Illegal extraction of. The gospel right up from the you alone is tragic people its time to put a stop to the drilling of illegal boreholes which amounts to stealing a public asset. Its thought there are over a 1000000 illegal boreholes in spain often called moonshine wells because they drilled at night they used to help irrigate grown here in one of the trials corners of europe and exported to the rest of the continent. No one wants to take responsibility i doubt anything will change unfortunately gay not suitable doesnt fix your. Nature at its most. The National Park south of seville is a unesco World Heritage site and a stopover for me. Of markets and birds traveling between europe and africa but its 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. For biodiversity for the parks wetlands and. Its 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 parks marshes and the lagoon. Groundwater levels of fry. So the water back on center in the National Park has been altered. Were destroying it. Its. Really 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 lifes mission he uses satellite imaging to locate nearly drill for holes and illegal agriculture. It is one of Marshall Fields these are oficial government maps may show legal agricultural areas. It is its a map thats 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 would hope. 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 because nobody its deeply frustrating. Forgot about im going to get we see the crops are being cultivated here this farm suddenly appeared about 2 years ago. It was right next to the road but its not being shut down even though everyone knows its here. Its been reported to the Water Authority i mean together without any. Legal 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 and local authorities spend 7 years to. One up or all the under luzhin parliament approved the plan in december 2014 illegal farming must be stopped and we hope this happens. I think if the democrat. Bring in these areas of cultivation have sprouted up over the last. 30 years and there was no local oversight local council simply allowed this moomin illegal farming to happen. It would seem to me so that i could leave because you. 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 of 80000 people and 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 into the no this is an illegal war at all there are roughly a 1000 of them and dont wanna we have these are especially agree just because were in the middle of a protected forest but there are 60 illegal wells here alone for extracting water from rivers that are long as in the wetlands thank you dan that i walk. About and its shocking because you can even see the fields when but out of fear 567 kilometers away. 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 we go through a form of Palestinian People theres a high risk of forest fires this is been going on for 10 years or so you know what if its scandalous if your mother told you about it when that awful night. You know you think and if you feel its tricky trying to follow the party because they disappear into the ground reappear and then disappear again and we think i did you watching. It was and i said you know this is in illegal reservoir you know wooded area. You know its illegal you can install a reservoir here. With each of these pipes is a well you know but if it doesnt take a little bit of and you can clearly see that theyre in operation. I think that we got off on a good value like what it is like the water from about 14 wells in the vicinity used collected here and pumped to farms that arent even close by. No sorry my sadness is one of the most flagrant examples of the kind of illegal activity weve been fighting for years and look at. Its 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 new European Court of justice has opened proceedings against the Spanish Government in connection with water theft and dont know what it would i want to know. Monocultures a by no means restricted to tania on a National Park the Agricultural Sector is the censurable thirst for bullshit is transforming the andalusian landscape as a ground water supply is by no means guaranteed. A turning contractor luis montenegros business is thriving a test costs around 2000 euros but its a risky investment for his clients and theres a long wait for a permit from the Water Authority. Look at which it is. When a farmer submit said drilling project to the authorities. It can take up to 8 or 9 months to get a reply. Thats just unacceptable the Water Authority takes ages but farmers need to irrigate their crops if they cant they lose their harvests if you know. And then the families and farms end up ruined media i dont 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. There is no well and the bore hole has to be revealed. By the way dont 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 of requisite geological surveys can cost around a 1000. 00 euros here in central angelous all of pharma antonios 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 to the trees get no water there will be no all its. Obviously we have to use water before the official permit comes through thats just how it is. The drilling contractor is pessimistic tomorrow the company will try again at a different spot you know very outwardly agreement that you cant see a thing just a black hole theres no water and if there was the soil would be more just here in the region theres very little water thats the wrong sort of bedrock where they really are highly other people and i dont. Know much about him which i was a extract a lot of water by groundwater levels are falling you know natural gas and Everyone Wants a private pool the Agricultural Sectors demand for water is growing. Here in Southern Europe we depend on farming. The grass the farming sector helped the country survive the most recent financial crisis. Get 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 phillipa for lent has asked 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 its the 1st farm in europe to be certified according to a system that manages water consumption sustainable. Daily monitoring is absolutely essential its about respecting a commodity that Everyone Wants to add water which is in short supply in this farm is Proof Positive that water consumption can be realistically reduced you can get a full bottle for that what. The. 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 thats very important. Or so. Almost but make up what it can from supermarkets also decide where they buy their produce from they can check whether its all sound thats what the Water Authority map is for if everythings above board great. Then the philip thats the intercessor is here to inspect the plantation louies but is one of the 1st farmers whose working living you want to set up the cation scheme he supplies a major german Supermarket Chain with organic oranges his plantation is massive producing 12000. 00 tonnes of oranges per year morsi is safe with the help of the census system it connects doris on the air quality in the nations 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 doesnt simply trickle why are you a little portable deal so we maximize efficiency with a drip irrigation system and censors. You meddle and we dont waste any water and we add fertilizer to the water which doesnt seeped into the groundwater and contaminate it with nitrate. I mean im a lot more need the tools that helps us a lot but im a little its revolutionary when i get on you know you dont argue that 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 im very. Hows it looking great were getting a lot from every tree. That you know. It doesnt all. 135140 kilos patry very important thing and the quality of the fruit will be. You know. Just. To get this its nice and dense. Delicious what you. Get when. It could theres hardly any pulp. From the end there will not be turned up in the data but. More land use is placing his trust in nature hes 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 truck thats our eagle eyed over there by the power cable. Its a benelli. 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 its back. Up some farmers thought i was crazy theyd ask why are you doing that. Youre putting your whole farm at risk. Right now 5 years on. Worked hard and they see it works. Now everybody wants to do what i did it all. Agricultural revolution of the 21st century has begun. To get it no doubt about it. That over there is no longer our farm the difference. You know its like another world. I call it the desert youre your money so thats chernobyl for me. But i mean generally. They still got thats their idea of state of the art of agriculture that little gem of that. You respond is fortunate because he gets the water he needs for his plantation from a canal assigned to him by the Water Authority so hes never needed to drill a well if theres one thing he knows is that the future depends on Sustainable Management of Water Resources. That get out or because they need a real need to realize that the point of saving water isnt to expand irrigation areas. Separate. What we save must be set aside for the dry season want to bring us again or return to the rivers. That are real not said all right we cannot save water just so other farmers can water even more. Forget for now that only exacerbates the problem more land more consumption my finger. So. Its just so. Recent years have seen the popularity of the avocados for demand for this sub tropical fruit has risen the 150 percent in the last decade but that has a downside for 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. For a lot of that game if it was ok so the avocado isnt native to spain but nor a bananas only all of the trees are native without a doubt its adapted perfectly to the climate will come of it you can see how well avocados grow here why shouldnt they be cultivated here. And often where their plant that i work up and fight for the harvests get bigger every year in 28 in spain exported 97000 tonnes of avocados for my local i probably think that environmental activists are always attacking tropical fruit farm and some of it for you and they think were destroying everything in the world again like i dont understand their issue where theyre against their own people and. I really dont want to destroy anything that we go. Were helping the country by providing them with jobs. Or the other thing we could grow twice as much but there isnt enough water there wasnt. For the Pharmacy Association growth is the top priority any water they say thanks to modern Irrigation Systems gets used to expand their plantations theyre also more rivers and drill bore holes Higher Elevations they say they have. Been left with no choice but to act outside. Of the Water Authority used to have a lot of offices here but now there are only 4 people left. The others all new to the headquarters in seville. Now theres a new administration that 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 wasnt even that they were slow they did nothing at all. You can about that thank you. Philippa for one tells us also has problems with bureaucracy. The Water Management plan approved in 2014 has yet to be implemented hes hoping that things will start to move at the Water Authority because whats happening into yana potentially contravenes the use water directive and that could jeopardize agricultural subsidies and today hes here to talk to the president of the Water Authority you know you talk a Little Hollywood all the farmers and under lose you know exactly how much water theyre going to use and where it comes from to help develop the Water Management plan it doesnt but if you buy the disability but some farmers have resorted to drastic measures to impede the authorities work and you havent you know this is the america that is i mean there is it was on september 29th youre on the same day that representatives of the European Commission were in madrid. To talk to the government about their water problem and you dont know i was. One of my employees was threatened by farmers who were illegally extracting water. He went to war that was being intimidated by a Whatsapp Group it was and we cannot let this sort of thing happen. Immediately. Its difficult. Because these people are often neighbors the ones who object to do with protest feel attacked because were trying to stop illegal water extraction and then. We did the most about it i was with will look you know where are the money that you know where. The water authorities inspectors task is a highly delicate one given the pharmacy hostility theyre now accompanied by the police they reluctantly agreed to being filmed on condition they cant be identified their fear of being recognised by their neighbors is too great. Lets have a look at the reservoir see how many well supplied record the g. P. S. Data. You are telling and take some more photos. Of today theyre inspecting more than 60 illegal bore holes in the forest many farmers see them as backstab is. About lets go take a look. If we cant open it its locked. Because why are we going in. Here because its locked. The person who set this up for instance and locked it in so no one could fall and. Theres nothing more we can do and all we inspect. Everything else is up to the government the water all 30 in the courts. You know what. The Water Authority is powerless it has no mandate to intervene and is incapacitated by. The shelling. So lets get a few pictures of the luck. Of the water coming out. So we can show that the wells are functional. I. Mean our look for the wells where the water is coming from. 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 boreholes feeds into the illegal Pipeline Network i mean although they drilled under cover of darkness traces are often left behind when. You got a look at the car a little bit of the cars drive along here so there must be something up there trip report a bit of. A lot thats have a look. Here pipes and over there to. Acknowledge that youve got. A quality goal here is the fuse box. Its operating. Significant enough to live because among the pipes must come from other well its a little bit may come together here handy to the reservoir. Because you see if. We follow a bad path as about 6 kilometers of pipe and hoses then theres a point where they go into the ground and a little further on they reappear. A lot and they split into 6 different lights. Its impossible to follow where they lead them to lafayette i thought it would but these 3 go into the reservoir and a lot of will get lucky if you know once they leave the reservoir you can track them. Separately a. Little further proof that no one bothers to monitor the situation properly even though the tragic death of the toddler last year right. To win us of the widespread problem of the legal boreholes and water theft. Of your valuable 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 centimeters so its 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 its not just animals that can fall in people due to. Theres water the bottom. God its not our job to cover the ball was really. About. Even when confronted with the obvious dangers that the inspectors are powerless to act with over a 1000000 illegal wells in spain solving this problem is a measure of growing urgency. Kick off. The big Midterm Review hard to. This time we interview the record holders and their selfproclaimed challengers. Byron munich and dortmund. Neither team has lived up to their expectations what are they doing wrong whats left for these 2 giants of the bundesliga. Kick off in 90 minutes on t. W. 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