in the sugarcane region of el salvador, as much as one-fifth of the population has chronic kidney disease, including over a quarter of the men, the presumed result of dehydration from working the fields they were able to comfortably harvest as recently as two decades ago.
in the sugarcane region of el salvador, as much as one-fifth of the population has chronic kidney disease, including over a quarter of the men, the presumed result of dehydration from working the fields they were able to comfortably harvest as recently as two decades ago.
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in the summer of 2001 a severe drought destroyed 80% of el salvador's crops, causing famine in the countryside.