China's Water Crisis, Explained
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China is one of the largest countries in the world, with a population of over 1.4 Billion people. While China has a thriving economy, the country faces severe water scarcity that it worsening each year. The Chinese Government's efforts to put an end to the water crisis have not gone to plan, and have had devastating effects on the environment. Some of the largest projects include The Three Gorges Dam which opened in 2006.
The Chinese Government has invested over $60 Billion US Dollars into a project called the South North Water Transfer Project. The development has a goal of diverting water from the regions with large amounts of water in Southern China, to the drought plagued Northern Rivers. Although the project seems promising in Ending China's Water Crisis, its completion date of 2050 shows that it will not have immediate benefits to the water crisis.
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Im scared for our future. because insufficient planning for our future can create huge problems. Depletion of water and food are a far more dangerous thing then climate change.
Bro, we are developing in pseudo sustainable development.
Our future is going to be bul*shit!đąđ€
They kind of go hand in hand âŠ
@@ingvar1996 Pretty much.
I mean this is a regular cause of war for most people. my concern is we see a world war because of this.
Climate change is depleting water and food. You do know that high heat can kill people and ruin crops?
lol in Nigeria our government doesn't even know where we citizen are getting water, we dig wells mostly and government is like if you like drink or not, thats on you
how tf does that work with 200 million people? How many wells are in your country?
@@RK-cj4oc đđđ Lots that you can't count, you might as well visit some areas that have Wells to house in ratio 1:1. If you've money you can get a borehole for like $1500. But millions of citizens don't even make that in a year, if you have the money to even build a house, i mean house of a single room, non plastered, you'll even host a party just imagine that kind of person looking for money to get a borehole
@@samijay darn. Time to steal heavy machinery then and make those wells while nobody is looking hahaha.
I hope your water situation improves man. Nigeria is gonna be a very important country one day as long as normal folk keep slowly working towards a better future without corrupt politicians.
@@RK-cj4oc for us in Nigeria we've given up because you can't even change the corrupt politician through voting because that also has been corrupted. You just have to pray the incoming govt will be a lesser devil and I don't think the prayers have ever been answered because the current administration is always worst than the former. I'm sure the next one will be worst than this current one
@@RK-cj4oc and you can't steal heavy machinery, you're likely to goto jail if you steal $10 worth of Naira if you're unknown person than who stole billions of dollars if he's a popular figure.
The normal World rules is obsolete here, they don't work
As a Thai I hate the south north water project it's basically reallocating the water flows from the himilaya's to china unto itself without any consensus or cooperation to china's southern neighbors further exasperating droughts in countries from Pakistan to Vietnam
Too bad for you. We Chinese people need water more than you. We donât waste water on Songkran
They are very sinister in how they control the water flow. Itâs a wicked situation.
@@comment3711 We need water more than Thai people.
@@pimpdaddy7710 That is a telling argument if ever I heard one. That you donât have any compunction about saying it is quite interesting and also quite telling. I feel for âXinaâs neighbors. What a terrible thing to have to not only deal with your neighborâs pollution and supremacist attitude you also have to put up with their hostility and insane arrogance.
Whatâs the long term thinking here? Who will you turn to when the time comes that your country needs allies? It certainly wonât be your neighbors whoâs water you polluted and diverted and culture you looked down your nose upon.
@@comment3711 The water comes from China. Itâs our water.
Man i tought this was real life lore lmao, good luck man this content is lit
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One solution is to leach water back into the aquifer. All of these big cities cover their dirt with material like concrete that whisks the water away to some river that carries it even further away. This is one thing causing changes in local climate.
Aquifers have a tremendous benefit including keeping lakes full. Cities need to start capturing water every square mile in a deep well that allows the water to permeate back into the aquifer.
Here in Monterrey, MĂ©xico we have a water scarcity problem and seeing that China have the biggest dam in the world i'm gonna say what people say in the city i live in and it is that How useful is a new dam if there's no water to fill it? (context: the state goverment is building the "Presa Libertad" and people figure this questioning how a dam would help us)
I also live in Monterrey. Pretty sad to see the presa dried down.
@@awesomecat3345 Also sad that negligent polĂtics let our water reserves dry the hell out
Consercative critics in California advocate to build more dams and stop doing ecological releases of water, ignorant of how there's no more water left to impound and how the releases keep valuable farms on the estuaries from getting salted.
Necesitan la presa para acumular el agua de la estaciĂłn lluviosa. Sin presa el agua de las lluvias escurre al mar, con presa queda reservada para usarse durante la estaciĂłn seca.
En mi estado (Chihuahua) los campesinos estĂĄn encabronados con ustedes por no tener presas y por pedirle al Gobierno Federal que vacĂe las presas de Chihuahua para que escurra agua a Nuevo LeĂłn. Eso piensan aquĂ.
New to the channel and have dropped a sub, great topics but would recommend including your sources even as a footnote. Itâll help substantiate the content. Keep it up!
In Philippines we depend on rain for fresh water.
I visited st croix usvi back in sep and thatâs how most island residents get their water.. rain water that drains into cisterns.. have a great day đ
The water supply will become increasingly volatile with extreme weather patterns. Its arable land is very vulnerable to flooding, as too are inland cities built next to rivers.
and when they invade taiwan
Another factor is the reduction of glacier water output. With the reduction of water from these glaciers impending the plan to divert water is a mood point. Of course Chinaâs population will significantly shrink in the 28 years it will take to divert and in the long run less people will require less water. This is to discount any other mitigating circumstances, such as famine or another waive of viruses.
The Ganges River is fed by disappearing glaciers.
2050 ?
Y'all should be able to do that in like 5 years.
Every home and business should install a rain water collection and storage system along with solar panels.
Even in areas where rain is infrequent it is crazy to waste the little rain that does fall and waste it.
You need to think this strategy through. On a small scale it is fine but if entire cities started doing this it would destroy the water table. Rainfall is incredibly important to restore the groundwater table and ensure the water cycle works. Nature kind of figured this out for us. If we stopped this natural process by millions of homes collecting and storing rainwater it would create a far worse crisis then we already have. The natural water cycle would be destroyed.
@@dontcare7086 Sounds like someone selling water does not like losing a customer.
They are currently experiencing a drought of catastrophic proportions
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5:08 PRC electric power generation is currently stretched thin without this desalination demand, though
Good content. Thanks.
What happened to the massive flooding they have had for the last 3 years ? so much water they thought they would lose the 3 gorges dam ? ...China has been heavily playing with weather modification ...this years drought " may be " the result ??
Two years later, and Iâm sure the situation hasnât become any better, including for the ME. Would like an update!
You left out how dams also contribute to this. They slow water flow and increase the surface to air ratio. Both these create a higher evaporation rate and then the new humidity is blown elsewhere before falling again. Some of it would still fall back to China but not all. Then their is more water lost because dams create more water to ground area and the water soaks in more, making down stream dryer. China has more dams than any other country and many of these dams are in sequence, so basically China is pissing away tons of water every day.
Also, leading up to this China was actually having major floods, possibly because of the excesses evaporation making excess rain fall, but that would cause even more water loss. Again, because water would leak underground over an even large area. If it seeps in deep it's taken out of the regulars water cycle until an underground river dumps it out elsewhere, or it's manually pumped out.
You didn't mention annual rainfall or annual flooding.
đŠđș: _Water shortages? Oh yeah, IKR_
They fucked up their feng shui with the dams.
I thought there were already two operational lines from the south-north water transfer project
Hope they can sort it.
People dont think of how much water is moved just by the sale of produce like watermelons a average 8lbs with 92% water makeup. If you produce 200,000 watermelons and ship them from farm to the city itâs a water transfer of close to 1,500,000lbs of water.
And milk is meant to require 1000l of water to produce 1l of milk.
Almonds are the worst
The problem is that the CCP says they are gonna do something but does the exact oppisite to what they said. This has been seen with how they are going to help with climate change but at the same time opens *NEW* coal plants.
@Watcher yes but those new cities arenât even inhabited. They are only for housing investment. Why do you think companies like Evergrande get bankrupt? Why canât they invest in the wind power or solar?
I can assure you that you have outdated information. The real fact is that they are presently working to correct this problem. Pay a visit to China and you will see that progress.
@@musfazahosein7463 Yeah, good luck with all that Zero-Covid. They will probably strip my passport away.
@@musfazahosein7463 When u see people using "CCP", u should know they've been feed with propaganda, misinformation, fake news.
Congrats for being THAT far ahead of everyone else. Turns out you were right... which is rare with some of these chinese news channels.
The faster they run out the better for the westâŠ
Then they will overthrow the ccp! Lol
Maybe us humans should consider reducing our numbers.
Gonna be interesting to see how they cut water consumption in agriculture. They farm the most water intensive crops known.
They'd probably just farm less water intensive crops
They are solving the water problem with depopulation.
Aka covid
no but with south north water transfer project
@@bronzebuilder2115 đ€Łđ€Ł
I guess my home country the United States of America isn't the only country running out of water. The only way for the United States of America and China to do get water now is from the Pacific Ocean.
Learn from Singapore.
Just on the west coast. They just need to build more desalination plants, in the Midwest we actually have too much rainfall and water in the soil
@@mylet2658 Yeah but the drought is expanding East and I don't know when it will expanded to the East Coast.
@@emhgarlyyeung I guess that's something positive about singapore.
@@williamedwardhackman4695 The Mississippi River and the great lakes regions contain way way too much water to ever have a drought. If your next to desert like on the west coast. I understand that
Hey How about lake mead and lake powell bro, its rapidly dried up..
You should move before the aquifers run out.
How are they gonna power the desalination plants hydro power?
Is it written for pupils? There are obvious mistakes everywhere.
Do you have any support evidence? i dont know china is excessive flooding or lack of water.
Everywhere is...
Now drought time , where were those cars gone to during the flood ?
Have you looked at the Mississippi river lately... China ain't the only one running out of water......
Same as why California is running out of waters.
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"It's population continues to increase.." ? đ€
Check again.
Good.
In the north China the are running out of water and in the south China the get a new in land sea
I think you should include the situation of the flooding that happened in the south at the time of posting this video. Or at least change the title as it suggests that there is no serious flooding happening.
With the South North Water Transfer Project it's amazing there's water anywhere it should be they're been screwing around with river systems for years.
Solution?
How china can running out water while many place in china exprience big water flood...
New Grand Canal?
TOO MANY PEOPLE !!
Accelerate?
Are you an expert in this field?
The Mekong river international supply, and North, East, West, Southwest PRC consumers are in danger thanks to the CCP and associated corruption. Right off the bat, I think southern PRC regions like the Pearl River basin and Hainan (and Guangxi?) are better off for water supply, not being desertificated, not having its water diverted wholesale across the nation. However, cities in south china too have tree canopy + undergrowth and therefore earth retention at risk due to plastic littering and other pollution.
Governmental mismanagement... just like with every other country in the world that is experiencing the same thing.
yeah where did all the water go? they just flooding a month ago and the government was releasing dam water without telling citizens below the dam
A big part barely glossed over is pollution. China has had a pretty rapid industrial growth in the last few decades. Leading to them making billions in economic growth while the rest the world takes losses trying to save the planet.
This has caused many rivers and ground water to be undrinkable.
same reason why the world is running out of water ....
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
But itâs also helped humanity
China's annual water consumption is 241 gallons per person. For the United State's is 720 gallons per person.
every country its a lot
No water, global warming, starvation, oil shortage and over-population OMG........it's a wonder we all woke up alive this morning....LMAO
Chinas highway to Pakistan opens an access to Himalayan waters . Ever since Tibet I see China moving toward the Asian watershed. It is a quiet issue in the media?
Because of their wickedness.
I am most certain that China will be able to get this problem corrected sooner than later. The have shown their incredible ability and technology to overcome their water problem.
Actually, the CCP has done the opposite with its delusions of grandeur. Only a severe crisis of one sort or another will solve this, sadly, because they industrialized entirely too fast and with little foresight and much corruption. Gonna get ugly before it gets solved.
China is running out of water? most major rivers of Asia sourced in Tibet and Tibet is a territory of China. If China shuts down its water sources in Tibet, India's rivers will dry up.
That is, if you believe China actually have a water problem. it is more like they have too much water problem as they always have these floods during raininy season which means all their dams are at full level. If ever they have water problem, the countries downstream of the yellow River, Tangtze river, etc. will feel the brunt of the drought first before the chinese.
China is experiencing one of their biggest foods in decades in south china right now.
So I don't know which water problem this video is talking about.
South china gets flooded every year so much so that china is diverting some of that water to the north.
@@lollymanna r/agedlikemilk
Not only China is running out of water, central Asia, Western Europe, Western US, most of Africa and other areas around the world are having severe water shortages with no real solution in sight
For CCP XI READ There is a saying: Vinash kaale Viprit Buddhi ( when the time of one's destruction comes, his or her mind thinks the opposite of what it is ! code 0.mvd
Population needs to be in balance with jobs, resources, nature and the environment. Having a bigger population in any country than the country can support makes no sense. Access to food, water, shelter, energy and jobs should guide population levels. The worlds population is still expected to add another billion people to feed, clothe and produce pollution. Humans are crowding out all other species of plants and animals. Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible. We need solutions not just sympathy. Endless population growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. Every country needs to "TRY" to be more self sufficient. When there are not enough resources to sustain a population something has to give. Countries need to focus on quality of life for their citizens and not just quantity of life for cheap labor. Why import fossil fuels when wind and solar energy can be produced locally and solar energy can power electric vehicles. We need solutions not just sympathy.
Poor management.
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The world's population will eventually return to the mean. The population is artificially high, and non-sustainable at current levels.
A billion people dying off in a famine or plague would be desirable, as it would free up more natural resources for the survivors.
The biggest problem is depletion of fuels. Oil, coal, etc. Picture the world with no tractors. Horse drawn plows only, basically living like the Amish.
I think that there will be alternative fuels to replace many of the fuel gunslinger machines. Hydrogen is by far the best in terms of material usage, renewability, and cot effectiveness. Yes the infrastructure is lacking, almost non existent actually, but scaling is easily done compared to EV infrastructure. Hydorgen engines are 30% smart than internal combustion engines, or ICE, and are made of easier to recycle materials Aluminum and steel make up the vast majority of the power plant system along with its power train parts electric battery cells made up of rare earth metals that are not only hard to extract but also hard to refine and even harder to extract from finished products.
You would probably not care if you died ?
@@friendoftellus5741 I live in an area with abundant water.
Stop direction
They are having drought due to huge dams.
Their aquifer is polluted...
Don't think you know what you're talking about; China controls 3 largest and longest rivers in the entire world (Yangtse River, Yellow River, N. Mekong River)
Such nonsense. Water cannot run out.
Other than water, I think they are more concern about "Getting old before getting rich" problem. I hope you can dig into that hot topic as aging started to grip onto China's economy
Don't you worry. China is now building robots to take care of the aging problem. They have incredible competence in their planning and execution.
@@musfazahosein7463 this people think that china is japan population size or American population size. China have the 3 time population size of American. But still American or west act as if they don't have even more problems them china lol. These people try to beat the drum of anti china just to make people fear. Because the low population in china means less disturbing of resources to large number and more resources to average population that gonna increase quality of china that's what these people are scared of. One Singapore expert had said in his debat that world should fear low population in china then high population because now their not only have quantity but they will have quality as well .
@@musfazahosein7463 Iâm afraid thatâs the facade which government doesnât want people to see. The main problem is they still rely on low cost labour for manufacturing industry while these group of labour doesnât save enough money for future especially Covid related inflation hit China extremely hard. So forget about robot and other shenanigans, these people just couldnât afford for basic care or own an actual property. Worst part is, the aging population plus decline in child birth leads to diminishing productivity hence the global factory we known couldnât maintain output compare to 2008. As economists worried, China is already peaked and we need to prepare merchandise shortages in coming years.
Japan Korea Thailand Russia and China are already past the demographic point of no return. They concentrated on total population ignoring that increased life expectancy was masking the collapsing birth rate. EU is not far behind. Itâs a slow motion nuclear event.
@@davidelliott5843
The USA is also in demographic decline. Only propped up by immigration
China needs to invest in desalination fast, talk to General Electric.
Good luck with desalination plants as they consume huge amounts of electricity to operate. With the current power outages throughout China, even large companies have had their power shut off recently. How will the govt get power to run these desalination plants?
This video contains a lengthy advertisement and a lot of blah, blah, blah. Yuk.
China's population will not continue to increase. It is already falling. As far as the general state of the Chinese economy goes, probably not going to keep accelerating either.
This doesn't solve their water problem, but these are facts that are important to keep in mind when discussing anything in China.
@@robertlee6338
Wow that soon?
Whats their plan once the waters gone?
The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences team predicts an annual average decline of 1.1% after 2021, pushing Chinaâs population down to 587 million in 2100, less than half of what it is today. Ofcourse the one-child policy was replaced by two-child, and all limits were scrapped recently, so I'm guessing the decline will be less, but reversing the decline in births and increasing the young will be challenging and take many decades.
The removal of the 1 child policy hasn't helped and from demographic information they probably hit peak population in 2016. The extreme unbalance of single men over women by almost a 2 to 1 ratio of age bearing years will compound the problem. China is now the fastest aging country on the planet. Beating out Japan. China uncensored, Peter Zehain, and Epoch Times have excellent referenced material on this subject.
@@roberteytchison2595 lol BS. When get your research knowledge from WhatsApp university this happend đđ and don't even talk about that pathetic Peter zehain. He is complete joke . His research is so pathetic and full of lie. You people are really blind keep it up.
China's population has peaked a few years ago (nobody knows exactly when ;) ). Global warming/climate change will accelerate population decline. Economic crisis (fe. induced by wrong Covid-measures by the CCP) will make the young and well educated to leave China. This will accelerate population decline.
Imao, the biggest problem is not the lack of water (f.e. in the north, Beijing), but the severe lack of clean water. Health issues derived from that will especially in rural ares lead to high death rates there. This will accelerate population decline further.
Only viable solution is to get rid of the 90 Mio. CCP mafia members, first. Make all wrong doings of the past public and stop water pollution, and most importantly start cleaning up the water.
Only chance to survive the next 10 years as one nation.
Otherwise a civil war will wipe out hundred Millions of people, China will be broken up in pieces, likely West/North/North West/ Mongolia/South Shanghai/ South GuangdongNanningHainan/ South East YunanSichuanChongqing/
Tibet
1 child policy only apply to certain ethics. Some ethics still can have 2. 3 or 4 if they want.
Textbook example of mismanagement đ€Ł
because earths magnetic field has weakend by 10%, yes, 10% !!!
Nuclear fusion could solve so many of these problems. With virtually unlimited clean energy, water scarcity will be solved by desalination. Climate change will naturally be solved since there will be no need to burn fossil fuels, and CO2 capture will be an effective option too. Food problem can be solved by greenhouses, etc.
Literally every country should be doing everything they can to solve fusion right now.
We almost had Thorium reactors in the 70-80s but the US's DOD put a stop to it because it was a matter of national security. The core penetrator of the M1 Abrams and the Lepord 2 tanks are depleted uranium rods. These rods come from a factory that process waste material from nuclear reators from all over the world and turn them into the deadliest tank projectile.
The core penetrator for the 120 mm gun was initially supposed to be Tungsten since it was incredibly dense and easy to work with, however cost for tungsten even back then wasn't cheap. And when you are shooting 20 lb rods of tungsten down range with every shot, it gets expensive VERY QUICK. So the designers looked for other materials and came across depleted uranium, not insanely radioactive(safe to be around), has a very similar density to tungsten, and most importantly, is cheap to acquire and manufacture while giving superior armor penetracting capabilities.
And during the cold war, you're not going to get rid of a vital asset (armor penetrating capabilities) to your war machines just because some people want cheaper electrity bills are you?
I'm 65 and fusion power has been 5 years away since I was a child.
they are painting the trees green, soon they will have to paint the ocean blue
Desalination is the only solution for the future but the problem is how do you make that cheap enough and efficient enough to supply a huge population
Good news
Nothing to do with the US large aerial array HAARP modifying the weather ?
Yeah, keep expanding the problem. How about finding a sustainable population number. The answer is not expanding infrastructure and popping out more humans.
Last time they tried to control their population people weren't very happy.
China simply have to encourage people to move to the southern part
Water desalination plants
Why have to worry about china the u.s also need it water too so dry in the west coast
#NoMoreBabyHumans
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You need to do better research rather than presenting a ;oad of crabs.
Actually it's the USA
Where are your sources? How can I check where you got your information from and whether or not its a reliable source? How do I know if you are not just making up these numbers?
Its unprofessional to not note sources.
Source : Gordon Chang he is the best expert on youtube and Internet that keep saying china will collapse next year, next year . You can even buy his book and support just go check him out if you don't know. đ
2:03 I feel like 1) Iâm taking crazy pills 2) you donât understand geography.
You say most of the people are in the NORTH and most of the water is in the SOUTH, and then you say look at this EAST WEST population distribution but you show a DIAGONAL line, and you label one side of it âeastâ even though that side of the line also contains all of the south and you argue this map clearly shows that the water is nowhere near where the people are. What?? No, thereâs nothing in the argument you made or the map you showed that supports your assertions. Iâm familiar enough with China that I know your conclusions are basically true but your LOGIC is absolutely terrible.
Also, you never answered your own question from the title, about WHY China is losing its water. You actually say we donât know. Facepalm. What kind of video is this?
I just watched that section again and he's spot on so keep taking those pills...