Waters of Paradise - Adapting to Climate Change in the Maldives
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- Опубликовано: 20 мар 2017
- The Maldives is one of the wonders of the world. Located in the Indian Ocean and made of 1192 coral islands, it is also the world’s lowest lying country. The highest natural point is just 2.4 meters above sea level. Today, one of the main problems for Maldivians is water. And it is likely to get worse with Climate Change. While Northern islands face drinking water shortages during the dry season, from April to May, most Southern islands face a different problem: flooding.The United Nations Development Programme with support from the Green Climate Fund is supporting the Government of the Maldives, to ensure that most vulnerable islands have year-round access to potable water and that they can cope with floods on their own.
Nearly half of its population lives in Male, the capital of the islands, in less than 1.4 square kilometers. The rest is spread over 186 small, scattered islands. Maldivians have lived for centuries from coconuts and fishing. There are no rivers or streams on any of the islands. Except for Malé and a handful of other islands, most islands rely on rain for drinking water. Islands affected by floods and shortages of potable water receive relief from the capital island Malé. Transportation costs are high with the Maldives scattered geography. This makes emergency relief very expensive for a government already struggling economically. Climate change is expected to bring stronger storms, and longer periods without rainfall.
A rise in the ocean’s temperature and acidification has had devastating effects on coral reefs, affecting tourism and fisheries, both critical to the livelihoods of most Maldivians. Damaged reefs also function less effectively as a first line of defense against sea swells and flooding. Until the nineties, Maldivians used groundwater for drinking. But over the past decade, the groundwater of most islands got contaminated. The freshwater lenses of most islands was badly affected by the Tsunami of 2004 and poorly planned urbanization.
As a result, today, rainwater, together with water produced using desalination and expensive bottled water are the only potable water options. In the past ten years, the National Disasters Management Center in Malé had to send emergency shipments of water to about half of the 186 inhabited islands during the dry season. An expensive solution that sometimes can take up to two weeks to arrive. Most households have one tank of 2500L and fill it by collecting rain from their roofs. Bigger families might even have 2 or 3 tanks, since one is not enough for them to make it through the dry season. When water supply ends, households cope by borrowing from neighbors, by buying bottled water or by receiving water relief from Male. Learn more at adaptation-undp.org/projects/s....
Director: Marta Baraibar
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Yet it's nearly 2020 and the Maldives government has just announced they will be allocating 29 Islands for brand new resorts. So much for sea rising.
I live there
Also the drains on the road in front of my house in male don’t work and the street gets flooded in heavy rain :(
Speaks for itself, drainage should be used to collect water and building reservoirs as Singapore does should've been proclaimed main goal, but instead they're wasting it. Simple
Oh my god this documentary is eye opening. We need innovative solutions to meet the water requirement there. Maybe making the process of desalination cheaper or making water from the humidity in air.
In 1925 there was a claim the Maldives would be under water by 1975, Well how did that turn out!
I hate to point this out but it's "Potable water," NOT " Portable water."
It's annoying to hear the narrator repeatedly refer to drinking water as portable water.
Hi Guys. Does anyone know if the Maldives have good access to contraceptive options too etc?
Regardless of whether or not people can agree climate change is a thing, I think it's most important to recognise that it would be good of humanity to not consume and grow without thought for resources etc.
Hannah Stringer I guess you’ll never know if your kid will be the one to save us from ourselves.
Maldives's currently has fertility rate 1.9 children per woman. This is below replacement rate and means Maldives's population will start declining within few decades unless migration make up the losses. So, you can guess, Maldives has good access of contraception and it's population are making good use of those.
1 telecom tower is enough to all
Ok what the hell are these conspiracies in the comments
Tiny Doge notice how all of those comments are 7 months old? So is this video ruclips.net/video/9p51t2MHcms/видео.html
Did you get a chance to watch the video reference in the previous response? Makes you wonder. Lots of people making lots of money from climate change.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 Just because some people are making money off something doesn’t mean it’s not real. That doesn’t make any logical sense. People make money off a lot of things.
@@dimetronome Agreed but when someone tells you to do one thing for your future safety and everyone else’s and then they do the complete opposite it’s kind of ruins their argument and makes people suspicious of their intent. Especially when money is involved.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 All that does is make them look like huge hypocrites, but it says nothing about the truthfulness of what they are saying. Whether or not someone is a hypocrite and whether or not what they are saying is true are two different things. You can tell the truth about something, while still being a huge hypocrite about it.
Question: Why is it bad that sea levels rise? Is it bad for animals/nature or is it maybe just bad for humans?
Some countries will sink
well if you are fish its good.If you are a cow or dog-not so much 😎
@@JK32768 You didnt answer the question
@@galimir I'd say it depends on wheter or not people are there too.
Flyingdutchy33 ... well even if someone doesn't like humans , think of all the animals on the land that will drown .
If the Maldives were supposed to be submerged or uninhabitable, tell me why two of the largest Real Estate Development firms in the world have increased their investments into acquiring MORE land on the island chain?!?!?
Because they’re stpid
@@treemandale Because they're smart.
Because water lvl isn't raising - its just another money laundering hoax stuffed into European ears who are willing to give money to save "small sinking islands" who cant even use rainfall water in a proper way - cause they're lazy. Money 💲💲💲💲💲 is the main reason to create bullshit articles like "islands are sinking tuna gretberg and other bullshit"
fucked up government
water
Hi everyone
Hello will brother of patrick
The land is sinking due to crustal subduction near the tectonic plate boundaries there.
Maldives? I thought it should have joined Atlantis by now.... Yet, it seems to be gaining acreage.
Ponder on this geniuses.
I respectfully suggest that it's time to move. Oceania needs to relocate to Australia / New Zealand.
Won't these islands be under water soon?
Define "soon". 10 years? 50 years? 100 years?
David Keenan
I'm asking you amount of flooding and when... If asking me then:
If following current ocean rise of 3 mil a year plus one version of exponential factor (double every year) because of GCC and the 60 or so positive feedbacks, then perhaps:
3 mil per year + exponential component. Let's see:
next year 6 mil. Then 12 (2018), then 24 mil (2019), then 48 mil in 2020, 96 in 2021, or the length of a cigarette.
Keep doubling until 2027's two meters, is that is under water? If not 12 feet the next year and highest point is 5 feet under water.
Not going to happen, there's no way feedbacks would result in an annual doubling of the "rate" of global sea rise. Ice gain on the antarctic ice sheet is currently mitigating the loss of ice on the Greenland ice sheet and the world's other glaciers. And the oceans have a great deal of inertia to change.
Much of the Maldives will still be habitable by 2100, but they'll be probably be submerged well before 2500.
David Keenan
I might have used wrong exponential factor, the old doubling one which is really far too extreme to use in the real world.
A compounding exponential function would be yet another one that would probably be inaccurate, especially with the time component relevant to humans (years, decades) as opposed to what scientists are used to working with, that is geological time (1000 years, millions of years).
A quick Google tells me the current scenarios, about 7.5 feet by 2050 to 2100 depending on mitagating the temperature. Going on as we are then 25 feet by 2050-2100.
So what they are saying is they really don't know. My example above is if temperature rises incredibly fast, like 7-10 degrees by 2027 LOL! Which is Guy McPherson's terrifying scenario.
The Earth will definitely run out of soil, clean water, oxygen to breath at the necessary 19.5 to 21 or so percent with 40% of plankton gone already, habitat for other animals and systems that clean and rejuvenate our environment all dead.
We are locked in at 7.5 feet but I understand that rise will not be the same all over the Earth, it can vary by feet which can really decrease a relatively small number like 7.5. And even if we are locked in at 7.5 feet they really can't give an accurate temporial scenario.
I'm going to research and if I can actually come up with a more reasonable realistic scenario. I'm more a numbers theory person, a computer programmer who exists in the abstract world of disconnect, so I think I can come up with a definitive theortic answer because:
I know we are going to go like business as usual.
I know all ice will be gone by 2017-2027.
I know the methane monster will blow in the next 10 years.
I know the population overshoot will continue unabated to 10 billion and beyond.
I know the great barrier reef will be dead in 2-5 years followed by ocean death in 1-3 years.
The positive feedbacks are appearing more and more everyday.
@@davidkeenan5642 you're discounting thermal expansion altogether. Deadly error.
Yo what’s going on boy
Being most realistic in every phase of a decision making process is most vital, if the survival of people or mankind as a whole is really at the heart of it.
Looking at the current speed of climate change and taking into account the range of expected changes in our environment, I am sorry to say this, but I think any construction of artificial islands is NOT a solution to the underlying problem. Yes, buy some land as it was envisaged 14 years ago and relocate to stable ground.
The global temperature is rising, the oceans are getting warmer hence the water will expand (law of physics). The glaciers in Groenland, the Antarctic and in the Himalaya mountains melt faster than estimated and forecasted before 2017! Make a smart decision, not one that is based on emotions, cause the laws of nature apply to everyone of us. Best of luck.
hi
OK, when do we stop saying that it's not time to panic, it won't happen that fast! I get embarrassed by my own government (Australia) saying hey we'll have a think about it & we're only 1% of the total problem!!! I am not a radical or a gloom & doom person, I not hippy or a green terrorist, I am realistic. Born in '62 I have witnessed the changes so has everyone, I don't care whether it's fast or slow it's happening. It is fact, it is in front of your faces & you can do whatever you want, the earth simply will not support human life for much longer. Play with the numbers, let the deniers have their say, let's all try to figure out ways to save ourselves in times of crisis. The bottom line is.... As a species we are going to end!, that is what no one wants to say, too harsh??? No not really. The earth will do what it does, probably keep on going. And damn that is perfectly OK with me, we haven't done that much for her except be a pain in the butt. So good luck everyone, I am hoping we go peacefully, I think that's the best we can hope for, that not too many have to suffer painfully! Check you later!!!! ✌💝
relax
I'd be embarrassed if I lived in Australia too. You all should be ashamed of yourselves for your politicians and the rampant ignorance of your general population.
Gullibility is not intelligence.
I am a skeptic and the Maldives should have been drowned two decades ago. Further, Polar Bears should not be flourishing. I am old enough to remember dire warnings of global cooling back in the 1970s!
It does not even matter even if it is warming up because 1) the catastrophists are ridiculous whether ice age or sauna, and 2) warm is good and cold is bad. Just ask the Viking Greenland colonists. Oooops. They all died from global cooling.
@@davidrapalyea7727 You're considered a heretic for not believing their dogma or sharing their religious faith.
And memory is the greatest of all sins in the world of the global warming alarmists.
@@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869 re heresy
I am baffled by your seeming endorsement. Not in a bad way, just in a perplexed way. Specifically, memory?
Perhaps it is so because I remember when Global Warmists ran off to Vegas to become Climate Changers. East Anglia and Boulder have much to answer for. Not that it will ever actually happen.
The Maldivians smashed up the reefs to build their houses
brown people tend to do that, and not give one shit
@@Lyle-xc9pg well just racist.
@@Iyyaann to be fair you have no reefs anymore, your just a floating bazaar in teh middle of the ocean that white people visit
Shhh
Why do we have to watch this
Coral reef destruction, groundwater overuse, groundwater contamination, inadequate sanitation, reduced fish catches, net immigration, inadequate building codes, overcrowding, flooding, dry season, lack of potable water - all these were mentioned in the video as issues these people already have and then here comes climate change which may have started some or all of these issues but will certainly make everything worse. And what is the local govt doing about these issues? Not much because they don't have much. And what is the UN doing with all these problems? They are building desalinization plants and shipping bottled water around, short-term solutions at best.
This video is just a pity party. Feel sorry for the children as they play in the floodwaters because climate change will make things worse, yet the problem is with the adults who live there who do not fix the problems, or elect people who will, but seem resigned to accept their fate and let their islands go under. Not one elected official or anyone who has accepted any responsibility to fix some of these problems was interviewed for this video, so this video is not a documentary nor a status report, but subjective, one-sided, climate doom and gloom propaganda.
AGW has nothing to do with any of that. :)
Spruce Cox, chillax, nothing is going under
Another load of BS from so called experts - you know the ex (has beens) (s)perts (drips under pressure).
Climate change is a real problem, these people are trying to help them.
I live here and I can come form that climate change is a problem there is a stage near the beach and now water levels are rising to the stage and I will let you know that it was a good 10 feat away from the ocean
source: trust me bro