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She met with people on the desiccated shores of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and saw fishing boats abandoned on the dry bed of what was once Bolivia’s Lake �ʴǴDZ�ó.

Martínez lives roughly 100 miles from Lake �ʴǴDZ�ó, which was the country’s second-largest lake before it dried up in 2015.

And the Uru of Lake Poopo are left clinging to its salt-crusted former shoreline in three small settlements, 635 people scrabbling for ways to make a living and struggling to save even their culture.

Government inaction contributed to the disappearance of Lake �ʴǴDZ�ó, a vast inland sea.

Wildfires in California, the rapid evaporation of Lake �ʴǴDZ�ó in the Bolivian altiplano, and deep droughts in the Sahel of Africa and in large parts of Australia are signs of what is to come.