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Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host Rosie Blore.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. Our correspondent recently went to the US border to report on illegal crossings.

But no, it wasn't that border.

It turns out that what happens a lot in the South is also happening more and more in the North.

And Helen Fisher spent her career trying to work out why people dance, sing and write poems over love.

Our obituaries editor celebrates the life of the biological anthropologist. First up though.

For centuries, chileons who wanted water simply

for centuries chilions who wanted water simply took it from streams and rivers or sank wells to pump groundwater.

Robert Guest is the economist deputy editor.

That worked fine when there was lots of water, but today drought affects huge

swaths of the country and is leading to conflict.

I'm Alejandro Benezes, Saglito,

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Recently I traveled to Kocimboe

to meet a vegetable farmer called Alejandro Menaces.

I was like a bago on caminos. And that's he told me there wasn't enough water to the canes as the other bag on canyons

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he told me there wasn't enough water to farm with, and water thieves came at night and made the problem worse by stealing from irrigation canals.

And he said that if farmers like him can't grow enough, then food prices will rise and people will get unhappy. But this isn't just a rural problem.

Jessica Lopez, the Minister for Public Works, told me that the water supply for

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