Native American tribes plea for help as Colorado River dries up

ABC News' Kayna Whitworth reports on the drought in the southwest, where over 40 million people, including 29 Native American tribes, are forced to ration water as the Colorado River dries up.

[@stevejones914]

Drip irrigation is 80 years too late. 50% of food grown is tossed if not more. Farms should be local and feed locally. Our lifestyle is not sustainable.

[@chumbue6537]

Drippy drip 😎

[@Chris-re3xr]

Colonizer don’t wanna hear it :/

[@judas7585]

@@Chris-re3xr honey your hundreds of years late all colonizers are dead 😭

[@Chris-re3xr]

@@judas7585 it was a joke bruh

[@judas7585]

@@Chris-re3xr jokes are supposed to be funny

[@kmorm.7666]

Should change the title to “Farmers” instead of Native Americans. You only gave them a minute of your whole report.

[@dailydoseofrips8482]

Dude farmers waste so much water mf would have hundreds of gallons just spilling in the middle of the crops😂it’s like they don’t know how to save use water

[@grilleFire]

@@dailydoseofrips8482 the water just doesn't disappear, it gets absorbed back into the aquafers ... Learn to educate yourself Back better..

[@pagemaster4568]

Let's be honest Native American is more eye grasping then saying "farmers" she knows exactly how to attract people to this issue .

[@dailydoseofrips8482]

@@grilleFire no thanks

[@MapleMaf1a]

@@dailydoseofrips8482 "no thanks" ok moron, no one will miss your useless ass.

[@tonimarie100]

This is absurd! What the hell else do you expect to happen when you are fueling a desert full of golf courses, homes and agriculture crops off a river???

[@spicyirwin5835]

Golf courses win over farms for water!

[@vickiecavazos231]

probably underground pipes that thieves install

[@marcusmaddox2176]

I grew up around Native American people who lived along the Colorado River. Deserving of our respect because their contributions to our American society is undeniable and even included the great American Constitution.

[@moseskongi4746]

What are these so- called "contributions" to society that you are talking about? Those clowns didn't even know what the wheel was just a couple hundred years ago lol

[@1.4billion65]

what the US needs now is water, not politics.

[@repunklican1181]

Stfu. That isnt the natives history that's the white man's history

[@W333L]

@@moseskongi4746 idk what kind of weird right wing bent you’re on rn kid, but what remains of native tribes are a pretty important cultural artifact of our nation and it’s history, and they taught a good deal about the workings of the land to the original Europeans that came. Also there’s no use for wheels unless you live in a cramped warring region of the world with suitable terrain and large enough empires to demand them for trade and war. Africa, Southeast Asia and the americas were spread out, mountainous or highly forested and had population centers so far apart that there was no use for a wheel before more modern trade was brought about

[@sandramorey2529]

@@moseskongi4746 Learn your history. The Constitution is modeled after the Iroquois Confederation, a pact between 6 Indian Nations for resolving all conflicts. Unfortunately, they left out of our Constitution the very important part where the women have to approve the final word on anything.

[@SunnyAquamarine2]

I love how they keep saying things like, "we're just now learning of this." Meanwhile they quote reports from 21 years ago. Omg we truly don't deserve to survive.

[@AsianNonBinary]

Lmfao

[@princesskaitlinhazelwood4703]

Americans waste nearly 40% of the food we produce. Stop wasting food and stop growing so much stinking food.

[@princesskaitlinhazelwood4703]

@Indiscriminate Hater I am not talking about any ones weight here. I am talking about food that is thrown out by restaurants, schools, grocery stores. A huge amount of food so grown in this country and wasted. Vegetables and fruits that do not fit size, shape and color presences are simply destroyed. Because shoppers only want to buy picture perfect produce, even though it tastes and is nutritious.

[@SunnyAquamarine2]

@@princesskaitlinhazelwood4703 stop replying to my comment like I have anything to do with the things you're saying.

[@SunnyAquamarine2]

@Indiscriminate Hater haters gonna hate, huh? Well have fun with that as you no doubt play your own role in the destruction of humanity and you too, will be judged.

[@Palacemalicee]

No idea why anyone thinks it’s smart to populate a desert. I’m an Arizona native and it’s unreal how much my state has changed for the worse. The air quality is just as concerning as running out of water as well.

[@Devilishlybenevolent]

Yet everyone out there wants green lawns. I'm tired of humans.

[@earthboundmisfit7654]

@@jamesorr2832 lets go Brandon!

[@vanglorious2708]

@@jamesorr2832 Isnt Arizona gov Republican? I see your a special kind of stupid

[@mr.romero4799]

@@Devilishlybenevolent They should release a virus or something to start depopulation.

[@amberwavesofgrain8930]

@@jamesorr2832 republicans have made the policy for the past four years. Line 9 is a Trump policy. Stfu

[@natashaorr1596]

A bigger farm means more water, it’s not smart to farm in a desert- you’re pulling more water than you should.

[@Harsh-tf9he]

no farm no food, they are kind of trapped in terms of growth

[@tarakolach7571]

Should grow food were food can grow without pumping tons of water on it.

[@Harsh-tf9he]

@@tarakolach7571 say that to the person who drew the reservation boundaries

[@swagguy7515]

Serval complications occur, like where is this land gonna come from? How are we gonna get the water needed to supply it?

[@Harsh-tf9he]

@@swagguy7515 you see, a desert is dry, and does not have water, but the nice countryside grassland is not as dry as a desert and plants need water, so if it's not dry it must rain a bit more, which helps the crops grow and replenish the river

[@irandoosty]

Farming in Arizona is a crazy idea that should be stopped or drastically reduced.

[@Lilmickcrocodiledundee0001]

Right!!?

[@phyllisirwin5660]

Then where, East has been flooded, midwest tornados. Maybe Artic?

[@Twistex]

@@phyllisirwin5660 really, a tornados MAYBE take out 200 acres of farm land a year in the Midwest, that’s nothing

[@motoz30]

@@phyllisirwin5660 getting easier and easier to spot people who've never had a vegetable garden. a 1/4 acre plot can literally feed hundreds upon hundreds. "east has been flooded...midwest tornados..." holy hell. the level of complete stupidity is awe inspiring.

[@uniquehomi3]

I agree

[@timcross2510]

There is a reason it's called a desert. It is short of water.

[@TEMC8888]

😅

[@srtdetonator5272]

Correct! Stop trying to change nature

[@jumpingblue1623]

Irrigated plants do well in the desert because no bugs and rain can be problematic when leaves get wet and fungus results.

[@jesusrocha9000]

Well that river had been there a long time

[@steves2594]

Ya yet everyone moves here. This land wasnt made to sustain the amount of people we have. Has nothing to do with climate change, the usage has gone up x100000

[@gi295]

Don’t really understand why they’re trying to drum up sympathy for these massive farmers who have been draining 70%!!!! Of Arizona’s water… maybe a desert wasn’t the best place to build a farm?

[@aolvaar8792]

Growing alfalfa in the desert for China and Saudi

[@Polemic-2525]

No water means no farms. No farms means no food. I don't understand why you don't understand.

[@gabrielgonzalez6456]

@@Polemic-2525 cause a desert is not agricultural land… this was a ticking time bomb. It barely rains if at all in some parts of Arizona only a river is sustaining them while the population grows and farms grow it was bound to run out

[@44report22]

It’s not the farmers fault it’s the gated community with is private lakes, golf clubs green grass, and business techs

[@smoothiegreenburg6065]

@@Polemic-2525 almost all plants that we eat need massive amounts of water to grow. just like how you shouldnt put a pineapple farm in new england where its snowy half the year, you shouldnt put a corn farm in arizona where its dry AF 99% of the year. there are plenty of other areas in the country that can be used for farm land, a DESERT is never going to be the best option. the south gets tons of rain and sun. they went to AZ and the south west bc land is useless, dry, and therefore cheap, not bc it was suitable for farms

[@ragemodels]

The precious water is being pumped into Golf Courses where as the Native Americans have been depending on it for Generations upon Generations!!! The water Belongs to them and they know how to take care of it make them in charge of water conservation !!! 🪁💦💧💦🪁

[@lor431]

More efficient farming such as vertical farming that conserves 90% of the water we use in agriculture. It may be time to rethink farming, not to mention that we are exhausting the soil.

[@imwatchingyou439]

Lettuce is a cold crop. It can grow in colder zones and actually prefers colder climate. There's no logical reason that the nations supply has to only grow in the desert.

[@coraltown1]

it's even crazier to grow cotton in the desert

[@briezzy365]

Profit.

[@conniewolf7300]

Yep! These people think they have the right to use OUR water how ever they choose! Farmers and ranchers have abused public lands for over 100 years! They think they have a right to it! They refuse to accept that public lands belong to the people. They’re killing all of the wild horses and wolves! These people need to be booted off our public lands.

[@spockspock]

Lettuce has almost no nutritional value… eat the purslane in your yard rather than spraying it out.

[@briezzy365]

@@spockspock op never suggested spraying. Their suggestion was very helpful, unlike yours.

[@Destro9421]

Why don't things like this ever go viral?? This is what needs to be talked about

[@Mente777]

Share it don't hesitate get the word out💕

[@Cosmicsurfpro]

They are pushing the climate change agenda. It is happening but it's not man made. CA has politicized it and is putting around 70% in the delta to keep a non native fish alive. It's about imposing more control on us...

[@susanfudge1737]

It made it to mainstream news. Conservative issues don't.

[@BlackJacketJones]

@@susanfudge1737 What are some Conservative issues? What is your opinion?

[@WatchmyPlaylist.]

You are asking questions about a world that you could not even begin to understand. Go back to sleep. Dont even try

[@lcarus42]

They use the farms and locals to pull on your heart strings about how dire this is. But they ignore the fact that the water supply from the CO river is prioritized for the beverage companies in Southern CA. Have they rationed the industries water usage or just restricting the farmers and locals?

[@paddlefaster]

The beverage industry does not put a dent in the Colorado River water supply.

[@Wvanbramer]

Did you miss the part where 70% of the Colorado river water goes to ag? I have seen rice being grown near Casa Grande, AZ. Lots of low hanging fruit to be picked here.

[@lcarus42]

@@paddlefaster there's maybe a dozen of them Neste is one of them and they use over 100million gallons at just one plant.

[@lcarus42]

@@Wvanbramer yeah I saw that. But I think you missed the part where they're asking farmers and residents to cut back first. The beverage companies haven't lost a drop of their share.

[@paddlefaster]

@@lcarus42 Nestle does the same thing here in Maine. My point is that 40 million people get their drinking water from the Colorado River and Lake Mead. The soft drink companies and breweries are merely a small fraction of total youths once you factor in irrigation and diversion for hydroelectric. The true culprit is global warming and it's happening all over the world.

[@cloudiib3471]

I love how it mentions in the title a "plea for help" and in the description and lightly touches on Native Americans having to literally ration water, yet the main concern in the video seems to be about farmers in arid land can't grow in arid land. Reminds me of when my parents and grandparents would say "oh well let the kids deal with it in the future!" You play dumb games, you win dumb prizes.

[@elainemunro4621]

Hey, do a story about the micro chip manufacturer TSMC who got approval to build a big plant in Arizona. Why? These plants use a gigantic amount of water daily. Nobody talks about Arizona water impact on high tech manufacturing, because, if they did, all the politicians who approve those plans will run for cover. Check it out.

[@srtdetonator5272]

Exactly! Let's just keep building and call it climate change

[@Starfish2145]

And not to mention the Rosemont mine which wants to create an open pit copper mine in the Santa Rita mountain southeast of Tucson they will use something like 500,000s of gallons of water per day

[@Nemesis1ism]

YOU need to look into the Intel founders. They recover 90% of the water they use. TSMC is coming here because they are running out of fresh water. They will recover their water also. Food is what you need to be concerned about. I not worried I will have Manna.

[@chrishayes8197]

thanks for the heads up Elaine - I really didn't know about Tech using the water like that. No wonder we're not doing more of that manufacturing here in the States - they've got the EPA all over them, AND they're trying to do water-intensive manufacturing in THE DESERT. That's a rare kind of foolish. personally, I'm also curious why water-intensive farming is happening there at all. It's a desert - not Missouri. Plenty of dry-farm veggies to choose from, but instead they're into cotton, cattle, and citrus? Sure, those all make a buck, but it's at the publics expense if those farms and ranches are using up all the water. Seems that the thing to do would be to move ALL the bulk use water prices UP, instead of sending out the lawn nazis to ticket little old ladies for trying to keep the azaleas in their yards alive, or pretending the problem is someone running the shower for 7 minutes instead of 3. I'd assume there's more than a bit of "take a legislator out golfing" - style lobbying to keep that water flowing. Is food needed? Sure is, but if anyone is making a profit at the expense of the public (e.g. by using up their water), it's just not good business.

[@skjenco]

How dare you bring up a reasonable point that we have some control over, instead of just being alarmist.

[@realtruth3731]

Plant native crops! Farming and living in a desert requires a different relationship with water.

[@TEMC8888]

They don't listen....

[@margaretlopez8351]

@@TEMC8888 no one listens

[@bonpaoi4736]

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[@dalewilson908]

Exactly, I hate that the government is giving farmers incentives to farm here and allow them to pollute the lakes and rivers with runoff.

[@lptvboy]

What do you mean we are running out of water? As he stands in the middle of green field of plants sucking the rivers dry with a dry barren desert in the background.

[@kayelyward8714]

We have to begin talking about how to live through a drought which means reducing the amount of water we consume in the southwest.

[@MercedesBentz]

It's the Native American Indian "Reservations" that Should Be The Primary Concern for this issue here. They are doing the Right Thing already! Haven't the sacrificed Enough?

[@primeracalidad8320]

they've been subsidised for decades. probably have a casino on the reservation and make fire water from what they take from the river

[@stanich054]

You've just earned three feathers for your headband. For moccasin beads you must comment on the " Tomahawk Chop"...

[@katherinebutler4054]

Arizona is not a place naturally meant for farming. And now you see why.

[@ortegonadam]

Sad but true. I'm in Arizona and it's just small mom pop farms mostly trying to make it out here... can't compete with big companies using gmo foods and such... it's just sad that America is being crippled. We used to produce so much now we rely on import or chemicals..

[@sunshinedewes4277]

Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix were not supposed to be, they are in the Desert.

[@MrClarissacain]

@@ortegonadam look up permaculture and regenerative farming. Also direct marketing.

[@alvilla701]

@@sunshinedewes4277 no matter where we farm, if population keeps growing, there is not going to be enough food for everyone, in about 50 years world population could go from 7 billions to 14 billions, maybe even churches will be in favor of abortion

[@alphaduck2926]

@@alvilla701 Well if you think about it we are due for a WW3 so that should take the population down by a lot in the coming years. I’m not saying that this war could eliminate our population problem for a long time, but it can help bring new innovations. After every huge war it is known that we come up with better ideas and our technology grows much more than if there is no war. Necessity is the mother of all inventions. So to put it softly if WW3 happens let say in 15 years from now to which scientist are estimating the Earth will have 8 billion people then the war could eliminate literally about 3 billion people. I mean this war will be the greatest and most expensive war in history and mostly nukes will be used so it’s like the world will be at a loss for while, but for the population reduction it will be good news. About 5 billion people will be left after the war if it happens in 15 years, and probably 300 million will die later after the fallout from radiation so it’s going to be a devastating war. Also kids from the people that have radiation will be either born with defects or just have a shorter lifespan. I mean if we want to shorten population we could go the War route, but this could also mean that millions of animals will be lost and natural resources like water could be contaminated for a while. Another solution would be to have like a Martial Law in place in every country but specially in the US which allows the US military and police to detain and kill people by the millions without using nukes to affect the environment. This would be a genocide like the one Hitler did, but it would probably kill only like 300 million people world wide. Forget human rights if Martial law goes into place all that will go away. But to get to my point I believe a more feasible way and also a better solution could be aliens attacking earth or a meteorite striking earth which could wipe half of earth if not more. In the end we could end up with only like 500 million human beings as would have to start all over, but the resources a meteorite brings is huge. Some meteorites bring water or other material with them so earth could indeed flourish again. Although I warn you it would be hard and slow for life to get back to its original numbers, because after an asteroid you also get a lot of volcanoes going on like for example the Yellowstone volcano could be woken up and there goes another 100 million gone. In the end 400 million people would have to deal it with the harsh weather brought by the aftermath of the asteroid and volcanoes. This earth would take thousands of years to get back to its feet.

[@rebeccamartin2399]

I'm amazed that no one is talking about permaculture, sustainable farming etc. In India they turned barren waste land into sustainable farms. They are also reclaiming desert in parts of Africa. Too bad no one is talking about that here.

[@jeffbruce3588]

It's coming. Just give it a chance. We need more exposure

[@chance4542]

@@jeffbruce3588 yeah only 50 more years of talking about doing it and well all be dead!

[@MrHarpic]

It’s because commercial profit making agriculture is practiced in here. In many other places, local knowledge and culture determine outcomes since many depend on the land.

[@j_jinxer]

Shhh, don’t tell the food companies, they won’t be able to subsidize funds from the government because it will be to expensive, they must keep lobbying Congress to give them water; starve and thirst the people, just so they come in and offer you food for 💰Welcome to capitalist America

[@jimmygrant424]

And they won't either!!! It's all about FEAR to bring in the NEW WORLD ORDER!!! Read your bible it has told us this for generations!!

[@claudiaperea]

Agriculture in America should have never moved away from diversity and toward monoculture. We need syntropic Agriculture, not the current entropic.

[@peterussell673]

I hope somebody in position to make a change is reading this. Diverting some water in Wyoming (possibly from the Snake River headwaters) into the Flaming Gorge Reservoir and raising the winter time flows of the Green River (which flows into the Colorado River) could help refill Lake Mead.

[@cinowhite9355]

The Disrespect still for Natives is unbelievable!

[@LeJunny]

did you even watch the video? they’re getting some form of funding, might not be the desired amount but it’s still something. this doesn’t just have to do with Natives it’s affecting other Americans as well, stop trying to make this about negligence towards specific race

[@khismet]

They titled this video "Native Americans..." yet only spent 2.2 minutes of this 7 min speaking about the the Natives! The DISRESPECT IS REAL🤬

[@khismet]

@@LeJunny You need to open your blinders and see the Real World issue here! So what the Natives are getting $$ they don't need money...THEY NEED WATER!

[@yelrahc_irot]

Tribes have been feeling the drought for decades, once the cities that rely on the water supply on the reservation start feeling the heat then it becomes a problem and all of a sudden something needs to be done

[@edenswaterislife9214]

The other night I dreamed women began to call out to Eden (Mother Nature). The waters drew back and a wave rose up. Proverbs 3:18 Grab hold of wisdom for she is the tree of life. The only verse I need because Eden feeds me wisdom greater than mans knowoedge.

[@1breezy]

Ok so do you want them to do nothing

[@yelrahc_irot]

Why does it matter what I want haha

[@fullaregrets5015]

@Private Setting Good luck drinking dust, dude.

[@yelrahc_irot]

Rez trash? Lol wow okay.

[@cosmoqueso637]

Just imagine how much could have been saved if they stared caring decades ago ...

[@jake.notfromstatefarm]

3:52-6:01 to hear about the Natives you might've clicked for. Their contribution isn't making new water for those reservoirs, it's reallocating an already-strained water supply from reservations to the general population. Also: sacrificing land and food for non-Native people isn't a "new commitment." Once again they're keeping Americans alive, now following a climatological mess that they created.

[@scha0306]

Not sorry to hear that growing water-intensive crops like cotton in one of the hottest parts of the Sonoran Desert(!) is now somehow proving untenable. That this sort of agriculture EVER happened in the Sonoran Desert, at all, was the height of water wastefulness and absurdity, and its extinction is long overdue.

[@piggyman8432]

yep, but its not only going to effect the water wasting idiots but other normal people like us :/ so its not just their problem but ours

[@em945]

It happens here in Australia too. Madness. Death to the regions surrounding.

[@DailyWireThirdStringer]

I live in Central California. I can hardly even remember what rain LOOKS like, let alone how it smells the morning after. It was partly cloudy today, and that by itself was enough to lift my spirits ever so slightly. If there ever was "too much of a good thing," sunny weather in California is it.

[@Freddy_Confetti]

It rained yesterday

[@topnews1007]

Trump said that the rain will come it just takes time.

[@chiefjoseph8154]

Maybe there’s an app for that?

[@topnews1007]

@@Jj-gi2uv they need to work together with the farmers

[@blakeh8582]

@@topnews1007 rains every week where I live.

[@JoeFromCanada93]

Props to the doggo for remaining disciplined before the camera.

[@eddies6977]

I've only been hearing this would happen for 30 years. What a shock!

[@athenabryant1272]

These tribes deserve the help they are asking for. I hope and pray that they get it!

[@ruoazquara6070]

Don’t hold your breathe they’re usually the ones who get cut off first

[@marztitus3472]

These “tribes” took a deal from the US government knowing darn well they aren’t the original natives of this land … what goes around comes around I suppose

[@athenabryant1272]

@@marztitus3472 they are the one's who have the land and are living on it so it's theirs to fight for regardless of who had it first.

[@athenabryant1272]

@@ruoazquara6070 Praying and hoping involves breathing otherwise it would be powerless.

[@quaintonquaint5486]

@@marztitus3472 no they were forced to or their population would be wiped from the planet pretty much.

[@Matt-yq4zr]

Typical example of humans greed on how they don't care about the environment. it's disgusting to think a river of that size could dry up.

[@william3982]

You do not believe the heat could bring the water to new time lows?

[@chriswincek8672]

@@william3982 doing water intensive agriculture in the desert doesn't help.

[@william3982]

Not if it is evaporating

[@Independentmusician]

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[@veggieboyultimate]

We seriously need to change how we do agriculture because this is what our current method of farming does. Also a shoutout to the Colorado River Native American tribes.

[@timothye5936]

My neighbors lawns are so lush-you can tell they’re very proud

[@gwenreader6631]

So no one is going to talk about how much of this water is siphoned off to support Phoenix, which is ever expanding population wise?

[@katherynscleaning5807]

City's have the rights to water over farmers. They would rather have green grass then have green salad on there tables.

[@tamara_diamonds422]

@@katherynscleaning5807 But there’s more to a farm than just green grass. The animals and fruits that are grown and fed on farms that you and your family eat. Farms are a big part of the food chain. With that gone and grocery stores can’t stock up. You will be saying something different.

[@gi295]

@@tamara_diamonds422 so go and move your farm somewhere that isn’t a desert then. We shouldn’t have to give up all our water so farmers can continue growing in a place that isn’t well suited to growing crops. They made a shitty investment, we shouldn’t have to subsidize their idiocy

[@josephalberta1145]

@@gi295 Then with that reasoning we have to move those millions of people in cities out of the desert to a more sustainable area as well. Rather have green food than green gas and car washes.

[@tamara_diamonds422]

@@gi295 So go move my farm. That’s your assumption based on a comment? Btw. I live in a city.

[@shaytheo]

Eat seasonally and locally. Stop pretending that growing in yhe desert is a good idea.

[@nyck]

lol right i’m thinking this whole video likes, it is called a desert for a reason…

[@samshepperrd]

You seldom know where produce is grown. A lot of those "locally grown" veggies at "farmer's markets" were bought downtown and grown on factory farms hundreds of miles away.

[@samshepperrd]

@Vince James I Hay and alfalfa are not crops. They are livestock fodder. You're right though. The water wasted on the prince's horses and Japanese gourmet beef ought be going to growing food in America for Americams.

[@samshepperrd]

@Vince James you want to finish that sentence my maybe I can reply.

[@samshepperrd]

@Vince James well great. Maybe you'd be happy to know that China is another of the countries sucking the Colorado River dry by their bottomless demand for livestock fodder.

[@senicanastasia]

Please do allow water to be privatized. Rationing might sound awful, but it's better than privatizing!

[@clintwestwood1895]

Humans: we don't care if we live in a vast Desert, Give me water. Earth: I did the best I could man, you took it all.

[@thomasridley8675]

A growing demand on a limited supply. What could go wrong !!!

[@InHisService333]

"Be Still " by Gooden and Cohen I've come a long way still have a longer way to go it's been a Lonely Road but I know I'm not alone sometimes the going has gotten tough and I was down could not get it up but when my Sin I had enough Jesus took me by the hand Be still and know that I am God With me there's nothing that's too hard I'll get you through I've left it all behind To find the one above I had to die inside To Forgive and learn to love I've found that letting go Turns faith into a rope and so now I'm holding on to the only one who gives me hope. Be still and know that I am God With me there's nothing that's too hard I'll get you through it! The Music Video kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3XIpKh8mJJ1m5o

[@thomasridley8675]

@@InHisService333 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Gooden ?!? Really ???? Sweet Jesus Farts !!!! That guy is an idiot !!!

[@ironnorse]

Turn to the Israelis who have paved the way for many other nations, having learned what it takes to grow massive crops in the desert, from strawberries to oranges; grapes to olives. Mangoes are becoming very popular as are avocado. Watermelons can be seen growing in huge crop fields, not a sprinkler in sight, miles from any river or lake.

[@tonimarie100]

Really? Interesting…

[@ironnorse]

@@tonimarie100 doesnt take much to verify!

[@AugustusAsgeir]

As someone who lives in Arizona this is and has been concerning. Not sure exactly what can be done

[@jennydelaflor2087]

Drip is okay, but at this point we need to start applying 99% efficient crop to water efficiency. We have the methods, we need to work smarter.

[@Rowed]

Drip is always okay 💯 🔥 🔥/s

[@stanich054]

I'm currently enduring a post Nasal drip without my nose spray j👃

[@blackwidow6729]

And what are those methods?

[@ericcaloosa371]

@@blackwidow6729 for starters, growing more food in water rich florida would be a good start. Why are people growing food and using so much water in the desert?

[@jennydelaflor2087]

@@blackwidow6729 Aeroponics are also a thing, i learned today. lol

[@magicalhealerclairvoyant521]

Stop fracking and the huge amounts of water the process uses

[@Fckcommies]

Things like Cloud seeding also needs to stop, anything that disrupts the natural flow of weather has consequences. Cloud seeding may make it rain in that one area but takes the rain fall away from others down the line it a documented reality in places like here in ND. Asia is very open when it comes to there large cloud seeding operations and look at all the huge floods constantly happening there. Who's to say that this couldn't have an effect on the moisture that the west cost is suppose to receive.

[@3John-Bishop]

Illegal immigrants taking a lot of water too. Increasing our carbon footprint also.

[@elnabjelland-hughes8172]

I think farmers are the most important people who should be getting the water I don’t care about casinos I do care that people can grow their crops and provide food for everyone.

[@phyllisirwin5660]

Water is more valuable than gold, earth priceless! Space travel warms us up even more!

[@powerralley]

The nature of being the boss. You make big money when business is good, but when times are bad... You gotta deal with it.

[@masonfarnsworth6730]

I took my chevy to the levy but the levy was....

[@tam1729]

@@masonfarnsworth6730 dry

[@masonfarnsworth6730]

@Hai Voaijouan juan little banana wong.

[@annwalker5494]

Good luck dealing with no water.

[@haveaniceday5693]

@@annwalker5494 they will make u pay to hydrate if u can afford it, also water bottles is the privatization of water as a whole and more importantly for the controllers it has conditioned and prepared so yes gl with no water

[@KLara-ig7fr]

We should not be “farming” in the DESERT.

[@sightlocs349]

Yeah, we should just build more casinos in Vegas. The stadium swim at Circa is amazing

[@larmiisoren2568]

False, we need more indigenous farming all across the land haha. More growth means more water held in the land, our barren landscapes now show us what happens with minimal management and poor development practices of the last century and further. WE need less cutting down and paving of forests, grasslands and such, less master planned suburban rural communities centered around the automobile. The watersheds have gone largely ignored under American control leading to degradation and desertification.

[@gh4kr]

It's funny how farming is the main problem to you when Vegas is using most of the water that is extracted from the Colorado River.

[@Kathy-kr1sv]

I was in California 1980 and saw the waste of water Crops were on raised ground and the trenches between were flooded with water. How can that NOT be stupid if not criminal

[@jonryan5339]

Stop relying on the Colorado River for all your water, and drill deeper wells in California to cover your water needs.

[@bonniecline5014]

Prayers to The Great Spirit for water to flow to my Native American brothers & Sisters....the original farmers

[@stanich054]

@i hate you skum Stay positive. Another bus is due there in less than 30 minutes...Albeit a short one...

[@monkshavano3613]

Our city pumps 300,000 dollars into a golf course,that only takes in 90,000 ,it's built in the middle of a desert,we are one of the poorest counties in Colorado,good old delta,with it's good old boys,wake up idiots!!!!

[@bonniecline5014]

@@stanich054 😂😂😂

[@tjr4459]

It’s a desert, those areas were never supposed to be farmed on…

[@mnandeazy34]

That's exactly why the government put them on those lands. They expected the Natives to die once they left them.

[@jayee42099]

Almost like they were forced there. Dense is an understatement.

[@RobertSJHu]

We need to help the people that live in this southwestern area with the WATER PROBLEM. Robert S.J. Hu

[@robedmund9948]

Native Americans of the Southwest know better than anyone how to manage water and the detrimental effects of not managing it correctly. They have lived through historical broughts and survived. Best to listen to them.

[@enticingmay435]

It also doesn’t help that everyone and their mother is moving to this part of the country, especially to places like Vegas and Phoenix. The desert can not support endless urban sprawl and unmanaged population growth. Also stop growing cotton, lettuce, and almonds in the desert.

[@haoadams]

Almond milk

[@somestuffithoughtyoumightl6985]

Exactly, look up how much water it takes to grow almonds, it’s nutz

[@ericcaloosa371]

I dont get the thoughts of growing food in the desert. Thats a huge aspect of this.

[@haoadams]

@@ericcaloosa371 Egypt did this, but they are manufacturing earth's natural cycle. This turns out to be more detrimental than other methods of production.

[@VitalXtreme]

California is allocated most of the water from the Colorado River. Nevada as a whole uses a mere 4%, Arizona is allocated 37.3%, and California a woping 58.7%. Most of that water is used by the local farmers, large businesses and residential homes. Read more about the Colorado River Compact with the link below. I had to do a report about this in history class years ago. Everyone blames cities like vegas when in reality even if vegas stopped using all of its water the river would still dry up. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact

[@smoke7732]

Building a city in the middle of a desert sounds like a real wise idea

[@jeff9062]

When rent is $3800 a month in the city where else are you supposed to go?

[@kountrygunz2032]

@@jeff9062 to college

[@kountrygunz2032]

@@TheViewTube4U sarcasm brother

[@Lennyst]

We have no choice but to go to the desert. It is time to colonize other planets and not worry about politics.

[@jeff9062]

@@kountrygunz2032 No, you mean get a government job. College gets you know where these days. 50% for Brandon.

[@weirdvlogs4200]

Most of the Colorado River also irrigates thru the Imperial Valley. Where alot of produce, like for broccoli season will probably not have water.

[@michellebeckstrom6110]

"Conserve across all sectors" DOES THAT INCLUDE THE PROLIFERATION OF GOLF COURSES IN THE DESERT???

[@cursed_multicel]

"Where are we gonna get our groceries from?" -guy growing cotton in the desert

[@georgiakicklighter5943]

Totally came here to say this.

[@GoGoPooerRangers]

Are some of you really this dense? He's literally a farmer, just like the farmers that grow our groceries! He understands what they are going through...i swear we need to invest in climate change but also the damn education system esp. if you can't deduce what he was implying. Smh the internet has made people ignorant and dumb af

[@GoGoPooerRangers]

@Shango you sound like a zealot...that doesn't help either so 🤫

[@zestamaster]

It wasn't always a desert. 60 years ago arizona was full of cottonwood forrests But go ahead and be smarmy

[@jamesmallard8815]

@@zestamaster lol sorry the sonoran desert has been here for thousands of years

[@willybones3890]

When you can't farm without irrigation and pumping water from wells then you have a unsustainable farm.

[@jenniferellis5776]

Mans wickedness will bring disaster eventually we p\t God out of every thing man can only be successful when God is in it he owns and control every thing

[@LovinLife-pv7op]

Well, duh. Part of the reason the river is drying out is those farming irrigation systems that use TONS and TONS of water. I live in southern Indiana which has a lot of rain annually. But every year in the dry season, our home water well loses pressure to the point we have to go to the laundromat in town (which has city water) to do our laundry. It has happened every year for the last eleven years since the farmers up the road all put in these irrigation systems.

[@diannagerber292]

Well, let's look at all of the things that are causing this. Part of this has to do with trying to grow food on land that is not desirable to grow crops on. Another part is building communities, and expanding communities in areas where the land cannot support the number of people living there.

[@danielmorse6597]

I love this guys dog. Just a chunky old dog. Watching his dad talk to the pretty lady. Awww.

[@ellenmoseley3824]

Me too...💕

[@atmslotsjfreezevlogs5877]

He also almost lost his steps to

[@thematriarchy2075]

It's a female dog, looking at the female reporter, and hoping that there will be no patronizing comments about her or the reporter in the comment section of the video.

[@danielmorse6597]

@SleepyGirl no. I just like to see humans be nice

[@danielmorse6597]

@@thematriarchy2075 really...get out of thd basement

[@jennydelaflor2087]

There is extreme water waste coming from corporations and companies too, either by human error or high pressure water faucets and bad water etiquette Americans are notorious for.

[@David_Robert]

Hello 👋 how are you doing?

[@patpeluso8303]

Farmer may want to try putting sum shade screen over his crop.The water would go lil further,Id think,not much,Im sure tho EVERY DROP COUNTS

[@walkersunited332]

Finally I see more videos of this that has more likes. IDK why so many people dislike on videos that talk about global warming crisis.

[@kristianyesca8704]

Maybe stop planting grass everywhere ?!? Native plants can keep areas cool using less water

[@marypatten9655]

Ever heard of Peter Andrew's from Australia. He has developed a land reclamination plan that turn desert lands into water sheds. In addition, we need to be replanting our burned forest as fast as we can.

[@TonyMontana-fs3lu]

Shut your mouth

[@robertqueberg4612]

Replanting the burned over forests, is what should be done under “normal” conditions. I would seriously doubt that planted seedlings will survive in an environment as dry as it is currently, with no improvement in the foreseeable future. Humans in increasingly greater numbers seem to be a major part of this problem. Maybe they need to cut back on all the things that are not necessary. As for the hillside forests, leaving things to nature may be the best path. The plants that can survive in our current world, will grow from the seeds that are left behind. I would be inclined to leave the stumps, burned trunks, ashes, and other remnants as they are. In other forest fires, plants grow back, although not as quickly as we would all like to see. One of the major weaknesses of humans, is the disability to know that they are not always right. When things could become much worse, would be with a turn from drought to seemingly endless rains. Major calamities like these that we are living through should help people realize that we are better problem makers, than solvers.

[@luckymepyro9802]

@@TonyMontana-fs3lu That's not nice , bully much ? I should report You

[@italilagu6501]

Need to turn their prayer to God tru His Son we can be saved♡

[@wendyb6446]

Honestly, that's a hell of a big farm there. And, you want to know where the water is going? What about drinking water? Are farmers the reason? Why aren't they fighting climate change instead of whining that they aren't getting the water they used to. If your horse is lame, it's time to change horses in the middle of the stream.

[@steelemedia]

Growing cotton in AZ? Cotton is a thirsty crop. Wow!

[@chewythief2079]

Refreshing

[@TEMC8888]

Stuck on stupid!

[@bonniecline5014]

They like copying Texas😁

[@cannabisreformu.k5785]

Australia is having the same problem due to wine makers

[@steelemedia]

@@TEMC8888 astonishingly stupid and wasteful. Cotton is a crop for the delta, not the desert.

[@jennifernelsen1469]

Prayers for change and rain and especially healing. 🙏❤

[@TheRandompaint]

1:16 I love how the dog is just chilling

[@DontUputThatEvilOnMe]

I heard this year is going to be another dry year for the southwest. While other places are expected get pounded with snow and rain. The Rocky mountains in Colorado suppose to get more than average snow this year so maybe that will help.

[@iraniansuperhacker4382]

its almost as if giant fields of monocrops in the desert are a bad idea and are not sustainable in the long run.

[@benlong3016]

Arazona is naturally a desert! By irrigation your tweeking nature! Nature doesn't always cooperate every year! If your a farmer you already know that!

[@kathleenking4315]

Which is why they need to send all those urban types back east WITH their grass lawns and swimming pools. And prohibit corporate irrigation subssidized farming.

[@benlong3016]

As well as Los Vegas. We have man made Oasis that depend on the mighty Colorado and the demand only goes up! I can see why a farmer would want to create a artificial environment without pest, and weeds that exist where it rains. This year the Old South has gotten a excess of rain! But also a bumper crop of cuckle burr, bore worms, bole wevels and a newer one, army worms!😖

[@felixthecat2786]

It was never really an issue decades ago. It's becoming an issue because corporate farms are literally sucking all of the water out of the ground. You can farm in these areas, but the super mega corporate farming is stupid.

[@annacassell488]

40 million people that's a lot of people 💯🙏🙏🙏

[@sarahphillips8987]

Part of the problem going forward is water law traditionally out west means first come, first served. Laws are going to need to be updated to reflect this new reality.

[@wsmcke]

It's insane that people are farming in the desert....

[@os2958]

except for Native Americans who didn't have much say

[@wsmcke]

@@os2958 I agree... The Hopi and Navajo (Dine), were sheep herders and farmers, so yeah.

[@bassreeves2410]

pinks will do anything for money: patricide, filicide ,matricide ,etc. destroying a land for economic gain is nothing to them.

[@InHisService333]

"Be Still " by Gooden and Cohen I've come a long way still have a longer way to go it's been a Lonely Road but I know I'm not alone sometimes the going has gotten tough and I was down could not get it up but when my Sin I had enough Jesus took me by the hand Be still and know that I am God With me there's nothing that's too hard I'll get you through I've left it all behind To find the one above I had to die inside To Forgive and learn to love I've found that letting go Turns faith into a rope and so now I'm holding on to the only one who gives me hope. Be still and know that I am God With me there's nothing that's too hard I'll get you through it! The Music Video kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3XIpKh8mJJ1m5o

[@dalenedaylean3555]

80% of California's present water usage goes to agriculture. Insane usage ratio. Arizona's is 74%.

[@australianews]

30% of Agriculture in the US is exported . Australia is even worse 60% is exported . Selling the environment for profit, move to renewable and get farmers producing power before we destroy what is left.

[@LK-pc4sq]

Go hydroponic 96% water retention.

[@ropersix]

70% of the almonds grown in CA are exported!

[@Jack-fo4su]

This situation reminds of the book, "the giving tree".

[@jerrypeal653]

The river isn’t drying up the lakes etc. are being sucked dry . I don’t know how the flows are declining when we keep getting told we have record snowpack in Colorado.

[@pillbertdidit]

Every school should be teaching people now how to farm and to use what water we have left to farm in their own homes and backyards. Starting a garden this year is very important for next year and the following years

[@Arcvde]

My sons school teaches him agriculture and farming. He’s loving it and I think it is awesome

[@jamesorr2832]

Good luck keeping the bugs from eating it.

[@pillbertdidit]

@@jamesorr2832 Their is plants that you can grow also that repel bugs with out any chemicals.

[@TEMC8888]

Growing food in that dry environment is insanity in the 1st place

[@ginasmith5464]

Stop using deserts for grow ….. alfalfa in the desert like come on , golf courses and communities in the deserts seriously then complaining about water . We don’t see that without water we will die .

[@StankyCoyote]

It is the dams. Can’t really fix it without getting rid of all those dams. How can you increase the water supply without removing the dams? SOMEONE, please explain to me. I don’t understand. From Wikipedia: fifteen dams “The Colorado runs 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, draining parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The river system is one of the most heavily developed in the world, with fifteen dams on the main stem of the Colorado and hundreds more on tributaries.”

[@daviel]

Since 2000 scientists warned and farmers just kept on farming more and more and expanding the farmland even bigger. Who could've expect that massive river would've look like the way it is now? Isn't it convenient to just include the Native Americans, I'm sure they can't afford to own the farms. What damage did they do?

[@willybones3890]

If anyone has a claim to the water it should be the Native Americans. That's a no brainer.

[@theuniverse5173]

Proof that allah is real kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3WXh4iJd7t2g5I

[@sammatsusaka823]

Nothing to worry about. This is nature, silly. It's natural. It's a common cycle. Indian's can do their RAIN DANCE. Right?

[@sambritt9231]

People are just fuckin hard headed

[@WatchmyPlaylist.]

Fk the river. We got communist zionist taking over the western world!

[@realamerican8069]

To be honest this area wasn’t always a desert.. It’s time to farm crops that doesn’t require a lot of water..

[@realamerican8069]

@T Markart so.. was it always a desert or no? I never timestamped .. this desert area used to be ocean.. captain obvious clearly it wasn’t 5 years ago lol 🤡

[@donaldducko6580]

@@realamerican8069 rather than argue let’s just see this for what it is pushing a BS climate change agenda, agenda 21, agenda 2030. It’s no coincidence they say we have 9 years to act and that happens to be 2030. The next major “pandemic” btw. Mark my words. It’s also the result of failed liberal policies. So rather than keep voting for the SOS expecting different results we could stop doing that.

[@steves2594]

@@donaldducko6580 has nothing to do with climate change. In the past 10 years people have moved to Colorado, cali, and arizona more than anywhere else. The river was fine until too many people moved here.

[@steves2594]

@@jds3068 stop crying and writing paragraphs on youtube lmao. No one is going to read your trash 🗑

[@jeffbruce3588]

Boom!!!

[@Lotsielots]

Plant tall heges as buffers for the wind!!! Why don't you have fields disected and bordered by hedges if you are serious about reducing evaporation and soil erosion?

[@YettiFrog]

Move to Kentucky.. we have the 2nd most amount of rivers and creek in the USA.. the most is Alaska and Kentucky rarely freezes

[@_warriorpoet_6499]

The drought began within a couple years of the completion of Glen Canyon dam, and it is all due to Hoover and Glen Canyon dams, because this altered nature’s natural seasonal order, which is predicted upon the rivers run wild, and the Colorado River running into the Baja precipitates average monsoon rain, which in turn creates more snowfall during the winters. Unless they release the water from the dams, and have the river water running into the Baja preceding the monsoon season, then we are headed to a global disaster.

[@Dlahusen1]

That’s just false. The drought is a couple of years not decades in the process

[@bloodyhelice4284]

This started in 1922 when they allotted 15 million acre feet of water to the states along the river even though the river produces 2 million acre-feet less than that a year. Even if a state doesn't use its allotment for the year they take what they didn't use at the end of the year and use it to refill ground aquifers or have the option to sell their allotment to California who requests all unused water.

[@_warriorpoet_6499]

@@Dlahusen1 have you ever seen where the water lines are behind the dams, and how far the water has already receded from the Baja? That all began to happen once mankind damned the rivers, and there is no denying that fact. There are studies that show long this has all been going on, and the timing of the construction of those dams is the common denominator in all studies on the causes of this disaster. There is a course in nature , that had stayed its course ions before man arrived here, then all of a sudden that change (after) the construction of the dams! Common sense.. you either understand, or you don’t.

[@masonfarnsworth6730]

I took my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry..

[@LK-pc4sq]

Warrior has nothing to do with that. Co2 emissions keep increasing. co2 will alow photons from the sun to pass though it, because it is a short wave length, but when photons hit the ground, it converts to long wavelength IR light that wants to go back into space, but co2 blocks most of it and 93% of that heat energy is eventually absorbed by the worlds oceans. NOAA said that climate change is accelerating Laninia and Elninio.

[@pennyroyal3813]

Too bad solar panels aren't a solution in this sunny, desert area for electricity.

[@pennyroyal3813]

@Deborah TheMiorgan Sarcasm often doesn't work when written. I was referring to falling water levels reducing the ability to produce electricity.

[@coolchrisj]

They still won’t admit solar is not as economical as it portrayed. The pure size of turbines in dams is unbeatable.

[@biggestD318]

Wow, I randomly Google map this about a month ago now its in the news!

[@mathization]

maybe consdider various methods of crop shading. Solar panels is a modern method, but it could also be cheap tiltable plastic panels. Deep reserves of water also need to be considered.

[@l.ls.8890]

Las Angeles and San Diego are located in california. California should have implemented Desalination plants years ago and use all that natural water from the Pacific.

[@myownboss1]

Right! Instead we Californianians continue to spend billions on a high speed train to nowhere! Should’ve been building and maintaining reservoirs or desalination plants…

[@bonniecline5014]

Totally right

[@kristianyesca8704]

As much as i like that idea too the only major downside is the byproduct of brine that’s harmful to the marine life, is someone finds a use for the brine it could solve the problem

[@dreamsofturtles1828]

​@Stanislas Meyerhoff It always feel like we have painted ourselves into a corner. I still think that simply living with less will solve alot of problems. Once people find the true joy that lies within, interest in unnecessary externals will dwindle. This actually happens.

[@phillupspace3534]

California would have plenty of water if Arizona wasnt stealing it to water golf courses in the desert.

[@neolibertarian5492]

Good luck telling wealthier residents of these desert areas to give up their swimming pools and maybe we should give up our baby lettuces and greens in the dead of winter

[@danyellerobinson5940]

The segment focuses on the economics but ignores the importance of water to human life. Farms will still get water as people are forced to ration. Tribes have been stewards since time immemorial. They are the experts in sustainability. It's time to listen.

[@1BlackopsGuru]

i worked at a grocery store in produce and the amount of waste is staggering, we would throw away 3-4 large wheelie-style garbage bins full to the top of produce every day. lots of the produce was still perfectly edible it just didn't look pretty enough to go on the shelf. this was only at 1 out of 3 big grocery stores in my relatively small town of 50,000. I can't imagine what the waste is like in cities with millions of people.

[@melaniegraywolf3823]

Join in prayer with us for Lake Mead and the Colorado River, fast and pray for rain and even monsoons please, thank you🙏🦅