Our drinking water - Is the world drying up? | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2022
- Only 0.3 percent of the Earth's total water supply is suitable for human consumption. Ominously, this precious resource is beginning to shrink. Natural water reservoirs are drying up due to climate change.
Glaciologist Daniel Farinotti surveys melting glaciers in the Swiss Alps. If glaciers continue to melt at the current rate, he says, there will be no ice left by the end of the century. The disappearance of glacial meltwater would have fatal consequences.
From the heights of the Swiss Alpine glaciers, the documentary travels down to the seafloor, off the coast of Malta. Here, the crew of the German expedition ship "Sonne" wants to track down mysterious freshwater deposits in the Mediterranean. Next up is Peru where, in a bid to counteract the threat of water shortages, work is underway on projects that use ancient Incan methods.
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i like water
You know water isnt real right
@@2loaves388 woah 😂
@@2loaves388 look at the huge brain this guy has
@@ahoosifoou4211 unlike you a subhuman yes it is. How about you read a book for once
@@2loaves388 Birds aren’t real, round earth isn’t real, and now water isn’t real??? Can’t tell if people today are joking or actually believe it.
DW should push these informative docs into schools everywhere!
The Republicans would just try to ban them
we have fake news people who think Global warming is still fake.
What most far left climate calamity ideologues don't realize is that the train has already left the station. People across the spectrum who own businesses, run large corporations etc already agree clean is the way to go minus the social engineering. The close mindedness in calamity camp will be left behind. Climate calamity scientists have built an industry around the narrative. The goal posts have been moved so many times and the next generation is asking hard questions that angers many in the industry.
More info and politicizing it, are not the answer!! We’ve been bombarded by such stuff for years. Did that change the majorities behaviour?? No!
They could share this with every earth science teacher they can find but it’s ultimately up to the teacher to show it.
This is why research on how to easily convert saltwater into drinking water is very important. Maybe even more important than reaching mars, or other meaningless voyages at this point of time in our history. We should focus on the sea, maybe even exploring and mapping our entire ocean.
Absolutely!! We need to focus on our planet before showboating!!
That is not the solution, because it will use a lot of energy and it will never be enough to supply the entire food chain from start to end with fresh water. However, there is a solution to restore dry land and the natural water table from the land so that the land becomes fertile and alive again, and it is called permaculture. With permaculture they use contour swales and ponds to harvest and store fresh water so that it can naturally refill the natural water table and aquifers, and to prevent fast run of from fresh water. And with permaculture they also use specific plants and trees and bio mass to restore the natural biological system and to ad natural nutrients, bacteria and fungi to the soil, and to stop the erosion of fertile soil, and to prevent evaporation of the water from the soil.
There are many examples about permaculture here on youtube, but Geoff Lawton is a big name in the permaculture world. And if you want to follow a relative recently started high quality permaculture project you can also watch the following channel which I highly recommend if you want to understand more about permaculture and restoring the land and the natural water tables, ▶ Polyculture Farms Dryland Permaculture.
Some African countries are applying permaculture at a huge scale with huge successes, for example Ethiopia. Which used to be a country with a lot of famine, but in recent years Ethiopia has done a lot to make the land fertile again based on the principles of permaculture.
@@insAneTunA good, I hope we improve on that.
Like ,as if those "elites" cared about us enough that they'll give a damn .
Ice will melt in the polar region and may fall back to other parts of the planet, ultimately reaching the sea . The cycle repeats. No worries on drying water. It will go back to Earth's surface in the form of rain or snow. Technologies are already in place in capturing moisture from the air and desalinating seawater using solar energy.
I can’t seem to get enough of these DW documentaries
DW documentaries are above the ordinary. Excellent research and informative. Good work..
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BS Alert climate change baloney means you pay more and own less get a clue folks
Don't you find it interesting that there is no mentioning of the permafrost or the overdue polar shift?
Well I suppose they are better than American documentaries at least
Informatively engaging
Governments saying "we need to fight global warming NOW" has the same energy as "Thoughts and Prayers". Drastic (and necessary) changes won't be made until it's too late.
Too late for what? Doomsday ain't coming. Also the ideas you people come up with for"drastic change" would cause mass poverty and stone age living.
It's been "too late" for over 100 years, now, but, Humans keep adding more inhabitants to a failed environment. ✌
@@thegreataynrand7210 The idea YOU come up with is problematic. No, we don't need to go back to stone age. We need however to stop overconsuming and to eliminate everything that's not truly needed. For example, the average American drives big 4x4 SUVs, eat a lot of industrially produced food (which also affect people's health, but that's another topic), purchase tons of cheap stuff they don't even need and live in massive empty suburbs which destroy all nature and cause huge trafic jams.
Reducing pollution would thus require all Americans who can use other methods of transportation to do adopt those alternatives, and for those who can't, to purchase much smaller vehicles and to do car sharing. People should also restart cooking more food by themself and to stop purchasing stuff they don't actually need. How is that "going back to stone age"????
As another example, the average French citizen produce less than half the garbage that the average American citizen produces and yet, most French people live very well, probably even better than the average American. If they can do it, you can do it to. Your comment is simply pathetic.
@@PG-3462 The BS you spouted is absolutely BS.
@@Diana1000Smiles You have no idea what you are talking about.
Earth is not loosing any water, its just stuck in the wrong places and we need to artificially put it in the right place.
They've been controlling the weather for years.
Yes, it's stuck in human bodies , since human body is 65 percent water. Human population will decrease due to war and the water will return back to where it came from.
@@kumara5492Got a bit curious and had to do the math on water stuck in humans here.
Fun facts 6.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 liters of available fresh water on earth atm (by googling, not frozen etc), 360.000.000.000 liters tied up in human bodies. Dividing it gives that you would get like 0,000000000006% extra "fresh water" from going from 8billion to --> 0 people.
But all that aside maintaining our lifestyle takes a huge amount of freshwater thou lol.
Deforestation create erosion of fertile earth, lose of humidity, potentially loss of water. Water near cities is totally polluted. In that aspect we are drinking something that is poisoned with our work. The chlorine in our drinking water is pure poison to us and all biological creatures.
@@kumara5492 That is total lie, 65% of water can not have solid structure and if that was real that we have that amount of water in our body, we would lose 65% of our weight when we die and that is not the case. Same is with lies that human body has same amount of blood. Our modern medical science is total lol.
Watching this documentary was truly eye-opening. The urgency of preserving our planet's precious water resources couldn't be more evident. From the Swiss Alps to the depths of the Mediterranean, it's a stark reminder of our responsibility. Thank you for shedding light on this crucial issue.
OK! So you think the sun are going too cool down? This fairytail are one year old. What has happened in the world since then. A lot of rain all over the earth.
So, as long as the sun shine there will be plenty of fresh water.
@arnehofoss9109 you're another social media "expert". God help us!
California doesn't have a water shortage. We have a corporate greed problem. 80% of California’s water is used by agriculture and many of the crops shouldn’t be grown in California.
It takes 1,900 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of almonds. California supplies 80% of the world's supply.
It takes 1,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of pistachios. California supplies 99% of the nation's supply. Growers have added over 173,540 acres of pistachio trees in the last 5 years.
Residents aren't the problem. It's corporate agriculture and they keep increasing consumption. They've figured out that annual crops are subjected to water restrictions but if they switch to perennial crops(nuts), they're guaranteed a continuous supply.
Corporations and shareholders are only motivated by profits. They don’t care if they drain our state dry in the process.
"They don’t care if they drain our state dry in the process."
But that is not profitable.
Well said. The real underlying problem with clean water access is inequality, or the need for capitalism to turn water into a profitable commodity. Until access to clean water is a universal human right with public or socialist ownership, there will continue to be a lack of planning to meet the needs of humanity. The privatization of clean water is a existential humanitarian crises which clearly exposes the problems of capitalism.
Also over 20 million people aren’t supposed to live in the desert
Most of the water California uses is from the Colorado River, which borders Nevada and Arizona . Unfortunately those states get very little because of California's greed. Much of that water goes to golf courses and unused swimming pools.
@@pinuuturner7777 seldom see unused swimming pools.
Plant as many native trees as possible
in southern louisiana the oil companies cut canals to extract oil, and the sea came in and killed the trees, and the tides washed away thousands of square miles of marsh, leaving nothing to break the force of the hurricanes. it benefited a few rich people
"Humanity is at the threshold of great global change, world change on a scale never seen before, caused now by humanity’s misuse and overuse of the world, by human ignorance and human greed. It is a condition now that will affect the lives of every person.
Though few are yet aware of it, it is a global emergency. You have changed the chemistry of the atmosphere, of the waters and the soils. And now the world is changing-changing so rapidly, so dangerously, changing now in ways that will affect you more than you realize." A quote from The New Message ~ The Global Emergency written by Marshall Vian Summers
Thanks Mara
The brine try putting it in a evaporation pond you can collect the salt.
Or evaporation pond with a dome to collect water with it and increase the speed that it evaporates.
Try using thirsty cement for your parking lots and add trees to them.
Nothing lasts forever...
This is true!
... except for plastic
Wrong
How do you know genius, do you know the ultimate truth of life? Is time finite, will God (if you believe it exists) not last forever? Who are you lol?
Good afternoon! Thank you sincerely for the video! I hope to see new videos coming out soon :)
'We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.' (Thomas Fuller)
I get it hard to believe fresh undersea water would not mix with the sea watwr above.
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So why do so many people waste so much water daily? Selfishness, ignorance, greed, and self-lies that there is an endless supply. If everyone had to hand-carry their own water, there would be no waste.
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Great documentary!
Very interesting would be an analysis of the systemic risk (chain impacts) of extracting the ground water of such a huge pockets 🤔.
Also, what about the army corps of engineers, and the way they designed every bit of land to force the water to flow off of it? That water needs to soak into the ground to replenish ground water, bunch of genius land management we got going, eh?
@@deemushroomguy agreiculture needs it and city waters are not drinkable.
@@freespiritable Many places have a "toilet to tap" system in place now. A lot of that recycled water went to watering city landscaping (another waste of water and money) for years - before going to tap.
Any land with slope or stream beds can be moved around in a manner so as to prevent the water from running off of it, thus forcing it to soak. The Romans made horseshoe dams in the wadis (wide, seasonal, dry stream beds) of African deserts to make the land farmable. Swales are excellent tools to get more groundwater.
Trees need to be farmed more, in a biodiverse manner with other food plants as it is the best, most sustainable way to treat most (not all) farmlands.
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Thanks to DW for these informative documentaries. From North of Kurdishland.
Imagine how much we could resolve these life dependant issues by collaborating as citizens of the planet, instead of hating and attempting to destroy each other with frightening technology as citizens of bickering conflicted nations!
It's a heartbreaking travesty that something so achievable, that affects us all, is only a mere fantasy.
Unconditional love and compassion to you all, especially the children who are inheriting this!
Gretta is the voice of the future
@@sag1970 CANT STRESS ENOUGH: Some More News and Secnod Thought
covered this important, important Topic.
you want to abort all the children in the West yet demand the West give every child born in Africa a free ride in life so that Africa can turn into one endless homeless encampment
This incredibly important topic. Thank you for bringing it to light.
Yeah because climate change is thee single biggest crisis in the world right now when we all know all it takes is one zap into the ionosphere to f up the wind currents and cause dominos to fall
Not important
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It would be nice if DW could do a documentary on Miyowaki crowd foresting 🙏
Thank for your great work
Always interesting. Some people waste water as if there is no tomorrow. And then - there is no water tomorrow.
Thanks for highlighting this important reality
Then create water holes for water collection during rains to refill the underground water level. There’s a effort to do this in Africa with very good results. Trees and grasses are regrowing and wells refilling.
There are ways. Create water collection farms.
Its not natural way..what about chemicals, sewage, microplastics etc
Never going to happen until some multibillionaire finds a way to make money off it. Where is the money in collecting water and allowing it to seep into the ground ? Some states in the U.S. already make it against the law to collect rainwater.
Thank you very much for providing such a rich documentary. We only know that the environment is being damaged, but we don’t know it is so serious. The visual impact brought by the images is still unbelievable. I hope that the environmental problems can be improved.
CANT STRESS ENOUGH: Some More News and Secnod Thought
covered this important, important Topic.
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Surprised when they talked about desalination part, that they didn’t mention the negatives of releasing the grime back into the sea, especially killing marine life, which in turn affects fishing, etc, etc
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Desalination plants rely on affordable energy prices. Good luck with that.
At least half of household water usage can be recycled as greywater and diverted to the garden. From there, it can seep back into the ground, replenishing wells, rather than flow out to the ocean. There's a fellow in Tucson, Arizona, that encourages cutting curbs so that excess rainwater from the streets can flow into basins in yards to be used to water trees. Rooftop rain collection can be used for household purposes and even for drinking if filtered properly. We take water for granted. It's a shame the above techniques are illegal in many places.
And yet again, if we look at the entire picture, it's not people like me and you and others watching this that willfully and gleefully cause these problems. We use the tools, methods and resources that are "handed" us. The politicians politicize everything in order to get more power handed to them and corporatists commercialize for their own power and profit so they can financially influence the politicians. Now we have big govt and big corp working hand in glove like never before to "save us from ourselves" and the problems that THEY created. Anyone can see the ratcheting up of everything in the media and especially the claims of climate change. Inexplicable weather events all over the world are now daily news feed fueled by social disease media yet no one ever asks if any of these events were "created" on purpose or by accident through man made weather modification. To deny that weather modification has not been the in the works for decades is to deny reality. It's been the desire of despots and the power hungry to be able to somehow control or modify the weather either for benefit themselves or the detriment of their enemies.
The Government. The media. The corporatists. They have all lied to us in the past. They lie to us now and they will continue to lie.
There is a simple exercise that people need to do anytime a politician or government or corporatists tells us the "we need to pass this law or we need to make this illegal or we need to do things with this energy not that energy".........
Ask yourself, who is going to gain power and money and who is going to lose power and money through the perceived change?
That's what it's all about and always has been.
Every single American citizen should on the steps of the capitol in DC demanding accountability and answers from all those old drunk and empty suits called Congress. They need to answer for what they have done to our beautiful nation and they need to pay a very very heavy price. All of them. Then we need to go after the lifelong bureaucrats that really run the show.
Nestle wanted to privatise water. Another swiss swizz
As a child visiting my grandmother in the countyside in Jamaica 🇯🇲 she had a big drum to catch the rain water for drinking, cooking and taking baths.
In the Australian outback at the moment water is reaching the surface and forming small lakes in places water was not found in the past. What explains that?
Very well made. Thank you 😎
Welcome
DW never disappoints!!! Kudos
I detect BS
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I really enjoyed this doc. Sometimes I wonder if this world will survive with the way mankind is draining if not destroying its resources through climate change, population increase, etc. I like reading or watching these articles so I know perhaps there is hope for the future, not just for mankind but for other living things that I love and care for that rely on water.
Don't believe too much over the conspiracy climate change. And do you really believe is hard to convert those sea water into fresh water.
@@speed9070 There are 16,000 desalination plants around the world using this method to restore if not balance freshwater reservoir or consumption. Maltas( in the doc) supply and demand of water highlighted to me, that to use this solution of conversion cost enormous amount of power and finance to sustain. I would like to think that countries suffering from water shortages, could use this method to redevelop their drought stricken lands, Forrest restoration,etc. But not just for the human population.. but for nature itself, living organisms, diverse plants and animals, just things that at the moment I feel at some stage may disappear entirely. I'm all for using any solution but sometimes I just wonder that's all.
One place for the water is disappearing is into us humans. There are millions more of us than there were in the middle ages. Each of us contains a lot of water.
Bruh, the planet will survive no matter what. And life will as well. Sure, a lot of it will die, but thats been the cycle of the planet since life was initially formed.
There are cycles to the planet, weather etc. Same goes for life on Earth. There are mass extinctions, then whatever survives mutates and expands, later another extinction kills most of life, some survive and expand. Humans overthink it to much. Look at all other animals, they don't care about how future generations will live and survive, they live their own life, reproduce and say goodluck to whats coming.
Climate changes and has changed ever since the earth was created. Humans can't stop it. Oh we have to do this for the future generations bullshit. Future generations have always dealt with their problems. Just live your life and stop worrying about so much.. Its pathetic to see all these people advocating for the climate, while enjoying their house, air conditioning, tap water, internet etc. You cannot have modern technology and society without damaging the climate, it doesn't work because everything is made at ridiculous scales. Nor should people worry about it. Live your life, enjoy all the comforts and technologies and stop worrying to much.
It won't wer fucked In the future
Turbine generators in the UK use half of our fresh water, by replacing them with solar and wind we will double our water supplies.
Excellent coverage in the latest issue DW Documentary. Please continue on another pressing issue as well. Some issues need an overview of documentary method to further understand its implication.
Enlightening and terrifying. Imperative that each preserves and conserves this most vital resource. Thank you for this informative, insightful educational film.
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Its good to provide awareness, forecasts about el nino, and the manner they are to be completed as water installations are evident, to be evident in numerous places, cities, as well as provinces, to preserve its GDP, all things that consists GDP and protect it from losses. Huge water tanks installations, prevention from drought and awareness for flourishing GDP the way farms are designed. SMEs in businesses transactions, attested by both private/public sectors requirements/paper work are well coordinated with one another's record keeping system/realizations-trial balances. Respectively Ptd, Trademarks, Copyrights, Registrations. GM Industries
God bless you...and thank you so much for your informative documentaries...more power to your program....
An Excellent Documentary. Thanks all the way from Sri Lanka.
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
This is a very important documentary
One of the most important topics, great documentary from DW!
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enjoy your affordable water bills while you can
The "run off" from the flooding of Mississippi river in Iowa,WI, Il, is staggering.
I have always said it should be captured and directed to the sub-terrain aquaduct.
The damage is catastrophic and there is a flood zone expansion where existing houses can't be sold or rebuilt if they flood.
Excellent😊🌈
I would like to discuss this further. What is happening with the Mississippi?
Love DW.
It's a remarkable documentary. Thanks DW!
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We should be planting trees everywhere and building solar powered desalination plants everywhere too. We can filter lithium from the brine as a bonus too.
I agree
If I may, even if on the paper those plants looks nice they actually are kind of controversal due to the use of chemicals rejected to the environment and other effects related to that and localize increase of salinity (affecting the biodiversity) etc.
Thank you DW Documentary for this very important video 🙏🏻 I love nature and I take care of nature as much as I could with planting new plants everydsy at my garden, love nature, nature will love us back 🙏🏻🌴
Your garden will fix nothing, we must fix the artic permafrost melt maybe by planting more on permafrost melt sites!
Thank you for your garden. The bees are struggling to survive and your garden gives them much needed nutrients. Without the bees, we humans are kaput.
We need for ocean liners to cut off chunks off antartica glaciers then get them toad to California Arizona , Colorado Wyoming better yet get 3 ships one to absorb the melting water
i love DW documentaries. Kisses from Brazil and clime change is real !!
CANT STRESS ENOUGH: Some More News and Second Thought
covered this important, important Topic.
WATER
1.Drinking system
2.Agriculture system
3.industrial system
4.Environment eco system
5.Recycling Rain system
with out water no one live
*The Bush family owned fresh water aquifer is larger than Texas and California combined. BUSH's family bought 300,000 acres on South America's and World's largest aquifer, Aculfhero Guarani. Jenna Bush (daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush) reportedly bought 98,840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, near the Triple Frontier (Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay). This land is said to be near the 200,000 acres purchased by her grandfather, George H.W. Bush, In 2005. The lands purchased by the Bush family sit over not only South America's largest aquifer -- but the world's as well. --- Acuifero Guarani, which runs beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay,*
The second disturbing trend is that while the new water barons are buying up water all over the world, governments are moving fast to limit citizens’ ability to become water self-sufficient (as evidenced by the well-publicized Gary Harrington’s case in Oregon, in which the state criminalized the collection of rainwater in three ponds located on his private land, by convicting him on nine counts and sentencing him for 30 days in jail). Let’s put this criminalization in perspective:
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens owned more water rights than any other individuals in America, with rights over enough of the Ogallala Aquifer to drain approximately 200,000 acre-feet (or 65 billion gallons of water) a year. But ordinary citizen Gary Harrington cannot collect rainwater runoff on 170 acres of his private land.
It’s a strange New World Order in which multibillionaires and elitist banks can own aquifers and lakes, but ordinary citizens cannot even collect rainwater and snow runoff in their own backyards and private lands.
“Water is the oil of the 21st century.” Andrew Liveris, CEO of DOW Chemical Company (quoted in The Economist magazine, August 21, 2008)
Bacteria and viruses can survive 👍
That ancient Incan water solution is genius! Fantastic thinking on their part and I hope that we as a society can put similar systems in place in tandem with more modern methods in order to sort out the worldwide fresh water shortage.
There is no water shortage. There is a population oversupply.
@@jimjones8736 No, its objectively the opposite of what you say.
r/confidentlyincorrect?
Overpopulation isnt a Thing, Distribution-Problem and Efficiency is objectively
all that exists. You not informing yourself and wildly-guessing what the problem is,
is helpful-as-f-ck.
@@slevinchannel7589 Your rude reply gets you this: Learn some grammar.
Edit: Wtf does 'r/blablabla?' mean?
@@slevinchannel7589 thank you
and the way they sacrificed children to the non existent gods.
Recently saw a helicopter doing soil measuring in the inland beach areas of Delaware. We were gobsmacked when we saw it flying over and had no idea what it was. We even took photos because it was so unusual. We have rural well water so I'm keenly interested in the challenges we're all faced with access to clean water. Excellent documentary, thank you!
You have the photos or is this fake media
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@@Jay-dq6vu I don't think you know what "media" is.
@@DarkPesco I don't think I remember asking you anything?
@@DarkPesco Lol sure I do; it depends on a few things. Fake or Real? is that not the how things are summarized these days? More so Paraphrased ?
One of the best channels in RUclips given one is hungry for knowledge. Thanks for keeping us curious Team DW.
Thanks for watching and subscribing to our channel.
@@DWDocumentary the pleasure is all mine 💁♂️
Excellent work. Thank you for this :)
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The earth will be fine in the long run. Its humans that will die off and I must say that’s probably not such a bad thing given how apathetic and self centered our human nature tends to be.
Almost 8 billion people is not sustainable for our planet .
The collapse of the food chain is next with no more guaranteed harvests .
What's missing in all our doings is ethics , it's putting the balance in living with nature first .
We manufacture , consume , pollute , travel! , without any thought about the impact it all has on our environment .
I don't see science / technology helping us unless it puts a total and quick stop to any more extraction / rape of nature .
For all countries and their governments it should not be anymore about growth , big business , more technology , but the best simple ( = doable for anyone ) and most sustainable way to survive .
The solutions are always simple , except that nobody wants change / sacrifice / down- sizing to help heal nature , which is to help ourselves .
If no money can be made of it then usually nothing will change anytime soon .
What we need is to stop thinking in an unethical way of life , and from all people a personal commitment to a much simpler lifestyle , so we can all simply live .
( and learn to respect nature as a first rule , because as we can see and feel now : without nature we cannot exist , but nature can exist without us )
I would say that nature should always be considered first .
Humans are the biggest mistakes of evolution.
@@A-la-Weiss Proof that nothing is perfect, not even mother nature😢
Yeah the most intelligent species that any planet has ever seen dying off is a good thing, you sure are bright.
@@coreywhite6409 Its proof of our intelligence , the self awareness that we are chimpanzees with guns and no one cares whether we funk up or not !
What happened to your algae documentary guys? I wanted to rewatch it and I couldn't find it
Iam from Sri Lanka , we also have 2000 years old agriculture and irrigation systems . That is not a big point , at 34.01 you mention Limas irrigation method "AMUNAS " , our ancestors also have to distributed water from lakes to there fields . They call is "ARMUNA " ( අමුණ - in singhala letters ). How can that be , thousands miles a part both civilizations use the same word.
In my native, Tamazight, a very ancient north african language, Amun is the god of water (and in egyptian mythology too I presume.)
And Aman means water.
Such a coincidence, don't you think.
@@abderrahimmark yes , good point.
We have to turn sea water in fresh drinkable water, farming, house hold, and industrial uses.
The drought seems to be affecting almost every part of the Earth but...I live close to the coast and tidal levels haven't changed either up or down. Where is the water going?
If glaciers are melting, lakes drying as the terra is and yet no change in sea levels. So, again...where is the water going?
I agree. Sea levels in Ireland are exactly as they were 50 years ago.
Thank you so much x.
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You are so diligent. Such a high quality documentry. Thany you guys.
All of the water is not in the oceans as the scientist just stated is in our atmosphere and readily available through dehumidification. The water collected in those tanks from our dehumidifyers that we pour down the drain is water from air. And air is comprised of H2O and Nitrogen. So there is plenty of ways we can extract water from air if we stop dumping out the condensed water collection tanks from our dehumidifyers. And use a Zero Water Filter to purify it. Rather than spend huge amounts to desalinate the oceans.
waste water can be used for some industry.... we need infrastructure for that!!
@@jameslawrence3666 I'm sorry perhaps I misinterpreted the video in my comment? I thought it was about clean available drinking water. But you are right about waste water reuse. Matter of fact I used to work for a plating company ahead of it's time in Elk Grove Vlg, Illinois An independently owned and operated plating facility that perfected the infrastructure to reuse our waste water before it was required by law.
(pardon my spelling errors, as I.don't have my glasses with me)
Its a crazy expensive way of getting water , very few people can afford them let alone run them and maintain them and the energy use is counter productive unless its from entirely renewable source .
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Very beautiful video i love this information.
In Sri Lanka we also use the Amuna in irrigation systems
We were out of sustainable water in 2000. I was a national emergency coordinator then for USDA. Moved from Virginia to Michigan as a result.
All is well then ?
I hate watet
Humanity, dying from the death of a 1,000 cuts. This is just one of them.
May our merciful Heavenly Father bless our scientists geologist and people who helps maintain and protecting our natural resources and environment...Caring people who gives their best in situations that need their expertise.
I bought a piece of land on tagish lake in Northern Canada I like fresh water 💧 😋 40k for 0.35 of a acre and 28k for a 14x56 ft trailer on it 👌
An excellent documentary by DW, thanks a lot
Thank you for watching, Ali. :)
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The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🌳
Hopefully we are heading more towards nature and other species having rights - rights to live without undue harm. This means industry and individuals need to look at the obsession with production, consumption, and expansion.
That's not happening
Yeah we need to tell the black Africans in Sudan to take down the dams etc they are building along the Nile that will dry up Egypt.
Nah, we need to find a way to blame Donald Trump for Sudan being forced to build a dam. And we need to encourage radical Islam in Egypt and beyond by telling them its all the US fault Sudan is forced to build a dam in self-defense because Mar A Lago is stealing the worlds fresh water.
The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🌳
Hi, Would you mind informing me what is the water percentage data origin source? Many thanks
Conserve Water , Wash less , Flush Less, hanging clothes on line puts moisture in the air, and fill Milk jugs with emergency Waters. thanks again 🌹 😊 Teach your Kids and All young people
I love your documentaries, always so informative, interesting and eye opening. Many thanks. This documentary in particular, is so relevant it would be interesting to have a follow up after this summer of extreme heat and global drought warnings. Again, many thanks.
Pulling drinking water from the ocean deposits is like pulling from land river systems. Same as land abuse but the equipment for under water piping will have it own type of effect. Oil leaks and such.
There is one source of fresh water about 20 meters about the sea, but it leaks into the sea, I don't know about the ground's floor...It's North of the sea gardens of the city of Varna by the black sea
here's an idea, try taking the water out of the air? it all seems to be going into the air, there must be an easy and cheap way to use condensation.
It's nice to see the same people who created the problem try to fix it. Very heartwarming!
"worlds growing population" - now where might that be ??? but of course you wont answer that will you ????
@@milesinnz As I said before, Its nice to see the same lineage of people who created the problem fix it. Growing populations have never been an issue in the industrial revolution to the present day. It's only alarming now because the wrong demographic has an influx of bodies. I love a fresh cup of triggered boomer in the afternoon.
@@milesinnz wtf man?? U ok?
Europe & America are always expected to fix everything, others just complain & grift.
@@boxcutter0
Others live on natural instinct and live a simple life. As for America and the West, they are the cause of climate change and the cause of wars in the world. America and the West are a big reason for the death of many people because of the unjust siege on some countries that refuse to kneel to them, because there will be peace for humans and nature except With the demise of America and some European countries
What ‘s the point in finding fresh water in the sea, when all the water we need is on land. We just have to reduce wasting and we’re good.
And breeding like rats
if only it was that easy. try stopping a drought that way…. not possible
Imagine being one of the builders of the underground water systems... you built something that people are considering using again in 2022 and you built it in the middle ages...
What is anyone building today that could last and be usefull in later times ?
Great work
CANT STRESS ENOUGH: Some More News and Second Thought
covered this important, important Topic.
I don't think we will run out of water, but as a planet we need to get much more creative about how we manage it.
1. Population is growing too fast in the developing world, needs to be better managed, but that's a whole other discussion.
2. Desalination is the best hope in many places. Israel gets ~ 60% of their water from it.
3. Recycling of gray water is a huge area of opportunity.
4. Water crops yes, water green lawns in Phoenix, Arizona makes no sense.
Nature has it's own way of stopping over-population, and it’s called venereal disease
I'm afraid you underestimate the huge shifts.
Al those solutions are too small to save us.
Watering at home should be for plants that feed you.
Fresh water is 99% gone from the amount we had a hundred years ago.
The real underlying problem with clean water access is inequality, or the need for capitalism to turn water into a profitable commodity. Until access to clean water is a universal human right with public or socialist ownership, there will continue to be a lack of planning to meet the needs of humanity. The privatization of clean water is a existential humanitarian crises which clearly exposes the inherent problems of capitalism.
Excellent work and very informative 👏
Hello my dear friend! thank you for the cool video! keep filming! I'll wait for new videos
Living near the great Lakes how dire the situation is does not feel imminent .
we keep learning how this will be a future crisis and the future is now
We just have flood in Queensland and New South Wales Australia with over 600mm of rain in some places in few days . We usually don't mind extra rain but this time was to much.
Too much water is as great a catastrophe as not enough.
Flood waters after long droughts take away the top soil and make it worse. Of the 600 mm, not much has percolated into the ground or been stored
and it doesnt soak in. just runs off to the ocean
In Poland we have problem with rain 😔 when i was younger i remember snow and that rain a lot. Now... i cant remember when rain comes maybe last year
@@juziajuzia1234 Same here in Germany. Or at least in several areas of Germany.
l live in Montreal, certainly no drying up here it seems , I see people hosing the sidewalks in front of their houses very day.its completely ridiculous.
Really all this is just part of the issue. What are we gonna do when in the summer it reaches 60% c with 90% humidity. In the alps .
Class!!
The world isn't drying up. Certain regions are. That's the trouble we're in. Here in America, my state of NY has no drought problems. Move further west, those people are facing a water crisis.
Stay hydrated
No glacier here but it does snow in the winter, and we drink and irrigate from the summer runoff.
Fresh potable drinking water is the most important and the most valuable resource in all aspects of life. No water, no life.
I live in South Africa in a Retirement village in the country. More often than not We are forever being warned that the village is without water and we have to rely on borehole water. South Africa as a whole is fast becoming a drought country . And sadly a failed state. Scores of people having to live on the streets and in squatter camps…..the powers that be just seem to forget that they are there. Water is scarce and they battle just to stay alive. So water to them is a precious commodity as it is to all living creatures. 😪
I still think that the OVERPOPULATION contributes to shortages of water and other resources. In some regions you already physically can't provide enough water to drink, cook, wash and to take a shower for the current population. Even without agriculture. People in Africa and in many states of India still prefer to have 5-6 children per family, already having shortages of everything and high unemployment. Many African cities have doubled their populations in last 10 years...
Finally the nail hit on the head. It is like those fund raising ads; to safe the children or/and save the elephant. You either create more for humans or make room for wildlife. You cant have both. Also, if you are unable to provide a living for oneself why do you have children to put them in a life of poverty and misery. That counts not only for the poor countries of course.
Bill Gates talking about this. To speak with african or india parents to be better have 1 or 2 children and good life than 6 or seven in poor. Hope somethink change
@@WolfgangVonKempelen838 Those impoverished kids are bred to take care of the breeders
And they are moving to your town soon!
@@jimjones8736 Oh well, conflict, famine, poverty and other disasters will take care of it I suppose
I think every countries should have their own water reservoirs
And what then ?
As a Brit it really surprises me that some countries don't have any form of water reservoirs...we have loads of them and most of the time we have the 'problem' of having too much water raining down on us most of the time...
Yeah, right, but that doesn't help Nature which we are a part of - and so depended on.
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
does logans run sound good for pre future , not after
Those who have dug quite deeply into _Regenerative Agriculture_ would be amused by this. Mother Nature is a master at conserving water, at cycling carbon, at reducing temperatures by turning solar energy into sugars and thus providing completely suitable above-ground habitats wherever there is soil. Fresh water is not limited as ocean's evaporate pure water as a vapour all the time - which should make more available in a warming climate, right? What humans need to do is reverse the man-made damage, particularly deserts (all except Antarctica), clean up the oceans and take steps to prevent their re-pollution. Well, I say humans, but are we the right alpha species? Regen Ag has all those solutions, usually quite simple and understandable, and more; most importantly improved nutrition, for those who are inclined to dig deep.
Thanks DW, great information shared. 🌟😘🌟
Thank you for watching, Ruth! :D
Very informative
Thanks for watching!
One cause of water hastening evaporation is that most of the surface soil had been converted into clay horizon due to the long period of exposure to all forms of radiations that causes weathering without the protection of forest and long lasting existence of bushes , but agricultural cultivation of endless chain of croppings where minerals have been consumed by plants as Thier natural fertilizers leaving the positively charged ions that formed as the main constituents of clay soil of various alkaline metals , which clay when penetrated by photon , it easily dehydrates leaving a compacted and cracking surfaces especially during drought season . During rainy season clay will react to bloating which is prone to landslides , coinciding to these modern time when elevated mountains with weaker skeletal rocky layers as result of weathering were already into tonnages of soil erosions as well as massive landslides