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Hello citizens, welcome to our newscast. I am Marcos Fernandez. And I am Gabriel.

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Today we are going to make a special news about a fire of exploitation.

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Nowadays we don't have many resources to eat and drink, but there are still people trying to save the environment.

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And these are some of the most recent news.

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Yesterday the manifestation of the scarcity of water started.

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The farmers are afraid of abandoning because they say they don't have enough water to grow.

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And if they can't grow, we don't have food.

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And now we will consult with the real citizens to have a conversation about what is happening in this moment in Cochaba.

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Hello citizens, may I ask you some questions?

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Yeah, sure.

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Ok, let's start. Tell me how is your life changing in Cochaba?

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Hello, in this area it doesn't rain a lot. The rivers are empty of water.

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Almost all the ecosystem has disappeared and when it rains it produces a big flood.

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Ok, thanks for your opinion. Bye.

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Bye, see you soon.

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Now that we know exactly what is happening, let's see how Alex does the special news.

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Hello, I am Alex and I am going to explain how has life changed because of aquifer exploitation.

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First of all, we need to know what this term means.

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Aquifer exploitation is the term in which the average abstraction rate of an aquifer is greater than its recharge rate.

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Or in a few words, it's the situation in which we extract water from an aquifer faster than it can recover.

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Now that we know what this means, I am going to explain how has life changed because of this.

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Life has changed in some ways, one of them being a decrease in groundwater abstraction

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and another one being that the system gets affected because of this, like some plants getting dry.

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This is caused because of farmers that build wells illegally and excessive agricultural irrigation.

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Now we hope you all like our newscast. Bye.