w. . would watch the tongues of people fight for survival. but alas he called me dangerous. floods and droughts will climate change become the main driver of mass migration you can write any apocalyptic scenarios you want and probably most of them will come to. the clinic exodus starts people thirtieth on t w. in the tracks of a superfood. the avocado is a fruit from the hot and humid tropics but.

what. about they can affect your nobody should we chileans avocados for breakfast got it sorted salad in the afternoon and in the evening it's a souped up fruit. sit up one more call what it's become a kind of green gold. it's also a superstar on social media and demand. it's a very versatile fruit but at the same time tom it stands for a bit of health food stands for almost a new school. but it comes at a cost so just will be a delicacy question if everyone knew the chileans had to live without water because of a condo's europe or have to stop importing. in the go i don't know what i thought i should add.

ricardo sang is the long time owner of a small farm in the chill i am province of to talk of this is his irrigation canal . on what's left of it. for decades it was ricardo's lifeline if you can then it canal has had no water in it for six years now i think and i like our own small holders used it to water over our avocados now sadly it's dead. and if it is a lemon thought. the canals water came from the nearby river. that. today ricardo and his friends ran

a vague ana and rodriguez daca can walk across the river bend. in that was the river how it got fifteen years ago now it's the garbage dump and the water stuck in the other car the trees up on the hills the river was stolen from us out of the. road rico mandara is the founder of motor team an initiative to protect drinking water. we're going to go all over the. walsall i remember this river being a place of joy and relaxation we came here to swim in summer i find it deeply shocking to see how it is now i can't stand it of one of a castle. bridges

in bhutan could 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 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 zoid like iraq's. only my prickly pear plant has survived.

which barely needs any water. until a few years ago joiners pride and joy was here just behind our house. now yeah i thought i knew about. my avocado trees were down there three hundred of them. all of them dried up. and i also had plans they put hearts that pulled into badlands. i had no way of watering them so they died. i had nothing not a drop off of. my ancient twelve write down everything died out. next as oil is land there's now a big large avocado plantation. roderick otel has a businessman bought an immense area of land to start growing the superfood.

everyone but all but he's got too much power and he promised that ground water up from way down deep you. know that there are forty or fifty actors or robert caro's here with it or more. ready to pick and so in a build up and you know. harvesting i'm already curios of them. it's a losing battle for water some regions are coping better eighty kilometers away. the neighboring province of lie lie water comes from glacial springs. but a fruit empire run by the schmitz a 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.

are you with us what does he think of the water shortages in potomac and. i think the i mean. 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 bull for the local residents. it was i mean the avocado farmers of also invested money and water rights to take advantage of it so. that all. the producers always try to ensure there's enough water left over. for one because they save money they use the least possible amount of water per plantation. or tree may not. for them to simple at

all. but water saving has its limits the avocado is a thirsty fruit one kilo requires up to one thousand liters of water that's eight times more than potatoes. here's our pump station. we pump the ground water up onto the hills. what is the highest slopes give you the best climate for avocados. they grow bigger and right in france that we just need more power for the pumps. mathias has to drill one hundred twenty meters down to where he can get enough groundwater for his fruit. growing avocados on this scale is a mammoth undertaking. but it's an important pillar of the chilean 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 heart and right troops have to be ripened and changed temperature controlled warehouses that simulate the humidity and heat of a 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 and already full. its goal may heaven for the instagram generation. there's been a lot of press has been a lot of social media but there's also just people who work for a while. of the top five restaurants or the top five lunch or breakfast or whatever and i'm sure you'll find us in those lists are you good looking stuff for those that it does go. on for counter burgers for salads chopsticks or dishes or designed for a target group that knows what if. we both are very unhealthy i just don't know that others are not really good for you know i mean it still might not be that they charge it for you. really good stuff like alarm avocado all and this is our cottage rule thanks writes. very nice inside

thank you so it's really really not really sweet only not so. entranced by touch marketing experts who were looking for a new business idea. we didn't want to open another burger place or you know another pizza place or whatever so like what is model that hasn't been used before . avocado you can use it called warman any of this you could make anything with. 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. 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 emergency in the summer. but water intensive avocado farming goes on regardless. rock creek among dot com is. an 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 to shortages began when the first big plantations moved down. the entire ecosystem collapses when the river dries up. clouds can't form without water evaporation so it rains even less then. 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. rico and his fellow protesters refuse to accept it. the roma can build chairs 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. people i know. they put pressure on us and the authorities do too. they threaten us and

discriminate against us. but. 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 too it's for the poor. people. veronica's tanks are often empty and summer when the ground water level drops the neighborhood relies on the state water trucks. they have to save water here all year round. if that's what you have are asked the tank i used to recycle the water. showering is a luxury and laundry is done once a month where. we 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. animal off a rabbit out look along the ass of the movie and there my hope is that one day things will be better for us that one day a politician a president who is not corrupt look change the chilean constitution. that is the crux of the matter. they'll require should be public property and they want to everyone all of them. 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 his fellow activists say that sample talk is water has been diverted

away from the people who also need it. jams up whether green go. on the chilean government helps to keep it that way. and that's it that we see no sim you know the best you have to realize that the state covers three quarters of the costs for these reservoirs. businesses pay just a quarter mile and we want to know why the state funds the businesses to build these pools of clean drinking water wells it's water that other people need to survive it. would be. the activists campaign for the u.n. so-called human right to water which chile officially recognizes.

nothing you didn't get that you didn't you know what the plantation owners have no 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 five 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 think you do you know this well is channeled through the big pools that water the plantations so they want to put in the thank you have also got the got this well is it normal so it's been built into the bad someone's getting water illegally with. most of his i wanted it off. and nothing up and. 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 macro stop of all time agro 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 add that for her family water is a luxury product. where you have. no right right way nothing to yell out we couldn't wash in the height of summer we couldn't cook and more which was banned somehow we have to survive the drought every summer even though we suffer a lot. it will feel moody and. the marathon is

campaigning for farah distribution of water but he alone can't force the avocado producers to give up their water he doesn't have the all forty. dollars. all he can do is plate. it then the. other people who own and run the plantations sat at this table five years ago. to go home and i asked them. to go 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 at the scene they said no you see their goal is to produce reach targets and export. well until you know the conversation ended then. what was left to discuss. like that like i said everything. that i see at

all. the first for profit is overriding human solidarity when asked to comment the region's top exporter said avocadoes on 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 petaca especially in summer. but until i get a pretty good job you could also see. an aerial survey over a legal river i 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 that we are sixty four percent they sent they that's why this river is completely dried up this year for cattle producers have diverted to the underground water so that's why they've always got water. it would associate

with you know what. paul rodriguez has repeatedly voiced his criticism. of the reports by chalange broadcaster shows him at one of the many crises summits with government representatives. we've reported was happening years so many times. that i do it differently in many lawsuits that do happen only ever result in mild punishments. to what i want to thank them in water theft is always going to offense in chile. with a fine of twelve hundred euros but these guys pay the money and carry on the work. but maybe. in a sense drug. go and ricardo publicly voice their objections and complain to the police they've been insulted and received an anonymous threat.

so really it's only at all of the we're not living we're surviving every day in fear. in following you who wants to hurt them alone when you go on t.v. they call us eco terrorists it all revolutionary. waters of people say we're just causing problems you know you're mad even within our community at. all because we want to defend our water. whatever part of it and did it to our. water in chile is a commodity you can even 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 lot of the tartly changed since the military dictatorship explains the head of the want all therapists in. the state issues water licenses sometimes they're

lifelong but i guess that i had that they can be resold to whoever is offering the most money. it's just that the license gives you the right to take so much water per second from a specific place on a public river for example pacific with the thing that attracts that i. think that i had. you obtained that right for some. the bill so it's yours. and you're perfectly entitled to sell it. but that it. places even having an effect phone hundred thousand kilometers away in land of the world's biggest fruit. the top trader in holland avoids avocados from potomac. you really need to find the right partners. located on the right spots so from the pit or a 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 potomac are hoping to strike some good deals at the trade show. on the water shortage is an issue for the channel thora it is. complete. we as a state voted not together with the exporters of going to ensure that all exports standards are met through the telling how that applies to all chilean fruit people but they must be sustainable and traceable and i think all food is safe you know it's safe to say right. yes all computers. there have been years of water shortages in petaca 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 afrikander. 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 the climate the lack of rain. the dried out rivers. talking will just be sacrificed that of the bend or sit in the sun as

likely things are protecting the monoculture and the export of avocados at the cost of people's access to drinking water so you're in that even though that. water is also material schmidt's biggest concern but only that it won't be sufficient to meet the demand for his avocados. the only me don't need to endure now of course where the water is scarce there will no doubt. the government should spend more money and expropriate land to make more space for reservoirs you know. that i know by that the skin of. his water requirements are also rise. he's 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 he got on you know if a woman found that a man don't think amanda increases by thirty percent or more of his and that's almost continuously year after year thirty percent will say i mean as he now we're waiting for china there also but that was it i'm going to leave god out of the. gold rush for the avocado farmers and dishpan for the people trying to save their environment. in the final water is a never ending story. kickoff

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