The Water Crisis | National Geographic

Actor, Adrian Grenier, and National Geographic Explorer, Shannon Switzer
Swanson, explore the growing problem of water scarcity in the US. Are we
running out of water? Shannon heads to the Colorado River to uncover
solutions for the problems facing the region, while Adrian challenges
himself to reduce his water use at home by an ambitious thirty percent. Will
he succeed? Paid Content for Finish.
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[@nancyearickson5412]

I would like to say saving water is always good but please try to not cover over land with concrete as it does not let the water soak through to refill the aquifers please keep planting trees and plants as they attract rain and concrete makes the environment hotter which pushes away rain clouds

[@munzurharck368]

Germans love to cover their gardens with gray stones all over. Not to save water but because they are lasy to take care of their garden.

[@codyk1875]

Concrete also makes flash floods more likely

[@robertsolberg7666]

Grow flowers and bushes

[@nobodyknows3180]

@@munzurharck368 What does an Armenian know about Germany? Do you live there?

[@Noone-rt6pw]

I don't know about concrete affecting rain, but does make it hot. Plant trees in concrete infested parking lots, it'd make it more comfortable to shop in summer in the South! But farmers use a lot of water saying it competes with salmon needing to migrate upstream. But like Israel and China are claiming desert areas by planting trees. I think drip irrigation has something to do with it. Which there's also desalination plants in Israel. There's talk about extracting drinking water from sewer water like on space station in some places. Which some have expressed concern by 2050, others are looking at 2100, given the population growth. More people, means more industry needed to sustain people. Yet, we're also pleasure oriented where many insist on toys. In the early 70's I recall an 85 h.p. outboard being big, in the 80's, 300 horses. Now, I imagine it's much more. We might need some glaciers to melt so there's more water to evaporate to give rain???? Oh, companies intentions are to maximize profits while minimizing expenditures, just look at the minimal parking spaces. Yet, if trees could be planted to provide shade that increased summer time shopping, not to mention cooling the store reducing cooling expenditures, more would follow.

[@DougGrinbergs]

Individual changes OK but we need industry- and state-level action... on water and the environment in general.

[@JamesBiggar]

Already happening. Has been for decades, but people keep being wasteful. All the regulations on industry you can think of won't do any good if consumers continue to waste. It takes two to tango. No one can sit this out.

[@Rusty_Raine]

I liked the documentary, however I did notice that they did not discuss the California water bank. That legislation has resulted in industry to deplete the natural aquafers in most areas of CA by 50-75%.

[@cliffmode2000]

Absolutely.

[@cliffmode2000]

@@JamesBiggar I mean yes but. Governmental action could curb this way more than just me saving four gallons a shower or whatever.

[@gamingtonight1526]

Put a brick in your toilet cistern, that is cheaper than buying a low-use new toilet.

[@Notinnedfish]

its always good to do what you can as a private person when it comes to the climate crisis, but I think the big corporations need to stop telling us "everyday people" what to do and start doing it themselves since they are responsible for 70% of the overall pollution on this planet ...all this green washing needs to stop and the corporations need to be held accountable !

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

yes it's the 21st century and we are "begging the kings" to please stop mass-murdering us. People have been brainwashed with the "free market fascism" that is even promoted in the comments section. Corporations are Legal Persons due to corrupt judges - when in fact each State Attorney General in the US has the Legal Right to REVOKE corporate charters - say due to excess water use. People have to demand to have their legal rights returned to democratically control and REVOKE corporate charters.

[@lonzo61]

Don't 'forget that corporations exist, in part, because of the demands of consumers. I agree with your comments in part, but we're all complicit in the state of things.

[@penyarol83]

@@lonzo61 exactly. We all fuel corporations through our choices and consumption. We have a lot of power to change things if we stood up and acted collectively. Everyone always wants to make it someone else’s responsibility.

[@DarkLightHuntress]

Research the biggest water wasting corporations and boycott their products. It's the only way to get these corporations to change their behavior.

[@HobbyOrganist]

"ts always good to do what you can as a private person when it comes to the climate crisis" Even that woman reporter is not doing it, she said she is expecting a baby, right there she's adding another house, car, utility connection, millions of gallons of water use and all the rest, THE biggest contribution someone can make to fix the problem is NOT have kids or stop at ONE not 3 or 4!

[@jaym8300]

The way my eyes almost popped out of my head when she said she's about to turn 70!!!

[@cliffmode2000]

Black don't crack.

[@taylorleanne4758]

Veganism doesn't hurt either. One two super Punch.

[@michaeld9999]

Me too! Goals…

[@kimberleeturner8475]

Right 👍

[@Wally_Darling1960]

@@taylorleanne4758 what kind of vegan diet?

[@wild_card7681]

I think this is a good topic to talk about because most people don't realize the damage that people are doing to water

[@jdubs604]

“The damage ppl are doing to water?” lols? How do you hurt water? 😂

[@wild_card7681]

@@jdubs604 like pollution thats damage people are doing to water

[@thewoodshop69]

@@jdubs604 one example is birth control pills polluting the water & feminizing men, look it up, possible cause of hypogonadism, look up Chernobyl, radioactive materials are in the water, other meds causing birth defects in marine life.....many examples

[@hp4975]

Not only water but they are damaging the whole earth

[@dirkdiggler9379]

@Mannix Mannix lab made yes but wasn’t to enrich drug company’s. Was realized to cause world banks to create more currency’s Who benefits CHINA

[@peforster6725]

As Nestle steals water from the great lakes & puts it in single use plastic. Then they charge us to buy it. Insanity!

[@sparrowhawk9015]

If Earth's population keeps doubling, there is no hope for avoiding all-out war for resources.

[@paulferrante5192]

That's already happening! 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@geoben1810]

@ sparrowhawk Well it seems Covid/ Mother Nature is doing a decent job of culling the population of repuglicon trump supporters so that's a start. 👍😉

[@Beading4perfectionists]

if people would start growing their own food again we wouldn't need big big farms providing most foods for us.

[@janelldimaggio7131]

Because all the water is in the human??

[@cookn]

Fact Check It's Called Population Explosion !

[@daviel]

It's just amazing how the massive factory farms and alfalfa farms were mentioned not even 10 times, and shown for less than 10 seconds. Also, I believe that the Colorado river did not make it more than 1 state in Mexico.

[@codyjones1098]

yep no change coming! they will drive this Titanic off the cliff.

[@vincenzodigrande2070]

For the same reason why we are pushed to led lighting by policies, even in countries that are cold most of the year and need to be heated anyway. And politicians tell us to buy electric cars to save the planet. Just watch 'planet of the humans'. It is not the environment we are trying to save any more, it is our lifestyle we are stubbornly trying to save.

[@susanlippman2384]

This 18-minute Vox film does a better job at getting at the structural issues. Alfalfa + cows shown about halfway in. Doesn't really mention alternatives to industrial faming/ranching, though.

[@lok777]

@@vincenzodigrande2070 Colder countries should use incandescent bulbs to help with heating? Lol what????

[@vincenzodigrande2070]

@@lok777 No, you don't understand. The point is that any heat they do produce is not actually a waste. Sure, if you would place 1000 bulbs in a small room, the heating thermostat will probably never have to switch on, then there is actual noticeable saving.

[@richardjellis9186]

No need to buy a new toilet... Just put a brick in the tank on the back of the toilet. Whatever the brick displaces will be the amount you save on each flush.

[@wldwon]

Great Idea but a brick will slowly erode and mess up your pipes I use a glass or plastic jar and fill it with water instead

[@sirdavidoftor3413]

I put a 2 litre pop bottle, with the cap on( filled with water) in the back of my toilet! Stay, safe, stay sane, be well

[@nobodyknows3180]

@@wldwon slowly erode in about 1000 years, lol!

[@BilloBob1231]

shhh we must not find solutions that solve issues without buying something new......

[@timmythewoo9742]

or, just adjust the float.

[@minyoung823]

If only we can make pipes that run from one country to another. You know, if one country is flooding due to typhoons like my country we can divert that flood water to another place that has low level of water.

[@jonathanhall7903]

Thinking outside the box. Your idea is crazy...and I like it.

[@geoben1810]

@ Min Young Piping around the world wouldn't be feasible from an engineering standpoint. I know we can do amazing things these days but think about it. And we need a solution soon. Every city, state and country has to save water in every way possible. And use alternative fuel sources. NOW.

[@nayasea3918]

I ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BACK IN 2002 ALONG WITH BUILDING DAMS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WERE NEEDED

[@dondamon4669]

@@nayasea3918 no you never and using capitals doesn’t make it true.

[@jrdeckard3317]

Building cities in deserts; what could go wrong with that?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Phoenix must have amazing levels of water evaporation with all their "saved up" water.

[@trumplostlol3007]

Read the history of California. Many of the current farmers in California were originally from the Midwest. They migrated to California after abandoning their farms because of the Dust Bowl they created. We are not talking about cities here. The entire California, East Oregon, West Idaho, ... have been destroyed by these crazy farmers from the Midwest.

[@duallylicensed145]

@@trumplostlol3007 Really? Can you reply with links so I can read up? Thanks

[@trumplostlol3007]

@@duallylicensed145 Don't be lazy. Do your own research. I have already given your enough guidance.

[@daleronsin4756]

@@trumplostlol3007 Not Crazy Farmers, they went where the earth was productive to support humanity. And then the new lands were developed for irrigation and expansion for all humanity. If we don't use the earths resources, we loose. Use them right, but use them. Yes LA would not exist without the colorado aquaduct, but that would have been wasted fresh water. I will say this right now.....someday the Columbia will flow south, feeding Utah and Eastern Oregon, Nevada, and flow down the shasta watershed to Sacramento. And what is wrong with that? The Columbia simply flows into the Pacific and changes the costal salinity for a short range. BUT 2% of the flow would take care of all of Metro Water District needs. So, conservation and good use are important where they are effective, BUT we need to develop our resources. AND I invoke my free speech rights to say so

[@geoben1810]

I remember people talking about how the lack of water would be the cause of the next wars that would be fought. Over 40 years ago.....💀

[@vaq137]

I predicted water will be the end of us all because of wars and even citizens fighting over it

[@michaelangemeer4183]

Canadians are expecting you to waste all of yours and then come for ours.

[@robbenvanpersie1562]

@@vaq137 how is your prediction going?

[@robertahubert9155]

I have been saving water without even knowing it.

[@lisa_kikukawa]

why are the comments so hateful lol im so proud of all the people that are always trying to come up with better ideas to live together with nature!!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Besides he has great hair (and a great Green Rug lawn as well!). Nothing is more important than our lawns. God is etymologically from the IndoEuropean root word meaning Bull just as Brahman means Bull. This goes back to the Eland Bull Dance of 100,000 years ago - before human language developed. Clearly our lawns are tapping into some sacred energy dynamic. That's why the Cow Jumps over the Moon for example (from ancient Zoroastrian religion). Humans are synchronized with the water cycle via the reproductive lunar mating system.

[@surfibit]

eliminate the stupid people and you will eliminate the hateful comments

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@surfibit how come you didn't delete your own comment yet?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@Blake D Berbers lived in the desert for thousands of years using Humanure Composting to grow food. Rome built aqueducts that everyone is very impressed by because the Romans crapped in their drinking water. oops.

[@paulferrante5192]

@Blake D "If it's BROWN💩...flush it down...If it's YELLOW🟡 let it mellow"...a water delivery guy who had to refill our 1500 gal cistern tank a few times when we ran out (we were on a snow-type, run-off spring water system) told me this yrs ago ++ some other H2O saving tips. He never had to refill 🌊 it again! 👍😉

[@lohithagandham5219]

You'll never know the value of each drop of water until you carry them on your own

[@angeladansie4378]

Absolutely. I don't have running water in my house. I pack it & use every drop wisely

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@angeladansie4378 Better to hand dig a water hole using extendable augers - that's what I did - then use a composting dry toilet. Most water use is from flushing for urine. Whereas a drilled well requires clearing out the forest - for a sanitation septic system also. Loss of forest means no rain because no trees to store up the water and then transpire it back into the sky. So civilization is a lose-lose. This goes back to people using lime-ash cement from burning forests - in order to water proof their houses - in 8000 BCE Levant West Asia. Oops.

[@selah71]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Compost from dry toilets can be used as fertilizer.

[@stanbarrington9698]

Stand all day in shade in a HOT desert,and see how much water you will drink.Not to mention if you worked in direct sun.

[@paulferrante5192]

@@angeladansie4378 do you have an "OUT 💩HOUSE" instead of a indoor toilet?🤔

[@jgawad]

A seriously flawed "documentary" that puts water savings responsibility on individuals when in reality near all water is used by agriculture and industry.

[@theMilosr93]

Thanks for the review, I was about to watch it, but it seems like a waste of time. Individuals are also at fault, but the problem is systemic and requires govt action, and even NatGeo is doing this kind of dumb analysis (giving gardening and toilet advice, for Fs sake, like a Sunday show for housewives) . It's amazing to see all institutions and organizations fail one by one. No exception

[@bp7206]

It's an advertisement. "Paid Content for Finish." That's why the little ad disclaimer pops up.

[@loversandlosers]

Figured as much… literally all of our crisis’ would be solved if we removed the profits of industry. Plastic pollution, carbon emissions, overfishing, etc. but the elite want us to think our own wasteful habits are to blame.

[@OpiumBride]

Eat less meat (water goes to feed the creatures we slaughter for meat), shower every other day, flush when it's #2, keep your lawn brown, don't kill weeds (preserve insects)...these are things that I do personally, and I also choose not to have kids. The problem is that there is too many humans, if we cut humans out by 50%, immediately there would be less pollution...less animals are slaughtered, less agricultural land needed, less cities being built, less of everything and more for animals and nature to retake.

[@jgawad]

@@OpiumBride you've much to learn friend. The most important thing is your honest intent. Keep that and you'll find your way. This earth could hold trillions of humans iff we learned to follow and accentuate lifes' cycles. The human body contains trillions of cells. Billions of viruses can kill us, yet we all live with trillions of bacteria that are more numerous than our own cells, and we need them to survive. When humans evolve and learn to behave collectively as the bacteria in our body behave, our presence will help the earth, not kill it. Right now we're viruses. So breed, have some kids, just be careful who you choose to procreate with. Choose a person whose culture and genetics area very different from your own, and make mixed blood rainbow children. For only when humanity begins to identify as human before any other nationality will we begin the shift toward bacteria like behavior. So long as nationalism rules, humans will be a virus on the earth, and it's a lot harder for a person whose mother and father are very diverse to be nationalistic than it is for a person whose parents are of a singular country origin. Best of luck well intentioned one. The true source of your power lies in that honest intention of yours. Never forget that.

[@314jeepsnmopars3]

I'm glad I live in the Midwest, I'm pretty good with water usage but I don't know if California will solve this problem soon enough. They are facing a big drought and the Colorado River I believe hit a record low too.

[@carolynmcintosh8824]

Take navy showers-turn off shower when scrubbing and such...

[@yagutgasimly]

Water is life. Let's save it to live a better life.

[@robinsss]

no need to conserve when it is plentiful no need to argue about water California is on the ocean just convert the saltwater to drinking water simple

[@PIANCARTOON]

Now this is something worth watching

[@hairstoriesbyjai4436]

Water is life and life is water💧💧

[@larsstougaard7097]

Water will flow where ever you go

[@paulferrante5192]

@@larsstougaard7097 Yup, but only if you pee 🟡 your pants!🤣🤣🤣

[@larsstougaard7097]

@@paulferrante5192 😡😄🙏

[@MyWasteOfTime]

Lectured to save water by a guy that uses 120G a day on his yard...

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Nothing is more important than artificially sustained grass in a desert. It's kind of like his nice hairdo right? Gotta maintain that Green Rug.

[@MyWasteOfTime]

@@sunnynsydney4705 So you are saying "Those with money can use more than those without money?"

[@shAnn0n1]

Wow.....I've learned so much from this documentary. Kudos to Phoenix Arizona for figuring out how to clean and keep the water. Just little things can make a huge difference. Just wow. The tree rings showing that droughts have happened 40 years or 60 years.....was amazing to learn. Obviously, to live in an arid area like Nevada, Arizona....people and cities are in areas that aren't survivable without water....some would say that the cities will eventually won't be livable. The Colorado River could only sustain a fewer amount of people....but as a civilization we pushed things too far......

[@JamesBiggar]

How does a person get a degree in marine ecology yet have no idea how fresh watershed typically affects marine life in a healthy or unhealthy ecosystem until you host a doc for Nat Geo? I remember this being covered in environmental science class...in high school....25 years ago.....

[@masternobody1896]

dont worry we have zam zam water which is infinite

[@masternobody1896]

idk you should find it out

[@markvincentcocjin]

@STM Social Ecology is the study of how to destroy the economy so we won't be around when the climate shifts and a new bunch of flora and fauna thrives in our absence.

[@deborahb.3736]

not only that.. but where do you think clean water comes from..? the earth.. where the dirty water goes to be cleaned.. the last drop.. omg.. talk about scare mongering. people shouldn't be allowed to flat out lie like this.

[@chrism9309]

Knowing that something is happening isn't the same as understanding its results. If you've recently learned more intimate details of something you were previously loosely aware of, it can be said you didn't know before by comparison

[@elsakendallmysojournal2398]

Another wonderful production by National Geographic. Illuminating and inspiring! Thank you from Santa Fe, New Mexico. 🙏💦🌳💙

[@alexmoore2184]

Hello Elsa

[@jonsanchez141]

Hello from Albuquerque!

[@perceivingnature]

And that's a preparation too for upcoming droughts, we're going to face 💧

[@ShonnMorris]

I'll say it again; plant native plants. Once established you would only need to water them once a week in summer and not at all in winter.

[@paulferrante5192]

Actually, use "desert landscaping" where applicable, and you don't have to water at all - or very, very minimal. 👍😊

[@ShonnMorris]

@@paulferrante5192 If you live an actual desert then yes, use plants native to that desert. The problem with using them anywhere is that they don't help native wildlife. Native pollinators for example are often ecologically keyed to certain local native plants. Plants native to your zip code will always be the best way to go.

[@urbanhooligan3787]

This happened to this region before during the time of the Anasazi Natives. They disappeared along with the water. This was before greenhouse gasses!

[@GetMedQ]

The Anasazi livedt here for more than 1,000 years. Then, within a single generation, they were gone. Between 1275 and 1300 A.D., they stopped building entirely, and the land was left empty. However, this did not happen worldwide.

[@bheanfhiain218]

Fun fact, Anasazi means "ancient evils" in Navajo. Archeologists and anthropologists actually refer to this group as ancient Pueblos and their descendants are Hopi, Zuni, Pueblo, Ute and most other tribes in the Southwest. Navajo are really superstitious about death, hence the nickname for the ancient Pueblos.

[@claztube]

As we today refer to 'Green House Gasses' yes, I'd agree. Good point not many think about, yes? But indeed our population as a species has from the beginning moved on from place to place. Then with the Advent of irrigation/farming, Agriculture as it is called, peoples of this world found that moving on to follow the herd was unneccessary. Populations grew in regions that would nary be suitable for habitation on such a scale previously conceived by a nomadic poeple. Of course population growth in such regions is not sustainable past the tipping point of what is realistic. But there will always be those whom want more than what is realistic. This I know from my own experience as a consumer of resources. Renewable and non-renewable resources have been obtainable thanks to innovations unnatural and this is how we find our over populated deserts in jeopardy. Has anyone here looked into what amount of water it takes to manufacture this thing you hold in your hand from which you are now reading this comment? Ironic, isn't it? Okay, my device is manufactured in a far away land, hardly any local resource was involved in its existance. But I am amazed to learn how much manufacturing, mining and agriculture is ongoing in this region where water is certainly precious; more precious than a place in the shade during this decades long drought.

[@kevinmcneeley879]

Has anyone considered that part of the problem is the presence of massive cities in the desert? Used to be that big cities sprang up where there was plenty of water. Southern Cali is not naturally equipped to sustain a metro area the size of LA. Arizona is not naturally equipped to sustain a city the size of Phoenix. These places are...unnatural.

[@chaserofthelight1737]

That needed to be said.

[@dana102083]

My dad and I talk about the insanity of having so many people in a dessert and to sustain food and water is worse. At some point the government will pay people to move instead to pay everyone for loss of farms and jobs etc. I think all places should have water limiting policies already. Why do we really have to wait until bad goes to worse? Humans are effed.

[@Sofia-qn6fs]

Wow I am eagerly awaiting for the premiere. National geographic is so amazing 😎❤️

[@ashimchhetri1553]

Thank you for providing this very important information. Currently I am studying Agriculture Irrigation in cal poly. My life would be blessed if I can make some changes towards water sustainability. 🙂

[@edwardfranco5127]

Take a look at the Black Sea today right now and see all the Slime covering miles and miles it's pollution and the warming of the saltwater you heard Florida green algae climate change the world is warming up and it's going to kill anything that's living unless you could have depth to it take a look at the news today June 16-21 good luck

[@paulferrante5192]

Best of luck with your studies mate.👍😊

[@edwardfranco5127]

@@paulferrante5192 problem I see into a shooting War once that happens then you going to see how vulnerable people really are and there will be a mass die-off the old people can't get medicine they die young people can't get water in nutrition they die to think that's the study I really do believe there's a God and to think I'm watching UFOs on TV it's still waiting for Jesus story time or maybe those UFOs and really the true gods of the universe and they don't want nothing to do with us nothing but fire and brimstone good luck and good night.

[@dylanalexanderson7064]

Tells me to stop eating meat whilst sitting in a Mercedes Benz covered in leather

[@ninamartinez5596]

Suggested you lowered consumption. Didn't tell you to stop😐

[@aussierules3436]

Uneducated

[@kuntyfucstik9340]

haha, humans are facultative carnivores...might as well tell a whale to stop eating krill.

[@iLoveBoysandBerries]

Eat what you sit

[@zachhenrichs8438]

@@ninamartinez5596It is Hypocritical, either way.

[@fortyfive4481]

Hahahah her saying hmm i didnt relizes how much this effect the water eco when she an ecologist hahahah im dead 8:44

[@annelawler6180]

I have definitely seen that I can do more. My biggest contribution is to plant trees as often as I can. I wish I could do more but I'm getting a little old now. No excuses though. I have started living in a camper and it's a shock at first to discover what you really can live without and still have all you need. Smaller living could benefit society. Wish more would try it. Thanks for all the insight.

[@bobboby2400]

Don't worry we're not gonna run out of water just take a look at the planet from space. You don't need a scientist to tell you that we're not gonna run out of water especially that it's 71% if not 80% water. And we're stuck in a bubble you think that this water's gonna leave the bubble it's going to stay on this planet. And you take a pee you're gonna drink that pee again it doesn't just disappear. You flush a toilet you're not losing that water it's still there.

[@bobboby2400]

If all this hocus pocus fear mongering was true then we would already be extinct.

[@stillmiketheone]

50 years to come this information will be Gold. Let's take caution.

[@chineseboxer108]

Nothing like binge watching water crisis documentaries during a record breaking heatwave.

[@618NoRRiS024]

First step quit eating animals. 660 gallons of fresh water to make a quartpound hamburger

[@fillmorehillmore8239]

I'm more curious about the amount of water to calorie ratio within all food.

[@riaan6324]

I have directed my washer, shower, and bath water to the garden. I now have a wonderful garden and am not adding to wastewater treatment problems plus I help fix carbon in the soil. When most do this it will help the world.

[@victorhopper6774]

keep it up and your soil will die

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

people can make a gray water system quite easily - but it goes against the Corporate-State scam of permits and "development." So to have a Legal Dwelling then you need to be scammed by the local well drillers and septic system - and then the local governments jack up your taxes. So it's a corporate-state double whammy and all based on wasting your water and destroying ecology. Better to just hand dig holes using an extendable auger - and so technically they are not "wells" - and then use a composting toilet but not in a "structure" - but a "shelter" (a tent that needs to be moved every six months). good luck. haha

[@paulferrante5192]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 "If it's BROWN💩...flush it down...If it's YELLOW🟡 let it mellow"...a water delivery guy who had to refill our 1500 gal cistern tank a few times when we ran out (we were on a snow-type, run-off spring water system) told me this yrs ago ++ some other H2O saving tips. He never had to refill 🌊 it again! 👍😉

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@paulferrante5192 yes my GF didn't want to do that. So I asked why and she said urine evaporates faster than water. haha. So anyway we are doomed.

[@wild_card7681]

I'm learning so much from this

[@mattmaloney2445]

42:57 136 gallons? that's 514 litres a day!!! - still grossly unsustainable. The average Melbournian uses 157 litres a day and even that is considered excessive in Australia.

[@HavaWM]

Wow, really?? That’s wild. How do y’all get by with so little water?? I had no idea there was such a difference between countries like that.

[@Eric-469]

I am more excited to see some of these comments than I am the video content.

[@timothytyson214]

😂

[@munzurharck368]

Is it really true that dishwashers save water? That study was financed by dishwasher companies. I think you save water having 2 seperate big sinks 1 for washing and 1 for rinsing.

[@GetMedQ]

Well, the amount the dishwasher uses is EXACT. How big/small are your sinks?

[@alibobo2009]

Is Finish dishwashers? I can't find source.

[@iLoveBoysandBerries]

Not true. Dishwashers are super efficient. They use the same few gallons throughout the wash it filters and recycles the water. At USC we studied this and even running a very empty dishwasher saved more water than hand washing. Also dishwashers are much safer as they have internal heaters that heat the water to Temps your tap can't reach killing more harmful bacteria

[@smallstudiodesign]

Sorry ... but yer wrong Blanche.

[@the_expidition427]

@@alibobo2009 Finish makes detergent for dishwashers.

[@crosstolerance]

I really found this documentary to be inspiring and it gave me a new sense of directions in thinking about ways I can conserve water in my own life.

[@MiKE-jz6jt]

whatever..

[@bobboby2400]

They're fooling you and it's fear that they are striking in you for no reason. Take a look at the planet from space and I could tell you you will not feel that there is a shortage of water. Everywhere you stand there is water underneath you every time you take a pee and flush the toilet you're gonna drink that water again.

[@bobboby2400]

You know why communities that have whales start to run a little dry it's because people overuse it doesn't mean that the water isn't there. Is just some people's Wells are not deeper than others and they're on higher ground so if the community is using more water than normal then the ones on higher ground will start to lose water. Now if people laid back a bit and didn't use as much the water will just accumulate back it doesn't disappear. It's always there because that's the water level. If you dig a hole and you make sure you're not 1500' above water level then you will hit water easily. Now if you're 1500' above sea level then you're going to have to dig 1500' down to get to the water underneath you. It always fills backup there's no limit on it it only becomes a problem when people overreause because then others don't have as much to go around at that point. But people in the community talk about it and you know what they end up reserving theirs and then the water fills backup and those people on the higher ground have all their water again. It doesn't run out

[@bobboby2400]

There is no government pumping water in a water well that is just natural from the Earth and it always feels backup. Never going to run out

[@bobboby2400]

We will be extinct off this planet before any loss of water. And the only way Earth will lose all of its water is when it gets pride and that will be like and that is recorded to be 7.9 billion years from now.

[@sarath_narayanan3563]

Save a drop and collectively we can save a river..💙

[@progressivegranny4207]

OIL USES BILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!

[@garyr7027]

Yep, hydraulic fracking and Canada's oil sands use an insane amount of water.

[@garyr7027]

@@andrewkraskey238 the process used to extract oil requires water, and lots of it. Do a search watch a few videos, and you'll see why.

[@minyoung823]

With the dishes you can still scrape left over bits of food by just a small piece of tissue. Use the bit of tissue to scrape off the plates bec bit of pieces of food can also clogged up the dishwasher in the long run.

[@__LSP]

the amount of production effort putting in the video is tremendous

[@HobbyOrganist]

"In the kitchen an aerator reduces the flow" Yeah I noticed, that's why I took the dam aerator and the filters and restrictors OUT of my kitchen sink faucet so it doesnt take 15 minutes to fill the dog's water bucket, now it puts out 2 gals in 45 seconds. Meanwhile one pound of beef nobody NEEDS, wastes 1800 gallons of water

[@fillmorehillmore8239]

Nobody needs a pet either. One person's want is another person's waste.

[@kg4tri]

They didn't mention other crops that can be grown in place of cotton such as Hemp and Bamboo . Levis has said they will start using some Hemp in their cotton clothing (69% cotton and 31% hemp blend) in order to reduce their water usage and reduce their over all environmental impact .Using alternatives like hemp can cut down the water use by 2/3rds. It is going to take more then 50% reduction in meat dairy and egg consumption to solve the water and other environment problems. That is according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization . This video is paid for By an organization called FINISH . I would like to know where FINISH gets their funding? If FINISH and their money sources may have a financial gain by leaving out these details. Because the world has taken so long to do something about Climate change that it is to the point that everyone is going to have to make drastic changes to the way they live. The Idea "Every little bit helps" may have been true 10 or 20 years ago but today it is going to take a major change on everyone's part , ether willingly or by legislation to have an impact on climate change driven droughts.

[@giulia1603]

Hi, I found this comment very insightful and I agree on the fact that many details were left out of the documentary. But what does it mean that cutting down 50% of meat production would solve water problems? (I googled it but I can’t find clear data, but it’s probably my fault since I don’t understand corporate reports)

[@AdventureTimeLoui]

This. Yes the civilian needs to cut down and demand products that reduce water consumption but we need to get to the root of the issue; the legislation around use of water for agriculture and other large corporations. Idk if this statistic is analogous to water usage by big businesses, but 70% of the carbon emissions to our environment come from the top 100 companies. Why aren’t we doing anything to create policies .Greed. Pure greed. When money is involved it doesn’t seem like our environment matters. Ugh.

[@BarnaliD]

@@giulia1603 watch the PBS Documentary, "H20 The Molecule That Made Us" it's very good and there are no corporate sponsor obligations.

[@christinearmington]

Top comment 🤩

[@dennisbabcock9935]

i live in a dessert bamboo grows here whit little to no water have not watered it for 3 months and the temp is hiting 100 plus

[@Anchal_1810]

I am from India.many of people use water filter here...this is one of the reason of water waste...(but my mom use this waste water for Planting and Cleaning Floor...).Its a good idea.👏🌱

[@clatonblade2211]

if people in indea would stop haveing 7 kids you wouldent need so much water

[@Anchal_1810]

@@clatonblade2211 now they don't....

[@ATM_Card]

@@clatonblade2211 on average an individual Indian use 3 times less water then US....So according to my calculation, a family with 2 parents and 10 children in India use the same amount of water as a family with 2 parents and 2 children in US. so your argument doesn't justify you playing the victim card with Indians having many kids.

[@clatonblade2211]

@@ATM_Card judgeing by the smell id say your likley right.. ill stick to showering more then once a month thankyou verry much.

[@jeeaspirant6610]

@@clatonblade2211 my parents and uncle only have 2 kids i know this is a problem in many places ..... so can you please stop being rude

[@jared1804]

I love my green lawns. Doing some math I am pumping out about 4500 gallons a day keeping it green- That doesn’t include my normal household water use and long showers.

[@bankerdave888]

Taiwan, which is a country with one of the most annual rainfalls in the world, is suffering from severe drought right now! Due to the lack of typhoons in 2020, most of the reservoirs there are sitting at historic lows, some are less than 10% capacity.

[@rozb554]

I wonder why it is not in the news?

[@alifrobinson1810]

We never know how worth of the water until it well dry. Keeps preserve our mother nature.Peace with Love 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾💓💓

[@Crashed131963]

4.3 billion people on the planet in 1980 , todays its 7.9 billion. More people use more of everything.

[@bernadettefern]

I quit eating meat 50 years ago and became a vegan a year later. The wisest thing I ever did was to become certified as a hygienic nutritional consultant. I’ve been eating only raw grain free diet for almost 21 years there’s enough food and water for us and our ecosystems, but not for mismanagement and misuse in animal agriculture and the petrochemical industry.

[@motipatang]

I truly believe you have hit the nail on its head by the second half of your comment. I love it.

[@apolloniusbeitsman5444]

Eating meat is what made us human. Nice try though.

[@dontgetthebloodclotjab6012]

@@apolloniusbeitsman5444 humans are frugivore not carnivore

[@SevenEllen]

Good plan. :-) Eating our water in fruit and veg is definitely going to be one of my plans when we have a water shortage within the next 25 years.

[@dreaminez472]

@@dontgetthebloodclotjab6012 We're neither of those things. We're omnivores. That said the majority of us could be vegan and very healthy. I can't speak for everyone though.

[@weblightstudio8215]

cutting back on water usage is a great idea so the population can grow to 14 billion before anyone has to deal with it again when nothing will make a difference

[@azura4166]

Thankyou for making this 💓

[@azura4166]

@@JNL37Dyxce5 u have a nice dogo

[@vgeesnaps]

Waiting and watching here from the Philippines.

[@cityboycountrystar1]

The Colorado River and Lake Havasu are beautiful, natural places. For this river to dry up would surely create chaos for the Southwest US, people, plants, and animals. We should all do our part to conserve water daily... After all, doing so is even better than mutually beneficial!

[@robertmanley2198]

I live in rural Georgia in a timber county. Get plenty of rain from Gulf. We have a deep well and the water is super sweet.

[@xc5838]

This was awesome. I understand industrial water usage is WAY MORE than individual usage, but that doesn't mean the everyday person shouldn't be water efficient.

[@inkooh8]

3:01 They need to calculate the amount water involved in the electricity used to run the dishwasher (and the average per use for building the machine). 32:00 3,000 gallons for a smartphone. Hmmmmmm.

[@madbug1965]

California needs to hurry and build a fleet of floating desalination plants to harvest fresh water from the ocean. They could have converted oil tankers full of fresh water to supply it's coastal cities with fresh water.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

powered by offshore wind turbines....

[@edwardfranco5127]

Never going to happen even if you will add a thousand acres of machinery to get the salt out it wouldn't be enough and then again it will be too late people take water for granted by September California will be bone dry nice place to visit wouldn't want to live there.

[@claudiaperea]

There is not yet a viable solution at scale for the byproduct of desalinization: hypersaline water.

[@edwardfranco5127]

@@claudiaperea the problem in this country for them to get retooled it'll take 20 to 25 years there is no way you got 40 to 50 million people if you would have stock today the most the most is maybe a million two million people just too late for that should have started in 1990 good luck and good night

[@alexgreen3662]

First: “ Colorado has nothing to worry about” Then: “the reservoir is half full” After: “the levels are critically low” Make your mind up girl…

[@manishsharma1073]

Amazing Documentary... A fine reminder to all of us that We need Water as much as we need air to survive.

[@HavaWM]

This was an excellent documentary. Thank you to NG for publishing it in full for free on YT. 👏❤️ My one push back is the money spent on making that guy’s house more water efficient. This is another place where the rich can easily afford to replace every water-using device in the house, and pay a bunch of experts to come in and redo their yard to be more water efficient, while the poor are lucky if their toilet flushes every time bc their landlord doesn’t want to pay to fix it right. If I were rich, I’d be giving grants and spending my time in my local community, helping people become more self-sufficient and less wasteful in their energy and water usage. 🌻🌱

[@helllajennifer]

Funny how that actor is telling me to save water when he lives in a multi million dollar house and hasn't been on tv in a long time.

[@cherrydevera5932]

Conserve WATER everyone!!!

[@eversun934]

We've always washed our dishes by hand. We had thought that washing by hand would use less water. After watching this, we'll be using the dishwasher a lot more often! Again, another awesome documentary!

[@indujain1424]

Thank you so much National Geographic for this video : )

[@AzlianaLyana]

Feeling lucky being able to watch a full length episode. Thanks for this gem NG. Really informative 😊

[@bobboby2400]

Will they just mess you up if you believe any of this. Take a look at the planet from space you'll see there's no water shortage.

[@bobboby2400]

But I guess you believe the Earth is flat as well.

[@anonymousdude2550]

When someone says "Mother Nature" I feel sooo connected to them.

[@agfvideos22]

An excellent documentary, try to make more documentaries in water-stressed countries like in South Asia, where aquifer level is low to scarier level, and where department like water consumption inspection and efficient marine ecologist does not exist.

[@sciindino4550]

Thank you for this very important topic that everyone should be concerned of!

[@ridemx77]

We have more than enough water here in the UK it never stops raining 🌧🤦🏻‍♂️

[@pennycarter3433]

A slight exaggeration, it's not raining today!

[@ridemx77]

@@pennycarter3433 😂 2 days actually but it won't last it will be rain again next week

[@pennycarter3433]

Wednesday according to the forecast. Was nice while it lasted!

[@ericbeattie761]

My neighbors hate me because I don't have grass 😭. I let the native plants go wild. A lot of butterflies and dragonflies they might be keeper loves it. But it ain't the picture perfect yard. If they don't like it they don't need to come by

[@natashaseacrest6918]

**good on you! The creatures appreciated your caring & enhancing of their habitat..

[@ericbeattie761]

@@natashaseacrest6918 I mostly let him go wild.

[@ericbeattie761]

@@natashaseacrest6918 but I'm working on a pond. I love the butterflies 😍. And then when I get more dragonflies they actually eat mosquitoes. In the water and airborne

[@ericbeattie761]

I loved dragonflies I've been trying to figure that s*** out

[@rocket7697]

Shower should be no longer than 4 mins with a water=saving shower rose.Lawns should be turned over to native plants.

[@charlenemiale1819]

Apparently residential developers, continue to turn and eye for a dollar --to the evident water crisis. As populations flock to the Southwest, perhaps unaware of the water wars farmers in border towns continue to experience. "Water is Life."

[@the_expidition427]

Southwest? Populations are migrating to the Southeast.

[@omnidarkenergy2035]

What about the how state dumps 60 percent of our fresh water into the ocean?

[@cavemancaveman9746]

Yes, we were dumping over 13,500 CFS just back in March. Probably flushing the bay of the sewage. Why haven't they fixed their sewage issue yet? And to save the smelt.

[@baraclude]

3:18 Not applicable to me. I use less water washing by hand. Maybe you guys should try not leaving the water running when washing by hand.

[@edwardfranco5127]

If you live in California I don't want to be like a joy killer what you going to have to move if you want to live the choices acceptable or unacceptable.

[@bheanfhiain218]

This program is sponsored content by Finish dish detergents...when I saw that, I was like what?

[@paulferrante5192]

@@bheanfhiain218 I seem to remember that brand (Finish) when I lived in the USA. I believe "Finish" is a detergent for dishwashers, but maybe not the name of the company itself that makes it. But only just guessing...👍

[@eleven9327]

Today's like for poor corona person 😢

[@MrWicked61671]

It’s up to consumers to change the world. Be vegan.

[@thegratefulsteve]

Yes, be vegan, but consumers are truly not the problem. It is capitalism that is the problem.

[@Crashed131963]

4.3 billion people on the planet in 1980 , todays its 7.9 billion. More people use more of everything.

[@rozb554]

I considered taking fewer baths, then I remembered I was already doing my bit by being childfree.

[@Driftless_Wanderer]

I choose to live where there is abundant water. Weather isn’t as nice as sunny California, we have winters, it’s cold for months, but we can eat local grass fed beef, lamb, and dairy which comes from our natural rainfall and pasture grasses and not feel guilty. If you live in areas without water resources you should be required and incentivized to conserve.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

yes California wanted to use a pipeline to get Great Lakes water - same with Asia using tanker ships. Westernized civilization spread fast around the world - just as the Romans used Aqueducts since the Romans shat in their drinking water. Berbers use humanure composting to turn the desert into farmland. So Water use is directly tied to land use - and Western civilization thinks flushing humanure into fresh water is the way to go.

[@LCCB]

Ah yes let’s see how this rich dude can reduce his extraordinarily excessive water usage 🙄 how about put him in a 1 bedroom apartment

[@ninamartinez5596]

😄

[@iLoveBoysandBerries]

He's the average Los Angelian

[@gerardm.5047]

Stfu tucker

[@paulferrante5192]

@Luke Campos Brown....Jealous much ???🤪😝

[@capps2015]

Dude was literally using 10% of what my house of 3 uses a month in a day and I live in water rich TN!

[@pratikambhore4248]

I love THE LAST DROP

[@larsstougaard7097]

It's all water under the bridge

[@63phillip]

The crazy thing is that all of the water that has ever existed on our planet is still on our planet, it's just distributed more in our oceans than in our fresh water places.

[@Crashed131963]

4.3 billion people on the planet in 1980 , todays its 7.9 billion. More people use more of everything.

[@brettnaugher2176]

There is a way to eliminate 2' of the ocean levels, it's the use of High Energy X-Ray equipment otherwise known as anti-matter technology.

[@shivi913]

This is something that I needed 🙏🙏 Thanks for this video ❤❤ Lots of love from India 🙏💞

[@Mr2nipples]

There perspective on cattle and food is misleading. And amazon is being cleared for palmcernal oil. And other thing. It's sad

[@noeraldinkabam]

2022 says hello and today is even scarier.

[@mruncletheredge]

Yup... Just look at how low Lake Meade's reservoir has gotten in 2022...

[@BeTrue2Yourself413]

You may agree or not this video helps open the myriad of ways in which we take water for granted. It starts with us. You can be the beginning of change or the end of solution. Your CHOICE! Thank you National Geographic for this eye opener video about water conservation.

[@jdubs604]

“Before we use up the last drop?” Uh unless the entire ocean evaporates, we will always have fresh water. The waters that we drink are billions of years old. It technically never disappears, it just gets displaced. But I agree, if you live in the desert, you should be conscious of your water usage.

[@integritymatters5114]

Don’t know the difference between fresh and salt water do you?

[@fillmorehillmore8239]

@@integritymatters5114 "unless the entire ocean evaporates, we will always have fresh water." Technically this is true with desalination.

[@vaq137]

@@fillmorehillmore8239 not so easy for billions that will need it

[@fillmorehillmore8239]

@@vaq137 Volume is absolutely a concern in this regard.

[@felipecastanha9161]

@@integritymatters5114 you understand what the water cycle is, the water that is in river and such is just the water that evaporated from the ocean, but the problem comes with rainfall patterns and where it rains

[@dxjsstfu9866]

This will be Interesting

[@natashaseacrest6918]

noted points: 1) Golf Courses ARE NOT ESSENSTIAL, THEY ARE GLUTTONS OF RESOURCES - 2) Reuse of sewage a good thing - 3) Clothes washers that reuse the rinse water for the next load good-4) Using a shopping bag to carry 1 pair of pants BAD- 5) NOT ONE SINGLE MENTION OF HEMP TAKING OVER COTTON PRODUCTION BAD- 6)Shannon does look hot on a paddle board

[@mikenichols3849]

las vegas nevada, aurora colorado have both taken the easiests and most significant moves to reduce water consumption by banning and removing grass lawns. if all of our communities in the west did the same we'd save millions of gallons of water every day. doing this proactively is by far the lowest cost endeavor to help stretch diminishing supplies.

[@alisonmadalinski747]

wonderful program! The cow & soy water usage really astonished me. Going to start making more vegan dishes 😊😊

[@ShakaZoulou77]

Are you going to begin to eat straw, fruit and vegetables with roten points or with damages, the leaves from potatos plants and all the other organic subproducts what are going to do to the energy, nutrients and water used. And what about the shelves and warehouses needed, because 2000Kcal of vegetables have much more volume than meat

[@thegratefulsteve]

@@ShakaZoulou77 full of propaganda talking points developed by the animal agriculture industry.

[@minnesconsinprepping7856]

"As someone who wants to start a family in California, it's critical for me to know if there's a way to address this water crisis." Yeah......don't have children. That's the single most important thing you can do to help the planet now.... OOOpppps.... Too late!!

[@Tom_Samad]

How about don't have too many children?

[@MyEconomics101]

11:00 leaves out that his beef burger costs 2,400 total hypocricy.

[@atteroljones6936]

I live on WA state's Olympic Peninsula. The cities of Port Angeles and Sequim have implemented public rain gardens, located at select street intersections within the city limits of Port Angeles, and a water recycling system at Carrie Blake Park in Sequim. Many households too are students of soil and water management taught by the conservation district. Like most endeavors, money makes the difference in inspiration, application and maintenance. I sometimes am lulled to sleep thinking what I would do with a windfall of $250k to set up my one acre to be eco efficient....

[@bitsnpieces11]

How many millions of gallons of water a day are they taking out of the Colorado river to pump over the mountains to California to water their lawns and leaving the farmers and ranchers downstream with no water to run their place.

[@Eric-469]

Call your congressman. There are signed contracts and water rights. Contracts that officials signed and agreed to. It's not like California just came over and constructed a massive conveyance system without anyone's blessing.