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cuts in water supplies
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https://www.dw.com/en/portugal-water-scarcity-weighs-on-drought-stricken-economy/a-65795525
The experts agree that Portugal’s industrial agriculture is the main culprit, as it relies on the wrong crops and uses too much water because of outdated irrigation methods.
Environmental engineer Catarina Rodrigues explains the issue, citing problems resulting from a 600-hectare (1,482-acre) avocado plantation currently being planned in Portugal’s southern Algarve region.
“Avocados need an extremely large amount of water, which is already in short supply in the region. This is an ecological crime,” the activist working for the nonprofit organization Quercus told DW.
Hmm. On one hand, yes, on the other hand, avocadoes are goddamn delicious and the world needs more of them.
The problem is that region is extremely hot. Almost a desert sometimes of the year.
Just to be a pedant, you know that deserts don’t have to be hot, right? The definition of a desert comes down to the amount of precipitation that a region gets, not how hot it is - Antarctica is a desert, the largest one on Earth.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Five years after it broke into Portuguese politics, the party led by former football pundit André Ventura has secured 18% of the vote and 48 seats in the 230-seat parliament.
Ten million Portuguese had the chance to cast their vote in Sunday’s snap election, four months after Socialist Prime Minister António Costa stood down amid corruption allegations, even though he was never named as a suspect.
It was Mr Costa who warned Portuguese TV viewers late on Sunday night that they could be heading for a “possible tie” between the Socialists (PS) and the centre-right Democratic Alliance, with only four seats outside Portugal yet to declare.
But not long afterwards, the man who replaced him as Socialist leader, Pedro Nuno Santos, conceded victory, announcing: “We are going to lead the opposition, we will renew the party and attempt to retrieve those Portuguese who are unhappy with the PS.”
Luís Montenegro has already condemned Mr Ventura, a former party colleague, as xenophobic and racist and in his victory speech he made clear he would not make any deals with him.
Former presidential candidate Ana Gomes suggested that many voters in the Algarve may have backed Chega because the government had failed to respond to people’s problems such as price rises and cuts in water supplies.
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