Santiago Times: Water shortages in one of Chile’s prime agricultural districts “” Region III’s Copiapo valley, home to Chile’s early table grape deal “” have local fruit growers and government officials concerned. Tierra Amarilla and Alto del Carmen communities in Huasco have not experienced a drop of rain for over a year More than 700 fruit growers rely on the Lautaro water reservoir, fed by the Copiapo River, which has a maximum capacity of 23 million cubic meters of water and normally holds about …