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Is our love of avocados drying Chile's water supplies?

by Nicola Milne and Timothy Moss

In Petorca, in Chile's Valparaiso region, local people and small avocado farmers say the arrival of big commercial avocado companies more than a decade ago has led to increasingly severe water shortfalls.

That is fueling tensions locally - and even led to death threats.

Read more on: https://packages.trust.org/running-dry-chile/index.html

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