THE WATERS Thieves come at night time. They arrive in vehicles, suck water from irrigation canals and drive off. That infuriates Alejandro Meneses, who owns a big vegetable farm in Coquimbo, an arid province of Chile. In concept, his land possession comes with the appropriate to pour 40 liters of river water per second onto his fields. However because of the drought, which is exacerbated by theft, he can solely get a tenth of what he has to barter along with his neighbors. When meals costs rise as a result of farmers like him can't develop sufficient, “there's a giant social drawback,” he says.