Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Jane Chambers. Today we're in the

Central American country of Guatemala to hear a tale of two lakes. One is Lake Amatiklan, which is around

30 kilometres south of the capital Guatemala City. It was once a popular weekend getaway for the wealthy, but the lakes become

polluted with untreated sewage from the populated outskirts of the capital, much to the

dismay of the residents. I used to swim in the lake and it didn't have the horrible smell that

it does now, and the water wasn't all murky like now.

The lake is contaminated because there is a lack of responsibility for it.

We'll hear about the costs needed to clean it up

and the loss of income for local businesses.

The other lake is Lake Atticlan,

which was once nominated as one of the seven new wonders of the world

and is a top tourist attraction in Guatemala.

Locals are fighting hard to try and stop its suffering the same fate as Lake Amatiklan,

the fight for Guatemala's lakes, all coming up in business daily.

It really is truly beautiful here.

We've got hills in the distance and volcanoes

and what should be a beautiful, beautiful lake

that for many years lots of tourists came to.

But now, sadly, there is a lot of rubbish. I have literally

got piles of rubbish in front of me, which I'm told has just been picked up from the lake,

and I'm here with... I'm Bayron-Cataran? What we have here is all the rubbish that we clear from

the lake Amatitlan. We have a lot of things like plastic bottles,

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