and canst is a camp that all trains kimi and even there anywhere from you. know she's emptied into northern border near. mt. malegaon story. nikos a. must. starts january 27th on d w. there are more out there are you that our guardian angel will help to ensure our son will be rescued. a. 2 year old you lent died after falling it was 70 meters deep ball holder to be drilled illegally the rescue attempt was broadcast around the world tragedy to attention to an

increasingly serious problem in spain widespread illegal extraction of water so you really got all brought up from the you alone is tragic but shocked people it's time to put a stop to the drilling of illegal boreholes which amounts to stealing a public asset you. thought their over a 1000000 illegal boreholes in spain often called moonshine wells because they drilled at night they used to help irrigate trudges grown here in one of the trials corners of europe and exported to the rest of the continent or of the other mongol no one wants to take responsibility i doubt anything will change unfortunately gay not suitable doesn't fix your. nature at its most diana national park south of seville is a unesco world heritage site. right and

a stopover for millions of markets or birds traveling between europe and africa but it's surrounded by agricultural activity that is sucking up dry demand for water poses a threat to this natural paradise and illegal wells are exacerbating the problem he's. the central for biodiversity for the park's wetlands and fauna but it's also essential for the local economy which revolves around intensive farming. but the problem is in the last 30 years that farming has led to illegal extraction of water and that has a serious impact on the park's marshes and lagoon use up the groundwater levels of 4. so the water balance in don't ya national park has been altered. we're destroying it.

seems. has been fighting to protect anjana national park for 16 years the agricultural engineer comes from the region and has made the campaign against illegal wells his life's mission he uses satellite imaging to locate nearly 4 holes and illegal agriculture. there's a lot of it yes you know these are official government maps may show legal agricultural areas. it is it's a map that's available to the general public. so what do we do we end our experts look for an authorized try armors. zoom in and identify areas where crops are being cultivated you. know the failure is this and this and this or all know if we pass our findings on to the authorities and report the illegal zones when we identify anything suspicious we go and check it out and one of them i would hope my mom put

it on. but the activist says the authorities off a little help in the fight to protect the agents natural environment reporting illegal wells and farms usually goes nowhere it's deeply frustrating. forgot about a belief in god we see that crops are being cultivated here at this farm suddenly appeared about 2 years ago. it was right next to the road but it's not being shut down even though everyone knows it's here. it's been reported to the water authority i mean to get a computer without even the other. illegal farming and authorities to turn a blind eye despite the fact there are clear rules on irrigation practices laid out in a water management plan that farmers n.g.o.s from the local authority spent 7 years

debating. the end illusion parliament approved the plan in december 2014 illegal farming must be stopped and we hope this happens. i think. 3 days areas of cultivation have sprouted up over the last 30 years and there was no local oversight. local council simply allowed this boom in illegal farming to happen. it did seem to me so that i could put things into. around anjana national park water is used mainly to irrigate strawberry plantations the region produces approximately one 3rd of strawberries grown in europe.

strawberry production is a major source of employment 80000 people in the living in the sector including many small holders and their families local environmental activists who are against the practice are often denounced as traitors. what about going to look into the know this is an illegal borehole there are roughly a 1000 of the men don't wanna we have these are especially agree just because we're in the middle of a protected forest but there are 60 illegal wells here alone extracting water from rivers not go along in the wetlands thank you don't know why what they look at real york about and it's shocking because you can't even see the fields we're in but out of fear 567 kilometers away. well they run lines from here to the farms and often they lay kilometers of electric cables to right through the forest without any kind of permanent or safety precautions but. people there's

a high risk of forest fires this is been going on for 10 years or so you know what if it's scandalous. but often. i. mean i think if you think it's tricky trying to follow the pipes because they disappear into the ground reappear and then disappear again. i would be watching. it doesn't i think this is in illegal reservoir well you know wooded area. you know it's illegal you can install a reservoir here you know. each of these pipes is a well you know but if it doesn't take a little bit of and you can clearly see that they're in operation. i think that we got off on the idea that one day that the water from about 14 wells in the vicinity

used collected here and pump to farms that aren't even close by. no sorry my sadness is one of the most flagrant examples of the kind of illegal activity we've been fighting for years and look at toys for you guys. it's high time we took a step forward and put a stop to water thank you. i know there are a growing number of locals and the european commission are pushing for this for the european court of justice has opened proceedings against the spanish government in connection with water theft and are not for that i want to. monoculture is a by no means restricted to tania on a national park the agricultural sector is essential is transforming the andalusian landscape as a ground water supply is by no means guaranteed. turning contractor luis

montenegro's business is thriving a test will cost around 2000 euros but it's a risky investment for his clients and there's a long wait for a permit from the water authority. is it when a farmer submit to drilling project to the authorities. it can take up to 8 or 9 months to get a reply. that's just unacceptable the water authority takes ages but farmers need to irrigate their crops if they can't they lose their harvests if you know. and then the families and farms end up ruined media i don't really know. what often happens is the farmers opt not to pay for an approved drilling or they ask you because what happens if no water is found. there's no well and the bore

hole has to be revealed because they get the why don't you know the above them. the upshot farmers often drill boreholes without official permits along with the costs of drilling submitting an application and commissioning the requisite geological surveys can cost around a $1000.00 euros here in central and lucia all of pharma antonio's wife has even resorted to divine ing rod they need water urgently their trees are hard hit by climate change the dry season is getting longer and longer i. love it that you're not here to have the trees get no water there will be no olives . obviously we have to use water before the official permit comes through that's just how it is the source of them are what. the drilling contractor is pessimistic tomorrow the company will try again at

a different spot in all the way out what it meant that you can see a thing just a black hole that there's no water and if there was the soil would be more sed here in the region there's very little water it's the wrong sort of bedrock out while the radio highly of the people at the right. now might find it extract a lot of water groundwater levels are falling the natural gas everyone wants a private pool the agricultural sectors demand for water is growing more here in southern europe we depend on farming. the grass the farming sector that helps the country survive the most recent financial crisis. cared a lot from them during the financial crisis that left spain reeling farming was indeed one of the few stable sectors but its growth is now reaching its limit phillipe of who enters us from the world wide fund for nature wants to see the sec

to manage water resources more sustainably. we are on our way to a citrus fruit farm that we work with i think it's the 1st farm in europe to be certified according to a system that manages water consumption sustainable. daily monitoring is absolutely essential it's about respecting a commodity that everyone wants to have water which is in short supply in this farm is proof positive that water consumption can be realistically reduced if you can get a full bottle for that what. the . consumers have an important role to play one of if you think oh they decide which product they buy that they need to ask where the product comes from and it found somewhere with a water shortage that's very important. almost

a bit macabre to contain the supermarkets also decide where they buy their produce from they can check whether it's all sound and that's what the water authority map is for if everything's above board great. for them to fully pestilent us us is here to inspect the plantation luis but is one of the 1st farmers whose working with a new board certification scheme he supplies a major german supermarket chain with organic oranges his plantation is massive producing 12000 tonnes of oranges peja morsi is safe with the help of his saves the system it collects doris on the air quality in the nation's changes in the plants crucially senses in the ground control a drip irrigation system ensuring that the water is distributed around the crops roots and doesn't simply trickle away real portable deal so we maximize efficiency with a drip irrigation system and censors. you made a point we don't waste any water and we add fertilizer to the water which doesn't

seeped into the groundwater and contaminate it with nitrates. i mean i'm a lot we don't need the tools that helps us a lot but enough of them to get revolutionary. going to you we use 20 percent less water but the harvest so the same goes for human i mean michael said just. so you know good morning everyone hello how you doing carmen good. you know the idea of them really. how's it looking great we're getting a lot from every tree. of that you know. it doesn't matter if it's legal what are 135140 kilos poetry where you've worked on things and the quality of the fruit will be. you know.

it's. good because it's nice and dense. delicious what you. get when. it could there's hardly any pulp and food then there will not be turned on in the dinner but.

more lanyards is placing his trust in nature he's cut down on herbicides and pesticides and his promotion a process of rematch aeration insects and birds keep the crops free of pests the farmer is reacting to the growing demand for organic produce and also for water footprint certification believe. me to get one just look at that that's our eagle eyed over there by the power cable . it's a banal easy. you never used to see a bird like that. and now without even making much of a change just minimising the use of toxins so as not to destroy its environment

it's back. some farmers thought i was crazy they'd ask why are you doing this. if you're putting your whole farm at risk. but now 5 years on. worked hard and they see it works. now everybody wants to do what i did it all your. great agricultural revolution of the 21st century has begun. to get it no doubt about it . that over there is no longer our farm look at the difference. you know it's like another world. i call it the desert your your money so that's chernobyl for me you

know. what i mean generally. they said it but that's their idea of state of the art agriculture they use that able. to respond is fortunate because he gets the water he needs for his plantation from a canal assigned to him by the water authority so he's never needed to drill a well if there's one thing he knows it's that the future depends on sustainable management of water resources. that. they get out or because they didn't really need to realize that the point of saving water isn't to expand irrigation areas. separate. what we save must be set aside for the dry season what living on ciggy or return to the rivers you know. they're all real numbers they get all right we cannot save

water just so other farmers can water even more importantly you forget for not that only exacerbates the problem more land more consumption and my thinking. i. it's. it's it's it's it's it's so recent years have seen the popularity of the avocado soul demanded this sub tropical fruit has risen 150 percent in the last decade but that has a downside farmers are eager to cash in but avocado production is highly water intensive and is worsening the water process inspiring.

it takes 270 liters of water to grow just one avocado spain is effectively exporting its water resources in the form of fruit. i. hardly ever own is president of the spanish association a tropical fruit produces. broken off had a gain of it was ok so the avocado isn't native to spain but nora bananas only all of trees a native without a doubt it's adapted perfectly to the climate will come of it you can see how well avocados grow here why shouldn't they be cultivated here. and also whether their plant that i work at the full harvests get be get every year in $28.00 in spain exported $97000.00 tons of avocados for my local it's how they think that environmental activists are always attacking

tropical fruit farm and some of that we and they think we're destroying everything in the world and well i don't understand their issue where they're against their own people and. i really don't want to destroy anything they read on. we're helping the country and. by doing them with jobs. we could grow twice as much but there isn't enough water on there wasn't. for the farm. growth is the top priority any water they say thanks to modern irrigation systems gets used to expand their plantations there also came to more rivers and drilled holes at higher elevations they say they have. been left with no choice but to act outside. of the water old cars are used to have

a lot of officers here but now there are only 4 people left. we the others are all new to the headquarters in seville. now there's a new administration and we hope the situation will start to improve for 12 years the author did not think that that meant that no one even looked at our proposals. they never replied he wasn't even that they were slow they did nothing at all. we can thank you. for one tells us also has problems with bureaucracy. and water management plan approved in 2014 has yet to be implemented he's hoping that things will start to move at the water authority because what's happening in doing yana potentially contravenes the water directive and that could jeopardize agricultural subsidies and today he's here to talk to the president of the water authority. to have it would all the farmers in under lose you know

exactly how much water they can use and where it comes from if they help develop the water management plan it doesn't but if you buy that it isn't anything but some farmers have resorted to drastic measures to impede the authorities work in the end you know the umbilical. on september 29th you're on the same day that representatives of the european commission were in madrid. to talk to the government about the water problem in don't ya know which. one of my employees was threatened by farmers who were illegally extracting water he wouldn't. been intimidated by a whatsapp group it was and we cannot let this sort of thing happen. it's difficult because these people are often neighbors the ones who objected to it protest feel attacked. because we're trying to stop illegal water extraction and

then last. in the most part about i was with will look for the money that you know where. the water authorities inspectors task is a highly delicate one given the pharmacy hostility they're now accompanied by the place they reluctantly agreed to being filmed on the condition they can't be identified their fear of being recognised by their neighbors is too great. let's have a look at the reservoir see how many well supplied record the g.p.s. data. you were telling and take some more photos. of today they're inspecting more than 60 illegal bore holes in the forest many farmers see them as backstab as. well let's go take a look. if we can't open it it's locked. because why are we going in. here because it's locked. the person who set this up

for instance and locked it in so no one could fall and. there's nothing more we can do we inspect. everything else is up to the government the water all 30 in the courts. i love it there were people. here over. the water authority is powerless it has no mandate to intervene and is incapacitated by. the feeling. so let's get a few pictures of the lock that's it i've got a. lot of water also of the water coming out. yes so we can show that the wells are functional. i mean our look for the wells where the water is coming from. what yeah back there must be

a well the water from the pipe there must be coming from a well over there here over there but. the water from the illegal bore holes feeds into the illegal pipeline network i mean although they drilled under cover of darkness traces are often left behind when the. thank you. very little but cars drive along here so there must be something out there it would be i've got. a lot that's have a look. here pipes and over there to. acknowledge you feel awful. particle is the fuse box. it's operating. again a little bit but it's a lot of the going to the pipes must come from other well it's

a little when they come together here handy to the reservoir of heat like if. it was. we followed their path as about 6 kilometers of pipe and hoses then there's a point where they go into the ground and a little further on they reappear one or the other and they split into 6 different lights. it's impossible to follow where they lead them last week i thought it would but these 3 go into the reservoir. if you know once they leave the reservoir you can track them a little said a few people see a little further proof that no one bothers to monitor the situation properly even though the tragic death of the toddler last year raised awareness of the widespread problem of the legal boreholes and water theft. if you have a little it was a tragedy with your land it was a wake up call i mean the number of illegal wells that are reported has risen since it happened this one has a diameter of about $25.00 centimeters so it's about the size of the well that your

land fell into sometime later a man with a dog also fell into a bore hole everyone is now aware of the danger it's not just animals that can fall in people due to play. well there's water at the bottom. but it's not our job to cover the ball was really . about. even when confronted with obvious dangers the inspectors are powerless to act with over a 1000000 illegal wells in spain solving this problem is a measure of growing urgency. there's a raging on social. trends and manipulation. seems

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