Avocado pits are seen germinating at Avocado House restaurant in Lisbon, Portugal, October 9, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
LAGOS, Portugal (Reuters) - Like many Britons in Portugal, Richard Alan moved to the sun-drenched southern Algarve region to retire. He bought a farm, married the love of his life and grew a vegetable garden. Then he started running out of water.
He, and some environmentalists, blame an avocado production boom in recent years for mopping up already scarce water as a drought linked to climate change blights the area.
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