Why Care About Water? | National Geographic

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  • There is the same amount of water on Earth today as there was when the dinosaurs roamed. And just less than one percent of the planet's water is available to meet the daily drinking water, sanitation and food needs of nearly 7 billion people and millions of other species. Learn more about water in all its forms and how you can make a difference.
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  • @wildtaco8390
    @wildtaco8390 Před 3 lety +144

    My teacher is making me watch this for class

  • @commanderpondscc-4112
    @commanderpondscc-4112 Před 3 lety +300

    Anyone elses teacher making them watch this
    Edit: Who knew how much a sleep deprived kid In Australia could take over this comment section.

  • @rapidrainy
    @rapidrainy Před 14 lety +8

    Ways to gain water:
    - Recycle our used water
    - Purify other natural water sources
    - Synthesize water
    - Use only a little of it (seemingly ineffective in the long term)
    We need more scientists who try to improve the world instead of businessmen who damage it for the sake of profit.

  • @VC0L
    @VC0L Před 14 lety +29

    Why can't we just invent a super filter to filter the salty water?

    • @franciscoarmentano274
      @franciscoarmentano274 Před 3 lety +2

      Actually, there is a way to produce drinkable water from salty water in the seas and oceans, but it's just too expensive regarding time and money.

    • @mrfries9753
      @mrfries9753 Před rokem

      @@franciscoarmentano274 iknow right thats dum tho cuz where else do we spend time and money

  • @tic-tacproductions6926
    @tic-tacproductions6926 Před 4 lety +30

    look at all these decade year old comments

  • @smar
    @smar Před 6 lety +12

    I like the message this video sends! I just wish politicians would do something about this so the word would spread.

    • @memadmehmedov9512
      @memadmehmedov9512 Před 2 lety

      I don't think we have another 50 years the ice is melting in full force
      every summer is even hotter
      this summer was dangerous oxygen was heavy there were fires
      the end of days is coming and this is not a lie

  • @Cozzi0
    @Cozzi0 Před 14 lety +6

    I also agree, we take so many things for granted hopefully there will be a wakeup call soon which will teach us that we must rest our place within the world not manipulate it.

  • @PreachyMax
    @PreachyMax Před 14 lety +5

    the water cycle is magnificent, rivers and lakes are calming

  • @mariellajuhuri1903
    @mariellajuhuri1903 Před 3 lety +32

    I'm here to answer my earth science subject
    Who's with me?

  • @promemegod1173
    @promemegod1173 Před 3 lety +7

    Why can’t we just make a 2 by 2 area then we have infinite water just like in Minecraft

    • @prankshow5255
      @prankshow5255 Před 2 lety +1

      I smell a idiot who doesn’t get it coming

  • @calabrais
    @calabrais Před 14 lety +4

    There's a reason for that. Most light rains won't saturate the soil enough to reach the roots of the grass. That's why in the summer its a good idea to water while it's raining. It also won't evaporate as fast as if it was sunny.

  • @lomvoey7789
    @lomvoey7789 Před 14 lety +2

    conserve, and only use what is necessary for life.

  • @ompachaiyammantravels1907

    I love national geographic channel...😘😘😘😘

  • @PeterDuke
    @PeterDuke Před 8 lety +33

    Where are the citations on this piece, or are students assumed to just swallow it whole because of the little yellow rectangle?

  • @psncoolpjhq
    @psncoolpjhq Před 14 lety +11

    Nice Video as usual :D

  • @ecopersianprincess
    @ecopersianprincess Před 12 lety +2

    Enjoyed it

  • @ayahelvlogs102
    @ayahelvlogs102 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for sharing this vedio

  • @newphew92
    @newphew92 Před 14 lety +2

    @brianvelasquez
    surely you would like to know how expensive it would be to purifie seawater all the while keeping energy demands at a reasonable level

  • @adrijanpozek1591
    @adrijanpozek1591 Před 4 lety +4

    their soft voices enjoy meeeeee

  • @SubSandwichOG
    @SubSandwichOG Před 3 lety +2

    Thats sad. Really sad with no water :(

  • @qqwangxin
    @qqwangxin Před 14 lety +3

    In 5 province of China we are now already experiencing terrible droughts, water is now considered as a rising social issue which causes unstablity .

  • @cooperflanagan6841
    @cooperflanagan6841 Před 4 lety +2

    Nice video!!

  • @gem2000000
    @gem2000000 Před 13 lety +1

    1.) get a cup of salty water.
    2.) but it under the sun
    3.) put a piece of glass over it slanted towards another cup
    wait.
    4.) collect water that no longer has salt and is good to drink :D

    • @prankshow5255
      @prankshow5255 Před 2 lety

      Thats not a viable source of water takes a lot of time

  • @skybite95
    @skybite95 Před 14 lety +1

    They should make this a global campaign instead of going small. Try to get more people into this campaign and then there will be a difference.

  • @galanie
    @galanie Před 14 lety +3

    I'm amazed that the same scientists that tell us the glaciers in the arctic and antarctic are melting now tell us that there is less water available.
    I know that the local supply is the problem, yet this is what it seems they are telling us.

  • @1RadicalOne
    @1RadicalOne Před 14 lety +2

    I support desalination plants as well. Simply making more water usable would solve supply issues, though delivery systems, especially in poor nations, would gain little, unfortunately.

  • @NeoArashi
    @NeoArashi Před 14 lety +1

    @blackscent
    Some people overuse showers,
    Many people think that one shower a day is too much (unless you really are working so hard that you end up dirty or stinking everyday)
    I myself only take a shower once 2-3 days (3 days tops).

  • @manzanero2008
    @manzanero2008 Před 14 lety +1

    @Cozzi0 Totally agree with you. The population growing is real reason of water ending. We must to do something.

  • @narezul
    @narezul Před 14 lety +4

    desalinization thank you and goodnite

  • @wolftaco5975
    @wolftaco5975 Před 3 lety +2

    and here is my parents buying a pressure hose to clean there patio -_-

  • @AwaisMZahid
    @AwaisMZahid Před 6 lety +1

    I saw this video in school and Yes we will definitely ready to save our water for our useful life!!☺

  • @pacificglass6173
    @pacificglass6173 Před 14 lety +1

    @srodens Those are very very expensive to build ..not every country can do that.

  • @mahiraxvc
    @mahiraxvc Před 2 lety +2

    Dude my teacher's literally making me watch this rn.

  • @Malacha1
    @Malacha1 Před 13 lety +2

    i dont understand, and im not being rude, but where does the water go after it is "used"? it cannot be destroyed, nor can it leave the earth. how is it that we can run out of a resource that is constantly recycled?

  • @Ishkiia
    @Ishkiia Před 14 lety +2

    I saw in another vid about water that it takes over 1800 gallons of water just to raise 1 single pound of meat

  • @aalwinsam5463
    @aalwinsam5463 Před 2 lety

    Tank you mam

  • @ompachaiyammantravels1907

    Yes I like it national geographic

  • @angelxtasy
    @angelxtasy Před 14 lety +1

    I AGREE =)

  • @kyle7412
    @kyle7412 Před 14 lety +1

    yes water will never run out but fresh water can run out.....

  • @cheesyflames
    @cheesyflames Před 14 lety +1

    @Th3KL There is.

  • @nannynicky4life
    @nannynicky4life Před 14 lety +1

    we have issues from every corner of life, we are even handing them down to our children everyday. i tell my little ones to shut the water off when brushing teeth, i give even toddlers showers instead of baths. saves water and they love showers. yes people, even 1 yr olds love showers. we use the dishwasher on low instead of high. there are many ways to save

    • @prankshow5255
      @prankshow5255 Před 2 lety

      I hate baths lol idk why and I also conserve water by stopping the taps while doing anything 🙂

  • @bendover2502
    @bendover2502 Před 4 lety

    Now thats alot of damage!

  • @odinmp5
    @odinmp5 Před 13 lety +1

    @jeremiah1499 good point. problem is the recycling process can take too much time and most nations cannot afford the artificial recylicng methods. so when you pollute all the water from a small town and it takes quite a while to recover, you get a change in ecosystems, you kill ald the wild life and that produces hunger thus violence. another scenarios are: changing streams, too much drinking water becoming salt water, e.t.c good question.

  • @itsalljustasham
    @itsalljustasham Před 14 lety +3

    @DualCorePower, this coming from an obvious genius.

  • @ledari
    @ledari Před 14 lety +1

    I live in scandinavia land of million freshwater lakes.. =)

  • @Fantosonium
    @Fantosonium Před 14 lety +2

    @GizmoMofo7 Heh, nice metaphor

  • @LoveVanillaRose
    @LoveVanillaRose Před 13 lety +1

    AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE

  • @Gr4pe4life_candy3
    @Gr4pe4life_candy3 Před 4 měsíci +1

    me be like: watching this in class

  • @Taigacan
    @Taigacan Před 14 lety +1

    nature ftw
    i just wish the world cared about it

  • @portablespoon7808
    @portablespoon7808 Před 3 lety

    Epic

  • @bullmad43
    @bullmad43 Před 14 lety +1

    sorry for my last post i didn't clearly explained why we should try using the ocean water frist fo all hopefully someone finds a way to purify the ocean water for our daily uses and then we will have unlimited water from the ocean!!

  • @benans6819
    @benans6819 Před 6 lety +1

    Woow

  • @Blanz520
    @Blanz520 Před 14 lety

    the colorado river does reach the sea...

  • @reahanince9708
    @reahanince9708 Před 3 lety +1

    Lets go lets go lest go lest go

  • @laughinmama8011
    @laughinmama8011 Před 2 lety

    Yup

  • @GenesisSimpleMe
    @GenesisSimpleMe Před 14 lety +1

    for the time being, they say what about after 50 yrs?

  • @Victoria96Tory
    @Victoria96Tory Před 14 lety +1

    00 wow

  • @shampooing123
    @shampooing123 Před 14 lety +1

    Wow only 1%? Couldn't boiling of saltwater purify it?

  • @brizzlefizzle
    @brizzlefizzle Před 14 lety +1

    mother nature can fix itself over time, it's our lives and future generations that we're ruining.

  • @Aechro
    @Aechro Před 14 lety +1

    The age of super soakers is starting to diminish; therefore, bring on the AirZookas!

  • @angelakate9063
    @angelakate9063 Před 3 lety +1

    Civil engineering student here and my chemistry teacher obligate us to watch this.

  • @irwin770
    @irwin770 Před 14 lety +2

    i live in a town in canada where water is very abundant, we dont pay for our water, its free. so i guess this is a good place to live if your in a place where water cost you alot. come to canada

  • @uero-ro
    @uero-ro Před 14 lety +1

    Don't all of those icebergs melt directly into already super salty water = salt water not as salty, but still unusable?

  • @srodens
    @srodens Před 14 lety +2

    haven't they heard of desalination. (with nuclear power)

  • @Yaksha0512
    @Yaksha0512 Před 14 lety +2

    There should be a frickin law for that lol

  • @erik9157
    @erik9157 Před 2 lety

    I'm opening a waterless car Wash business feels so good

  • @Weezyzack
    @Weezyzack Před 14 lety +1

    In some time when mankind is screwed, because the water supply is gone, then we'll look back and say: why were we so stupid?
    That is the way it ALWAYS goes.
    But you can't change anything then..

  • @licaphd
    @licaphd Před 14 lety

    conservare e utilizzare solo ciò che è necessario per la vita.
    conserver et utiliser uniquement ce qui est nécessaire pour la vie.
    conservar e usar apenas o que é necessário para a vida.

  • @xbeast133
    @xbeast133 Před 14 lety +1

    @hereandnow6002 yep

  • @onahblessing4669
    @onahblessing4669 Před 7 lety +1

    wow sun Hi is popular in make it pop

  • @werdawkwe
    @werdawkwe Před 14 lety

    Does anyone know where this picture was taken at 2:10-2:12?

  • @MaX-rq7um
    @MaX-rq7um Před 3 lety

    *teacher* : watch this video
    *people* : I came here from my teacher-

  • @jamesmobley1063
    @jamesmobley1063 Před 6 lety +1

    0:35

  • @galanie
    @galanie Před 14 lety

    @oyhacrnnR Unfortunately people cannot seem to grasp the concept that water never just goes away when we use it, it goes somewhere else. Thus, using water in the USA will not help water shortages in Africa one bit.

  • @hisroyalsucculence
    @hisroyalsucculence Před 11 lety

    The suggestion that this is the time for us to start doing things at "an individual level" is part of the problem. Wasting water shouldn't be a right.

  • @TorpedoJr
    @TorpedoJr Před 14 lety +1

    ocean water would be too hard to purify for everyone's use

  • @taeyeonlover
    @taeyeonlover Před 14 lety +1

    I'd say synthesising water is too inefficient, so that leaves only recycling used water and tapping into seawater. (There's also the possibility of obtaining extra-terrestial sources, but I don't think that would be efficient as long as we have seawater).
    What we can do to actually make it happen, is make recycling or purifying water more profitable thatn wasting it so that the greedy businessmen choose to do it.

  • @DJBRISK1
    @DJBRISK1 Před 14 lety +1

    What would happen if we water our lawns with salt water?

  • @MisterModder123
    @MisterModder123 Před 14 lety +2

    I just got my new NG magazing today about water :)

  • @gungasc
    @gungasc Před 14 lety +1

    QUICK MELT THE GLACIERS TO GET THAT EXTRA 2%!!.....hmmm that sounds like it will have a bad outcome.

  • @Sweenus987
    @Sweenus987 Před 14 lety

    So it would be good that the ice caps melt because more fresh water for us and the rest is to nature.

  • @ZeetotheAHHH
    @ZeetotheAHHH Před 3 lety

    Punyeta pinas bah yan? 0:40

  • @user-lk8yu6gz9s
    @user-lk8yu6gz9s Před 7 lety

    same

  • @Athril
    @Athril Před 14 lety

    good thing we know how to make salt water into drinking water. that process requires energy, though.. but hey. Energy isn't limited, it can only be converted. In the end it all comes down to money. AGAIN

  • @gem2000000
    @gem2000000 Před 13 lety

    @adrianryb LOL but turning the saltwater into fresh kills everything that lives in the ocean... every single thing. and the technology would be so expensive the budget that upports freshwater collection wouldn't sustain the power needed to do this...

  • @420wizzard
    @420wizzard Před 14 lety

    yea thats a good idee... make even fewer people capable of getting water...

  • @stuwiitube
    @stuwiitube Před 14 lety +3

    One time i saw a house with sprinklers on while it was raining i wanted to smack that person

  • @Palkia02365
    @Palkia02365 Před 14 lety

    Although i agree with what these people are saying; We have over 10 billion gallons of water on this planet. We are not going to run out in the next 50 years. Its just not possible. And what issues? Water issues? We can either drink the water and continue living or we can drink so little that the water will eventually start flooding all the lands we have.

  • @nratj5
    @nratj5 Před 2 lety +1

    My teacher also asked to watch this for class

  • @dr.mahwishfatima-gynecolog8992

    anybody else whose teacher said to watch this ? basically a kid

  • @wh0tfisgulnihal
    @wh0tfisgulnihal Před 2 lety

    im here cuz i will use it in my erasmus project

  • @denisewalenczak1280
    @denisewalenczak1280 Před 3 měsíci

    Hi, folks! Does anyone have the transcipt of the video?

  • @KoPT01
    @KoPT01 Před 14 lety

    How about instead of each person using less water, we just have less people on earth?

  • @aeonflux67
    @aeonflux67 Před 14 lety

    @opti95 if the world is uninhabited then we wont have to worry about malnutrition and over heating will we if you apply basic logic.

  • @batchimegdavaa
    @batchimegdavaa Před 4 měsíci

    PLEASE TELL ME BACKGROUND MUSIC NAME OR LINK

  • @joey1364
    @joey1364 Před 14 lety +2

    @rapidrainy your right but buisinessmen will never think of anything but money

  • @PSTRIPPLEE
    @PSTRIPPLEE Před 14 lety +2

    @soulflower84 Thats for them selfs to deal with right? i dont no why you even bother

  • @Th3KL
    @Th3KL Před 14 lety

    aint there a way to purify the salt water/?!!

  • @kratz57x
    @kratz57x Před 4 lety

    I'm no scientist so there's something I don't understand. Unless water is leaking into outer space, there is as much water on earth as there has always been. The only variables are the water/ice/vapor percentages, how we use water (vs how long it takes to return into the environment), and how much water is "trapped" as a part of living beings. I completely agree pollution is a serious problem, but water "consumption" seems to be a constant recycling event. That leaves how many people (and the water they are made of) can the planet sustain.

    • @Frankbug
      @Frankbug Před 4 lety

      We have a very limited supply of usable fresh water... most people in the world do not have access to clean tap water. I am lucky enough to live in a rich country and we have water cleaning plants, but it's really not the norm. A lot of regions are getting dryer and suffering huge droughts (California, Southern Europe...) because of warming temperatures. I guess you are right, the amount of water around should be the same, but ground water and rivers are drying out in a lot of places. What remains is getting spoiled and polluted. Desalinization is an idea, but very costly. There is a water emergency for a lot of people. Look up what's happening in South Africa for instance. :) I think conserving water is thus critical, let's not take it for granted because we live in a place where it flows from taps in our homes.

    • @kratz57x
      @kratz57x Před 4 lety

      @@Frankbug I agree with your premise, there are areas that have extreme water shortages. But unless someone's bottling and exporting water from South Africa, I don't see how consumption half way around the planet is effecting them. I'm not discounting the importance of water conservation by everyone, but I don't see it as a global solution.

  • @saw141
    @saw141 Před 14 lety +3

    I love how everyone is talking in a soft voice with the nice music and HD shots of random crap and whenever it shows someone they fade in and out to a cheesy picture XD. It's so sterotypical