south so they can plant crops and find food the systemic floods and droughts climate change become the main driver of mass migration you can write any apocalyptic scenarios you want and probably most of them will come from. the climate exodus starts a full thirty s. on t. w. . in the tracks of a superfood. the avocado is a fruit from the hot and humid tropics. but what. about a bit of a for your noble machine we chileans think avocados for breakfast not a short salad in the afternoon and in the evening and it's a souped up fruit that served up with more trouble it's become

a kind of green gold. and. it's also a superstar on social media and demand. it's a very versatile fruit but at the same time calm fans for a bit of help could stands for almost new school food but it comes at a cost. the sequester if everyone knew the chileans had to live without water because of other condos your put have to stop importing them. in the go i don't know whatever you can handle.

ricardo sang is the long time owner of a small farm in the chilean province of to talk and this is his irrigation canal. or what's left of it. for decades it was ricardo's lifeline. if they can then they can now has had no water in it for the six years now at the canal that our own smallholders used it to water or avocados and now sadly it's dead. as a moment on. the canals water came from the nearby river. but that one. today ricardo and his friends ran a vague ana and rodriguez daca can walk across the river bank. going to.

be. immune that was the river how it got 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. but. rodriguez mandara is the founder of model team an initiative to protect drinking water. going also all over the you know at the warsaw i remember this river being a place of joy and relaxation we came here to swim in the summer i find it deeply shocking to see how it is now i can't stand it of we're going to jostle. bridges in potomac or barely serve a purpose these days but the water hasn't disappeared. it's hidden away in the

avocado plantations nearby thousands of hectares of these water guzzling fruits are grown for export including to europe. while at the same time many people look at 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 zoe like. only my prickly pear plant has survived. which barely needs any water. until a few years ago or so when there's pride and joy was here just behind our house.

however i thought i knew. my avocado trees were down there three hundred of them. all of them dried up. and i also had plans a pretty hard polson to badlands. i had no way of watering them so they died. i had nothing not a drop. in my ancient well dried up everything died. next as oil is land there's now a big lost avocado plantation. rhodri go tells us a businessman bought an immense area of land to start growing the super food. into it when he's got too much power and it comes that ground water up from way down deep that. there are forty or fifty and there is

a robert caro's here or more. ready to pick with so that are going to build up and it will be no harvesting i'm already q knows of them. it's a losing battle for water some regions are coping better eighty kilometers away in the neighboring province of lie lie 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 bloom. the nine hundred ninety s. . harvesting is done by hand and multi-year schmidt oversees it past really he's one of chile's biggest afrikaner exporters. you know you want to say 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 promise to treat the river water and make it drink a bull for the local residents. here and i make about the avocado farms of also invested money and water rights to take advantage of it. but. 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 and three may not be able to see the little phonetic footprint the same portable. look i want to say even has its limits you have a car there was a first the fruit one kilo requires up to one thousand liters of water that's eight

times more than potatoes. but there's 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 groundwater for his fruit. growing out of a counters 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 answers to the fruits environmental footprint. and as yet

another issue. consumers expect to buy after card is ready to eat off the shelf. that means the hard right fruits have to be ripened and changed temperature controlled warehouses that simulate the humidity and heat of a natural environment. some of these are for condos 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 best. that's going to get ten am and already full. its goal may heaven for the instagram

generation. there's been a lot of purses but a lot of social media but there's also just people who work for a lot. of the top five restaurants are the top five lunch or breakfast or whatever and i'm sure you'll find us in those lists are you good looking start for. the go. afrikaner burgers salads attempts to move issues or to sign for a target group that knows what it may. mean other various health i just only know that i thought it was really really good for you know i mean it still might help if i'm on the chart good for you. really good stuff like alarm avocado and all that and this is our cottage rule of think it's. very nice inside pankaj so it's really really not really sweet on us. it's run by john's marketing experts who were looking for

a new business idea. we didn't want to open another burger places you know not 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 could make anything with. and they 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 of water emergency in the summer. but water intensive account

of farming goes on regardless. in. 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 the shortages began when the first big plantations moved in. the entire ecosystem collapses when the river dries up the. clouds cannot form without water evaporation so it rains even less then it gives me the law he wasn't going to get 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. veronica 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 although i'll let you feel now to feel. they put pressure on us and the authorities do too. 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 that but 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 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 not for the other os the tanker used to recycle the water. showering is a luxury and laundry is done once a month. we waste water from the bathrooms and kitchens and 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 they were laughing over the gulf

like along the us over the movie and therefore my hope is that one day things will be better for us that one day a politician a president who is not corrupt will change the chilean constitution. that is the crux of the matter they'll require should be public property and they want to everyone. but in the constitution allows the privatization of water. anyone who can afford it buys rights and can hoard water quite legally. and his fellow activists say that stop at all because water has been diverted away from the people who also needed.

water ends up whether green gold to grow. and the chilean government helps to keep it that way. and that's it that he seemed to me 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. and we want to know why the state funds the businesses to build these pools of clean drinking water it's water that other people need to survive it. would be. the activists campaign for the u.n. says 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

and 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 and. a little funny about the avocado plantations a gravel road leads to a stream. i think. you know can never be quick we shouldn't stay long i think you. rodriquez doesn't want to attract attention that so well by the stream. and you you do you know this well is channeled through the big pools that water the plantation this year so i want to thank you also going to get this well is it

normal so it's been built into the bat someone's getting water illegally with. it will close with. your status have you i wanted it off. and nothing up and. you know i think we need this water down in the village or just no one chang. no no no one. rotary guy says there are very few people who are willing to take on the powerful avocado producers. one of them is macro stop of alternate 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.

zona gets to deliver his of drinking water each week the price for that can triple in sama. the. wizard of oz. for her family water is a luxury product. that you are not quite right. nothing to yell out that we couldn't wash in the height of summer we couldn't skirt and more which was banned somehow we have to survive the droughts every summer even though we suffer a lot. fenian our feel who you are and. the manner of petaca is campaigning for fairer distribution of water but he alone can't force the avocado producers to give up their water he doesn't have the all forty. year. olds.

all he can do is plate. and the. out of the people who own and run the plantations sat at this table five years ago . 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 what do you see they said no. their goal is to produce reach targets and export. well you know the conversation ended there. what was left to discuss like that like i said everything. that i see at all. the first for profit is overriding schuman 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 potomac or especially in summer. but at that i get a q.b. he told me to 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 and that anyone older. the other sixty four were found under this river alone sixty four percent they said think well that's why this river is completely dried out. over cattle producers have diverted the underground water so that's why they've always got water. it would associate with you know what. paul rodriguez who has repeatedly voiced his criticism. of the report by chalange

broadcaster shows him at one of the many crisis summits with government representatives. and we've reported what's happening here is so many times. that i deliberately in any lawsuits that do happen only ever result in mild punishments. but i want to know what i want to fight them with water theft is always going to france in chile. with a fine of twelve hundred euros look these guys pay the money and carry on. in the sense drug. go and recount publicly voice their objections and complain to the police they've been insulted and received an anonymous threat. serious so do you and so do you at all of the year we're not living where survive big every day in fear. in following you who wants to hurt them alone

when you go on t.v. they call us eco terrorists or revolutionary. people say we're just causing problems really much even within our community at. all because we want to defend our water. or one of the hundred to our. water in chile is a commodity you can even be bought as an investment people who want to write by hardly any tax on them they're very loosely monitored. right here. it's a little of a tard lee changed since the military dictatorship explains the head of the water wealth oranges in. the state issues water licenses sometimes they're life long but i thought 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. the tracks that i had. that i had for so long you've obtained that right for yourself. so it's yours for the money and you're perfectly entitled to sell it. for. me and. this is even having an effect fourteen thousand kilometers away in land of the world's biggest fruit. a top trader in holland avoids avocados from potomac. you really need to find the right partners. located on the right spots so from the original we as a company we don't source for that from that region just because of the water issues in that location.

the south americans including the exports from potomac are hoping to strike some good deals at the trade show. and other water shortage is an issue for the chilean authorities. compared to the i don't know if we as a state or not together with the exporters is going to ensure that all exports standards are met through that's really not a price to all chilean fruit people but they must be sustainable and trade and i think all food is safe you know that safety is a good right. completely. 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 are the region will likely help that trend continue an estimated eighty percent of the wants are already goes towards agriculture. new crops are appearing despite the lack of water roger a go document the rampant growth of agricultural land. may have no future. as things stand the climate the lack of rain. the dried out rivers. the talker will just be sacrificed that would have been a loss in a so nicely fees 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. water is

also material schmidt's biggest concern but only that it won't be sufficient to meet the demand for his afrikaners. only need on top of it to endure that way of course where the water is scarce while there will no doubt. the government should spend more money than expropriate land to make more space for residue was going to be. there 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 a thinks this is just the start of the boom boom. it's all the way he got on you know if a woman find that i don't think that

a man increases by thirty percent every year of his and that's almost continuously year after year thirty percent of the time is now waiting for china that they're only just starting to discover of the cosmos we need to have all of the demand a right because there's a way of funding advertising to show the chinese how it's not that i can't because it is going to be great but the goods that are going to be a good thing to do with the. gold rush for the afrikaner farmers and dishpan for the people trying to save their environment. in the fight for water is a never ending story. after. they came to

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