i see despite my charge to confront goodspeed as on policies and development to put the spotlight and issues that matter most congo food security question marshall nicely seems. to not has been achieved so much more needs to be done and i think people have to be at the heart of solutions my name is on the fact she was and i work at g.w. . our guardian angel will help to ensure our son will be rescued. 2 year old died after falling into a 74 hole that he being drilled in the rescue attempt was broadcast around the world tragedy to attention to an increasingly serious problem in spain widespread

illegal extraction. what happened you learn is tragic people it's time to put a stop to the drilling of illegal boreholes which amounts to stealing a public asset. the water over a 1000000 homes in spain often called moonshine wells because they drilled they used to help irrigate grown here in one of the driest corners of europe and exported to the rest of the continent. no one wants to take responsibility i doubt anything will change unfortunately they know what's the. nature at its most. park south of seville is a unesco world heritage site and has stopped private the millions of markets and

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 the illegal wells are exacerbating the problem is he. a central for biodiversity for the park's wetlands and fauna it's also essential for the local economy which we evolved 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 the lagoon. groundwater levels of. so the water balance in don't ya know. park has been altered. we are destroying it.

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. and agriculture. these are official government maps. 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 unauthorized foreigners we 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 will write

a book. but the activist says the authorities off a little help in the fight to protect the region's natural environment reporting illegal wells and farms usually goes nowhere it's deeply frustrating. forgot to put it on the can get we see that crops are being cultivated here 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 didn't get it on anything yet. illegal farming and athol she's 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 and local authorities spend 7 years to

. get all the under luzhin parliament approved the plan in december 2014 illegal farming must be stopped and we hope this happens at the party get them up towards. the. brain and these 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 seems to me sort of like you could leave things you know. 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 earn a 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 i'm going to this is an illegal war at all there are roughly a 1000 of them and only on a couple of 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 for extracting water from rivers or going along as in the wetlands thank you god i work out real york about oh yeah it's shocking because you can even see the fields when 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 maybe. 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. really think that if you think it's tricky trying to follow the pipes because they disappear into the ground reappear and then disappear again we think that i would be watching a little. it doesn't i think this is in illegal reservoir you know wooded area. you know it's illegal you can install a reservoir here. each of these pipes is a well even if it means they've got a little bit of both and you can clearly see that they're an operation. i found that we got off on at the idea that what you do that the water from about 14 wells

in the vicinity used collected here and pumped to farms that aren't even close by. or not i myself this is one of the most flagrant examples of the kind of illegal activity we've been fighting for years to look at toys for you to go. 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 the european court of justice has opened proceedings against the spanish government in connection with water theft and are not for that i want them to. monocultures a by no means for street to titania on a national park the agricultural sector is essential so is transforming the andalusian landscape of ground water supply is by no means guaranteed.

drilling contractor luis montenegrins business is thriving a tester costs 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 such 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 where they are because what happens if no water is found that. there's no well and the

bore hole has to be revealed so they get the why don't you know. 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 angelou's 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 a. lot of that going out here is 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. here's. the drilling contractor is pessimistic tomorrow the company will try again at

a different spot you know their way out of it that you can't see a thing just a black hole there's no water and if there was the soil would be more just here in the region there is very little water that's the wrong sort of bedrock out while the radio people at the end of. the month in the job we extract a lot of water groundwater levels are falling there's a natural gas and everyone wants a private pool the agricultural sectors demand for water is growing. here in southern europe we depend on farming that will be largely. the farming sector that helped the country survive the most recent financial crisis. carryall 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. sass 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 you can get a look at what. consumers have an important role to play but if you think they decide which product they buy that they need to ask where the product comes from and if found somewhere with a water shortage that's very important but it's. also

because of what it can from 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 but if everything's above board great it's equally for them to fill it the full interview is here to inspect the plantation luis but is one of the 1st farmers whose working with a new water certification scheme he supplies a major german supermarket chain with organic oranges his plantation is massive producing $12000.00 tonnes of oranges per year. is safe with the help of the census system it collects doris on the air quality and they just 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 why are you a little portable deal so we maximize efficiency with a drip irrigation system and censors. you made. 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 that those that helps us a lot it's revolutionary. we use 20 percent less water all around 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 i'm very. how's it looking great we're getting a lot from every 3. of the in the. thread siegel. 135140 kilos poetry very important thing and the quality of the fruit will be. you know.

if. it's nice and dense. or delicious. it when. it could there's hardly any pulp. from then there will not be turned on in the databank but. more land use is placing his trust in one of his cut down on herbicides and

pesticides and his promoting a process of reading naturalization 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 truck that's our eagle eyed over there by the power cable. it's a benelli 0 but it had a. name. 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 the environment

it's back. you'll get. 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. great agricultural revolution of the 21st century has begun. 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.

but i mean generally. it's their god that's their idea of state of the art of agriculture that it will kill them all that. you respond is fortunate because he gets the water he needs for his plantation from a canal assigned to him by the war from starting so he's never needed to drill a well if there's one thing he knows is that the future depends on sustainable management of water resources. that. they get out 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. there are real numbers that. we cannot save water

just so other farms can water even more importantly you forget for now that only exacerbates the problem more land more consumption and i think. i. see. recent years have seen the popularity of the avocadoes soul demand for this sub tropical fish has risen 150 percent in the last decade but that has a downside. a view to cash in that avocado production is highly water intensive and is worsening the water process inspiring.

it takes 270 liters of water to grow just one of a current out of spain is affectively exporting its water resources in the form of fruit. i think he could be a brown is president of the spanish association of tropical fruit produces. work and author of that game of it was ok so the avocado isn't native to spain but nor of bananas only all the trees a native without a pot it's adapted perfectly to the climate a lot of you can see how well avocados grow here why shouldn't they be cultivated here. and also where they're plucked out of you know what got them for harvests get bigger every year in $28.00 in spain exported $97000.00 tonnes of avocado i was found i love all of it because they think that environmental activists are always

attacking tropical fruit farm and some of that we are and they think we're destroying everything in the world going to i don't understand their issue we're there against their own people and. i really don't want to destroy anything that we go. we're helping the country and i provided them with jobs. or the other thing we could grow twice as much but there isn't enough water in there wasn't. for the farmers in the association growth is the top priority any water they say thanks to modern irrigation systems gets used to expand their plantations they're also going to more rivers and drill bore holes and higher elevations they say they have. been left with no choice but to act outside. the water authority used to have a lot of officers here but now there are only 4 people left. we the others only

moved to the headquarters in seville. now there's a new administration 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 it wasn't even that they were slow they did nothing at all. you can thank them. for later for when tells us also has problems with bureaucracy. the 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 into yana potentially contravenes the use water directive and that could jeopardize cultural subsidies today he's here to talk to the president of the water authority. global who would call the farmers an 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 is about the disability but some farmers have resorted to drastic measures to impede the authorities work in the end you know this is the america that examined it and september 29th you're on the same day that representatives of the european commission were in madrid. to talk to the government about their water problem and you don't know which. one of my employees was threatened by farmers who were illegally extracting water he went to war that was going intimidated by a whatsapp group it was and we cannot let this sort of thing happen. to media. it's difficult because these people are often neighbors the ones who objected during the protest feel attacked. because we're trying to stop illegal water

extraction and then. we did the most about it i was with will get you nowhere close to 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 police they reluctantly agreed to being filmed on 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. we 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 is. about let's go take a look. we can't open it it's locked. 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 all we inspect. everything else is up to the government the water all 30 in the courts. and. you know well. the water authority is powerless it has no mandate to intervene and is incapacitated by bridge. so let's get a few pictures of the lock. of the water coming out. so we can show that the wells are functional. on our look for the wells where the water is coming from. what you know 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 boreholes feeds into the illegal pipeline network i mean although they drilled under cover of darkness traces are often left behind when the. vehicle. cars drive along here so there must be something up there. a lot let's have a look. here pipes and over there it's. a good local. public record here's the fuse box. it's operating. in terms of the beginning the pipes must come from other well it's all

a little when they come together here handy to the reservoir. because. it was. we followed that 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 in one lot and they split into 6 different lights . it's impossible to follow where they lead. lucky lucky or thought it would but these 3 go into the reservoir of love if you know once they leave the reservoir you can track them because i would offer you a 2nd look 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 got a little bit with a tragedy with your land it was a wake up call i mean but 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 ball everyone is now aware of the danger it's not just animals that can fall in people due to. well there's water at the bottom. but it's not our job to cover the ball all the boys are you. even when confronted with obvious danger is the inspectors are powerless to act with over a 1000000 illegal wells in spain solving this problem is a measure of growing urgency. around the clock you are now when i keep thinking that the length of.

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