so they can plant crops and find food the salmon floods and droughts floods climate change become the main driver of mass migration you can write any apocalyptic scenarios you want and for many more things to come to. the climate exodus starts if you curteous on t.w. . in the tracks of a superfood. they have a condo is a fruit from the hot and humid tropics and. when. they are in the field obama heated we chileans avocados for breakfast lunch and salad in the afternoon and in the evening it's a souped up fruit that should have been more coble it's become

a kind of green gold. but. it's also a superstar on social media and amount. it's very versatile fruit but at the same time calm stands for a bit of help that stands for almost two new school full 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 other condos europe and have to stop importing them. in the a go i don't know what i think if you don't.

ricardo sang is the long time owner of a small farm in the chair land province of to talk and this is his irrigation canal . on what's left of it. for decades it was ricardo's lifeline it and then it can now has had no water in it for six years now at the canal the guy with own small holders used it to water or avocados and now sadly it's dead if you could get a few of them into. the canals water came from the nearby river. today ricardo and his friends ran a vague ana and rodriguez dhaka can walk across the river bend. to. mean

that was the river how to go fifteen years ago now it's the garbage dump and the water stuck in they are called the trees up on the hills the river was stolen from us. but the. road rager mandara is the founder of motor team an initiative to protect drinking water. going to go to work the lady who at the wall so i remember this river going 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 if 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 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 zoila. only my prickly pear plant has survived. which barely needs any water. until a few years ago zoe there's pride and joy was here just behind our house. on

our walk like that one me about. any of my avocado trees were down there three hundred of them. all of them dried up. and i also had plants a pretty hot stuff pulled into mantle. i had no way of altering them so they died. i had nothing not a drop. in my ancient twelve write down everything died out i know they gave. next as oil as land bears now a big loss avocado plantation. roderigo tells us a businessman bought an immense area of land to start growing the super food. 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 actors or robert caro's here or more.

ready to pick and so you know build up and you know you know harvesting i'm already kilo's 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's overseas it passed nearly he's one of chile's biggest avocado exporters.

what does he think of the water shortages in potomac and. think the i mean you know . 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 for the local residents. the avocado farms of also invested money and water rights to take advantage of it so. they may. but. the producers always strive 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 her tree may not be able to seal from that footprint assume for a while. but want to say even 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. by his or pump station. we pump the ground water up onto the hills. but in the highest slopes give you the best climate for avocados. they grow bigger and ripe and forms 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 condition containers they use also answers to the fruits environmental footprint. as yet

another issue. consumers expect to buy avocados ready to eat off the shelf. that means the heart and 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. a lot of people and. that's going to get ten am and already full. its goal may heaven for the instagram

generation. there's been a lot of process with a lot of social media but there's also just people who work for a lot. of the top five restaurants or the top five lunch or breakfast or whatever and i'm sure you'll find this in those lists are you good looking stuff for those that it does go. avocado burgers salads attempts to cool dishes are designed for a target group that knows what it. means other various health conscious and we know that i thought it was really really good for you know i mean it still might help if i have a chart good for you i sort of really good stuff like alarm avocado and all that and this is how i caught it through all of the thanks thanks. very much inside the bank i said well that's really really not really sweet i mean us. it's run by marketing experts who were looking for

a new business idea. we didn't want to open another burger places you know about 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 so 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 of water emergency in the summer. but water intensive avocado

farming goes on regardless. roderigo money 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 shortages began when the first big plantations moved in. the entire ecosystem collapses when the river dries up the. clouds can't form without water evaporation so it rains even less then. the bigger 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. but rico and his fellow protesters refuse to accept it. the roma cause 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 well i'll let you feel up if. they put pressure on us and the authorities do too. they threaten us and discriminate against us. but again. because we resisted when they tried to force us to give our water to a private company. but iraq got our water is for the people for the community

that's what the law says too 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. the alarm says the tanker 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 her own milk and cheese today she only grows lemons almost as an act of defiance. and i'm laughing. we go on the

air for 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 look change the chilean constitution. that is the crux of the matter. well requiring the public property and the lawn to everyone. but in the constitution allows the privatized action of water. anyone who can afford it buys rights and can hold water quite legally. roderigo and he's found out activists say that sample talk is water has been diverted away from the people who also need and.

want to and stop whether green go. on the chilean government helps to keep it that way. and that's it obviously 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 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 u.n. so-called human right to water which chile officially recognizes. nothing you didn't before 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 and. a little five above the avocado plantations a gravel road leads to a stream. i've been. unable to move quick we shouldn't stay long with it he. 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. and thank you also get there got this well is it normal so it's

been built into the bad someone is getting water illegally with it. if. you must it is have you really wanted it off. and nothing up and if you know what i think we need this water down in the village it's just no one check 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 ovaltine agro he's paying a visit to zoila a family 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. we should add that for her family water is a luxury product. where you have. no right right. nothing to yell out we couldn't wash in the height of summer we couldn't kirk which was banned somehow we have to survive the drought every summer even though we suffer a lot. it will feel. the matter of petaca 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 farty. all

he can do is plead. with it on the. advice of 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 what do you see they said no. their goal is to produce reach targets and export. well then you know the conversation ended there. what was left to discuss. like that like i said everything. yes and all. the thirst 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 petaca especially in summer. but at that i got to keep the people told me to see. us an aerial survey of really go river i was carried out in two thousand and twelve to see if there were underground channels diverting the river water in that anyone older than him idiot you are what you have sixty four were found under this river alone 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. but you know what. paul rodriguez has repeatedly voiced his criticism. of the report by chalange

broadcaster shows him at one of the many crisis summits with government representatives. we've reported was happening here so many times. i do it differently in many lawsuits that do happen only ever result in mild punishments. but. what i want to focus on we thought of 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 they only needed. when the central. go and recount publicly voice their objections and complain to the police they've been insulted and received an anonymous threat. serious so the real story at all of the we're not living we're surviving every day in fear. is following you who wants to hurt them around the world when you go on

t.v. they call us eco terrorists it all revolutionary. people say we're just causing problems. even within our community and then through it all you know because we want to defend our water. 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. it's a little of a tartly changed since the military dictatorship explains the head of the water with oranges only when. the city issues water licenses sometimes they're lifelong but i thought i had it 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. tracks that i. think. you've obtained that right for yourself. so it's yours. you're perfectly entitled to sell it. but that it. is even having an effect fourteen thousand kilometers away in by a limb of the world's biggest fruit. the top trader in holland avoids avocados from petaca. you really need to find the right partners. located on the right spots so from the torker 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 which the hoping to strike some good deals at the trade show. rather water shortage is an issue for the channel for it is. competitive about if it does we as a state are not together with the exporters are going to ensure that all exports standards are met through the till you know that applies to all chilean fruit people and they must be sustainable and trade and i think all food is safe. you know safety right. it's all complete. there have been years of water shortages in to talk of 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 the region will likely help that trend continue an estimated eighty percent of the water already goes towards agriculture. new crops are appearing and 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 rains. the dried out rivers. the talker will just be sacrificed that would have been no us in the sun as likely 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 the. water is also material

schmidt's biggest concern but only that it won't be sufficient to meet the demand for his applecart heirs. only need time to go through new eyes or you are well schools where the water is scarce there will no doubt. the government should spend more money and expropriate land to make more space for reservoirs. but we had better not buy that percentage. is 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. bust all the way here to get on your if element and that i don't think the mond increases by thirty percent or more of us and that's almost all

we're continuously year after year thirty percent of the time as now we're waiting for china to them they're only just starting to discover up because i was with me but you have all of the demand are ripe for there's a way of funding advertising to show the chinese how to not like it because it is going to be great but the goods that are going to be a good deal of 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. we

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