La provincia de Santa Fe, particularmente la zona central y norte, se encuentra en alerta naranja debido a las altas temperaturas y la sequía que afectan la región. Las condiciones climáticas extremas están causando estragos en el sector agropecuario, con pérdidas aún incalculables para los productores. Las reservas de agua son insuficientes y muchos están abandonando sus actividades. Se espera que las temperaturas alcancen los 41 grados, con una sensación térmica aún mayor.
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00:00Santa Fe, Sequia and Ola de Calor, Mimi.
00:02That's right, the province of Santa Fe is on orange alert,
00:06particularly in the central and northern areas,
00:08which have been suffering from very high temperatures in recent days.
00:11For today, a temperature of the order of 41 degrees is expected,
00:16measured by the thermometer.
00:19And as for the feeling of heat,
00:20that value can normally go up to about 4 degrees more.
00:26The rest of the province is on yellow alert,
00:29so the province of Santa Fe is one of the hottest provinces this week.
00:33The images are really strong.
00:37That is replicated throughout the width of many fields.
00:41In principle, we are not talking about evacuations.
00:45Yes, it complicates the drought.
00:46The drought complicates a lot.
00:49Also for, well, obviously there are water reserves and more,
00:52but it is very complicated.
00:55In principle, the temperature a few days ago was 46 degrees.
01:00Practically, it is also complicated even to breathe outside.
01:03Of course, you know that the province of Santa Fe has one of its cities or areas,
01:08which is the northern area, Reconquista, Ceres.
01:10They are the hottest points in the country in the summer.
01:14They usually reach temperatures of the order of 52 degrees Celsius.
01:17They have had absolute maximums there in terms of those values.
01:21So it is common for these temperatures to be high there in the region.
01:26But well, during this year they have been giving very often,
01:30and this is added to the fact of the lack of rain.
01:33We have had many weeks, I must say, of lack of rain in the region.
01:40And this, of course, increases even more the probability of fires
01:44due to the dryness of the environment and the dryness of the earth itself.
01:48And here we see some of the images of what is being experienced there in the province of Santa Fe.
01:53You say, look, come here, come here.
01:55You say, I don't care if I'm in, I'm in Buenos Aires.
02:02What does it matter if I'm here watching Vivo el Domingo in Buenos Aires?
02:05This is the image that I was just commenting on and that Mimi was saying.
02:09What you see here is soy.
02:12A dry soy plantation, because there is no water.
02:17And this, Argentina, if it doesn't sell, or if the fields dry up and there is no production,
02:24there is no money coming in.
02:26There is no money coming in.
02:27That is why the field, many times, the phrase that says that the country is moving,
02:33this is what you don't see.
02:35This, when you go down the road, you see everything green, everything green.
02:37Well, this should be all green.
02:39You should see, in the distance, a carpet of a long green.
02:44Well, today you see a carpet that seems to be part of a desert.
02:49And this, this is what generates, what causes, in addition to the fires, the drought.
02:53Juan Caposolo, who is one of the owners of these fields, is connected to us.
02:59He is an agricultural producer.
03:01We thank him for being with us.
03:02Juan, we see images that, honestly, I was just trying to explain it, right?
03:07One at home or in Buenos Aires or elsewhere does not understand
03:10how important it is that this image that we have now,
03:14brown color of drought,
03:17should be green at this time and form a large carpet.
03:21Because that means money, resources,
03:25it means being able to eat,
03:26it means many things that are not happening at the moment.
03:31Yes, good morning to you.
03:34I believe that apart from the resources and what it will mean for the country,
03:39it is what it will mean for the people and for a zone, right?
03:44Which is what really complicates the future of this whole area so large,
03:50which is the north of Santa Fe, which is the south of Chaco, which is Corrientes,
03:55all embraced by this problem.
04:00Juan, that area of Santa Fe, as Ale said,
04:07Agropecuaria, par excellence, is, along with the south of Córdoba,
04:12the agropecuarian heart of the country.
04:15Is there an estimate of the product of the climate, the fires, the drought?
04:24How much do the losses rise for the producers this season?
04:33Well, I think trying to evaluate today is impossible
04:38because we are in the middle.
04:39It's like saying, I'm in the middle of the fire and I want to know when I'm going to turn it off.
04:43We are in the middle of this without rain nearby
04:49and with phenomena like this fire that occur from time to time.
04:56Here we are in the area a little further north,
04:59here begins a marginal area in what is the agricultural part.
05:06There is a lot of livestock.
05:08In Chaco, yes, we have an important part of agriculture again.
05:14Within the images I sent, we see how the soy is lost.
05:19We see in other images the cotton, which is incredible.
05:24It has a plant that has to be a meter and a bit.
05:27It's there, a quarter and a bit high.
05:31It's forming the button and trying to drop it.
05:35It's nature, the way it defends itself in a crisis.
05:42It pulls, it pulls the flower, it pulls the fruit.
05:46It's producing because it's trying to sustain the plant itself.
05:51Well, that's happening right now.
05:54And then we have the livestock part, which is suffering from a lack of water.
06:00Not only on the surface, but in the subsoil.
06:05In other words, the non-fooding of the napa
06:12has meant that the napa move a little,
06:17what is said down, in reality what makes less water circulate,
06:21and there are problems.
06:23We have the subsoil area,
06:27historically a very important numeral,
06:32and today there is no water left because there is no water below.
06:37Below there is salty water, there is water with arsenic,
06:42which the farm cannot take.
06:44So we work with dams.
06:46Today the dams have not been supplied
06:50because of the long drought that is coming.
06:53So those people were left without any kind of possibility.
06:57That's right.
06:59And I wanted to emphasize a little.
07:02Yes, sorry, go ahead.
07:04The National Meteorological Service issued a report
07:07where it justifies that at least until the end of April
07:11this intense drought would continue in the Argentine coast area,
07:16part of the province of Buenos Aires
07:18and also areas of the province of Santa Fe, Chaco and Formosa,
07:21especially in its eastern portion.
07:23So this drought phenomenon that you are experiencing right now
07:26is going to continue until the end of April.
07:31It's terrible.
07:33Yesterday I was talking to a friend from the western part of the province
07:38and he told me that he sold all his estate
07:42because he can't keep fighting.
07:45To raise awareness in the city,
07:48people are buying water.
07:51There are areas that have been buying water for a long time.
07:55Water and grass reserves.
07:57And they can't continue.
07:59So they are abandoning the activity.
08:02And there are people who spend their whole lives in the countryside.
08:06That's what we are experiencing right now.
08:09But sorry, Juan.
08:10Excuse me.
08:11How is water bought?
08:13What is the mechanism?
08:14And where is water bought?
08:16It is bought from those who have water wells.
08:20It's a long story.
08:22We've been fighting for more than a year
08:25in the first part of this drought.
08:28That's a sunroof that's already completely fallen.
08:31Yes.
08:32We hired the best producers
08:37to get some plastic buckets,
08:41load them in the trucks,
08:43load them in the places where there were water wells,
08:48and take them to the smallest producers,
08:50the most committed producers.
08:52There are places where it is bought.
08:55The area of Tostado, the area of Celota,
08:58buying water.
08:59Because those who have wells sell it,
09:02or even in some municipalities.
09:07And they are loading it in those 1,000-liter plastic buckets,
09:11in a lot, they load it in the truck.
09:13This is just for the cattle to open up there.
09:16Just for the cattle to drink water.
09:19Exactly.
09:20Just for that.
09:22And then that's where, well, as always,
09:26the State is missing, isn't it?
09:28Because the State should be solving this issue
09:31of more resources, more accessible resources,
09:34perforations, I mean, right?
09:36Yes.
09:37Where it's easier and it's not so far away to go get water.
09:40There is a time that one does, let's say...
09:44What you are telling, Juan, is science fiction.
09:47It's science fiction.
09:49It's what, when we read the stories,
09:52stories, or books by Isaac Asimov, for example,
09:55we saw that the war of water was going to come
09:58between humans because we were not going to be able to survive.
10:01Today it is.
10:02We are starting to see that.
10:03For now, it's because the cattle are dying.
10:05But sooner or later, human beings
10:08are also going to go into a water war.
10:11Without a doubt.
10:12Without a doubt.
10:13In some places, they take drinking water.
10:15I mean, there is nothing left.
10:18And this goes on for a long time.
10:20This goes on for...
10:22But unfortunately, and that's where we started to get...
10:25Yes, and that's where we started to get into politics.
10:28When one thinks about what to do,
10:30and the politicians who are closing lists,
10:33the politicians are far from the production.
10:37It's unfortunate.
10:38It's unfortunate because politics is not bad,
10:41it's the politicians who are bad.
10:43Amen.
10:44Well, that's how it is.
10:45People get hungry and thirsty.
10:48Because thirst is much more complicated
10:51to resist.
10:54Well, this is what is being seen.
10:58You know, when they run out of water,
11:01the crops disappear.
11:04And well, this is an animal that fell into a well.
11:09You can see that there is a little moisture left.
11:11They get in and stay in the swamp and die there.
11:14Because they are looking for any moisture.
11:17This is one of the situations...
11:20We'll put it in a little bit, Juan.
11:22Yes.
11:23A little bit is cut off, Juan.
11:26I thank you, Juan, for this little time with us.
11:30The truth is that we will continue to bother you
11:32surely in the next few days.
11:34You have explained the situation in a very docent way.
11:39And I think it is something that we should attend to
11:42and not look away because it is the present.
11:46It is food, it is water.
11:47The present is what is coming.
11:48And it is what is coming.
11:49It is what is coming.
11:50It is what is already there.
11:51I don't know if it is what is coming.
11:52Thank you very much, Juan.