How Can Rain Create Conflict? Precipitation and Water Use: Crash Course Geography #11

If you compare precipitation around the world with population distribution we can understand a simple but powerful pattern of human geography: where there is water, there are people. But it gets a little more complicated because where there are people and limited resources, there is often conflict and bigger geographical questions at stake. So today, we’re going to zoom in and look more closely at how precipitation patterns around the Great Plains and the western United States has led to many conflicts involving the use and distribution of water resources.
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[@teethompson7756]

Privatizing water is a horrible idea! Not everything should be for sale! It's bad enough we have to pay for water but selling control to the highest bidder is one of the scariest things I can think of.

[@Adalore]

privatizing water is just going to lead to more food desert situations, which is directly a man made problem to make things horrible for people. It is one of the many problems that cannot be solved with profit motive, well ethically at least, it'll just lead to water barons and exploitation.

[@commenterperson4481]

Your comment gave me a temporary relief. There are indeed sane people out there!

[@bastiens5219]

You missed the opportunity to have a great title: How rain precipitate conflicts

[@johnfodge3909]

Why is the first reaction to resource scarcity from mismanagement or overuse always “Just give it to private investors” like that hasn't always caused more issues? We treat and sell our Earth like a harlot and someday we will have to pay it all back if we don't change our ways.

[@_SilverLynx]

I think you should have mentioned the Aral Sea situation. It would clearly illustrate the impact of mismanaged river water usage.

[@crashcourse]

You're a step ahead of us! We'll be talking quite a bit about the Aral Sea in episode 17!

[@_SilverLynx]

@@crashcourse Excellent! Thank you.

[@VashdaCrash]

haha, that's some awesome insight!

[@kigas24]

Imagine having to ask if water is a human right (I realize that CrashCourse is posing this as a rhetorical question). The commoditization of water will undoubtedly lead to future wars.

[@VashdaCrash]

And they also talk about a plan to privatize water this year. They didn't take a stance on that issue, but it looks like a bad idea to me.

[@ericgonzales4979]

Just like mad max lol

[@thomasrogers8239]

Because when you live in a desert you become acutely aware of where your water comes from. When this happens it's easy to blame the lack of water on other people. When I lived in arizona I took particular issue with people who had real grass lawns.

[@hosseinebrahimi3451]

I live in Iran and things are getting scary year by year. 4 days ago was our new year Nowruz and just at the minute that i had to be home with my family i had to spare some gallons of water to neighbours.

[@kenatodd1767]

I'm so used to an abundance of water where I am that sometimes it's hard to think of it as a high conflict resource. I know it, like, intellectually, but sometimes I need the affectation to be revamped. Anyway, I love this crash course series 🧡🧡

[@angelg.s.1053]

Uf, no privatizing natural resources, please!

[@oxGRIMExo]

Who used it first?....except Native Americans.....wow

[@commenterperson4481]

Water for sale? THIS IS MADNESS!

[@LoganT101]

I thought this was going to be an econometrics video! I love how this was covered from a geographical view point

[@ericgonzales4979]

Wow the hunger games doesn’t seem so odd to me now

[@sherylb1194]

Why wouldn't we consider water a basic human right when the human body needs it for survival of life. Why is this still a question in 2021? Oh right LOL humans, money & politics

[@BrutusAlbion]

😂

[@ferg5x5]

The Glen Canyon dam is a cultural atrocity that destroyed important archeological sites, pristine ecological habitat, unique canyons, and is so far away from any major cities that is provides little, actually useful water. It is a basin used to evaporate the colorado river for the mere folly of man. The colorado river scarcely even reaches the gulf of California, and even when it does it comes much less like a river but rather like a trickle of polluted pee. I think this kind water misuse needs to be discussed and contrasted to what colonizers are doing with the water, especially in settler countries like the US.

[@rgraika422]

Great video for this rainy day.

[@HuminBeenz]

This has been the best refresher for my physical geography class!

[@outside8312]

If they get that new desalination method rolling that would change everything

[@BrutusAlbion]

source?

[@thomassourie2352]

When I saw the title I just thought of One Piece & Alabasta

[@AntonioKatan]

People: We don’t have enough water to live! America: STONKS?

[@jacobh1833]

Privatizing water is a terrible idea... Just based on how it doesn't really solve the problem of inequity.

[@lakrids-pibe]

This episode is making me thirsty

[@outside8312]

I'm just glad I'm British where we rarely even get a hose pipe ban

[@pjfil12]

Awesome!

[@tinmin7375]

Whooooo another one!

[@starrichens3397]

Awesome super helpful

[@scorp5820]

Amazing!

[@eusoueu5504]

Here there is a lot of water discrepancy, a place in the northeast can in a few days rain more than some places in the south in a year We have our neighbor Spain, that has a water transfer system, but we here don't do that Like the southeast can have years with less than 300 or even 200mm of rainfall, but the north more than 1000mm

[@lordcrunk4790]

Low energy, graphene seawater desalination relieves some pressures.

[@phillipesmith5401]

More than just humans need water

[@k1dicarus]

Good

[@michaelchiango4665]

Privatizing water rights would be a complete disaster!

[@eliascooney2570]

Funny precipitation

[@duartemonteiro9459]

You mean wars are caused by rain?

[@honorlees9838]

If u doing this for homework just put it in 2x

[@phillipesmith5401]

Privatizing water is absolutely stupid

[@jaybay1840]

My takeaway from this is move to Alabama

[@Joshgocrzy1]

bru can sb give me 10 facts from the vid???? my teacher makin us watch SO MUCH VIDS

[@jacobluna305]

Rain rain go away

[@AngryBulldogGaming]

maybe we won't die to zombies we might end up dying dried like raisins 🤷‍♂️

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Should do a crash course on how the Federal Reserve failed.

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