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In this February 4, 2017 photo, Lilian Avila Diaz lights her firewood stove to cook lunch for her family in Coata, a small village on the shore of Lake Titicaca, in the Puno region of Peru. The amount of mercury consumed by Titicaca residents is “unacceptable”, according to Dr. Jane M. Hightower, who specializes in internal medicine at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and author of the book “Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics & Poison”, after reviewing a 2014 study on fish caught from Lake Titicaca. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
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