A severe drought over years had decimated water supplies and hit local industries from mining to agriculture and bees, while exacerbating tensions over water use, prompting capital Santiago to make plans for potential water rationing.
The Aculeo Lagoon became a symbol of the crisis, as dead cattle and fish carcasses lay on where there was once water.
The recent rains that have refilled the lakes and seen snow dumped on bare mountainsides in the Andes, also damaged hundreds of homes and left one person dead.
But the water has also meant that lagoons like Lake Penuelas, an important water source for tourist town Valparaiso that had dried up to a /”puddle/
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