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112 Andalusia.
What\'s your emergency?

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Near the road to Totalán, in the hills,
a child fell into a well.

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Hold the line. Just a moment.
-Hurry, please.

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I rang twenty minutes ago.
What\'s taking you so long?

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All units have been warned.
-Warned? But who\'s coming?

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There\'s nobody here.
This is serious.

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Episode 1
Never-Ending Story

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Totalán is a small community
with a huge trauma.

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Some neighbours talk about it a lot,
others try to forget it.

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A small village is like a family.

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No matter what happens,
you have to deal with it together.

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Fifteen years ago, I was a stranger here.

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A single woman from Argentina
buying a house in their village.

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That was a big happening. But they
have accepted me as one of their own.

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Because of the café,
I know everybody.

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I\'m more aware of what\'s happening
than anyone else.

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Well, except for Father Prieto,
he also hears things sometimes.

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Whether it\'s in the church
or here in the café:

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People need to unload their feelings.

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I didn\'t see it on the news,
we received a phone call.

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We heard that a child had fallen.

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There was some information,
but it wasn\'t very clear.

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That was a miserable situation.

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I was on call. My children
were with my mother in Totalán.

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So when they told me that
a child had fallen into a well, I thought:

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Wait a minute, my parents went for a walk
with my children in Totalán.

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They were there, in the hills.
So I tried to contact my mother...

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to ask her where the children were
and if they were all right.

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Eventually, my mother answered the phone
and told me they were fine.

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It\'s devastating when you think
it\'s happening to your own child.

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When we got there,
we couldn\'t believe it.

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We were told he fell into a well.

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\'Into a well, how is that possible?\'
We couldn\'t believe it.

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When we arrived and saw the hole...

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it seemed impossible that he
had fallen through such a small opening.

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We just hoped the child wasn\'t inside.

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Did you get the olive oil?
-Yes.

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Does it go on top?
-Yes.

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Is this enough?
-Nice.

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We were told
that a child had fallen into a well.

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They had heard him cry.

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They couldn\'t see him,
they couldn\'t reach him.

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That was the first information
we received.

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Maria was first on the scene, together with
a colleague who has now changed stations.

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And later, when more men were requested,
we all went there.

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And another team from Rincón came too.

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When we arrived at the site
of the incident, we couldn\'t believe it.

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Looking at the dimensions of the well...

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it seemed almost impossible
that a child could have fallen into it.

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When he fell into it,
a lot of soil had crumbled off the walls.

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Because of that barrier,
we weren\'t able to contact him.

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No oxygen could get in either.
It was a complex situation.

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Mr Rodriguez was at the scene...

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the mayor of course, and Father Prieto.

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We all talked about it in the café.

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Finally, things have settled down
in the village.

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Was it a good idea then,
to welcome this film crew?

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Pepe is not always the sharpest tool
in the shed, but this time he was:

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\'Why don\'t they come during the Feria?

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Then they won\'t just see the pain,
but also the happy side of the village.\'

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Right. In this pocket...

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I put your hair clip.

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And your lipstick.

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Do you have a rubber hairband?
Where is it?

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All right, hold your hair up.

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Today is the big day.
Paella Day.

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The day of the Virgin Rosario.
Our patron saint.

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We have to make ourselves pretty
for this day.

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We\'ll be dancing,
hopefully in the rain.

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That\'s the best.
Let\'s go dancing in the rain.

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New plants are starting to grow on
the mountain and birds are singing again.

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That\'s why Mr. Rodriguez wanted to take
a look after all this time.

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So horrible.

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It was so sad, that poor boy.

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Such bad luck for these parents.

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They arrived at ten in the morning
and the child fell in.

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So very sad.

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You could see everything from here.

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British people, people from Germany,
France, Italy, Belgium.

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They came from all over the world.
I had two journalists staying at my place.

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Two nights in a row.

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Each house would serve them food.
We all helped them.

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The people from the village.

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My wife and I are devastated.

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We felt like this from the start,
like we\'re not really here.

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But we hope that we have an angel
who will help him...

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to make it out alive.

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We had a barbecue
and wanted to eat with our family.

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The children were walking around,
looking for flowers. We prepared dinner.

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Julen wandered off a bit
and I went after him.

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I wanted to get him.

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If I would run...

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I could easily catch him.
We were just five metres apart.

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Then suddenly, I don\'t know...

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I couldn\'t see him anymore.

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We didn\'t know and didn\'t expect...

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that there was a well.

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It\'s tearing me apart, but I heard him.

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One moment, I could hear my son
and the next, I couldn\'t.

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I pull it tight and then it\'s fixed.

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And again, or shall I do it?

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Where?
-This side.

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Julen fell into a well.

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But we never talk about it.
Wells are a sensitive subject.

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In the café, we tend to talk about
how bad FC Málaga is doing.

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Politicians who can\'t do anything right,
and about that bloody drought.

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I\'m from this area
and we\'ve always had enough water.

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Indeed.
-But now we don\'t, because of this heat.

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There\'s nothing in Málaga.
Just look at the reservoir of Viñuela.

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Dry.
-Dry.

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In these conversations, Father Prieto says
what you would expect a priest to say.

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If it\'s God\'s will, He will change it.

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And Pepe says exactly
what you would expect him to say.

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I can\'t see that happening,
as there is just no water.

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And then they fall silent.

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It\'s so cold.
-It really is.

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Ready? Push.

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Don\'t get caught out by the wind.

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Has the lake always been this empty?
-No. No.

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What was it like before?
-The water level went up and down.

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But this year, it dropped even more.
I\'ve never seen it this low.

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It used to be a 500-metre walk...

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but as you just saw,
it\'s now at least 1500 metres.

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It\'s hard.

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Go up.
We\'ll meet at the dam. All right?

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The apricots are delicious.
-This is the medlar tree.

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Why do you have buckets outside?

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To collect rainwater.

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Like that bucket over there, for example.

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Where\'s the water coming from?

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It runs from the windows and the hood,
through the cracks...

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and then trickles to the exhaust pipe.

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But it\'s not much.
We\'re having a very dry summer.

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Christina, get that bucket.
-Sure.

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We collect every drop of water,
even the water coming from the car.

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We collect the water here.
-We collect every drop, right Grandpa?

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That\'s all.
-Which one shall I carry?

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This one?
-Here.

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Watch it.
-Oops.

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Let me help you.

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Be careful, no spilling.

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Don\'t you want to drill a well?

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There are many illegal wells,
but that\'s not for me.

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Do you remember the well of Julen?
They forgot to cover the well.

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The kids and their friends played there
before the accident.

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By the time they realised the boy was gone,
he was already at the bottom of the well.

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As you have seen, the café is over there.
You could see everything from there.

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The only thing we talked about
was that child, of course.

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After two or three days,
I already thought...

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I was thinking it,
but nobody would say it out loud...

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so people wouldn\'t get discouraged.

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But after three days,
it seemed impossible to me...

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that they would find the boy alive.
It was impossible.

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And slowly, we started to lose hope.

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In the end, it took them eighteen days.

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Because of all the setbacks
with the excavators, it took more time.

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Anyway...

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I think that after he fell,
the boy was no longer...

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I can\'t be sure, of course,
but I can imagine...

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that the fall, and the rocks
that fell into the well because of that...

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There was just no way for the boy
to make it out alive.

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I worry about my own son, Wary.

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He also likes to play in the hills
with his friends.

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After the accident, a painful lawsuit
about the well followed.

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It turned out to be illegal.

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During that period, people were
talking about the well again in the café.

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About Julen,
and about that particular well.

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But people prefer to keep silent
about all the other wells.

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I will tie her up for a moment.
Come on, sweetheart.

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Come.

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This is a dangerous well
that I discovered.

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When I saw it, I put down
bricks and pipes to mark the hole.

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I was very careful,
because I know this well is open...

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and I know it\'s huge.

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But, as you can see,
it\'s also very deep.

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Anyone walking here
could easily fall in.

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There\'s metal in there
which can seriously injure you.

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Or you fall and hit your head here.
Different scenarios are possible.

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I will cover it again for safety.

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As much as possible.

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The mountains of Andalusia
are beautiful...

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but also useless if you can\'t get water,
legally or illegally.

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Many villagers have a vegetable garden
to supplement their wages.

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Or they work for a farmer.
Or they are farmers themselves.

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There aren\'t many other options.

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I think that out of all my customers,
eighty per cent live off the land.

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That\'s why asking people
about the wells is taboo.

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This is the municipal swimming pool
in Totalán.

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The drought is a big problem for us,
that\'s why we don\'t empty it.

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Is it true that the fire department
is using your water?

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They already did.

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They came here with helicopters
to collect water to put out a fire.

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See, I filmed it.

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A helicopter with a huge bag.

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They fill it with water.

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And now the helicopter
is going to put out the fire.

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Here in Totalán, as you can see...

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ninety per cent of the land
is used for olive trees.

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Our olive oil is the best
in the whole of Andalusia.

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No offence.

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These olive trees are not being watered,
no manure is used.

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These are wild olives.
The only water they get is rainwater.

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But because of that, we\'ve hardly had
any olive oil these past two years...

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because it doesn\'t rain
and they don\'t get any other water.

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Over there,
you see a piece of land that is green.

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Those are avocados.

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If you look closely, you see that
the owner has his own water tank.

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He has four wells.

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He fills his water tank from the wells
and waters his avocado trees.

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Avocados are grown a lot in this region.

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I think that\'s why the water level
of the Viñuela reservoir is so low.

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These will become this big.

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Delicious avocados.

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Shall I check if anyone is there?
-There is a water tank over there.

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Where?
-Up there.

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We\'re at a plantation with a water tank...

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but we don\'t know if it\'s filled.
You\'d think they have water.

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I\'m going to take a look.
Let\'s hope they don\'t have dogs.

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Hello?

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All right. You don\'t have much water,
so we will only take a little.

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Do they have water?
Just a little.

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We have to keep looking.

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We have been to several places already
and we can\'t fill up the tank anywhere.

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You can tell the drought
is getting worse and worse.

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We\'re already running out
of options to find more water.

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These are Hass avocados.

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These are in great demand in the US,
the Netherlands and Germany.

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Do you believe this drought is caused
by the many avocado plantations?

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No, it\'s not caused
by the avocado plantations.

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You hear that sometimes,
but you can\'t say that.

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A lot of water is used for swimming pools,
but people don\'t talk about that.

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Swimming pools are emptied
and filled every day.

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There are a lot of plantations,
but also a lot of swimming pools.

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We shouldn\'t point fingers in this case.

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I don\'t feel guilty,
because we feed a lot of people this way.

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I don\'t know. I don\'t think so.

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For one avocado,
you need about 2000 litres of water...

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per year.

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Isn\'t that a lot?
-It might be...

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but that is just a rough estimate.
I can\'t give you the exact number.

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We don\'t waste as much water
as people often claim we do.

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Thank God. After months of drought, there
was a sudden downpour of heavy rain.

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Right during the Feria.

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The mayor proposed a toast to it.

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I proposed a toast to Tanca.
That\'s the name of Joaquin\'s dog.

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He rescued her
when she was only a puppy.

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She was sitting in a box by the rubbish,
covered in parasites.

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The poor creature was in bad shape.

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Anyway,
try to keep this story in mind...

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when you hear
what happened to Joaquin himself.

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I was walking here with the dog.
Suddenly she started chasing a cat.

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I was walking here,
and the dog suddenly ran that way.

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I went after her
and suddenly, I fell into a well.

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I immediately fell quite deep.
And I dropped down deeper and deeper.

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I wanted to push myself up
from the bottom, but I couldn\'t.

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The water was just too deep.

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I kept crying out for help for hours
and lost all sense of time.

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I wasn\'t able to hold on much longer.
I was shivering with cold and exhaustion.

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My dog barked nonstop,
for eight solid hours.

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Girls from nearby houses heard it.

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They dialled 112.

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I owe my life to my dog Tanca.

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When I found the courage
to go outside again...

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the municipality
was just closing the well.

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I told those men my story
and then I left a handprint.

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As a symbol to leave
that horrible period behind me.

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To make a mark: I was here, sadly.

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When we go outside, we have to be careful,
so we don\'t bump into anything.

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At the third tap, we execute the order.

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Please, let me know if you see anything.
We\'re a team.

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The arms, the arms.
Easy, lift it by the arms.

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Come on, focus.

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There are holes all over Spain.

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I read in the newspaper
that there are a million illegal wells.

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A rough estimate, of course,
because these things are illegal.

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But there are many.

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Fate could have struck at any village.

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But it happened here.

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Unidentified people have blown up
an explosive in the water pipes.

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Who would want to sabotage it?

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It\'s an act of terrorism.

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They got cars.
-Large four-wheel drives.

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And a Rolex?
-You don\'t get to say another word.

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Why do you talk to us about water?
I don\'t want to talk about it.

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Now we start arguing. We\'re done.
Why did you bring up that Rolex?