continue then to completely new things and talk of the ancient giants who had originally been its teachers and in the. culture of out of the darkest milling jews into a new ethic. as the first probably no place anywhere in the long when things weren't any such quick succession on. the specter this week d.w. . in the tracks of a super food. the avocado is a fruit from the hot and humid tropics.

with what. they thought of if i want obama to be chilly and split avocados for breakfast not a short salad in the afternoon and in the evening it's a souped up fruit that should have one more polluted it's become a kind of green gold. it's also a superstar on social media and amount. it's a very versatile fruit but at the same time com it stands for the belt it stands for almost new school food but it comes at a cost to be a delicacy question if everyone knew the chileans had to live without water because of a car as your put have to stop importing them. in the go to know what i'd like you to tell.

ricardo sang is the long time owner of a small farm in the province of to talk and this is his irrigation canal. thank all walks left of it. for decades it was ricardo's lifeline if you can only canal has had no water in it for six years now at the canal our own small holders used it to water or avocados and now sadly it's dead. as a moment but. the canals water came from the nearby river but you know what. today ricardo and his friends ran

a vague ana and rodriguez dhaka can walk across the river bend. going to. him you know that was the river have a good fifteen years ago now it's the garbage dump and the water stuck in their car the trees up on the hills the river was stolen from us a lot of the. dakar is the founder of motor team up an initiative to protect drinking water. we're going to go all over the where there was so i remember this river being a place of joy and relaxation we came here to swim and so i find it deeply shocking to see how it is now i can't stand it of we're going to jostle.

bridges in but talk of barely serve a purpose these days but the water hasn't disappeared. it's hidden away in the afrikander plantations nearby thousands of hectares of these water guzzling fruits are grown for export including to europe. while at the same time many people get their water brought in on trucks at the expense of the tax plan. including those who have been farmers their entire lives and had enough water. like zoya like iraq's. only my prickly pear plant has survived.

which barely needs any water. until a few years ago or so when those pride and joy of i was here just behind a house. that i knew about. my avocado trees with their three hundred of them. all of them dried up. i also had planned a pretty hard stop polson to bed let's. not leave i had no way of altering them so they died. i had nothing not a drop. in my ancient twelve tried on everything to get out. next euler's land there's now a big large avocado plantation. rodrigue otel there's a businessman bought an immense area of land to start growing the superfood.

haven't been. in one but all but he's got too much power to when it comes to the ground water up from way down deep. below and there are forty or fifty and there's a robert caro's here with it or more. ready to pick it up so you put it in a boat and you know you know harvesting i'm already heroes of them. it's a losing battle for water some regions are coping better eighty kilometers away in the neighboring province of lie like water comes from glacial springs. but a fruit empire run by the schmitz family of german descent is causing similar animosity . agricultural land use here also spread like wildfire with the avocado boom of the one nine hundred ninety s. . harvesting is done by hand and multi-year schmidt oversees it passed nearly he's one of chile's biggest avocado exporters.

with us what does he think of the water shortages in potomac and. i think the i mean you know so i think if i don't i don't know to what extent people really are lacking water. but maybe the government should build more plants to treat the river water and make it drink a bowl for the local residents. it was i mean the applecart of farms of also invested money and water rights to take advantage of it. but all. the producers always try to ensure there's enough water left over. from. one because they save money they use the least possible amount of water per plantation and. not the other senior phonetic footprint the simple out of

all the good water saving has its limits the avocado is a firstly fruit one kilo requires up to one thousand liters of water that's eight times more than potatoes. a home has a pump station. we pump the ground water up onto the hills. put in the highest slopes give you the best climate for avocados. they grow bigger and ripen faster we just need more power for the pumps. mathias has to drill one hundred twenty meters down to where he can get enough ground water for his fruit. growing avocados on this scale is a mammoth undertaking. but it's an important pillar of the chalange economy. critics say scarce water from chile is being shipped to europe in the form of

avocados the special air conditioned containers they use also adds to the fruits environmental footprint. and is yet another issue. consumers expect to buy avocados ready to eat off the shelf. and that means the hard right fruits have to be ripened and changed temperature controlled warehouses that simulate the humidity and heat of the natural environment. some of these avocados end up in restaurants like this one in amsterdam. the avocado show is an avocado restaurant and was the first of its kind in the world. and it is one of the better. that's going to get

ten am i don't ready for. its go may heaven for the instagram generation. there's been a lot of press there's been a lot of social media but there's also just people who work for a lot. out of the top five restaurants are the top five lunch or breakfast or whatever and i'm sure you'll find this in those lists are you good looking start for those that it does go. after call their burgers for salads toasters good issues or design for a target group that knows what it. means other various health i just let me know that i thought it was really really good for you know i mean it still might help if i'm a chart good for you really good stuff like a lime avocado and all that and there's our cottage rules and regs. vary it's

inside the bank it's as well as really really not really sweet only not. it's run by touch marketing experts who were looking for a new business idea. we didn't want to open another burger places you know at a pizza place or whatever so like what is model that hasn't been used before. avocado you can use it called warman any dish you can make anything with it. and i have plans to expand. we already developed the entire franchise formula we've been working really hard the past six months we have an investor now we have over one hundred fifty people interested worldwide in really cool cities to start opening these and it's coming what's the next few months you're going to see the first few open. mood. we go back to chile.

has always been an arid region with little rainfall and no glacial water that's why the government always declares a province wide state a water imagine scene in the summer. but water intensive avocado farming goes on regardless. in. rock creek m one dot com is. agricultural engineer who has been fighting for the human right to drinking water for years. rodriguez says there was enough water for everyone before the avocado boom the shortages began when the first big plantations moved in. i think. the entire ecosystem collapses when the river dries up. clouds can't form without water evaporation so it rains even less then give me the law he went to the big of ocado exporters are disrupting the water cycle.

and the damage to the ecosystem is irreversible. gone are the days when small farmers group beans corn and potatoes now it's avocado monoculture everywhere. and his fellow protesters refuse to accept it. the wrong is the leader of a nonprofit neighborhood co-operative. well provides water for one thousand residents it's right next to one of the big plantations. she says she faces constant threats and accusations of water fast. i know. they put pressure on us and the authorities do two. things they threaten us and

discriminate against us. but. it's because we resisted when they tried to force us to give our water to a private company. but i let our water is for the people for the community that's what the law says to it's for the poor. but it paul. veronica's tanks are often empty in summer when the ground water level drops her neighborhood relies on the state water trucks. they have to save water here all year round. that for the other os the tanker used to recycle the water. showering is a luxury and laundry is done once a month where. we don't really waste water from the bathrooms and kitchens ends up here to water the plants that are left there on

a key used to keep cows and goats and make our own milk and cheese today she only grows lemons almost as an act of defiance. and them laugh a rabbit out we go along the ass over the movie in that my hope is that one day things will be better for us that one day a politician a president who's not corrupt look change the chilean constitution. that is the crux of the matter. the require should be public property and then onto everyone. but in chile the constitution allows the privatized action of water. anyone who can afford it by its rights and can hold water quite legally. roderigo and he's found out activists say that's how potomac has water has been

diverted away from the people who also need it. and stop whether green go to ground and the chilean government helps to keep it that way. and that's it that we see you know a few million of the best you have to realize that the state covers three quarters of the costs for these reservoirs. businesses pay just a quarter so we want to know why the state funds the businesses to build these pools of clean drinking water where those it's water that other people need to survive it. would be. the activists campaign for the un so-called human right to water which chile officially recognizes.

that you didn't get that you didn't you know what the plantation owners have water want to give any away. at the same time we're suffering catastrophic droughts if you feel helpless because we see the water being hoarded and the government doesn't do anything about it. you know you know yes a nap. a little fun of the avocado plantations a gravel road leads to a stream. i think. you know can never be quick we shouldn't stay long. rodriquez doesn't want to attract attention that so well by the stream.

can you do you. do you know this well is channeled through the big pools that water the plantations so they want to put in their thinking also going to get this well is it normal so it's been built into the bat someone's getting water illegally with . it also goes with. you know students have used i wanted it off. and nothing up and. you know i think we need this water down in the village just no one chad. no no no one. rodriguez says there are very few people who are willing to take on the powerful avocado producers. one of them is mad because stop of all time and grow he's paying

a visit to zoila. with a dried up. well. the man had a water tank built paid for by the chronically underfunded public pass. zone to get to deliver his of drinking water each week the price for that can triple in summer. we should know that. family water is a luxury product. that. there are no right right and nothing for yellow lab we couldn't wash in the height of summer we couldn't cook and more which was banned somehow we have to survive the droughts every summer even though we suffer a lot. of our feel me and. the maraton is

campaigning for fair a distribution of water but he alone can't force the avocado producers to give up their water he doesn't have the all forty. years if all he can do is plate. it down the hill. at the people who own and run the plantations sat at this table five years ago. and i asked the. internet in times of extreme drought if they'd be willing to limit their water usage to grant some water rights to the people of the community but do you see they said no. their goal is to produce you reach targets and export. well you know the conversation ended there. what was left to discuss. like that like i said everything yes yes yes all.

the first for profit is overriding human solidarity when asked to comment the region's top exporter said avocados are the reason for the water shortage and that no producer to date has been legally charged with stealing water. but still there have always been disputes about water in her talker especially in summer. but i'm going to get people to go beyond also see. an aerial survey over legal river was carried out in two thousand and twelve to see if there were underground channels diverting the river water in anyone older. sixty four were found under this river alone sixty four percent they sent and that's why this river is completely dried out this year for cattle producers have diverted to underground water so that's why they've always got water. if you know what.

paul rodriguez has repeatedly voiced his criticism. of the reports by chilean broadcaster shows him at one of the many crises summits with government representatives. we've reported what's happening here is so many times. that i deliberately kill any lawsuits that do happen only ever result in mild punishments. to what i want to focus on me water after is always going to france in chile. with a fine of twelve hundred euros but these guys pay the money and carry on the work. in the central. go and recount publicly voice their objections and complain to the police they've been insulted and received an anonymous threat.

soli it all of via we're not living we're surviving every day in fear. is following you who wants to hurt them alone when you go on t.v. they call us eco terrorists all revolutionary. people say we're just causing problems you know you might even within our community print out into it all you know because we want to defend our water. and whatever court appointed to our. water in chile is a commodity you can easily be bought as an investment people who own water rights by hardly any tax on them they're very loosely monitored. well you know. it's a little of a toddler changed since the military dictatorship explains the head of the want all therapists in. the city issues water licenses sometimes they're life

long but i guess that i have that if they can be resold to whoever is offering the most money. in just a license gives you the right to take so much water per second from a specific place on a public river for example. that i. think that i had. you obtained that right for some of the bill so it's yours. and you're perfectly entitled to sell it. but that it is a consumer. this is even having a fact finding team thousand kilometers away in berlin at the world's biggest fruit trade show to talk trade or in holland avoids avocados from petaca. you really need to find the right partners. located on the right spots so from the

it darker region we as a company we don't source for that from that region just because of the water issues that are in that location. the south americans including the exporters from her talk hoping to strike some good deals at the trade show. on the water shortage is an issue for the channel for it is. complete today. we have the states together with the exporters are going to ensure that all export standards are met that's all you know that applies to all chilean fruit people but they must be sustainable and traceable and i think all food is safe you know safety. right. there have been years of water shortages in potomac a but they're still exporting avocados from there how does that fit in with a consumer's demand for sustainability. not i don't know about

that. if there's one thing the trade show proved it's that business is booming one sales record follows the next mostly thanks to the avocado. the way things are going in potomac or the region will likely help that trend continue an estimated eighty percent of the water already goes towards agriculture . new crops are appearing despite the lack of water rodriguez documents the rampant growth of agricultural land. may have no future. as things stand now climate the lack of rain. the dried

out rivers. though we're talking will just be sacrificed that of the bedouin. are protecting the monoculture and the export of avocados at the cost of people's access to drinking water and that even though their. water is also material schmidt's biggest concern but only that it won't be sufficient to meet the demand for his avocados. they only need dental book. that way of course where the water is scarce five there will no doubt. the government should spend more money and expropriate land to make more space for reservoirs. but we have there been no by that feeling of that's going to be. his water requirements are also rise. has just bought new fields to plant seedlings. that will be six hundred thousand new avocado trees. thinks this is just the start

of the boom boom. it's all the way hit that guy you know if a woman find that a man don't think amanda increases by thirty percent ever hear of it and that's almost continuously year after year as thirty percent of the time is now waiting for china to them they're only just starting to discover of the cosmos we will have all in the demander right because that's where funding advertising to show the chinese how it's not going to go with it is going to be great but the girls that are going to play god in the. gold rush for the have a counter farmers and dishpan for the people trying to save their environment. in the final water is a never ending story. small

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