So forests play a very important role in replenishing the aquifer, the water underground in a watershed, you cut down the trees, and you deplete the water that's there underground, and then you install avocados, which is a plant that consumes as much as four or five times as much water as the natural vegetation. And the result of all this is very serious water shortages in avocado region that's having a real impact on local communities, on local farmers, and is simply not sustainable.

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