We're running out of water
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- The world is facing a major water crisis thanks to irresponsible policies and climate change. A third of people already face water scarcity, and that number is growing. In other regions, too much water is causing problems, with floods and hurricanes causing billions of dollars in damage. Lou explains why there is such a water disparity, and what needs to be done to save the planet.
SOURCES & FURTHER READING
UN report on Water (2018)
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Moore on water conflicts
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Water conflicts around the world
www.worldwater....
Hoekstra’s water footprint explanation
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D’Odorico on water use in agriculture
www.nature.com...
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Writer: Louis Foglia
Editor: m.cho
Researcher: Dushyant Naresh
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I wrote this on Twitter (@loufoglia). Copying it here.
It’s getting harder for me to roll my eyes at vegans. According to the UN, animal agriculture is responsible for 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions. The majority of that comes from beef and dairy. (If we don’t reduce emissions, IRCC reports that climate change outcomes we once thought were far are now expected by 2040, things like worsening droughts, wildfires, and food shortages.)
Meanwhile, the production of 1 kilogram of beef (2.2 lbs) requires over 15,000 liters of water. Overall, a normal diet that includes dairy, eggs, meat and fish is almost twice as water intensive as a vegan diet.
Eating meat is also bad for your health. Researchers recently found that the risk of death from cardiovascular disease is reduced by 40 percent when individuals adopt a plant based diet. The risk of coronary heart disease also drops by 40 percent.
Then there’s the animal cruelty argument. The conditions on large-scale industrial farms are not good, to say the least. Plus, all birds-that’s egg-laying hens, meat chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and others-are excluded from all federal animal protection laws.
Excuse me if this sounds preachy. I’m just grappling with all this myself, as a big eater who consumers more than his fair share of burgers, wings, and breakfast bacon.
It’s just reached the point where the empirical evidence is overwhelming my knee-jerk resistance to being nannied. I haven’t eaten my last streak…but I’m definitely done ribbing vegans and vegetarians about their aversion.
Vegans & vegetarians shouldn’t have to defend their diets. The rest of us should.
How about limiting the population instead? Its a population problem after all
It's that easy, go plant based! :)
There is no need to go vegan or vegetarian. Our bodies are built for some meat, but not the amount we have come accustom to in the modern age. We just need to cut back.
A R okay Hitler
Louis Foglia We don’t need to do anything except let science run its course. Humanity has already developed lab grown meat. I guess we’ll just pretend like that technology will stagnate where it is in the present: Edible. Is it unrealistic to think that this consumer necessity that is recreational meat eating will spur some kind of demand in which supply will follow? The tech is here, all we need is some kind of shortage or crisis, and bam... we can still eat meat, just from a different more sustainable source, and we don’t have to hate ourselves for it. I’m sorry for the sarcasm, but why so masochistic? There’s no need for us to be like that guy from the Davinci Code with the whips and shit. Go right ahead and whip yourself if you like it, just don’t feel like you have to, or imply others should too.
"It was beautiful. Earth was like most planets; too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution."
"Genocide."
"But random. Dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman. And what I predicted came to pass."
i'm just 25 right now, don't know what we will do in coming decades. And the next generation seems doomed.
our generation is doomed. The next generation will be children we will be the adults trying to deal with the situation. We need to act now.
LOL According to when I was a kid we were told that half of California would break off into the ocean, half of Texas and all of Florida would be underwater, it should be about 900*F by now, and we would have flying cars....Hmmmmmmmmm Gloom and doom sells
@coke zer0 facts people are so weak minded these days. Humanity has always adapted and there have always been people claiming their time is the end of times.
@Sumeet Verma I can very relate to that feeling, specially in this time where everything becomes more intense.
Can't understand the other people who shake this of as "fearmongering" and what the frick they mean with "adapting". How you want to adapt to a world that becomes unlivebale. You mean dying of starvation? Nice technique, even dumber analogy.
Act now!
@coke zer0 This is exactly why kids need safe spaces and suffer from so much depression and commit suicide. You would think at any moment the world is going to end, someone is going to kill you, etc. When that is not the case. You see these studies about young people and their outlook on life and the future and it proves my point. Too much information is just as bad as not enough.
I'm so thirsty now.
Summary: Thanks a lot boomers
How do you report on so many bad things? I’m amazed by your composure
we fought for oil and gold. now we will go back to fight for water
Michel.rs just oil, gold is worthless
@@johnmidwest5650 really? tell that to all the people that died during the gold rush
Who's this we bullshit?
MAD MAX
The water wars
We also have a waterproblem in Flanders, Belgium. Last summer it was very dry and we had watershortages (I mean we had still water but it was forbidden to wash your car, spray the plants etc) and now we are april and its already dry again, it's not even summer!
That's why Chicago is one of the safest environmental place to live in the world. No hurricanes, no earthquakes, essentially no tornadoes, no major flooding, 4 seasons, we have all the fresh water we could ever need in lake Michigan, Illinois and the surrounding areas are one of more fertile places in the country for crops, it may be colder than places but its manageable unlike fire and extreme heat. Also no extreme 24 inch snow falls like the east coast.
Alex Taubin lol I think this is the first someone described Chicago as safe. But I guess that’s only the west and south side
Drip systems don't have sensors, the holes are evenly spaced and distribute a certain amount of water per hole over a set period of time. The length between each hole determines which tape you use for which crop, and you put one plant at each hole. That way it distributes even amounts of water directly to each individual root zone, and doles it out at a rate which keeps soils moistened longer with less moisture lost to evaporation or drained down to the water-table below.
@loufoglia as always, comes with the gift.
Great journalism.
Thank you Lou.
Plot twist, no one, not even the ones wagging their fingers at others expecting them to change, will change themselves.
The increased bill idea is flawed and relying on businesses for change is a nightmare. It is more the capitalist governments are spending there funds wrong. If the US along put half of their military budget into water technology and agriculture technology development this crisis would be a lot easier to deal with. Since the military wastes so much resources including water getting rid of half of their imperial operations would help out a lot.
Great topic, which I feel doesn’t enough attention. Keep up the great work!
Our planet is a closed ecosystem... water is not a problem.. access to it is.. Thank You Nestle!!!
Even in the Netherlands, a country below the sea level, there is a shortage of water (in the summer). For example: bridges shrink to the point of cars not being able to drive over them
*Never watch the video only saw the title and I was laughing my ass off, not one drop of water that's ever been on this planet has ever left this planet, whatever the video talks about has to be clickbait or out-and-out lie*
It's more of an issue with an imbalance of water. He says not too far into the video that some places are facing a lack of water, whereas other places are having problems with too much water (with flooding an' stuff.)
How about a video on eating bugs! Roughly half of the world's nation's eat bugs in some form and fashion and it's being encouraged in many modern nations (USA, Western Europe, Australia, etc.). They was a product of a bug based Food and Health Bar on Shark Tank a couple of years ago. It's also suppose to be a good source of protein and it's pretty sustainable.
Tanner Wilson I don’t know why anyone would eat insects when you can eat beans? Seems like an unnecessary step, despite its popularity in some asian and African cultures.
Sorry, BEME News, but paying more for water is NOT going to make me use less water. All it is going to do is make me have to pay more. This is because I already use little water at home compared with others, and I am legally required to pay the water bill or else I'll get kicked out of my house. In other words, the water bill acts more like property taxes than a business service. Most of the money in my water bill goes towards the sewer district to comply with an EPA-mandated set of construction projects combined with additional efforts to fix the bursting pipes downtown (which is not where I live). The high level staff at the sewer district earn 6-figure yearly incomes or near 6-figure yearly incomes. My income is nowhere near that, and my water bill has already increased between 10% to 15% in the past 4 or 5 years.
@Stalemate IB - just one MORE reason the gov't run by criminals needs to be taken DOWN!
I live in Wales. We will never run out of water. The thermohaline cycle might shut down making me really damn cold. But drought won't be a problem.
Brilliant work Lou, thanks for shining a light on this massive issue we’re all staring down the barrel of.
So where is this water going , it never changes, same water on the planet as there was a billion years ago.
Kamar Hargadon the ocean. Also some water on land is tainted with industrial byproducts
standing ovation!
As someone who graduated from a water and wastewater technician program, I found this video an interesting watch as it hits on quite a few points that we learned in class.
Water is indeed a valueable resource no doubt, but most of us take it for granted as a lot of us have easy access to clean water. IMO reducing consumption is probably the way to go and to do that, water reclamation will be a big deal in the future. Water reclamation provides opportunities for us recycle water so that our consumption for potable water is reduced: ex. does it make sense that we use potable water to flush our toilets? There are many applications for water reclamation in our day to day lives, even for agricultural irrigation which was mentioned to be a big hog. Sure there are many other ways to make an impact, but water reclamation IMO to be the least intrusive to our day to day lives
I have a big problem with a bit of your argument. Why raise the price of water to spur investment in water technology? If the goal is to raise money to invest in new technology, and conserve water, why not do that? Make laws to conserve water, give grants for water technology investments. Give the money necessary for the technology you want instead of hoisting a regressive tax on the farmers and poor. Instead just use direct government grants to spur innovation.
Thanks for the great reporting Beme team :) Well researched and nuanced, as it should be!
If governments pushed down vegetable prices, maybe it would change our eating pattern. We need easy, satisfying, vegetables dinner recipes.
Meat, fish, animal products, are all some of the most expensive stuff in the stores. Vegetables, grains, beans, nuts, seeds, legumes, greens. They're all pretty much the cheapest stuff there is. The issue is cultural stigma and lack of understanding on what a vegan or at least less intensively animal filled diet consists of.
Pseudonymous Being not where I am? Meat, per kilocalorie, is cheaper than vegetables.
Many governments subsidize meat and dairy production so the price you pay in the supermarket isn’t accurately reflecting the cost of its production. I’d say it’s time to roll that subsidy onto farmers producing vegetables
@@pseudonymousbeing987 Capitalism has focused on mass production on what absorb our attention, sugar, salt and fat, protein. If it lacks one of these ingredients and hard/time consuming to make, it will be hard for poor and stressed out people to make.
We are not running out of water. We have plenty. It will cost a lot to desalinate it which means we are having a infrastructure problem not a water problem.
Gavanater 7 exactly. Some good money in studying this technology.
Great content!
Stop buying almonds it takes 1.1 gallons of water to grow 1 almond.
RawrCellence I’m eating handfuls of almonds as I read this ;)
Literally in the video he talks about not pointinging fingers at water intensive crops. Lol
Just ate a bowl of "30% more almonds" oats cereal. Yum
Because I remember this as an argument against almond milk years ago: I'll throw in that compared with cow milk production, almond milk is far less water intensive.
This is true, but also dairy propaganda. It takes a lot more water to produce regular milk compared to almond still.
But does the water actually leave the atmosphere?
Good video. But I very much disagree with "the price of water should be increased." The cost is ALWAYS pasted on to consumer and nothing will change other than us paying more.
I dont have a solution to the problem. However I definitely know there is one better than this.
One solution is to have a one child policy we cant run from overpopulation problems forever
@@AR-dr1sb Better yet, let's just kill everyone so there's no more humans, meaning no more problems
We need to start using desalination even more than we are already using it as. There are right now around 20000 desalination plants around the world. There are many ways of desalinating ocean and sea water, but 2 of the main ways of desalinating ocean and sea water are reverse osmosis and thermal distillation.
Everything he said is already being done, at least in the US. Most farmers no longer flood fields but instead use sprinkler type systems. Just fly over the US now and you see field shaped like circles taht are now being watered by an elaborate sprinkler system, while just 20 years ago it was virtually unseen. In the southwest US irrigation canels used to provide water to farmers are now being concreted, so as to avoid runoff and absorption. Farmers are also crowing less water intensive crops, ie. romane lettuce vs iceburg lettuce. In cities, waster water is treated and then returned to its source, sometimes better than when it was intake or used for irrigating crops to golf courses. It goes on an on. Of course, not all of these methods are needed for the entire US, as some areas have an abundance of water. The soluton will always be dictated by region and market economy.
I could not agree more. We must value water appropriately! There will be pain associated with this. Farmers growing water intensive crops will need to adjust. People will pay more for food. Markets will innovate to help combat these forces. We can help people effected by rising prices, but there will be water shortages if water is undervalued. It's basic economics.
@Exit Strategies Not quite sure what you mean here. I am willing to change, but conserving water is more than just taking a shorter shower and watering grass at night. The most efficient and effective way to conserve is to appropriately price the commodity. Water is wasted and misallocated across the entire economy because it is not appropriately valued. If the price of water increases, people will change eating, drinking and washing habits accordingly. Businesses will invest in capital equipment to conserve water and manage water usage. All of these conservation activities have a cost and won't occur unless water is priced appropriately. The price of water is below market; therefore, demand exceeds supply. That's basic economics, as you said.
Water is a human need, and increasing the price of it can lead to a slippery slope of rich people being able to afford it and poor people dying of thirst
I've been hearing a lot of; economic's suggests that the cost of X should go up to change policies around it for the betterment of the world... And consumers will take the hit for a bit. Legit, the decisions of corporations and large scale economic powers have drained the planet, caused worry with energy and end up being inefficient, and the way to fix that is for taxpayers to pay more for energy, water and food? Clearly the open market has taken advantage of this practice; lets get the government to fine this corporations and restructure our basic-needs as a planet.
Beme is still a thing?
So no water in the oceans, or flooded areas, creeks, rivers, lakes, and much more? Really annoying how people cry about being out of water when the planet is essentially water.
Determine an allotment for each household and make that free, then charge a high fee for any water use above that.
Lou: Its time to start worrying about water.
Me: * Unemployed, in debt, single*
But most farmers use their own water resources that is not in anyway connected to ours!!?
There are many places where the ground water is drying out
It's better this way. We don't care about anything. We didn't, we don't and we won't. Until something bad happens and it's too late. Some people cares but who will listen to those crazies. Humanity needs despair to unite. No magical breaded guy in cloud won't help us. We help ourselves.
Wonder how much bottle water affects this. How much bottle water is in storage around the world!? What affect does that play in climate change too? I’ve pondered that for years now.
Don’t get me started on water parks!
Most bottled water is consumed, so the only problem is all the plastic, which is a separate issue from the topic at hand.
On average where I live gets 160 inches of rain per year and water catchment is legal I have 15000 gallons on tap. I have been Completely off grid for the last 20 years .
have been wondering if there are physics in the movie mosquito coast but we're there
Where do you think it is going?
Best. One. Yet.
Deal with that 92% first bruh.
Doesn't water get recycled into the water cycle and make its way back into rivers and rain?
When it come down to it y would it cost to much to take the salt out of the water when u need it for everything? Imo no cost would be to high
Dystopia.
Fortunately, glaciers are melting...
I don't know why we can't distill water from the ocean on a large scale, it really doesn't seem all that difficult or inefficient, you just need a massive sheet and a filter to catch the runoff. Add your economic incentives and boom, problem solved
Thank you for covering these topics
Canada will need to "beef up" (pardon the pun) their military, since we have the most fresh water lakes in the world. 😁
For now.
Maybe theyve already privatized it
Canada need to "open up", for all the water refugees. Share your water with the rest of the world.
No, put that money towards developing water technology. If the most military nations put a quarter of their military budget into water technology development we would solve this problem easily with the US's funds alone. Increased militarization will just lead towards water wars.
@@JP-dh1xv agree with you 100%. my comment was more tounge-and-cheek than anything else.
Always quality content on this channel
I live near the Alps... Sooooo... I'm ok
Theres anotherpart if the iissue that wasn't touched on: when we start trying to make water delivery systems more efficient, we also end up affecting the surrounding flora and fauna. Case in point: California created the delta levee system to deliver water to southern California and the central valley, but it has drastically affected the northern area over the last 100 years. The city of Sacramento was completely terraforned by bringing in dirt and raising the downtown, from a fertile area that flooded yearly to a city with hundreds of thousands of people, and it continually chases out farmers in exchange for urban sprawl. Now we are shipping that water to an arid climate in the central valley where the water is used less efficiently and there were less animals and plant life to ill intrude upon. We need to build infrastructure in a smarter way, not punish farmers and those that buy the produce by increasing costs.
In this case, if government had not intervened, we would have been better off
1:00 If Earth get's too thirsty we can have it give Venus a booty call.
Hi Lu
I love you!
One question, why do you have Guatemala flag in the back?
I live in Canada and we have more water and we would ever need so Im only worried for others
Easy to say there is no water crisis unless the water is polluted we get water from rain unless it stops raining in the US we have no problems and in many countries why they don't have water and shortages is due to the fact they for the most part don't put any money into making sure they get and conserve water like something as easy as making a lake. More lakes more conserved water easy fix.
We all need to be conscious of our water use! Little changes make a difference 💚
If water is a human right, why should one pay for one's rights? If you want to increase the price/people to pay for the water and not just the distribution it's a product and not a right. The price of a product is subject to supply and demand. I don't think the population of countries suffering water scarcity will be able to buy a sufficient amount of water to meet their needs. The consequences of water scarcity would become a problem for many sooner rather than later. What about raising the prices/charging agricultural companies farming water crops or dairy farms for water? Still it would not be unthinkable to charge for water after usage. It is done in many countries. Besides adequate housing for ex is a human right too. Few people have adequate housing according to the human rights act. Most people pay a lot for it. Water probably is not going to be any different when it really gets scarce.
Make enough desalination plants as necessary? Money must be spent sooner or later.
Great episode, but the audio needs a noisegate
No change no future were lost
Maybe we should just change the name of this channel to "Hey it's Lou!"
Products similar to Showerloop will assist with this issue in water-scarce environments
great video lou!
Here's hoping people start to embrace GMO/GE crops and organisms that are less water intensive.
What if the people can’t afford water if the price go up because of their low income
Hey, Lou!
Great content. Keep it up guys
Are you Guatemalan?
We are so screwed
Time to start wearing and drinking my still-suit.
That’s some very heavy shit man
have you heard about Israel on this topic? you shouldve heard because Roughly 90 percent of the wastewater generated in Israel is reused in Agriculture, making it the leading nation in water recycle
only Spain recycles 20 percent of its wastewater, making it the second largest nation for water reuse. The U.S. currently is recycling only 1 percent of its wastewater.
Israel now has a national water surplus and exports water to adjacent nations. Its government has created policies supportive of smart water management, which embraces water reuse as well as research and development within the water sector.
Desalination plants current produce 585 million cubic meters of water a year, amounting to 70% of all the water supplied to households and communities.
Water can't run out
Don't make plans past 2050 people.
More taxes this guy is crazy. The gas is expensive already. In chicago as of today April 26 2019. The gas price for the regular is 3.89. Taxes for property has increased by 134% percent. But, i do agree to tax beef.
hey lou
"University of Twenty" it hurts my dutch ears so much ( 3:20 )
Great topic!
I will be The Thanos this world needs.
I think ima go vegetarian again because at this point everyone has to do their part
Stephanie Mtz that’s not better. Go vegan or go plant based
Brandon Kirkwood No lmao kindly don’t tell me what to do
People plz save water.
I highly doubt that anything will change for the better. Maby in 2 generations, but then it's too late.
good to see you :)
yeah, north china hardly ever rains except in summer
I think drinking water shouldn’t rise in price. We literally need that to survive more than 3 days.
BUT, I do think they should increase water prices for non drinking uses like showers, car washes, laundry mats, and other industrial things.
Nice hair Lou!
Anyone every hear of “Primary Water?”
Desalination will be our only option the investment maybe huge but will be worth it humans nor policies will change the way we currently use water. When there's no more water left and the earth is 70% covered in it we will divert all resources towards the ocean.just a way of human innovation
Suuh Lou
Hey, it's Lou, and here's the thing. Water too too expensive.
Lou,
You are on a very short list of reasons to click on to You Tube.
Your grade: A+
Thank you for all your hard study and work.
He's just a mouth piece of mindless 'vice' clickbait style "research". Not one drop of water on this earth can be destroyed....only moved. We have the tech and the resources to go get it. A false alarm no doubt
we need to all switch to that impossible meat