The fight for water | DW Documentary
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- Climate change is causing temperatures to rise. Extreme weather events and droughts are increasing. Springs and wells are drying up. And everyone needs more water. The battles for control over precious water reserves have begun.
In some countries, water has always been available in abundance - and is wasted carelessly every day. But the climate crisis is changing that. Because the climate is warming, everyone needs more water than ever: for drinking, agriculture and industry. Water is the new gold.
In many countries, the distribution battles for precious water reserves have already begun. In Mendocino, California, there is no longer enough water to flush the toilets. And in Germany, regional drinking water supplies collapse in hot weather. Groundwater levels have dropped to record lows in many places. Will we still have enough drinking water in the future? What happens when our water disappears?
This is a three-part documentary series:
Part 1: The fight for water - • The fight for water | ...
Part 2: What happens when our water dries up? - • What happens when our ...
Part 3: Who owns water? - • Who owns water? | DW D...
Series playlist: • Thirst: When Our Water...
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Disneyland literally uses millions of gallons of water a day for their little theme parks, rich people used thousands of gallons to keep their 2 acred lands in California nice and green as they leave those properties vacant year round. Sue corporations and rich people for mishandling water during a crisis
Ofc its not gonna happen they are gonna feed the rest of us recycled and used water so we get even more sick and take even more drugs and develop even more side effects and die before we even get to our pensions
Absolutely!
Every industry that sells unnecessary goods does the same. They don't even care about their own life. Money has blinded them.
Do your homework mate. I'm no defender of the rich, but the primary culprit is ridiculously irresponsible agricultural practices. Disneyland is not even a drop in the bucket in comparison.
It’s not only California, bud.
DW is like I going to school and learn without having to pay tuition. I appreciate DW for your extremely positive contributions.
Germany 🇩🇪 I love you.
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This is literally why I’m going back to school and I’m going for water waste management thanks to these documentaries. I’ve been watching water docs for about a month now and I’m 24, I’m happy to say I finally know what I want to go to school for and this helped me figure that out.
Hurry up! Good luck!
That great! Good luck to you and we need more people like you. I hope you can help this dilemma.
with all the medications in the waste water... thats going to be vastly challenging i bet.
Going to school based on ignorance.
The University of Tube 👻
The documentary paints a stark picture of the growing water crisis fueled by climate change. It's a wake-up call for all of us to cherish this precious resource and work towards sustainable solutions. Thank you for shedding light on this critical issue.
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Water has always been "gold"
No-one can live without it
The funny thing is, there have been wars for gold, oil, and even spices, but nobody actually *needs* those things.
@@gregbors8364 all of those things have an imaginary value put on them. Gold is just a mineral and so are diamonds, spices are plants. The oil industry is pure evil that is destroying the environment for profit. Certain people decided these things would be "valuable" in order to put in place a system they knew they could manipulate in order to hoard wealth, and that is what they've done and continue to do.
@@gregbors8364 an individual doesn't but a society does
Trump he can live whit out water..
He is super man.🤣🤣👍
@@gregbors8364 Much of the unrest in hte Near East is caused by quarrels about the distribution of water.
Water is far more precious than gold. We can live without gold but we can never live without water
Well it's good that there is plenty of water then huh? Maybe not where the liberals want to live but there is plenty of water same as always.
an individual doesn't but a society does
wow, you truly are a "Brilliant Mind"
Really? If I offered you 1kg of gold or 1 liter of water, which one yould you take?
@@gregorslana7723 right now I'd take the gold but if I was in a desert with no water the gold is just a rock to me
DW is the best. Thank you DW
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
I live in Singapore and we don’t have water in the past (water used to be mainly imported from Malaysia and we still do today to a lesser extend) so we decided to be self sufficient since independence by allocating precious land as reservoirs and built water desalination plants and recycle our waste water. Now we are fully self sufficient if required but because desalination is expensive, we are still importing water from Malaysia. It’s important to be self sufficient not only for climate change but for our country cannot rely on others for such an important resource as it would compromise our country’s sovereignty should we unfortunately go to war one day with our Neighbours where they can threaten to cut off our water supply and we would be at their mercy if we are not water self sufficient. Therefore, I see this problem to be a common threat to countries in the future where wars will be waged for water rights.
I live in a timber county in rural Georgia. There is green mold on the rocks in the forest. Huge thunderstorms almost every other day this summer. Our deep water well has sweet clear water. I am very grateful.
I'm in north Georgia . A few years ago it started getting wetter and wetter. Sometimes rains off and on for days. The ground stays soggy. The winters are warmer and wetter. The climate has changed. We're getting someone else's water! Too much. I'm sick to death of this climate change, but I'd rather get too much than not enough. This place is turning into a rain forest. Sheesh.
@@SteffiReitsch feels the same here in Scotland, warmer and wetter.
Tennessee has sweet water too. I remember when we would visit my aunt in Tennessee my brother acne immediately cleared up drinking that water and it was always Soo hydrating
You must be a child of God!
when california runs out were gonna sweep across your lands and drink all of your water
Imagine when you wake up in the morning you can't find anything flow anymore from your tap water. You only have three days...
A very important documentary.
I have three water catchment barrels catching rain off my roof. I could add more.
And here I'm from Indonesia been complaining about months constant rain, I will appreciated rain and clean water from now on
Tree plantation, Water conservation methods, rainfall water harvesting, storing water in man made lakes etc. 🙏😭 Water conservation methods World-wide action plans required 🙏😭
Welcome to Zimbabwe. Most people have been living without drinking water for years now. Very informative and enlightening Doc
Lucky for us in Malaysia... we have plenty of water all year round! Water is not a problem...
@@thamtinmeng7063 yes too much water is also problem. You will face more severe floods and landslides that will make your place inhabitable due to climate change.
Very bad gov..
"When politics is dictated by the fight for water, then god help us".
When this happens you can forget about morals and ethics. It will be survival of the fittest till no one is left.
It reminds me of Mad Max, Rango or the book of Eli.
Australia already sells water. They have done that for decades.
As soon as the trucks stop, and the reservoirs are empty, there will be a brief shock among the populace and then the panic sets it. God help us indeed. 😐
Coming soon to the western US. As things stand, California will be left with zero water from the Colorado River after lake mead reaches dead pool, but las Vegas will then be able to guzzle down every drop that flows into the lake with their new drain pipe. The Hoover dam, because water cannot flow through the dam at dead pool, will then be preventing California from getting any Colorado River water. This is going to get nasty.
I'm in a town southeast morocco now, and I'm really living this experience!! Hopefully I'm staying here just a night with a friend who lives here he is telling me that he is living this difficulties 1mounth and a half since the main river they pretend in is dry! And this makes me feel and live this issue seriously it's a bad thing !
oddly, in america, the mississippi river also was extremely dry this year. where is all of this water going? it can't evaporate i to outer space.
Mexico City used to be a city built in the center of a HUGE lake. Nowadays we're having a big water crisis. I hope awareness about this vital and rare element rises VERY soon in every human mind and heart.
Reality has come to life,water is more vital than gold
Silver is a main conpotant for cleaning water ,no silver no clean water
@@williambaker6622 component *
Is water more important than Bitcoin?🤔
Being Australian and having lived through droughts all my life, I have the greatest respect for water. I spent 4 years in Western Europe and could not believe the wastage of this precious resource!! Is this perhaps a lesson? City dwellers particularly use water without thinking. Using all the underground water without replenishing it will ultimately have huge repercussions on the globe.
we live in the driest continent on earth...
the grey water is a good start....
yes the droughts and floods in NSW are unpleasant (to put it lightly.. they freak me a f out!!) ... but then again the NSW government hasn't built more dams in years it seems (and with a steadily growing population you'd think that resources would increase as well... you'd think)
droughts around the country... followed by floods... bushfires as they don't cut the huge amount of growth back... rabbits removed so the undergrowth again makes trouble for bushfire fuel....
the desal plants i thought were a terrible waste of money I've read are producing some water(not sure if that justifies the 1.8 billion spent on the one in south Australia though..) ..
i always wondered why they never (years ago) built a pipeline from the ord river scheme as apparently that has enough after for the entire continent... not sure why they stopped at the snowy river scheme as that was a great thing....
& Albert: Wow , your thoughts are so profound and full potential, you blokes are the pinnacle, You can see the mud through the dry, dead bushland and Australia, and its imported vinegar's thankyou for your patience and compliance while getting fucked. Here's a unique thought, this country is having all of its resources extracted by locust and undesirable from without, so how about we use it whilst we can from within. Take 60 minute+ showers and leave it running whilst you dry, take your deodorant and hairspray OUTSIDE and aim it directly up, scorch and salt your earth, the next gen wont be Australians so what in the fucks it matter? If our so called 'leaders' want cake... Australia is already gone, Australians are going extinct, so we may as well use it all before the other imports rob us of it explicitly or implicitly. One day they'll all understand.
As an American I can tell you we are the biggest at being ungrateful. We consume and waste so much
@@albertbresca8904 The government wasted so much money on insane mandates and dubious vaccines, yet they did nothing to increase the underground storage capacity during this flood season; a season that may never occur again.
Have you watched Greening The Desert?
I remember Captain Planet warned us about this in the 90's 🤷♂️
Vegas acting like they are making a difference after abusing the resource is the toughest part of the story. Thank you DW for doing something the US news won't
Water has been the new gold for over a decade. People just don't realize it because they're used to always having it.
Water has always been more valuable then gold
I believe the water war is already starting. I read the comments on the news and documentaries about this, and people are saying get rid of the golf courses, swimming pools and fountains. Also, the lush green lawns.
People are mentioning California as a water hog. That they're taking a lot of the water.
Not new gold
New oil
@@carolynmorris7303 Water wars have never stopped.
Just came back from a trip from the Danube, which is a natural boundary between Bulgaria and Romania. I can confirm that the level has went so low that not even ferries can operate. It hasn't rained for months according to locals and the Danube islands look so desertic...
Yet the Danubw river is a major and mighty rivers of Europe
Go to any state in the great lakes and we have plenty of water 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm from Aruba and we don't have freshwater sources, we desalinate the surrounding ocean to make it safe for drinking.
Living in Scotland it's hard to comprehend having drought.
Even here in Japan, we sometimes suffer from water shortage. We, at the individual level, may already be too late. The top leaders of each country need to talk more seriously about water issues. And we must do it soon.
That's the problem all they do is talk
All of those public bath houses will need to close down :(
Many of these problems have been allowed to occur due to poor government policy and corporate corruption. Let's be honest. These problems were very predictable and I foresee more and more self made 'crisees'.
Really in Japan?
@@widodoakrom3938 Really really
I live on the driest continent on earth. Something that really blows me away is the lack of consideration for the environment in Australia. The government allows cattle grazers to clear fell (govt. leased) land with bulldozers. I went to go fishing one year and the water hole (about 5km (3 mile) long and 300m across) was totally full of rocks, sand and gravel washed down from upstream. No attention is given to the preservation nor to the existence of micro-climates nor to erosion. All large fish, saw-sharks, rays etc have vanished while netting for fish is still permitted at the river mouths. There is no wisdom here. Excellent doco!
Damn. Sorry to hear that. I saw a documentary that due to mining and farming boreholes are now dry in Oz. Hopefully your government acts soon
That's an outright lie, cattle farmers don't fell trees at all. So tired of the bull dribbled by people like you.
Stop voting for right wing governments. We need progressive policy and policy makers if humanity is to survive. but that will never happen, because people vote based on really petty issues and no one thinks their world is about to end as they know it.
Good observation.
Aussies gotta have their barby
I'm from the Netherlands. We are basically one gigantic river delta. 1/3 of us is even below sea level. Last place you'd expect water shortages... And yep, even here droughts are more and more common. Less and less rain. Every summer regulations for agricultural irrigation with ground water. There was even talk of regulating the amount of water used by companies this summer.
Understandably digging the well deeper would be expensive.. but closing it off or capping it off sounds ridiculous!!
This is eye opening. Germany is one of the last places in the world I would expect there to be a water shortage. If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere
Like dwanye forge said in GTA 4
„Expect the Unexpected and you will be pleasently suprised“
Its actually crazy how our rivers are drying up right now. The lakes in my home town are so shallow its scary - i am living here for 30 years now and as far as i can remember, i could never see the bottom of these lakes. Now, in just a few weeks, you can walk over them. Water-features are just hanging about, being damaged as they where never intended to be out in the open. And still, idiots here sprinkle water in to their gardens. But right now, our priority seems to be sending weapons to the ukraine, angering a nation armed with thousands of nuclear warheads and investing 100 billion in to our military - where at the same time, our health care goes up in price because we couldnt afford 3 billion euros. These tards at the top are pissing me off. And in all this, we still have to wait years for weed to be legal because of reasons. Fukk this world.
Even in the Netherlands there are water problems. It's not that's the water is not there, the rivers are unusable because of the pollution.
Germany, over the last year, has been one of the most poorly managed nations in the world. So bad it looks like sabotage in terms of energy and resource management.
It will get worse,it’s written in the Word Of God.
I must congratulate DW for this excellent documentary on water. Water scarcity was previously limited to the Middle East and some regions in Africa but now due to persistent droughts even US, Europe, Australia, Asia and even Canada are no better. Climate change has altered the rainfall patterns and we all need to change our lifestyles.
Reminds me of a very popular song "We need to wake up, we need to wise up.....on CZcams.
We need to raise awareness about water scarcity by changing our lifestyles to limit our water footprint.
Thank you DW. Love you lots ❤️🥰
I agree! Major props to you DW for yet another excellent, relevant, timely, in-depth, well-researched, and well-presented report. "Ausgezeuchnet!"
⚡️😎
Water-consciousness, awareness. A very important project to be added to what we start to teach our children, (and grown-ups) especially in the well-to-do neighborhoods; where we still have the luxury of water abundance. Becoming aware of how much we just let our faucets running during dishwashing, tooth-brushing (instead of just turning on and off and on at the in-between times), and pre-running for our shower (to get to the right temperature before stepping in). Sprinkler-systems (when I see an important amount just run off in the gutter).
Australia already had it's annual rainfall this year, and that was by March. People near Sydney are getting sick of being flooded every few months. No water scarcity issue here 🇦🇺
Marie Varenya rightly said. The flash floods of August 2021 which struck Europe particularly Germany should serve as an eye opener for all. Not only do we need to use water in moderation but we need to limit our carbon footprint as well. Either we change our lifestyles or the Malthusian theory will take its toll.
@@ivangamer8022 absolutely and we can blame alot of that on religion, stopping birth control and abortions and controlling women time to end the imaginary sky daddy.
I think it's kinda funny how the 1st part of south parks streaming wars special was basically talking about this..
So glad I live in Canada where we have the most freshwater in the world. Now if only we could make Canadians appreciate that fact and not squander it.
There will be a time one of the most expensive product will be water
As our mountain springs are drying up in Bhutan, we have been working on reviving them. The documentary is wonderful and thoughtful for all of us!
@gilda bra what immigration? This is ONE planet. "Countries" are made up in wars where politicians draw imaginary lines on a map. What immigration? :D
@gilda bra Bhutan doesn't have an overpopulation problem. They're actually underpopulated
How do you "revive" a spring?
@gilda bra bs
@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss Gee, that seem like an eco friendly solution, but it has one major flaw. The planet is warming up. Ask yourself where does rain come from. That's right, it evaporates from surface water on the planet into the atmosphere. Now consider this. If the population grows and depletes the ground water faster than it can be replenished then what?
Thank you for the information
Water has always been worth more then gold for people who know how life works..
Same with clean air, soil, and wild food sources.
Very informative and eye opening documentary. We are living in uncertain and challenging times, Thanks for sharing.
But I think that they should have emphasis more on agricultural use of water since that is by far (USA is 80% of water use). Needs to only grow what each area naturally will grow).
Sheep.
I’m surprised DW documentaries are free on CZcams the quality is amazing I can literally watch all the documentaries and be satisfied
How many ads did you skip...not free.
Holy crap! I live in Fort Bragg, CA, which is just 7 miles north of Mendocino township, and I had no idea fresh water was being trucked into Mendocino County. That explains why my water bill doubled in August from $30 to $60.
My bill is $128 monthly.
All things must come to an end... Humanity too. 😢
Thank you for presenting this critically important report. All living things depend on clean water, clean air, and fertile soil. Whenever I drive through a suburban area, with sprawling lawns in any part of our country, I feel stupefied: high maintenance, high water consumption, zero life-sustaining yield.
Agreed, do anything you can to encourage natural landscaping which needs less water. It is impacting many areas and humanity needs to prepare. This needs to be shared internationally and on social media.
As I am sitting and watching my lawn turn brown, my eyes fall on the neighbours' lawn. Their garden is a lush green. That has to be stopped.
@@achim8239 That neighbor will think you to be lazy for not watering your lawn. If you explain the issue to him, what will he say?
I wonder if anyone considers long-term sustainable management, taking weather variables into the plans? And who the H deserves to whine about their almond crop in a arid climate? They're nuts.
Where I live my lawn stays green all the time, except during the Winter freeze. All by rain water. If there comes a time when we don't get enough rainwater to keep my lawn green I will landscape appropately for the climate. I refuse to waste water on my lawn when others don't even have enough to drink!
I am from the valleys and forests of central India and we currently have more than sufficient amount of water here. But things indeed are changing, I personally have seen that many of our small rivulets and streams have started drying up completely during summers, and excessive rains during monsoon leading to flood like conditions.
India is rapidly industrializing and building a massive number of coal power plants.
@@jeffk464 sorry but what country are you from..?
India planted millions of trees and have run river rejuvenation and rally for rivers campaigns. Also working on river linking to better utilize the rivers. India is massively increasing renewable energy and electrifying its entire railway network, great incentives for electric cars, solar water heaters, low cost LED lights and much more. Rain water harvesting is mandatory in many states. In addition, we need to switch to vegetarian diets to save water.
@@kirankedlaya3180 As a delhite, I beg to differ...
@@utkarshchoudhary3870 Facts don't lie. So, you can have your opinions contrary to the facts. Your free will.
The Salton Sea is not a good example. It was a dry lakebed until 1905, when the Colorado River broke though an irrigation canal and flowed for two years before it was fixed. It is highly saline but an excellent stop for migrating birds.
I remember when buying water at the store was ridiculous, I remember watering the lawn in Las Vegas
Rhine at an all time low, England in drought, set France on fire and tinder dry, Spain having 40C plus and rationing power - this summer really is a peak into our futures.
Here in Malaysia, we always get rains. But we are definately not sitting on gold mine. We experienced great flood early this year and many suffered from getting access to clean water. It was awful time for us.
I definately appreciate water more now.
Yeah it can be drought in clean water too tho.
Now maybe we can selling float to them.haha Alhamdulillah 🤲
And we will have water rationing after one month without rain. I am not exaggerating.
Thank god we have a well at the house, twice the depth of our neighbors. 40 degrees during the summer so essential.
More valuable than gold. Every living thing needs it to survive. We can live without gold.
what was shocking is that the fastest growing US cities are in the desert. Kindof points to what their priorities are.
"Freedom"? Is that the right answer?
What makes economic sense does not make ecological sense.
@@schechter01 Economical sense will not matter anymore when the planet can no longer support life due to human behaviour. Maybe the rich and powerful might be able to escape to the moon or space in time; leaving Earth and however survives the dying planet to carry on making economical sense. I am sure that will work.
@@WolfgangVonKempelen838 maybe. imean, wtf do I know about dry places where everyone carries a gun in their underwear. people are weird.
@@wantstocomment7092 And it is getting worse I'm afraid Sir
You guys ended the story with the Salton Sea in California and how it used to be a huge vacation area. What you didn't mention was until 1905 it was a dry lake bed, with nothing around. In 1905 they made a mistake with canals that were coming off the Colorado river that took two years to fix. The damage they did let a huge amount of water spill out into the dry lake bed and create the Salton Sea from what was a dry lake bed. Everybody partied why it lasted but now the Salton Sea is going back to being a dry lake bed.
Also it was never fresh water...
Interesting never knew that
You are right and wrong at the same time. Right because what you know is the information most people have heard or read, and wrong because the history, geology and hydrology of the Salton Basin goes back a good 10,000 years, long before the "accident" in 1905.
From 1824 to 1904, Colorado River flows flooded the Salton Basin no fewer than eight times. For example, an 1840 flood created a salt lake three quarters of a mile long and a half a mile wide and, in June 1891, another outpouring of Colorado River water created a lake 30 miles long, 10 miles wide. It is uncertain as to how many times water has filled the Basin over the centuries but human intervention is responsible for inundating the basin only once.
@@marmac83 it was fresh water
An example of why DW Tv is NOT credible.
Amazing Documentary DW❤️❤️❤️. But is so Scary😱😱😱
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
As I'm watching this video I can't help but continuously commenting. The measuring of groundwater levels fluctuates just like the tides.
This is one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in quite some time regarding the water crisis. It’s getting to the point where we need to be shouting it from every rooftop because no one seems to be listening. I live in UT and everyone here has green grass and they still water their lawns during the middle of the day during the summer. It’s incredibly frustrating to see. It should be outlawed- I’ve been saying for years they need to do some sort of compensation program so people can xeriscape their lawns- and what do you know? Las Vegas started doing it! I had no clue until I watched this!! I turned to my husband and was like omg!! What did I just say?! (Because I had just mentioned that very thing to him recently). All in all, great video:) Sobering.. but great!
I live near a lake in Ohio. I haven’t watered my lawn for over 20 years. I let nature water it. I quit watering because of costs and I don’t care if I don’t have a perfect lawn.
We went on holiday to Elba/Italy and they had only salt water in the taps and toilet.
They don't use important water for flushing.
That's actually pretty smart.
does the use of sea water for the flush cause any extra-corrosion for the pipes?
Thanks
Design of comode needs to be reviewed, one flush consumes more than five litres of water more than what we drink within two days.
Excellent documentary DW - very well presented. This should be required watching for every single politician and business leader in the world. They can't keep kicking this can down the road - our civilization is truly at risk, now. My heart goes out to the gentleman associated with the GRACE mission. I can only imagine how frustrating and demoralizing it must be to literally be able to see what's coming, to warn those in charge, and have them dismiss you outright. They've been doing that to climate scientists for years, decades. Now, we are in the age of consequences, and it's becoming painfully clear they weren't just a bunch of "alarmists." We SHOULD be, we NEED to be alarmed. No water, no life - PERIOD. Time is running out.
People seemed to have forgotten that South Africa Cape Town HAS actually gone through a complete drought where there is little to no water for months. And Cape Town isn't some middle of nowhere city either! It's a fairly famous tourist location and comparable to some first world country city.
It’s in Africa.
So what that's it in Africa,what are you implying
@@MetaphysicalExplorations A lack of water in Aftica isn’t a rare occurrence.
1:58 I'm sorry I can't take Pete Kelly seriously - he sounds just like the guy playing Kenny Rogers in Jackass years ago LMAO
Its amazing ❤
Never a dull moment with DW.
Very refreshing and educative doc.
If all well DW, Media would have lived to it purpose.
You guys have raised the bar too high for others to keep pace with.
Mamamia
Kudos
love this channel..finally some real "news'
Hello, Victor! Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to
comment and are glad you like our content!
@@DWDocumentary I am certain there was not a single sniff of sarcasm in victor's comment.
DW, please let us know how many parts are in these series??
@DW Documentary, please let us know how many parts are there in this series on water??
Humanity is doomed yet few people care
@@ivangamer8022 Oh look, the Professor has spoken! ALL IS SOLVED!
LMAO.
Shut up fool.
@@ivangamer8022 and in "developed" countries we use more resources than all third world countries. Everyone sucks in this story. And rather than build things sustainably and educate people in developing countries, encourage them to have fewer children etc... they continue to do things the same stupid shi**y way over and over again. It's absolute madness.
@@ivangamer8022 ok ivan
Should have kept population steady at 500 million
Big issues that need big solutions. It's time to ponder!
Wow! I have a whole new respect for water. My level of ignorance to this issue was beyond comprehension. I’ve heard and known of water shortages, but never understood how, when we are surrounded by water.
I knew some about pottable water and filtration…I had zero idea that there were places in the USA that had water being trucked in.
Water bottling companies can’t be helping. They aren’t making water, they’re redistributing it in plastic bottles. It’s sitting and waiting to be consumed…in plastic. The bottles are their business.
I live in a small western town in mountains . So grateful for our rivers and well water
Shhhh!!
I will say this don't take it for granted the things that we take for granted that like water is going to be like having money resources going to be the new money not just the water food as well too this affects a lot of things you can't grow crops that means half of the population is going to start yeah we are serious trouble here everywhere
I don't need to see the mountains to be thankful of them.
JEAN PAUL SARTE HAD IT RIGHT. MAN ONLY ADMITS HE HAS A PROBLEM WHEN THAT PROBLEM HAS ALREADY BECOME SO SEVERE THAT RECOVERY IS DIFFICULT AND RARELY IN FULL.
Remember what that dude said on six feet under? Future wars will be over water
Cold & icy places will be worth so much more in the future
Oh ya
Every household must collect rainwater during winter. That is common many places and gives water for drinking when purified.
has not rained in my area for 8 weeks
Yes ☝️👀 even if you don't drink it, its good for cooking, gardening and getting clean as is 👏😌.
@@cryptocrusader6078 Then the region must collect what comes down. 8 monts sounds like desert. Good luck, from Norway in heat wave.
@@kamilareeder1493 There are Berky and many filters that makes rainwater more pure than anything, but yes agree, rainwater is useable for other things than drinking👌
@@beam3819 I've heard the filtration can be quite expensive 🤷♂️🥲☝️. Im native American and I grew up in East San Diego. Sadly no one has a filter to this day. High key, if the state gave a cool subsidy or tax break for installing them and collecting rain water. The native reservations would be a pretty significant source of support. Those are some areas and people that feel the pinch in the water supply bad.
The Arizona reservations are worse i imagine. How dyou collect rain water when there is no rain 🤷♂️😭😂😅
I believe that is time to forbid grass lawns for good in the west. It’s such a waste. Shady trees 🌳 would be a great alternative for they provide shade, retain water when it rains and help with soil erosion. Of course in the beginning of their growth they require water, but once they grow up their roots go deeper and need less water. 🖖
The species of tree matters too. Some species can deal with hotter and drier conditions
Lawns are a waste of time, effort and expense, far beyond water usage. They are literally a fad. The average home did not used to have a lawn, because there was no point. But since the rich started having them, then the common folk decided they had to have them too, then it became an ordinance or 'home value' issue, and now people who DON'T want a lawn, and all the work and expense that go into it, are literally FORCED to maintain one.
People are hopelessly stupid. Solve one problem and they'll go create another one to replace it, and for a stupid, vain reason that amounts to just being in vogue.
Nah just ban mass immigration
@@jameseverett4976 Ban lawns is a great start because it's not needed !!!
Yes 👍 and native cover plants help rebuild the native plant and insect population while being drought resistant. White sage is literally endangered 🥲💀 plant tons of that and others like it instead
Imagine talking about having no water to drink while sitting right in front a 5 gallon jug of water lmao
Excellent documentary
One of the things that I liked about this documentary is that they have not talked about any "possible" solution to this problem. If they had then people would not have taken this very seriously. It really is a very serious issue. Especially in the third world or developing countries. In Pakistan, you don't need to be a scientist to see these changes. People in almost every city are facing a dire water crisis.
A solution but chaos.
Motivate ur people you can do this brothe Pakistan will prevail!!!
That's today's problam raja they just talk about problems and manipulate us by using the problems for their own sake.
The solution is first we have to plant a tree, I am from 🇪🇹and we started this things, we called it green legacy planting 25 billion trees in 4 years and we plant 25 billions.
We have to do the same things all over the world
The rich are busy by polluting the air and producing in wrong way.
They never brough
@@miodragsavic7350 yeah we need to planting trees to get constant rain and to control climatic change.
The point you make reflects a sad status of the human race.
Oh hell it's bad in large population centers in the US too. Parts are already beyond a breaking point of running out of water
DW you guys make some really great docs, always well presented and not sensationalized. Thank you.
30 years ago there were scientists saying this was coming. Saying that no one warned of these issues 30 years ago is a selective choice to ignore the warnings that were given.
as Jake LaMotta's coach once said....'no water!'
I love DW it’s such a nice break for me as an American that is constantly forced to see through fox and cnn lenses.
Don’t watch Fox. You should know that by now.
CNN is a crap.
@@Root__314 I don't. I still hear about it because I live in a society where people watch it.
I live in California. "FAUX" is a plague on humanity. So is Chump.
I'm pretty upset about the staggering crime rates, too. It's like: THEY JUST DON'T GET IT. Everyone has learned NOTHING from Carl Sagan nor F.M. Rogers.
So, it's like... F it. I can't complete a single objective here. I'm broke, have no connections, no work, and I'm nearly invisible: I'M SCREWED. 😓
@@Root__314 CNN is the one he shouldnt be watching.
In 1998, my geology professor said that the biggest problem desert communities have is that when the aquifers empty before having sufficient replacement, the stone around them collapses. Now water CANNOT replenish them. It's a bit late now to notice decades of mismanagement without a plan to reverse it. Also - WHY was anyone farming in a desert? Any one wanting to raise a crop ought to consider harvesting and exporting energy - or consider the usefulness of condensers, like those Luke's uncle used on Tatooine. Or how about a career in water reclamation and restoration? Or am I preaching to the stagnantly ignorant?
I have been railing against growing cotton and alfalfa in the desert for years. They’re still doing it
@@Starfish2145 AND ALMONDS!! One of the thirstiest trees. Yeah, they need certain conditions, but can't these folks find alternative plants, like dwarf tree with fewer leaves? Alfalfa turns to dust without constant irrigation, and I can't imagine cotton being viable there at all. Then there's the greedy real estate axholes. I remember when retirees were all about moving to AZ for air quality - then whining because their lawns won't stay green without constant watering. They used to p/me/o the most.
I predict that if ever the winds change, there'll be dreadful rainstorms that will force people off the land - the water won't have anywhere to go. Nor will some of the people.
30:19 Imagine living next to a reservoir that's drying out but still having a pool. Peak narcissism.
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Why no mention of Big Agricultures role in all this? Most of lake mead goes to Cali who uses it to grow water intensive plants in the desert.
When the lights go out, when water scarcity drives you away from your home, when food is not enough anymore, we will see how civilised the human race is indeed. Spoiler alert! Civilisation needs the above 3 things to exist.....
Lights going out won't break civilization. You better damn believe water scarcity or starvation will though XD
Here in Israel we recycle about 80% of the water we use, but there is still a lot more that can be done to save water.ie. shorter showers, eliminating spas, private pools and baths, reducing grassed areas and waste in Industry and Agriculture especially looking at changing over to crops needing a lot less water.
Israel has come up with very inventive ways of accessing new sources including extracting drinking water from air.
A huge amount of drinking water now comes from a system of Desalination Plants along the coast which while 'guaranteeing' a constant source of drinking water for a growing population, demand huge amounts of electricity.
I SERIOUSLY hope more countries start doing all of these things. Unfortunately, I doubt that they will. 😓
RUS is too busy destroying everything (and UKR). Sri Lanka is having a full on political meltdown. U.S. is going through the 1.6 "Chump" disaster, along with MASSIVE increases in crime (and droughts). France has infernos. China is a disaster. Japan is in trouble...
There are some complications. 😕
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Take Water away and all the rest is a walk in the park....priorities matter.
No wonder. We in singapore are following your lead. We have new water.
.....and by stealing water in the Golan Heights and from the Palestinians living in the West Bank!
@@Redbaron9495 Both belong to Israel.
If you attack a Country and lose ....sometimes you lose.
Do you have a Spotify version of your documentaries?
As a Michigander ive always appreciated my situation in regards to water. If you know, you know
I live in eastern Tennessee, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains where it's hilly, and with a very moderate climate yeararound. We've experienced only a brief period in June of excessive heat........ I have a deep well and also a spring which has been flowing since before 1805 when this property became a county seat of government. I'm now seeing the spring at the lowest level since I've been here, 22 years now......... and the nearby creek has also dried up again this summer, it comes from a dedicated watershed of maybe less than a thousand acres. Other changes I've noticed around here are the increased growth and greening of all the vegetation, throughout the summer, changes in the bug populations, fewer 'lightning bugs' and new nuisance bugs requiring the wearing of a head mask, also quicker drying of the soil surface........ all these I'm watching as possible indications of further water shortages down the line.......
To me, it appears that exponential population growth could be the villain, but, ironically, that's what our wealthier classes seem to feed off of, using the exponential growth of our money supply....... Hmmmmm............. But the wealthy are the only ones who can do anything........ they have the money and the power......... Hmmmmm......
Summers are usually dryer and warmer than winters, sometimes hotter than normal, sometimes cooler. Depending where you live.
Don't come here AZ has our own problems🤪
In a democracy, the voters have the power..........Hmmmmmmm🤔
In theory......
Population growth? How about climate change? How about wasteful misuse of natural resources? It's always somebody else at fault for you Americans, huh?
“very moderate climate”….. for now……
Water is the key to life. Without water, there is nothing.
soon, there is nothing.
Less then 0.5% of all the water on earh is zweet water.
People should be required to have a license in order to have children.
Water and Air... Apparently so much of them available, but also so much threatened by us, humans ...
Thumbnail asks "Is water the new gold?"
No, DW clickbait writers, gold is gold and water has always been more important.
@@BridgesDontFly Yup. Right after intelligence tests are mandated for posting comments on CZcams.
Comment to Cloudy Boyy: I am so happy to learn from you that all of their water usage was in the past. Thank God they're not doing it presently. So evidently according to your text they're not doing it anymore and I am grateful for that. I did try to post under your comment but it said the resource was exhausted.
I do not understand why the engineers do not build desalination plants everywhere, since we are surrounded by oceans full of water. I know that I have seen the engineering designs on the internet, yet they are never built. Especially in California, where the entire state is bordered by a big beautiful ocean. It's astounding that there is such a simple solution, yet nobody builds the plants.
if they fix the problem...then they wouldn't have a job anymore or a way to take/spend more of our tax money. just like not finding a cure to cancer or whatever else. they need sick people and they need us kept in fear. why didn't they promote healthy lifestyles during the pandemic? they locked out the gyms and gave free donuts for the shot instead. lol
Because desalination is expensive
In my house, we use rain water for drinking and I have a tecknic to reuse the water for our small swming pool, so we can re use the water for one year or more.
Thankyou!!! You are appreciated. 👍
Do you filter the water? Most of the rain in the planet is toxic. Unless you live far from a city in a very isolated area.
I’ve been looking into installing catch tanks on my property to do the same thing.
Just to clarify. You drink the rain water and then re-use it in the pool. So, you admit to swimming in piss! And you recycle the same water for up to a year? You should be in water management.
Well, sincerely appreciate your efforts, but swimming pool?
As I sat in my nursery in Merritt Island Fla , my uncle Frank strolled up to my potting table and said " One day water will be worth more than gold " and then looked straight at me and said , Maybe in your lifetime . I stopped using overhead Irrigation and went to drip . That was 40 yrs ago and have been a big advocate for drip rather than overhead and know the future looks dim and their is no time for debates those days are long gone . If its not all hands on deck soon we wont get another chance . Toast to life on the edge of a razor . No room for error ...
awesome documentary. If only the powers that be could watch this.
Is WATER Also Controlled… by “some” ?
Plenty of water where I am … and the 🌞 visiting during the day… Looking at the plants and seeing them so happy and that Bumblebee around makes me Happy.
Well done and I am frightened for folks that live in the south West that still do not grasp what is ahead for crops and everyday life without water. This is an absolute emergency yet they are selling new homes at a breakneck speed and not telling buyers what is ahead for them. So irresponsible. No one will believe until the water actually runs out, sad.
It drives me nuts seeing people still buying huge overkill gas guzzling trucks for personal use. People who don't own a boat, or a trailer of any kind - they just want a big truck. Please people... Buy the most fuel efficient vehicle that suits your lifestyle, and for the love of god - strongly consider EVs if you can afford them.
Hey , two things certain for United States : colapse of its Ponzy economic system and climate change choking its natural resource :water
Sad but true, I know someone who moved to Vegas, I told them that this is looking to be a problem, but she went anyway. God be with everyone in these parts of the world, and the people who will suffer from mass migration
“People miss the well when the water goes dry “
you are worried about the idiots buying houses in a desert? get your priorities straight.... its like buying a EV and thinking you are saving the world. idiots
DW Documentary never disappoints. Quality content as usual
@Concerned Citizen the sheeple will believe anything the talking teleprompter tells them xDDDDDD
@@TheMwowner1 Well I'm 49 and have seen the change, its not really a matter of belief when its in your face. Back when Al Gore made his movie it was more of an abstract idea, now its pretty damn real.
@@jeffk464 Tell 'em, Jeff.
@@TheMwowner1 Which part of the world are you from? Europe?
Except it's trash and complete fear-mongering garbage. I recommend any native USA citizen, who is over 30 years old, and STILL doesn't know about 70 year old clowd bustyng technology, get their spit together. Said technology has been stolen, censored, and bogarted by the Pentagon for MULTIPLE GENERATIONS. It creates gentle, harmonious, rain that solves most droughts swiftly.
Water is real gold. Because without water we can't survive
Water 💦 is life. A living creature
Water got feelings..
Very important subject. My country dependent on hydro electric power in combination with little rain and snow over the past years. The result is lower water levels in lakes and rivers. This makes me really concerned for fish stocks, birds and small animals depended on the water because it represents their home, so to speak. Fishing is a really important hobby to me.
Its important?
Well, then dont blame me for the Randomness when i
recommend more Info-Sources, like Some More News and Second Thought.
Do you live in the Netherlands or Holland, by chance?
@@schechter01 Probably not, the Netherlands are not known for hydropower... Must be Norway.
@@achim8239 I live in Norway, yes. You?
Considering the fact that this documentary points to human beings being at risk with water depletion its pretty bizarre that you are more concerned about fish and animals and your "hobby". Maybe you dont understand the gravity of the situation worldwide.
Excellent documentary. It's been a few years since I last visited 'Vegas. But back then, the politicians constantly touted the efforts they had made towards water conservation. Yet as a tourist, it was clear that it was utterly insignificant.
- Many private lawns were replaced with drip irrigation. Yet thousands of home have private swimming pools. Many are uncovered, leading to rapid evaporation
- Expansive golf courses abound, with new ones being planned
- Casinos and resorts have HUGE water displays. Some are so audacious as to say they conserve by not taking water from lake Mead (Because they take it from GROUND WATER *! )
- EVERY casino and hotel I've visited had HIGH FLOW showers. None had low flow, such as were installed in my home way back in the 1990's
- Residents are (rightly) charged a premium for high water use. Yet casinos aren't, and make NO effort to reduce water usage by guests - an inequitable penalty against residents
There are a couple points wrong about your observation but also good points.
-You are right with the drip irrigation and uncovered swimming pools. However, to say that there has been no changes is not completely correct. For example, they have banned the ability to build deep swimmings pools. In addition, did you know that Las Vegas is the most efficient city in the world for water usage. Last time I checked Las Vegas puts 50% of water used back into lake mead/underground reservoir. There’s actually a documentary about Vegas being efficient but I don’t remember the name of it. (I’m not saying it’s perfect but it’s sad to see a desert city be the most efficient)
-I agree that you can’t defend the expensive golf course and the high flow showers.
-The unequal charge happens because of the amount of power the casinos hold and that the city knows it needs the casinos. This is also due to Nevada having no state income tax because the casinos pay instead resulting in them having more power.
Pretty sure those casinos are re-using the same amount of water. You're just seeing the fountain move them through cycles. I can't speak for every casino, but there is a good documentary about how every drain in Las Vegas sends the water to a treatment plant where it is then sent back to the water source so that they use up net zero water once all is considered.
@@jonathanzavala9644 Thanks for the reply. I know 'Vegas has made major improvements. But I question the objectivity of a claim that it is the 'world's most efficient city for water usage'. What metric is it based on, who stated this, and what did they cite as the validating source? There are cities where people have been forced to throttle down to a few gallons per person per day. As dismal a life as that must be, by a metric using usage per capita, THEY are a lot more efficient.
Also, the recharging has been partially debunked. I read that after Mead's water level dropped below the intake for Lake Las Vegas's water, they negotiated some water from Henderson. (The artificial lake is itself a giant waste).
And THEN, there's the pipeline from 'Vegas, taking water from hundreds of miles away, all the way into northeastern Nevada. The water authority's own analyses estimated that were they to take the maximum permissible (16 billion gallons, annually), over a period of years, it could drop the water table in northeastern Nevada by TWO HUNDRED FEET. This would render areas covered with sage and occasional trees, springs and streams into barren dustbowls. The farmers labeled this destruction of their habitat as 'wealth transfer' (i.e. theft). Given the prolonged drought and its increasing severity, it seems likely that not only will the cap be reached, but that it will be revised upwards.
@@edselgreaves6503 Retrieving all water that goes into a drain does not render usage 'net zero'.
While the casinos strive to reduce the consumption of their water displays, the evaporation by itself will be extensive.
I've heard that in Summer, even a standing outdoor pool can evaporate a half inch in a day. Add hundreds of jets throwing water way into the air, and evaporation will be even greater.
@@gregparrott Perhaps not, but that was the overall goal of the water treatment plant. As long as they are returning something I guess.
Around 45% of potable water in Italy is lost through aging pipes. In contrast, Singapore has effectively addressed this issue, with a mere 2 or 3% wastage thanks to proactive leak detection and immediate repairs. It's a practice that all governments should consider before allocating significant funds to desalination projects.
Many already suffering, while others are wasting it.