Petorca River

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The Petorca River is a river of Chile. The catchment of Petorca River has been the subject of a severe drought the last decades. Lorena Donaire of the environmental organisation Modatima recalls 1985 as the first year Petorca River dried. [1]

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Petorca water crisis

Petorca in Chile has been in a long-term drought since 2010. It is the longest and most intense drought in the area in the last 700 years. By 2018 the Ministry of Public Works had decreed Petorca a "zone of water scarcity" for fourteen years in a row. The drought has mainly affected the lowlands and foothills while the surrounding hills maintain a healthy cover of avocado plantations.

References

  1. Salgado, Daniela (April 6, 2021). "Rodeados de paltos, pero sin agua para el consumo: el drama de zonas con escasez hídrica en Chile". Radio Bío-Bío (in Spanish). Radio France Internationale . Retrieved July 12, 2021.