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Thanks to the unparalleled drought this calendar year, farmers are struggling from a lack of ample water to contact it a ‘water war’.
For some purpose, the grass on the golf study course is only eco-friendly.
There is confirmation that the Rural Local community Company has publicly bought agricultural water to golfing programs.
Reporter Yang Jeong-eun will tell you.
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Eco-friendly grass spreads on the golfing class, and the trees are lush with greenery.
The artificial pool designed on the system is also whole of water.
The golfing course is flooded with water to this kind of an extent that the unprecedented drought is dismissed, with the quantity of precipitation only fifty percent of final year’s quantity.
[골프장 관계자]
“When we see the pond (artificial lake) going down like this, it will not search superior visually. We have to market our product…”
On the other hand, field crops on farmland near the golfing course are yellow and dry.
As crops burned to demise, one particular following a further, even to the point of plowing the fields.
Although there is an agricultural reservoir nearby, farmers have been complaining that h2o provide has not been easy considering that the spring.
[농민/전남 해남군 화원면]
“There is no drinking water in the reservoir. Below and below… Cabbage (farming) is tricky to do, now. Since there is no water…”
The Sindeok Reservoir was designed to source drinking water to the bordering 428 hectares of farmland.
As the drought ongoing, the drinking water degree in the reservoir dropped substantially, and the remaining h2o was loaded with only green algae.
All around this time final 12 months, the h2o storage rate was about 70-80%, but this 12 months it is at a level of 30%, earning it challenging to provide water.
However, the golf study course used 240,000 tonnes of drinking water from this reservoir this yr.
Considering the fact that 2019, 1.41 million tonnes of agricultural h2o has been made use of for golf study course greens and landscaping.
It’s not free.
The Rural Local community Company created a income of 100 million earned in the course of the same period of time by promoting h2o on a golf study course for 68 to 81 for every tonne it was gained.
[한국농어촌공사 관계자]
“Just as the highway company receives a cost by making use of the resources in the Rural Growth Corporation to create need in the condition, the national legislation is to use the surplus water remaining in the Community Corporation’s reservoir Rural.”
He also explained that the drinking water has not been offered to golfing programs due to the fact the finish of Might, when the drinking water retention level fell to much less than 60% as opposed to the ordinary yr.
Having said that, the reduced yields have presently fallen to a severe degree in the 20% selection, and farmers are complaining that they have ruined their crops for the calendar year.
[김선택/전남 해남군 문내면]
“I ought to water the farmers, what would I use to drinking water a useless golfing class?”
This year, 14 agricultural reserves offered agricultural water to golf classes across the country.
This is Yang Jeong-eun from MBC Information.
Movie comment Kim Seung-ho / Mokpo
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