla municipality outside Guatemala City on Tuesday to record the impact that pollution is having on one waterway.

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People collect scrap metal from the polluted river, which is straddled by Guatemala's largest landfill

And it's not just humans that can be spotted in the rubbish-clogged waters, as seen here as a cow and her calves cross the river


This man, known as "Canche", is one of these informal workers
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