An avocado takes about 70 litres of applied fresh water to grow on average, but in Chile’s dry Valparaíso region the figure has been estimated at 320 — while some Petorca residents were rationed to 50 litres a day.
While global avocado farming uses 70 litres per fruit, Chile’s drought-stricken Petorca province needs 320—revealing how water mismanagement, not the crop itself, devastates farming communities.
