What happens when our water dries up? | DW Documentary
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- Climate change is causing rising temperatures, extreme weather events and more and more drought. And, in this changing reality, everyone needs more water. Humans are competing with the natural world for water. What does this mean for biodiversity?
Fewer and fewer countries still have an abundance of water. The climate crisis, overpopulation and overexploitation are the root of this global problem. And, in a warming world, everyone is using more water: people, agriculture and industry.
In Germany, streams and ponds are disappearing, forests and soils are drying out. What does this mean for biodiversity? And how do people cope with drought in countries that have even less water -- for example, in the USA or Mexico? What happens when our water dries up?
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Things like these should be on front pages.
I noticed the first reports in 2012 that national water shortages were possible in the future with exploitation of groundwater resources and that rainfall was decreasing in California, India and other countries. No mentioning of Europe then. So we were warned that this would be a problem within the next 5 years. So now we are in the middle of it, guess those politicians just realizing we have a problem now, have not been doing their job the past decade.
problem with humans is that this is not fun or entertaining, therefore no one would buy this therefore no income therefore no one makes this in front page. We are wretched species and most of us are not intelligent enough to understand this, then there is greed and pride and "you ow me a favour" and all the other political bullshit. If we made trend about this it would gain some traction, but then again it would be turned around for the benefit of the person again because it is in our genes to compete and destroy and be greedy shits.
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They are on the front pages. That's why Europeans live in some dystopian world where they feel compelled to save all of us from some bogey we can't see.
We, the Third World. Like Germany of late, we too are starting plenty of coal power plants. So please set an example, this winter do without heating. Save Us please.
The solution to prevent the new ice age and droughts is so easy:
We create desalination installations at the sea. The brine we dump deep in the ocean, so salinity will cause the gulf movements to not seize.
The fresh water is pumped to the mountain ranges where collector rivers / bassins get filled 365 days per year.
End of the consequences of climate change..
DW has now clearly replaced the BBC as the worlds most important and useful journalistic company, some of these doc series need to be shown in schools
By world of course you mean European. White Supremacists all around.
Are you affiliated with DW in any way?
I most certainly agree!
Both are affiliated imperialistic NVO medias.
..oh by far..bbc is still ok..but DW is clearly better..
DW gets it. The Colorado River is nearly gone and this is a huge crisis. It's shocking that they're talking about this more in Germany than we are here in the states. People are literally walking to the edge of a cliff with a blindfold on and just trusting government to tell them when to stop.
It's only a crisis if you think the human race is worthy of being here.
Don't Look Up
Almost every area has occasional droughts, Europe currently has their own problems, we are behind many of our problems, but solutions are often possible if proactive enough.
@@assertivekarma1909 you do know to reverse drought like that would take minimum of 30-50 years if lucky but more like 70 years?? US government is extremely corrupt more than you can ever imagine. It’s more of corporate greed and whoever has money has says even if they are completely wrong. You know capitalism? The worst to the environment and peoples health. More a country becomes like the US more peoples health would decline due to capitalism. Further away a country to capitalism more humans are being saved. Seriously. America doesn’t care anything about environment, you know some senators even endorsing coal mining making billions. Look them up, how corrupt they are, while the US is the second most polluting nation in the world. Guess what who is number one polluter? China of course. Capitalism should be abolished.
Easy to do, they've either got a bag over their heads or are up for keeping their heads in the sand!
DW is a great source. You are producing documentaries that are of good quality, something the BBC used to do . I'm a Brit and have subscribed to DW as its shows are the best. Also like your English language news station.
Indeed, DW seems to be tackling tougher investigations and producing deeper documentaries than anything available in the USA as well.
No question DW is the go too.
Wonderful. DW should get the Oscar. The title could be, " The Dystopian Deluded World We Live in. We Sinners."
Same here. I switched to DW for global news a good while ago as they seem largely free from obvious bias, something the BBC lost a few years ago. I'm generally very disappointed by UK print media and the TV is virtually unwatchable due to the obvious gaslighting...
The solution to prevent the new ice age and droughts is so easy:
We create desalination installations at the sea. The brine we dump deep in the ocean, so salinity will cause the gulf movements to not seize.
The fresh water is pumped to the mountain ranges where collector rivers / bassins get filled 365 days per year.
End of the consequences of climate change..
I'm from a country with almost no information about environmental topics so these DW films are really appreciated
Where is that? 😕
Which cuntry is that?
Is that China?
@@thucaoinh8451 Must be. Or else Russia or North Korea.
I’m from america and these DW films are the best source of public information available
The Salton Sea is not supposed to be there. It was one of our “happy accidents.” It is simply going back to its original state.
It is important to point out that Mexico City wasnt just built 'around' where lakes used to be. It is literally built ON a lake! Obviously pumping the water under you will cause massive sinking ... Ground sinking and Mexico City is in its own league, there are very few places in the world like it, this example is a hyperbole.
You might want to go there and say that to the millions of people whose lives are being disrupted. However, even if one accepts that this is an extreme case, the many other examples in this program that clearly demonstrate the point - that we are passing tipping points that will cause massive negative impacts to our eco system and the life that inhabits it - including our own. Given that the Pentagon has for several of its most recent reports, suggested that the challenges of climate change pose the greatest threat to world peace and security, I think the point is valid.
The sinkholes appearing in places that depend on permafrost are another example.
A thing you take for granted. Tap water.
I feel sorry for all the people that live without it. This world gone crazy.
Is being poor , has become a mortal peril?
They did that with the Salton Sea too. The Salton Sea is dying because it isn't a natural lake and we are letting it die. Of course a lake that was comprised of spilled water in the middle of the desert is going to dry up faster than naturally-occurring lakes.
This documentary appears to be the summary of the original 3-part swr documentary “Durst - Kampf um Wasser.” Glad that DW has an English version as it’s vital to spread the information to ad many people as possible.
there is also a spanish version on DW which i just completed, just to practice my spanish listening and and learn more about this crisis
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I notice that in all the discussions and documentaries on water shortage, there is a constant, almost sacrosanct, reference to "drinking water". But I think we should ask ourselves how much 'drinking water' is actually used for people to drink. Given that people urinate frequently into two litres of "drinking" water, then flush it away with another 8 litres of prime quality "drinking" water, there is a lot of room for questioning our use of so-called "drinking" water. There is an urgent need for real public debate about how we use water and how we differentiate the various uses and different qualities of water. Experience shows that during drought periods, many people are open to modifying their habits, but as soon as it rains again, they seem to revert back to their old ones.
Drinking water is water that is suitable for human consumption. Most of the water on the planet is salt water, fresh water it is just a minor fraction, and drinking water is even less. The thing is that we use drinking water for many purposes than don't require it (like washing a car or toilets), but our society and homes have been built using drinking water for everything. We could save alot of drinking water if using non drinking water to wash cars, watering plants, and so on. In the long run, we need to use desalination technology to get drinking water, as salt water is unlikely to disappear.
@@davidlguerr I agree with you and I always use a dry composting toilet and even my visitors toilet has a washbasin that empties into the flush tank. Things that are so easy to incorporate into our daily lives.
Washing a car with 'drinking grade' water? I couldn't even imagine such a thing!
I'd like to think that seawater is forever, but we are also hearing of maritime heatwaves that are causing concern, but as you say, we are beginning to see more interest in desalination (though watch out for the energy input!)
Drinking water isn't the problem. Industrial and agricultural water use is.
You wanna talk about flushing toilet?! You know when we had drought first thing government did was to close
swimming pools. Yeah we don’t need those. Go to ocean and lakes to swim. No need for bath, quick shower. And don’t keep running shower I know everyone in America who does that. Btw, flushing toilet is not the same water as the drinking water. Pipes are different and it goes to different treatment facilities and different path.
It would depend on your own country policy on what constitute drinking water and its use.
Some countries treated waste water to be turn into portable water. Safe to use to flush the toilet BUT not meant for drinking. Cleaning and watering the public parks and or cleaning the streets, etc.
9:00 the people are being blamed for taking drinking water from the ground, when 95% of water is used by industrial production and intensive farming. Why blame citizens for wanting water to live?
Because it is those citizens who form the society consuming meat, dairy, eggs, demanding fuel and fast fashion- all main reasons for water usage and wastage. And that is not the 'water to live'. There's alternatives, i.e. plant based diet (easiest and most effective way to impact), not flying, reducing and upcycling.
Ask yourself- are you personally prepared to switch to a plant based diet?
If you're looking for excuses (i.e. blaming government or industries), you are a typical representative of your society and species. You all care about own convenience, are selfish and want somebody else to be responsible.
Some facts below:
- Animal agriculture is using 80-90% of ALL water in the US
- 5% of water consumed in the US is by private homes. 55% of water consumed in the US is for animal agriculture
- Growing feed crops for livestock consumes 56% of water in the US
- 2,500 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 pound of beef
- 1,000 gallons of water are required to produce 1 gallon of milk
- 477 gallons of water are required to produce 1lb. of eggs; almost 900 gallons of water are needed for 1lb. of cheese
- Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, deforestation (91% of Amazon destruction) and habitat destruction
- For every 1 pound of fish caught, up to 5 pounds of unintended marine species are caught and discarded as by-kill
- Scientists estimate as many as 650,000 whales, dolphins and seals are killed every year by fishing vessels
- Ten thousand years ago, 99% of biomass (i.e. zoomass) was wild animals. Today, humans and the animals that we raise as food make up 98% of the zoomass
- We are currently growing enough food to feed 10 billion people. It's enough if we switch to plant-based system (very convenient and available in all western countries, and largely available in its healthier version in the east; only exception are the countries with problems of starvation- and by the way, it is the very consumption described above that is pushing them into poverty even deeper).
@@dorotakarasek2777 Youre not proving anything, beef is not produced by me, I don't even eat beef, but money eating companies still do it.it's for your rich boss who wants new boots or a nice stake for dinner.
@@wizaaeed This is not my opinion, this is science actually. Perhaps you do not eat cows, but you may consume/ use other animal products or do any other things I mentioned- and so is the majority of the society. Rich people are a tiny percentage so this would not create such an eco catastrophy if it was just them (it would be still unethical and cruel to animals, but would have far less impact on the environment).
The law of demand and supply. If there's no demand, no company would carry on producing at a loss.
@@dorotakarasek2777 « 10 billion people » That`s the problem ! .
Here in Africa the situation is horrible, people are already migrating because of lack of water and extreme temperatures.
Our planet earth is literally being destroyed and very few people are aware of the situation it is on.
I think the main problem most of these people have is ideological subversion and incomplete education. Hopefully they don’t allow the govt to solve a problem that they’re responsible for or just deploying propaganda and psychological operations against the population for political and financial benefit. They need to get some Russian gas burning so all them plants and trees can go green because they’re on track to go blue this winter after dieing of frostbite. Better keep a nice hot fire going with whatever govt buildings or corrupt politicians homes look best in the climate change emergency.
So true. It's freezing cold in Cape Town which is not normal.
@@labourlawact7826 Winter?...Even Dirtbin is cold..
@@catatonicable Yep, it's much colder here this winter than normal. Dirtbin is a very good description of that place. My absolute least favourite city in South Africa.
@@labourlawact7826 Ya, anc fekks everything up...
The sheer amount of DW documentaries that have been released is amazing. I'm impressed.
Its propaganda again
And most of them are mainstream/biased/lying.. baloney
@@TommyTCGT Which bit of this one was lies?
Very good doc, I'm a chick forest technician from Montreal, grad from '87, majored in Sylviculture, left my career over disgust of how things were done with no regard for forest proper management, no point in my being there!
The solution to prevent the new ice age and droughts is so easy:
We create desalination installations at the sea. The brine we dump deep in the ocean, so salinity will cause the gulf movements to not seize.
The fresh water is pumped to the mountain ranges where collector rivers / bassins get filled 365 days per year.
End of the consequences of climate change..
What is sylviculture? The study of forests?
@@swannoir7949 'the growing and cultivation of trees'
@@pt7181 thank you. I just increased in knowledge.
Get back out there and use your training to make a difference - don't give up so easily!
Another excellent documentary DW. Thank you very much for putting in the time to provide us this comprehensive report. It’s incredible really how quickly droughts in the UK, Germany and Massachusetts, places I have always thought of as “neon” green and full of water, not to mention other unique areas of the world, became front page articles on my daily newsfeeds. Incredible how quickly all of this is happening and the extent.
Thanks for watching.
In New Jersey USA, after 3 years of heavy rains and good snow fall, we began a early drought warning after only 8 weeks of no rain. Seems hard to believe until you understand what DW is saying.
I’m in Massachusetts, western, and never seen the rivers this low.
@@lisecsheehan I thought it worse several Summers ago, more brown grass. I've always seen the river scary high! (I live in Hadley by the CT river). We got even less precipitation that Summer than this one, I can't think of which year it was but it stands out as scary. Natural cycles mixed with human depressed exhaust & anxiety over our world & future, that's my two cents. An I'm educated. The world has been a snow ball before, it has always changed & transformed. Why people think this shouldn't be just because we happen to be here is beyond my comprehension. They clearly don't have education of the globes phases of Earth evolution. Some periods are not as abundant as others, and the world is becoming less habitable for us but that's a sign of our times & our own coming to a fruition, and eventually an end. Maybe rather than a flood we'll get a dry earth or burning scorched planet, it's gone through various stages throughout years we can't fathom. The movie "Water Babies" comes to my mind, I lived in Arizona and grew up between Chicopee MA & Van Nuys CA and nowhere nor is anything as good as it once was and rate of decline is only excellerating, enjoy each moment & realize every people on this planet faced horrors & hardship and extraordinary difficulties for survival. Think of how life was before fire had been discovered. We're running out of everything, the idea is how to create or find more to sustain life on this fragile planet. One thing that's remained consistent with man is he is destructive! We've confused the earth but it too has its only evolution to go through and it may not always be ideal conditions for our existence.
I hate to disappoint everybody's excitement about Massachusetts but I've lived here all my life (67 years) and the drought we are experiencing here is no worse than those in the past. Every thing is nice and green in the western part of the state. I have seen the rivers this low many times in the past here. Feel free to worry though and feel afraid for us if you'd like.
"We need immediate political action. If we do nothing we will have massive problems."
Well, I think we better get ready for massive problems....
Agreed, but if anyone dares to do it, it takes corporations profits away and the vast majority of votes, most people are dumb as fuck, and imagine that there are people worse than that.
Already here!
Start planting trees and create forest . Thats the only solution
replant hedgerows round smaller fields to offer shade and the drying out effect of wind...that would reduce evaporation
What can I as an individual do to help
It doesn't take dry climate to see that mismanagement of groundwater resources for public uses can be felt. See Jakarta a tropical city with decent rainfall all year round. It's also where nearly half of the city is below sea level due to the same issue.
I’m Australian. We had a decade long drought that only broke in the last few years and now I have never seen the SE of Australia this wet. I can’t remember this much water
I think that drought was mainly on television like these climate emergencies.
@@teddykiefer6432 I wish they where just on television. Unfortunately, their are also real outside of the house. I drove from Germany to the Netherlands, all the rivers I came across have literally run dry. Very visibly. It's bad, real bad.
The rise in Solar activity is the reason. there is a water evaporation paradox that works in a contrary manner to solar activity. The gasbags of the climate panic industry are now looking WORRIED
The more bore holes you have for industry the less you have for streams and rivers
Boycott waterhole thugs. They take the water and then bottle it to slake our thirst and ALSO contribute a plastic bottle menace.
DW sure has a lot of specials of about water shortage this month! Obviously it is something that can bring a country to its knees very fast and it is getting worse on all continents every year, so please continue to raise awareness.
The solution to prevent the new ice age and droughts is so easy:
We create desalination installations at the sea. The brine we dump deep in the ocean, so salinity will cause the gulf movements to not seize.
The fresh water is pumped to the mountain ranges where collector rivers / bassins get filled 365 days per year.
End of the consequences of climate change..
@@s.m.1354 The North Atlantic Thermohaline cycle alone transports 35 to 45 million cubic meters per second. The higher salt concentration from evaporation and later freezing of the surface water when it reaches the polar regions also means that the water has been cooled and delivered heat to Northern Europe, So increased salinity is only one of 3 crucial processes happening there and the scale of it is insane to imagine being done by an industrial process.
@@Tore_Lund now tell me the combined throughputs of fresh water of the rivers in Europe at max capacity and at minimum level for having zero problems in stead of calling something impossible.
@@s.m.1354 The energy needed to desalinate that amount of water is the problem, besides the cost of the installation. The most energy efficient desalination process requires 3kWh per M3 freshwater! Salinity in the North Atlantic is 1 part per thousand more than the South Atlantic, so that is 35g of salt removed from every M3, so that is around 15 million M3 that needs to go through your desalination plant every second producing 10 million M3 freshwater, and that will consume 30GWh every second or 2592 TWh per day! World energy production is currently 62 TWh per day, so you need 40 times as much energy as the world currently is producing for your genius idea to solve global warming! Numbers make the difference between crackpot theories and science.
@@Tore_Lund thank you very much for this information. We agree on one part, humans generate this amount of energy per day. The sun however gets the energy here everyday to allow this natural process to function everyday.
I consider your information very much.
There are chemical processes too.
We can increase salinity of the water transported to the mountains and let the limestone of the mountains do the rest.
When I see an obstacle, I will drive around the obstacle. This is a problem not just we are facing, but our children too.
So what other solutions do you have?
We can not allow Europe to turn into an desert, not just for Europe, but for all people on the planet.
My 💚 aches…man is the worst specie on this beautiful planet…why? Bravo DW for the amazing journalism, documentaries🙏🏻💚🌎🌱 ✨
Thank you, DW
@@maryannmacmurray4279 Yes, thank you DW for making more misanthropes! Keep washing these weak minds.
Watching this, one would think the end is near.
This and the food shortages are what should be talked about on mainstream media. Everywhere. We need to work and care for each other all over this globe
This should be shown around the clock around the world so that more people start conserving fresh water! Even supposedly "little" things like no longer washing cars with fresh water, deciding to not install pool, and many more actions can help to alleviate the water crisis.
The famous Marlon Brando ones said, without drinking water there's no life. And a man could not even flash his toilet.
conserving? Our only hope was to stop global warming. Look what happened to Mars! There is no conserving that will help, water evaporates.
in the 70s I knew we would run out and chose not to have children.
The most complicated things are going to be very simple. Rainwater can be stored in underground water tanks, than filtrated from small trash and connected to toilets, washing machines etc. But really, the clock is ticking
Water tab with sensors so it cuts the water automatically when you don't need it. I will install this in my home soon as possible.
..... and yet most of the people I see want things to "go back to normal". Tragic. Thank you DW for hammering away at this message.
The solution to prevent the new ice age and droughts is so easy:
We create desalination installations at the sea. The brine we dump deep in the ocean, so salinity will cause the gulf movements to not seize.
The fresh water is pumped to the mountain ranges where collector rivers / bassins get filled 365 days per year.
End of the consequences of climate change..
@@s.m.1354 Yep and there are lots of other things we can do at the same time like stormwater catchment and redistribution to bioremediation sites/upland ponds. The ponds have to be small enough to be shaded ~70% within a few years of establishment - not only can we tailor these ponds to increase the ecological and economic potential of the surrounding land, but we create remote bastions/oases of water that can be drawn upon during fire. I am thinking within the context of my locale but this might not pan out everywhere. Desal is awesome as long as it is low carbon footprint or offset somehow.
@@hhwippedcream good points friend. In California I have seen black plastic balls floating on reservoirs providing shade to have less evaporation.
I have designed already a new contraption that wil also help us.
We need to wake up everyone.
We need to work together on this even with the Chinese and the Russians.
The Russians already know what dried out lakes are.
We will share our technologies, but every participant is not allowed to create dust, by for example being in a war…:)
indeed. Don't be fooled by the World Economic Forum's agenda. Please, wake up. These crisis are made up so they can grasp more control over everyone and everything.
@@juanburioni9454which agenda is that, and why/who/how are they seeking control? Where does the money stop? i am very uneducated in economic politics but can see through flashy technology dependent on politically sensitive mineral resources.... Sounds familiar? Like petroleum? Should we do this dog and pony show, or move on? Unless there is a massive cultural shift away from this mentality the future will be decided in policy by people with little grasp of folks everyday lives and by those who have luxury bug out bunkers in New zealand.
Maybe DW could explore and put out a documentary about how regenerative agriculture is the answer to growing our food with way less water.
People see the Titanic sinking and think oh wow the music could help. With the all sorts of problems we are creating, regenerative agriculture is the music on the titanic.
It's a start. Maybe it will inspire someone to try a different way of life.
What it always surprising to me, is how late people finally become aware that such things will affect them too...most are still going on, living in their private ''bubble'', still thinking that they will get to achieve whatever they set out to achieve...how many understand that they have done nothing to protect their Future ?
An informative, helpful, and learning documentary!
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A 'learning' documentary.... Hmm, i wonder what it 'learned'.
The solution to prevent the new ice age and droughts is so easy:
We create desalination installations at the sea. The brine we dump deep in the ocean, so salinity will cause the gulf movements to not seize.
The fresh water is pumped to the mountain ranges where collector rivers / bassins get filled 365 days per year.
End of the consequences of climate change..
It is sad to see Germany and its forests in distress. I loved the forests and streams when I lived there. We knew this problem was coming when I graduated university in 1970. And we really haven't started doing anything yet. I wonder what some future intelligent life will think?
Exactly is the mountains or forest who creates moisture and rain . In sweden we dont have mountains but the country is covered 95% of forest and we have alot of rain and lakes. If u cut down all trees and no forest water will be gone
German forests are being chopped to make space for windmills. Green energy! That's what we all want, no? ;)
@@Spiritualwarfare587 95% not possible. wet lands are even more important then forest. wet lands.
@Ronald Smallwood. If there is a future generation, should this continue.😯
Nothing. Or something like: 'oh sad'.
Very arrogant to think a future intelligence would care.
I remember having to trek some 10miles just to go fetch water whilst living in Nigeria. Fast forward to several years of living in America, I would always harass my younger ones for leaving the faucet running whilst doing dishes or cooking. Or brushing their teeth. They never understood why, even after explaining to them that somewhere right now, some kid is having to journey for miles everyday just to get drinking water!
Never seen a country so wasteful with water like America!
I can assure you, when the fight for water begins, it gets very rough and deadly!
I agree. I watch documentaries and obviously can't imagine even walking anywhere to get water. If it's only me at home and I just pee, I don't flush the toilet. I should bring water up from dehumidifier. I use it to flush toilet in basement. I could put a pan in sink when washing hands ,etc. Take care
Ditto when the fighting for food begins.
The solution to prevent the new ice age and droughts is so easy:
We create desalination installations at the sea. The brine we dump deep in the ocean, so salinity will cause the gulf movements to not seize.
The fresh water is pumped to the mountain ranges where collector rivers / bassins get filled 365 days per year.
End of the consequences of climate change..
You're not wrong. I used work to sanitation in an ice cream factory. Every night we would spray the machines down with high pressure hot water for 3 - 4 hours. Insane how much water we wasted. Just one small factory. We Americans waste better than anybody.
@@donnalawrence8593 I don't flush every time I pee, either. And I turn the water off when brushing my teeth. In the shower, I turn it off when lathering. I've come to appreciate water when I began being charged by the gallon, but comments such as yours drilled the importance of water conversation. I also collect rain water to to water my plants. Every little bit helps.
Please make a video about regenerative agriculture- its the answer to this problem!
We have a lot of waste in the Western US. The average per person use is 100 gallons. Once I got rid of my English front lawn, and conserved, I was able to lower my usage down to 10 gallon per day.
As usual, excellent.
Another interesting topic
1. There is not "Climate Change".
2. Epstein didn't kill himself.
3. There are only two genders.
4. Sex and gender are exactly the same thing.
Love your documents it's too bad we don't have something like this in the US to make people more aware of the facts
If someone in the US tried to make this documentary, they would be hounded by the climate change deniers and be accused of fearmongering.
Most major U.S. media are on Twitter and Facebook, so you can do what I do and share these videos with them. The more of us that do, the more impact we'll have!
Ecosia 👍🌱🌳
@@blank.9301 Doesn't do shit. People just use it to appease their guilty conscience. And makes them keep on consuming as always, believing that a search engine that claims to plant trees will offset the damage their lifestyle does. It's greenwashing for many people.
Usa has Truth Media by an criminal n republican. Worthless propaganda
Thanks DW. The plain unvarnished facts in this documentary. Water shortage, it's almost in every country on earth from Australia and New Zealand to Northern Europe, Africa, India, China and Asia and the Americas. It's everywhere. The summation of the documentary is particularly apposite. Thanks again DW
AS I type Mexico is building a gynormous oil refinery in south west of country. You might remember the huge oil fields discovered only five decades ago. Nearly all gone.
Another Excellent documentary by DW 👍 regarding the water crisis.Thank you DW for highlighting such important topics which needs urgent attention by the global community.
There is no water crisis. There are places with a lot of it and places with not so much and people have always had to pay attention to that and move their settlements whenever necessary. If being in Death Valley constitutes a "water crisis", I think folk need to stop they're nonsense. Getting access to water is easy, but that's down to having a will to do the necessary work. I'm not and will never willingly accept being in a global "community". That's Communism by any other name. You can keep it! These pages seem riddled with brainwashed Change Agents.
I believe DW is a grate and give a right information thank you 🙏
We don't need clean air & water, we have huge profits! Rich people don't suffer from air pollution & droughts 🙄
Here in CaliforniaUSA I get best news from DW
This is happening on a scale that I think exceeds most people's capacity to grasp. That alone may prevent us to have a paradigm change as to how we use water and relate to and take our place in the ecosystem.
Its already too late, we're terraforming this planet to make it unlivable for a majority of people. To think it's not intentional at this point is delusional. There is in interest to destabilize mainstream society.
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Those with an interest are already aware, not many of us!
Very good dw information
The Colorado River has been abused by the 7 States who, 100 years ago, agreed to share it's supply. The excessive over consumption outweighs the river's natural supply. Add a couple of drought years and you're left with this debacle. Don't blame the climate, blame wasteful man.
All water problems can be handled, with today's technology, if we humans decide to do that, instead of going to war with each other.
@@gagarinone Ahh! And I though war was technological advancement yo were going to propose.... After all less people = more water, am I right?
Some countries will run out of water (well before) in others... This is very visible. The solution has been around for over 40 years, and nothing has been done or will be, because there is a huge greed for money, we all have our share of blame. Oil, Livestock, Agriculture, Rich and Poor all suffered from a lack of (Drinking) water.
It's because certain countries like to breed like rabbits. Stop procreating so fucking much and our problems would be solved. Oh and - no - you don't need that useless shit from walmart. That's the other problem.
Without modern agriculture many millions, maybe billions will starve... Population growth is the big pink elephant in the room.
@@assertivekarma1909 modern agriculture= over population
@@world-karma9127 my karma brother!... I suppose it's a chicken & egg question. We don't want people starving & suffering, but unfortunately some people seem inclined to have more children when subsidized with food, exasperating the problem down the road... It's tricky, but population issues need to be discussed more rationally on a larger scale. Letting dysfunctional overpopulated cultures offload people via migration & "refugee" status also is problematic.
@@assertivekarma1909
most of those refugees are used like slave labor in the countries they arrive to,
Pro immigration politicians pretend that they are helping people but actually they are helping corporations to put their hands on cheap labor rather than trying to build poor countries into functional societies
You are such a great source DW. Keep impacting. 💓💓
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This is so worrisome and how sad that's it not on main news!
Humans need to cut down on the amount of water used by industry... We need to reduce industrial use by 50% so that forests have water for the plants and animals to drink.
that aint the problem, the problem is the lack of forests and endemic species. Soils cannot retain water and become even more dryer, its a cicle we have to break.
The first and easiest thing to do is limit animal agriculture. Everybody knows it.
@@stan8926 Nope. The 2 highest polluters of water are the petrochemical companies and the textile companies... we need to get off of cheap fuel and cheap clothes.
@@redcap2k the forests and grasslands are dying from lack of water all across the world.
@@catherineleslie-faye4302 Actually they are not. Forest cover has been increasing for years.
Are you doing propaganda for climate change or what?
Let‘s face it, even in prosperous countries that have long started to react in light of what‘s coming, things are going to get ugly really fast.
At the very root of this is a cruel truth: nature doesn‘t tolerate excess. And we‘re about to see a correction of epic proportions.
Truth
Informative Documentary.
We all need to do our bit to save water.
DW👍World needs this !
I ❤️ DW documentaries they are ground breaking! But the grounds already broken with the cracks from the drought 🙄🤔🙏
Will we ever learn to live with nature? It’s so heartbreaking to see how humans are killing the earth.
We are not killing the earth we are killing ourselves. Earth will correct itself after the catastrophic existence of modern human behaviour. We will suffer immeasurably untill that time comes. Nature will return to it's natural balance .we are unfortunately victims of our own consequences.
Such hyperbole... There is no such thing as killing the earth ffs.
@@chaosengine3772 I think she means killing life on Earth as we know it.
Great video. I live in the forest in Northern California and over the last 30 years, I have watched streams, creeks, rivers and lakes, just dry up. The creeks look like foot trails and many people don't even know that there's supposed to be water running there. Truckie River, that runs through downtown Reno is so shallow, we can walk across it. When I was a kid, we would inner tube or raft through downtown. In Laughlin/Bullhead City, has the Colorado, between them. It used to take a ferry to get across. Now, we can walk across. It's all happening so quickly! I'm afraid we are past all "Tipping Points".
Everything is definitely connected! If only we would comprehend that n operate with logic sense n understanding....thanks for video...full of info.
Has DW changed a lot in the past few years? I only became aware of the value of European news because of the Ukraine war (other than the BBC) and I feel like the conflict has brought in a lot of international English language viewers. People seem to be surprised at the quality of the content (although if you had told me there was a high-quality German public news agency I wouldn't have been surprised) - I'm curious if this is because of a new approach, new relevant issues, or if the burgeoning quality started before my perceived increase in resources?
I wouldn't say it has changed a lot. The style of documentary and it's quality is very similar to many other German public broadcast documentaries. What might have changed is that the public broadcast channels seem to have been given a new direction to upload more on CZcams, so that it's easily accessible (for example as a German you don't even need to have CZcams Premium to download the videos directly on CZcams). This might also mean that back in the day they didn't upload everything, while now I bet CZcams is one of the primary things they have in mind when producing these documentaries
Building on clay soil is a specialist job , the property must be build on a floating concrete platform , this allows for shrinkage and expansion of clay soil during wet or dry conditions , clay soil has vast movement during wet or dry periods . Historical facts good builders / architects have always known about .
Not exactly a climate change emergency or a warning that the planet has 10 yrs to be saved by as much destruction as the ideological subversion and propaganda can help make them only able to worry and fear pandemics and sudden planetary spontaneous combustion. They won’t be doing much activism or organizing then and shouldn’t ever be as thirsty or active as just a few years before.
Thank you DW for great work telling people about the threat.
Desalination plants set-up can be a good option right now, before its too late..
Knowing the reality of the negativity is needed. We need to know, yes. But we also need to see people doing something helpful.
If there's no one doing anything helpful then there's no point in anyone knowing what's going on in the world anyway.
People who watch DW have a deep understanding of terribleness. It's very hard to find any talk of anything useful being done about the terrible news. A focus on that kind of news would be helpful and would get my views
Every new episode of bad news is one I've been expecting to see for a long time. Now all I can expect is awfulness beyond what I can cope with. So it would be nice to see anyone doing something genuinely needed and helpful, other than talking about the bad news. Which yes, is important too. But balance.
I want to know what can and will and is being done in the spirit of averting the worst disasters we all expect. You can find those people. Even attempting to change the trajectory to our future to being *slightly * better... seeing that would mean a lot. Focusing our attention on that is important. There's no point in knowing what's coming if we're not trying to make it better.
Changing that trajectory requires having the right person with the right skills do the right thing at the right time. As reporters you can find those people
It'll be hard to 'fix' this unless as many people as possible understand the full gravity of the situation. That said, I don't see a whole lot of solutions being offered up. When you sit and think about it, we really don't require all that much water as individuals to survive, but we are spoiled by what (we thought) was an abundance of an infinite resource. I live in a desert. Why are we flushing away drinking water instead of using composting commodes? Why do we send our laundry water down the drain when our trees would happily lap it up? Same with our bath water. On a thread from another video a thoughtful person said that our wastewater treatment plants were designed for large volumes of sewage. Maybe that's the problem. Government never foresaw the water shortages many of us knew were coming decades ago. Gosh, wouldn't it be great to have honest and open conversations to find solutions?
To begin with, just like so many of us, do what you know you have to do. Don't wait for "others"
@@tiffanym4202 All water problems can be handled, with today's technology, if we humans decide to do that, instead of going to war with each other.
This climate change is not the worst thing we humans have experienced. Check out other excellent documentaries on "Doggerland" found here on CZcams.
12,000 years ago, the sea level was 120 meters lower than today. There, one can speak of a sweeping climate change.
Please check out Randall Carlson's CZcams channel. There you can learn about past and much worse climate changes, and possible solutions to todays climate changes..
@@gagarinone will do
@@studyonline4763 i have gone on an intentional search for good news in the two weeks since i posted this comment. And i found an abundance! There seems to be solutions to everything.
except that now i think it's too late. My personal feelings have changed drastically in the past two days. I don't think that organised society has what it takes to prevent the collapse of the climate. We do, as individuals and small teams and even large organisations have the capacity to influence huge beneficial projects.
but it's too late. West Antarctica is on it's way out, and soon to follow will be the rest of the tipping points.
enjoy life and the beauty of the world while we still have it.
Your documentary makes me wiser everyday
Dumber by the minute if you rely on agitprop like this for wisdom.
Good info
In my area the propper use of swales ,preventing run off and building soil will prevent necessity of ground water. ..
Excellent documentary! Very sadly much of what is shown doesn't surprise me that much. People are ignoring the Climate Crisis and carrying on with life as they have known it, and using up unsustainable resources, with one of them being water. I am in Portugal where we have had serious to extreme drought for much of the year, accompanied by horrific wildfires in so many places, yet people still insist on washing their cars. Much of Portugal has very sandy soil, and amazingly pines and Cork Oak have until recently been growing well in these conditions, as well as the invasive Eucalyptus and Acacia trees. However, fires and drought are killing many trees, and so are diseases such as the Pine Wilt Nematode, which attacks both weakened and healthy trees. Many years back I remember reading about the potential desertification of Iberia. Today I feel like I am watching it in progress. I am a naturalist and worry about the effects all this is having on biodiversity. I wonder how amphibians, fish and freshwater aquatic life can survive when there is no water!
Stay delusional!
Native trees more shade trees on sides of road .
Use thirsty cement its normal cement but missing sand and lets water run through it so it increases groundwater levels and decrease flooding.
Thank you.
In Serbian village last year all houses "broke" as it was really hot and dry, you can clearly see it. Rivers that have never went dry are drying up. Drinking water has become expensive.
06:17 sums it up: over the past 50 years global animal populations have declined by an average of 68 percent and even though humans only make up 0.01 percent of earth's biomass we are responsible for almost all the negative impacts on everything else
I wonder if people become climate change deniers because it’s hard to admit that we’re all part of a problematic system
@@magesalmanac6424 I think greed overrides reason in most cases.
It’s crazy this doesn’t seem to get as much attention. When major water rationing starts, then they’ll care. It’s probably already too late
Here's what we will be hearing when water is seriously short, "Why didn't THEY do something?"
Doesn't help that govt's continue to muzzle scientists.
@@solarlight10 I wonder if it isn't more of a tortuous twist rather than a muzzle.
Politics + Science = Politics.
This is very concerning globally!
This is absolutely terrifying. Millions of creatures, insects, birds, fish, marine life depends on water. Humans have taken/destroyed so much and we will kill for it.
One of your best, if not the best, documentary you have provided on youtube. When I see and listen to all of the individuals who are trying to help us see the catastrophe coming, I amazed that almost half the U.S. population doesn't believe them.
B S
@@louiekidd251 What is B S?
@@MrMichiel1983 The Video is B S . There are always areas of drought. Lake Mead has been drained by the government. I live in California and we were being told that we were in a drought when our river was overflowing its banks.
@@louiekidd251 Well, an aquifer can be drained and earth so parched its water uptake can be reduced. The water that should have gone into the Earth then just spills across it causing flooding while not alleviating the drought in the long run. Also, your river might not compose the entire watershed that was considered to be in drought. I don't think that bad media coverage should be the data point to consider if climate change is real or not, right? Indeed there are always good times and bad times. The thing with climate change, however, is that statistically the bad times will become more prevalent.
What are the things that you consider false in the paradigm? For example, that CO2 causes a greenhouse effect? Or that temperatures have been measured to slowly rise?
Ultimately, solar plus storage is now cheaper than fossil fuels, so it doesn't matter anymore what people think about climate change. It economically makes more sense to start using carbon to build, instead to burn. Carbon will be decoupled from economic growth, and minerals like Lithium will be coupled to it. If we make sure the primal forests are not destroyed when attaining these deposits, it's more of an opportunity than anything else.
the whole planet will soon be a ball of fire.
we have lots of water here in sweden but in the last few years the summers have been brutal. winter used to start october. last 10 years it starts in january. 4 years ago i remember it being plus 15c on christmas day..scary what is gonna happen in the coming 50 years
Be afraiiiiiiid be very afraaaaiiiiiid lol
As a neighbor of your country I can say that we all Nordic countries are in crystal clear waters with water issues compared with almost any other country in the world. Cleanest tap waters in the world, no long dry seasons, no problems with underground water etc.
The issues are real but let's be honest, we Nordics have no right to complain when it comes down to climate change.
thank you for these warnings
So important. How can anything be more important?
I live next to a water bottling plant next to Bunnik, NL, where they upsell our groundwater for a 1000x the price. Also lot's of fresh water is used to drain to the sea ... we could redirect that better where it's needed.
same prob all over, ridiculous! love from Montreal!
I'm glad im in my early 50's, the world has changed so much in my lifetime and definitely not for the better.
NZ is a great place. ❤️ From your Aussie brothers/cousins. Check out ecosia 👍🌱🌳
great movie.
Aren't 40 million people drawing from the Colorado river? Not to mention irrigation...
It is rather obvious what is going to happen. What bothers me is that people act like everything is fine. I actually worry about animals most. Think about it, most mammals have fur, because they are adapted to an ice age. Evolution takes many generations for new adaptations. Sweating is a unique human ability for cooling, most animals are unable to remove heat. Finding water to cool in and stay hydrated is their only option - and I can just imagine the terror and confusion an animal might feel as they overheat, and can’t find water. After panic, I guess they would just give up and die. It is unforgivable what we are doing.
I'm with you 100%
All water problems can be handled, with today's technology, if we humans decide to do that, instead of going to war with each other.
This climate change is not the worst thing we humans have experienced. Check out other excellent documentaries on "Doggerland" found here on CZcams.
12,000 years ago, the sea level was 120 meters lower than today. There, one can speak of a sweeping climate change.
Just a thought or a few questions:
So, what are the rich and powerful (the political class) going to do, if the water reaches a critical point? Are they planning for it? What are some things they could do to ensure their long term survival?
Do they store any? What about C.O.G. and disaster preparedness for essential persons?
They'll send in their armies and steal whatever's left
Privatization of water sources, it's already being done. No need for storage, the price of bottled water will go up, and they will be able to afford it while others won't.
All people (the rich or poor)are political
The agenda of the NWO puts depopulation as a priority. Things are going according to plan. Bill Gates is buying up all the farm land. The middle class is almost gone. AI is here and the most wealthy only need 500 million human slaves to pamper them. Beware of any mass vaccination programs I would think.
Why do the captions not show with full screen? Super annoying. Otherwise, very informative.
This might be covered in the video but even before watching it saying "water... dries up' might be the experience in any locality, however the water cycle - evaporation, condensation to produce rain - continues.
With climate changing, as it does naturally, in cycles, the question is how to move it from where it falls to where people live, or how to have a more mobile world population following the rain fall. The other alternative is to provide alternative sources of water - desalination say - and for people to learn to live with a minimal amount rather than to assume there is an unlimited volume available where one lives.
We are a failed Species. 🦖☄️
Mother Nature will put us in our place, it’s only a matter of time.
Also, Africa making their own rain ( shooting something into the clouds and making them release rain) where they normally would not, is impacting the climate as well.
Don’t let others always tell us that we are the only problem. (Major corporations, governments playing God, etc) are also responsible.
Those are Europeans in Africa who don't realize that deserts are an intrinsic part of Nature.
Chemtrails are being sprayed in many parts of the world in order to control the climate. This disaster is man-made. Linden B Johnson said in the 60's "he who controls the weather, controls the world."
And that's the very talk that gets us in trouble. All people want to hear this and wash their hands off the responsibility. Don't blame the government and industries if you keep demanding animal products, cheap fast fashion and fuel. These are things that YOU, not the gov or industry is forcing. They only supply because you pay.
@@dorotakarasek2777 my facts are trouble? My degrees are in business management, I know the ins and outs of how businesses operate. Granted there is supply and demand, there’s also them cutting corners to make the extra dollars to provide for their share holders. More ppl today versus any other generation are more climate aware and climate responsible. No where in my post did I say it was just the major corporations and government but they provide a big factor in what is going on. If it be DuPont burying chemicals in the ground that leak into the local streams in WV, or the pesticides sprayed on weeds and growing vegetables to stop pest but yet it is causing cancer and killing honey bees by the masses. The pollution caused by product made in vast amounts across sea with no true laws to determine the chemicals produced into the environment to provide the products. You’re coming for the wrong one, pointing a finger at me, when you have not checked the reports provided for the main who and what causing climate change shows your not where you think you are mentally on this subject.
@@cac2821 Agreed, you never said that ONLY government/industry are to blame. I just didn't like the last part as people already look for someone to blame and are unwilling to change.
Your comment on where I am mentally is irrelevant, rude and unnecessary. You don't know me. Focus on the topic, not a person.
3 days wihout drinking water and you are in dire straits.
Ground water is like the water storage tank. We have to find the way to fill it so that we may use it in emergency situation.
Small changes set in motion by Milankovitch cycles operate separately and together to influence Earth’s climate over very long timespans, leading to larger changes in our climate over tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. Milankovitch combined the cycles to create a comprehensive mathematical model for calculating differences in solar radiation at various Earth latitudes along with corresponding surface temperatures. The model is sort of like a climate time machine: it can be run backward and forward to examine past and future climate conditions. We are now moving in the opposite direction of the cycle. Quite an achievement of us humans to break something that has created thousands of ice ages. We are witnessing the second fastest ELE in the history of this planet. And only once the earth heated faster. Things are not normal, they are unprecedented and might break the cycle, which will mean a runaway climate. Unstoppable continues global warming. If that doesn't scare you, then you are just connecting the dots in a way you want to see them. Probably because of political reasons instead of scientific.
Unlimited population growth,simple math
700 wild gorilla's left vs 8 billion humans,
Balance?
This is important
Viva DW 🔥👍
CO2 is not pollution. Plants take it in and release oxygen. It’s pumped into greenhouses to increase yields.
So depressing, no hope for us. 😭
No hope for us with the ignorant and arrogant decision makers we have had so far anyway. We need to get rid of them emediately and put in power people that are well educated in climate change elimination.
All water problems can be handled, with today's technology, if we humans decide to do that, instead of going to war with each other.
Please check out Randall Carlson's CZcams channel. There you will get a lot of positive inspiration.
For some reason the captions display in the middle of the screen instead of at the bottom. 🤔🤔
When the water is removed from aquifers and the ground sinks,spaces that used to be cavernous and porous collapse and can no longer store water even if the rains return.
71% of the earth is water and the last water problem I leaned about was rising sea levels because of melting ice. Humanity has the knowledge of different kinds of desalination processes.
Water desalination is highly energy intensive. It's not a viable solution to the fundamental problem.
@@freeffree4133 according to current technology
Desalination requires a lot of energy, energy that is most of the time, created with fossil fuels. And even if it isn't, I don't know of any energy source that doesn't have a negative impact on the environment.
@@assertivekarma1909 Yes, the problem is current.
That is the fundamental and unsolvable problem of humanity. We develop technology to correct a problem that the developing technology creates which creates a new problem for which we develop the next technology and so on until we are gone for good.
Over 3/4 of the Earth's surface is covered by water, maybe we should put our energy into processing salt water to fresh water, instead of processing oil to gas???
In other words, we're phucked!
Imagine if people actually starts to collect rainwater, trapping moisture and get their own water filter to recycle or even desalinate water that would be cool
Ideal, but what if it never rain, or what if the water is contaminated with toxics?