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 i m laughing about it out we go one day after the movie and ethel my hope is that one day things will be better for us on that one day a politician a president who s not corrupt look change the chilean constitution. that is the crux of the matter. well rick water should be public property and the lawn to everyone although. the constitution allows the privatization of water. anyone who can afford it buys rights and can hold water quite legally. roderigo and his fellow activists say that s how potomac his water has been
there s 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. rock creek among dot com is. agricultural engineer who has been fighting for human right to drinking water for years. rodriguez says there was enough water for everyone before the avocado boom to 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 last. winter the big gob ocado exporters are disrupting the water cycle. and the damage to the
a little you re nobody should we chileans avocados for breakfast a lot of shredded salad in the afternoon and in the evening it s a souped up fruit that serves up one was called well it s become a kind of green gold. and. it s also a superstar on social media and amount. it s a very versatile fruit but at the same time tom stands for a set of health food stands for almost a new school. but it comes at a cost will be a delicacy question if everyone knew the chileans had to live without water because of a car as your put have to stop importing them. in the go to know what i d like. ricardo
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 despite the lack of water rodriguez documents the rampant growth of agricultural. hand. that photo may have no future. as things stand the climate the lack of rain. the dried out rivers. well we re
into it when he s got too much power and it comes to that ground water up from way down deep. below and over there forty or fifty heck there s a robert caro s here there or more. ready to pick it so that it never will and you know that you know harvesting i m already q knows 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 oversees it past nearly he s one of chile s biggest avocado exporters.