our documentary depicts the contrasts of everyday life. and help people cope with. iran bittersweet. starts may second g.w. . in the tracks of a super food. the avocado is a fruit from the hot and humid tropics. but what. about they identify your noble with reason we chileans avocados for breakfast a lot of short salad in the afternoon and in the evening and it's a c. cup fruit. sit up and walk but well it's become

a kind of green gold. it's also a superstar on social media and endemol and. it's a very versatile fruit but at the same time calm stands for a philadelphia stance for almost new school food but it comes at a cost so you'll still be a delicacy question if everyone knew the chileans had to live without water because of other condos your put have to stop importing them. in the egg i don't know what the asian adele.

ricardo sang is the long time owner of a small farm in the child 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. it and then it can now has had no water in it for six years now at the canal that our own smallholders used it to water over our avocados and now sadly it's dead. as a moment on. 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.

in that was the river how they 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. roderick among dakar is the founder of malta team an initiative to protect drinking water. we're going to. look at it was slow i remember this river being a place of joy and relaxation we came here to swimming so i find it deeply shocking to see how it is now i can't stand it of whatever jostle. bridges in potomac are 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 package. 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 or so and as pride and joy of i was here just behind our house. oh

boat on board however i thought i knew about. my avocado trees which and there are three hundred of them. all of them dried up. i also had a pretty hard stop posen to bad lives. i had no way of altering them so they died. i had nothing not a drop off. my ancient well tried everything to. be. next as oil as land is now a big loss avocado plantation. roderigo tells us a businessman bought an immense area of land to start growing the super food. into. too much power when it comes to that groundwater up from way down deep. there are forty or fifty actors or robert caro's here with it or more. ready to

pick it so you know 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 muttiah schmidt oversees it passed nearly he's one of chile's biggest avocado exporters. if. you were to say what does he think of the water shortages in potomac and.

i think the i mean. i don't know 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 for the local residents. the applecart of farms of also invested money and water rights to take advantage of it so. they mean things. but. the producers always strive to ensure there is enough water left over. from. and because they save money they use the least possible amount of water per plantation and. may not seem a little fanatic fulfilled this room for edible. 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. 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 ripened plants 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 for special air conditioned containers they use also adds to the fruits environmental footprint. and 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. 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 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 where you go look at shop for those that it does go. out because their burgers for salads toasted or dishes are designed for a target group that knows what if. we both are very unhealthy i just let me know that i was really really good for you know i mean it's still my healthy five which are good for you face life really good stuff just like a lime avocado and salt and this is our kind of rule i think it's. very nice inside thank you so it's really really not really sweet i mean us. 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 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 of this you could 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 and really full 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 snow glacial water that's why the government always declares a province wide state of water emergency in the summer. but more to intensive

account of 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 shortages began when the first big plantations moved dan. i think. the entire ecosystem collapses when the river dries up the. clouds can't form without water evaporation so what rain is even less on. the brink 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. griego and his fellow protesters refuse to accept it. veronica is the leader of a nonprofit neighborhood co-operative. well provide 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 all know. they put pressure on us and the authorities do too. they threaten us and discriminate against us. but a good laugh is because we resisted when they tried to force us to give our water to a private company. but that 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 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. the alarm says the tanker used to recycle the water. showering is a luxury and laundry is done once a month ago 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. and them laughing

a bit out 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. every quarter should be public property and they want to everyone. but in chile the constitution allows the privatized nation of water. anyone who can afford it by its rights can hold water quite legally. draco and his fellow activists say that some potomac has water has been diverted away from the people who also need it.

and stop whether green going to grow on the chilean government helps to keep it that way. and that's it obviously no simeone of the best you have to realize that the state covers three quarters of the costs for these reservoirs. businesses pay just a quarter though we want to know why the state funds the businesses to build these pools of clean drinking water while those it's water that other people need to survive. would be. the activists campaign for the u.n. and so called human right to water which chile officially recognizes. that's the unit that they have been in you know what the plantation owners have

water and want to give any away. while 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 above the avocado plantations a gravel road leads to a stream. but you've. been able to move quickly shouldn't stay long. rodriquez it doesn't want to attract attention there so well by the stream. and you. didn't know this well is channeled through the big pools that water the plantations so they want to put in there thank you also get this well is it normal

so it's been built into the bad someone's getting water illegally with. your students have you really wanted it off. and nothing up and if you know what i think we need this water down in the village just no one check no no no one. tree guy says there are very few people who are willing to take on the powerful avocado producers. one of them is macro stop of fountain 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.

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. that you're right oh right right it's nothing for you i love that we couldn't wash in the height of summer so we couldn't cook and more it was banned somehow we have to survive the droughts every summer even though we suffer a lot. he has it will 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 farty. all

he can do is plead with. it then we go. out with the people who own and run the plantations sat at this table five years ago. 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 think they said no you see their goal is to produce you reach targets and export. well you know the conversation ended there was 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 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 ability to keep it going to see. 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 said. that's why this river is completely dried out this year for cattle producers have perverted 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 report by chalange broadcaster shows him at one of the many crisis summits with government representatives. we've reported what's happening here is so many times. i deliberately in many lawsuits that do happen only ever result in mild punishments. when i'm going to do what i want to thank the many water for afters always going to france in chile. with a fine of twelve hundred euros but these guys pay the money and carry on a little football though with. the media. in a sense rather. go and recount publicly voice their objections and complain to the police they've been insulted and received an anonymous threat. so it is soley at all of the we're not living we're surviving every day in fear. is following you who wants to hurt them alone the world when you go on t.v.

they call us eco terrorists all revolutionary. people say we're just causing problems really much even within our community and. all because we want to defend our water. or river or defended 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. right here. it's a little of the tartly changed since the military dictatorship explains the head of the want all therapists in. the state issues water licenses sometimes their life long but i thought i had it they can be resold to whoever is offering the most money. in just the 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. people so it's yours. and you're perfectly entitled to sell it. but. this is even having an effect fourteen thousand kilometers away in berlin and the world's biggest fruit. a top trader in holland avoids avocados from petaca. you really need to find the right partners. located on the right spots so from the pits 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 export has from her tone kind of hoping to strike some good deals at the trade show. on the water shortage is an issue for the channel for it is. completely about if there is a state or not together with the exporter it's going to ensure that all exports standards are met that applies to all chilean fruit people but they must be sustainable and trade and i think all food safety you know that safety. right. computers. 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 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. we have no future. as things stand the climate the lack of rain. the dried out rivers. though the talker will just be sacrificed that would have been a loss 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 if you're in that even

though. the city. 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 new dental to endure is are you now of course where the water is scarce while there will no doubt. the government should spend more money and expropriate land to make more space for reservoirs. there but not by that the senate. has water requirements are also rise. he's just bought new fields to plant seedlings. that will be six hundred thousand new avocado trees he 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 i don't think the mound increases by thirty percent in front of

us and that's almost continuously year after year thirty percent was the time is now we're waiting for china they're only just starting to discover of the cosmos we need to have all of the them under ripe so there's a way of funding advertise a minute to show the chinese how it's not that i can't because it is going to be great but the clothes that are going to be a good thing for 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.

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