Saudi Arabia's big water problem
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2022
- Saudi Arabia runs on two fluids - water and oil.
Oil is considered by many to be the country's most important natural resource.
However, for the Saudis themselves, water is becoming increasingly valuable.
Oil revenues are rising, enabling skyscrapers to be built at tremendous speed. But water supplies are steadily declining.As it turns out, they are finite, the end is near and poses a threat to the very existence of the desert kingdom. The main source of fresh water on the peninsula is the Arabian aquifer, formed 20 thousand years ago when the climate in this area was much more humid. This is one of the world's largest aquifers, with the water lying at a depth of 100 to 500, and sometimes 2500 meters. An aquifer is a thickness of permeable, water-saturated sediments that are similar in composition and have a layer-like occurrence. When the aquifer reaches the surface, various springs, as well as sources, are formed. Aquifers are the custodians of groundwater resources. Saudi Arabia is a desert country with no permanent rivers and lakes and very little rainfall. Aquifers are the main source of water here.
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As a Saudi citizen who lives in a small town i must say i have never ever had a water problem ever. I live my life just how you guys live the difference is that it's 20 times hotter here! so of course we will consume more water than you do.
As a guy who lives and work in Paris as a waiter, I've seen how it's done in Saudi lol, every single one had a battlecruiser 300 k€ to drive in Paris, I don't think a guy who does that takes care of the water he uses for his shower. I'm not saying everyone is like this but look at the numbers
But what about zam zam water, i thought Allah gave you an endless supply, or is that another islam myth
@@bolbitbaggins4599 oil money moment
الحمدالله
@@ronmumford5806 Zamzam's water is renewable water. The source of water comes from the rain in Mecca. Mecca is a mountainous area and so one of the valleys contains the valley of Ibrahim that holds Zamzam’s well in a low-land area…. So if rain stopped zam zam can get depleted
I'm from Jordan, next door to Saudi Arabia. Back in the 1980's and before, I remember vividly we lapped up what we thought were endless supplies of household water. Little did we think of water as a precious commodity. But now we have been grappling with an inexorable water shortage prob for a couple decades, and the situation is only getting worse. Our gov hasn't lifted a finger to address the prob, apart from pumping less and less water to households, leaving ordinary citizens to fend for themselves. Drought, God forbid, may soon be staring us right in the face. At least in SA they seem to care, and they do go all out to eke out solutions and alternatives.
It starts raining in the summer in Saudi Arabia !! It is may28th and we had alot of rain today 😍😍
they dont have a water problem, they have a salt problem
with the new technologies that we have been discovering and using I don’t think we have a problem with salt water anymore, because we have these water disillation plant and we have discovered a new types of plants that can be watered with two times saltier water than Desalination water waste. Not to mention That 70% of water in the gulf region goes to traditional farming, but that could end with vertical farming which is gonna reduce 90% of the water that is wasted on traditional farming. Also there is an attempt to use treated waste water to irrigate plants around Saudi Arabia. The goal is initially to plant 20 billion trees under the Saudi green initiatives which would hopefully change the climate and help to increase rain in the region.
They can mining salt in yemen sea, since ocean sea never dry not like dead sea.
@@SharhbiniRauf do you mean red see
Lmao
Oh say can you sea
Somewhat interesting. However, no discussion about the use of large amounts of energy required for standard desalinization plants, nor the damage done by the brine waste product.
pump it through a long pipeline with small holes in it? in low concentrations it should not do anything?
They use their energy from petroleum. When the oil runs out, everything ends
I sometimes wonder why they don't use solar pv for the energy. I mean the location is about as ideal as it gets for solar. As for things like nighttime, couldn't they just suspend operations until the sun comes out again? A bit of capital asset waste for when the plants aren't in use, but compared to free fuel it might be worth it. Someone should to an analysis on it.
They did recently start 4 nuclear reactors, and 4 more are on the way.
Of cause, they probobly need 20 or 30.. i guess 4 is a good start.
Its possible to use waste heat from nuclear power to desalinate water, using way less energy than reverse osmosis.
Evaporation desalination have gained lots of ground the last decades and starting to get really competitive.
@@odriew5014 I also wondered why they don’t use more solar. Turns out the sands carried by the wind damage the the solar panel giving them a new problem to solve.
Wait you’re telling me the desert has limited water? You don’t say…
I came here because of the misspelling in the thumbnail 😅
We dont have a water problem on this planet, but our knowledge is not used enough
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7:57 that’s completely nonsense. We never had water shortage here in Riyadh. I don’t think I ever heard there’s a water shortage anywhere in Saudi Arabia. Even our tribe village that we visit every summer never had shortage, it’s actually quite the opposite.
Lol idk tf is he talking about
Here in the USA progressives like to scream about eminent catastrophes that are either invisible (CO2) or remote (polar bears, plastic patch).
هجرتكم يعبون بالوايت مافيه موية بلدية الا في المدن
في الصيف موية البلدية تشتغل يوم وتوقف ٥ أيام
ما تنقطع عليك المويه لان خزانك يكفيك الين تشتغل مره ثانية موية البلدية
الي عنده فلة بحوش كبير تنقطع عليه المويه اذا عنده زرع يسقيه ولازم يشتري وايت
@@fahadabdulraheem1407 غير صحيح
@@fahadabdulraheem1407 غير صحيح ابار جوفية الارض من تحت كلها مياه
Great video
This is strange to me. are they just flushing the water out when its used? In germany the water in western parts are used up to 7 times before its flushed out into the atlantic. And germay isn´t even that dry
What is a thirt? Does it come after secant?
Well there seems to be universal pattern of poor water management until you use it all up and then it becomes even harder to deal with. This happened in Saudi and the Western USA.
If the United states is running out of water it is because of complete stupidity not through lack of resources you should try and come and live in Australia ,most of the island is desert
can some generously tell me the name of the stuff or process at 1:12-1:13 sec i would really appreciate
The only problem is , the means of irrigating the agricultural areas on this torrid region will easily evaporate into the atmosphere the water molecules that needs to pump much water for the plants , but plants. Intake are only few water amoounnt , it can't moist. The soil into a longer period
Under ground piping to crops is what I'm thinking of, or having a cover over the root or stem of the crops which is more common but requires lots of plastic
For thousands of years they've been cutting down trees . Without the trees you can't grow crops cos the soil just gets too hot and the salt rises. And of course when you take away the trees you take away the moisture so there's no rain.
Very informative...
ngl i am also a saudi citzen, barely any water problems, they have to close the pipelines to our area cause of the construction going on but till now theres no water problem
Just you wait. Do not change anything...
i have designed an agricultural system to grow any crop just with sea water, in a pasive way and extensive,,this way fresh water can be reserved for human consumption
So why aren't you making money out of this as opposed spending your time watching videos on RUclips
@@jamied8678 ive no $$$, i need financial help
@@ellihowa2365 details can only be released with a contract
Cool. Patent the idea then sell it. You'll quickly become a hundred millionaire which will enable you to build your other inventions yourself and sell them for a huge profit.
Instead of building skyscraper and spend huge amount for luxury collection please use it to resolve water problem.
Humans don't need expensive suite but they do need basic facilities.
Nice video, but please consider citing your sources. Thank you
with the new technologies that we have been discovering and using I don’t think we have a problem with salt water anymore, because we have these water disillation plant and we have discovered a new types of plants that can be watered with two times saltier water than Desalination water waste. Not to mention That 70% of water in the gulf region goes to traditional farming, but that could end with vertical farming which is gonna reduce 90% of the water that is wasted on traditional farming. Also there is an attempt to use treated waste water to irrigate plants around Saudi Arabia. The goal is initially to plant 20 billion trees under the Saudi green initiatives which would hopefully change the climate and help to increase rain in the region.
Your country can do all of the above with the proceeds of oil sales. But what about when the oil runs out?
@@JL-nm5ly it stops if oil sale stops
@@JL-nm5ly who cares? this isn't about oil, stick to the topic, which is about water.
@@JL-nm5ly they will stick to stone age beliefs if oil runs out. LoL
@@JL-nm5ly oil will not run out anytime soon, the proven oil reserves alone can last for 2 centuries if not more. And as much as we'd like to go green asap, oil is still king and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
Lake erie is in north america ,not USA. It's Canada's lake also.
LUL . and he put a somali pics and videos from africa
I lived in Saudi Arabia, Dhahran, Khamis Mushayt and Riyadh for 14 years and always had water from the tap, no problem.
Hey!! Do you have any old saudi coins or banknotes laying around??
Well thats cause the problem hasnt hit yet lol 😂 its gonna take awhile till the tap goes empty
When the wise man points to the Moon, the idiot sees the finger, and the dumb idiot talks about his TAP water ....😑
I still think not far from now we will get a really cheap and nicely effective method to use water from seas and oceans
typical corporate bullcrap blaming the little guys for the overuse of the ag industry at 90%
can anyone tell me what a THIRTS is?
Bro I have lived in both Riyadh & Jeddah but never faced any kind of Water Problems where did you even get those Info????
True. I have been going in and off to Jeddah for oast 3 decades now but never had any water related issues . Infact tap water in Saudi is drinkable
The solution i see is growing vegetables with efficient roots that drink and hold water well in Arabian climates.
Aquifer is rock layers. Desert is rock layers magnified. Sea water through magnified layers via huge oil pipes
I've lived in Saudi Arabia for 10 years and haven't experienced water shortage even a single day... This video is misleading
you have desalination plants, you should keep them safe, i once watched an Iran-Saudi war simulation in which they were one of the first targets to be hit ...
@@oneofthem7992
I'm sure the Crown Prince and whoever leads his army is already aware of this weakness.
the passive solar still would provide destilled water and sea salt which is in demand worldwide,
this method would not only use the sun to make desal water but the sea salt product to help fund operations.
In russia the walipini below ground greenhouse allowed them to use ground temperature to
moderate the extreme temperature. The same but in reverse could be done in Saudi Arabia
with also including light reduction or infrared filtering. closed loop watering to eliminate evaporation.
There is a group of people doing that with semi transparent solar panels
@@pupip55 Well done then, solar electric and reduced light to grow plants but moderate the heat.
@@duanenavarre7234 Basically yeah
It used to be pure desert, they are blessed.
How solve the problem 🤔
um, idk if i'm the only one to notice, but you spelled "thirst" incorrectly in the thumb pic
I can't believe this. You post a video... With a title in huge capitals. And then you have typo in that title.
Were the reserves enough to revive permanent vegetation?
In the mean time, the Al Baydha project has given a prototype of how Saudi could terraform a good portion of the southern coast and potentially create new water resources. However, we like big expensive engineering projects.
Create new water resourses? When the groundwater is depleted, it is gone and will take thousands of years to fill up.
@@metalgearsolidsnake6978 remember they are covered by ocean
@@sunilkumaryadav2183 freshwater reserves are drinking water for humans/living souls, you can´t drink ocean water without expensive distillation.
Freshwater is the most important thing unless you buy land in greenland, south america or Africa to import this important resourse, you will lack it in the future.
The arabic states have clueless leaders who have wasted so many resourses, only god can judge them for their actions.
Now technology in the distillation field have to improve alot, before it is a valid source in the future.
@@metalgearsolidsnake6978 not necessarily true.. the upper layers of ground water tables take about 7 years on average to recharge (depending on the geology) the ancient layers take much longer. Rivers do not flow out of ancient layers but the upper part of the water table.
@@leedza the upper layers of ground water tables take about 7 years on average to recharge (depending on the geology) the ancient layers take much longer.<
That is not enough water in the upper level to sustain a big society like Saudi arabia.. once you use your aquifers with big reserves of water you will have huge problems in the future.
The problem is that it nearly never rains in the desert, so there will be a very slow recharging and unless the climate changes alot, i doubt the water reserves will full up in the near future.
So wasting water on golf fields, planting oranges ,oil pollution/power plants is a waste...agriculture uses alot of water and most of it evaporates because of the hot climate.
I hope the world see the value of water before it is to late, because without it you can´t survive...
Desalination is easy and no big deal
you still have polluted water, once it is injected into the oil fields, and once it is polluted you will never be able to drink it.
Remember water is life, without it you can´t live.
From my research Reverse osmosis can help in turning salt water into drinking water, but is it a solution? I would say the leadership of saudi arabia is at fault? Why build golf fields in the desert? it takes ALOT of water to maintain a golf field, so why build it in a desert that lacks water? And traditional farming is also a disaster, why plant oranges and other fruits that needs alot of water in the desert? it is a waste of drinking water and makes no sense, import it from countries where it rains alot.
Read Sephen Leahy´s book Your Water Footprint and you will know that it is a big waste of water to build farms in the desert.
May knowledge come to us all before it is to late
God bless
Maybe they should cover those water canals with solar panels.
thanks
What is a “thirt”?
Climate restoration will be needed very soon just to prevent droughts in agricultural areas like the Western USA and global famine
It's far too late it would take too long to plant the trees also Americans and other westerners won't stop buying stuff from China who are causing the problem by polluting the skies with unregulated factories so everybody can have toys. The Americans spend 10 billion dollars on Chinese plastic just for Halloween and no one knows how much pollution has been created to make those toys so Americans can have one night of fun .
Before seeing others faults correct your headline to Thirst not thirt.
What is a "THIRTS"?
In future people will fight for water not for oil
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Can't aquafers be recharged
Super rich and super thick!
What does "Great Thirts" mean?
Why not just pump sea water into the desert and let the sand filter it to fill up the aquafers
GCC using sea water after processing, they dont have issue like they said
Good keep the good work of green IMG the. Desert
I've been working in KSA almost 10yrs.jubail,Dammam, yambu there's a desalination plant why saudi is thirsty?
you still have polluted water, once it is injected into the oil fields, and once it is polluted you will never be able to drink it.
Remember water is life, without it you can´t live.
From my research Reverse osmosis can help in turning salt water into drinking water, but is it a solution? I would say the leadership of saudi arabia is at fault? Why build golf fields in the desert? it takes ALOT of water to maintain a golf field, so why build it in a desert that lacks water? And traditional farming is also a disaster, why plant oranges and other fruits that needs alot of water in the desert? it is a waste of drinking water and makes no sense, import it from countries where it rains alot.
Read Sephen Leahy´s book Your Water Footprint and you will know that it is a big waste of water to build farms in the desert.
May knowledge come to us all before it is to late
God bless
I'm in the intermountain west of the US, water restrictions like those in this video actually don't sound like a bad idea. I bottle water in 5 gallon jugs and only shower/ water my lawn once a week, sometimes I need to shower more, but it would help us hold on to more water if everyone did the same... 🤔 I can understand why some Americans would reject it but I think it's a workable idea.
Well somd of us live in lush green areas, snd water literally doesnt wear out, it just needd filtration. What the midwest needs is super cheap desalination plants, and water pipelines, and intelligent terraforming. Not water restrictions. Its only like it is because of bad management.
Or move out of the desert to somewhere that gets rain
I always wonder why cant we lay pipelines of fresh water transporting it from water excess areas to where its scarce.
the shower stuff is not what will change things around, most water usage is done by agriculture! your personal use of water is less than 5 % of the usage.
@@zohairfahmee3238 it cost alot.
The question you need to ask, why are countries in the desert harvesting oranges and other fruits that needs alot of water because of the hot climate? Your leaders needs to think of the future,or they will doom themselves.
The same with golf fields, why do saudi arabia needs it? It uses ALOT of water for what? Salman is a clown!
Well u gonna see in upcoming years how all deserts in Saudi will turn to green land💚💚😍
جميع ؟ 😂
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السعودية حجمها ضخم واغلبها صحراء
تحتاج اموال العالم لتزرعها
At least show some real footage of Saudi and Saudi officials 😂😂😂
oh boy, i miss playing SimCity
Hmmm, what water problems? Gas used to be cheaper than water here. Now it’s water that is cheaper.
Yeah well...
You people might wanna reconsider building large farms in a dessert...
Just dumping water on a sandy dessert has got nothing to do with water management, it just sounds very wastefull to me.
What is a Thirts???
What's a "thirt"?
Reforestation and growing trees can solve problem to certain extent and bring rains.
No, it can't.
Good
There no options Without plants Trees can Change Weather atmosphere and Save Rain water in soil...
Rain will not travel over Saudi Arabia
Where does all their Desalination Brine By Product go? Do they just dump it in the desert?
The sea
Why not try to plant & grow tall spreading shadows various trees suitable for the climate soil of the regions using sea water 🌊. Such as coconut jackfruit saru banyan peeple pilkhan maulashri Indian coral tree ardu babool Rohida khejari etc..After green ing then come inside, repeat same efforts.Thus bring whole nation under lush green forest
Are there no methods to replenish the aquifers? Example: fog nets near the coast, or reforestation plans to create porous soil and avoid evaporation of the water. Also it is proven in "Ronny Meier et al, Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe," that areas with trees encourage rainfall.
farm fields in saudi arabia is absolutely insane xD
my suggestion would be since im not geologist or biologist but plant those tree that require less water and have a great span in live and also a tree that have a great soil firm which would make the water be stored in ground for longer time and tree can change the climate problem too
I just clicked to learn what a "THIRTS" was.
they should import more British people then, we'll bring the weather with us.
And Aston Martins, pubs, house musics, fish and chips, god bless the queen.
You spelt thirst wrong in the thumbnail
First, cover the canals. Second, stop growing in soil.
I hope they have to buy water at the same prices they sold oil.
In fact, they sell crude oil at a price that is considered low,,
But it is petrochemical refiners that have quadrupled the price to 5 times to earn hysterical profits.
I mean, if a barrel of oil becomes $100, refiners sell it to consumers for $500, that is, they earn twice as much as the source of crude oil.
They could build greenhouses. It saves more water. Sure, only if ventilation does not take it out
They are receiving 1-2 ft of rain every year now in some area
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They should try using desalination of ocean water
Its already using that, there is no problem in water
Desalination has 1 problem, the water near the coast becomes so salty , that aquatic animal starts dying
@@samratpatel8060
Sucks to be an aquatic animal there I guess. I don't see why that would stop humans though.
Saudi Arabia has so much money they could terraform the desert that sits over the oil that made them rich.
This is why the oceans are rising because of non-renewable water.
@8:35 today Saudi Arabia comes second only to United States and Canada? Wouldn’t that make it third?
(solar panels in deserts give shade and shelter to crop and animals )
I don't think they still have little rainfall, if we base it on data for the last several years back up to this point in time 2022
you are using more groundwater than is coming in, so water shortage will happen at one point in the future! Meaning disaster
The wealth of the dessert
Some plants are easily grown up desert to mountains with people tent is good for starting a small park forest or green atmosphere some time ⛺ ten types looks good for creates a green park which is easily stays
Sheds from bamboo fields waste
And in the meantime our water is drying up too plus the fact the Saudi are giving the United States a discount on the oil we buy from them.
I find it peculiar that a desert people can’t seem to administer their water resources responsibly…
Saudi Arabia? Water problem? You must be kidding..
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And now Saudi Arabia is doing this in Arizona. Check it out.
The information about water availability (e,g in Riyadh once/2.5 days) is wrong. I lived there all my life and it’s available all the time.
Also the info about the average water consumption per individual is wrong because it includes industrial consumption
8:39 😂 that math ain’t mathing
What’s a thirts?
Inaccurate report , never ever had any water disruption in KSA either Jeddah or Riyadh or any other region. 1 st every 9 days??
Trade water for oil.
The information in the video is mostly accurate and precise. Thank you for your efforts in research. I hope you have stock pictures and videos with the same quality.
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Dude, your thumbnail literally says THIRTS. Lets raise that bar a bit?
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And many plants can help the saline water solution
Great thirts saudi arabia for water management
The tragic irony is that burning Saudi oil and gas, and gas (methane) leaks, are major contributors to atmospheric global warming, heatwaves, drought, and desertification. old geologist
scientists are learning now that some of that water deep underground actually does renew and is generated from within the earth and not just "fossil water". Sure some is old because it was generated long ago but more new water is being continuously generated also. They have made these discoveries regarding oil also and it is called the "abiotic" origin.