In Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the world's driest places, two industries are competing for limited supplies of water. Agriculture which accounts for 25% of Chile's exports is competing with mining which accounts for a whopping 70% of Chile's exports. Not surprisingly with this amount of power, mining is currently running out and buying water rights of many farmers who are now seeing their crops die.
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