Our drinking water - Is the world drying up? | DW Documentary

[@SuhoPak]

i like water

[@2loaves388]

You know water isnt real right

[@sally7011]

@@2loaves388 woah 😂

[@ahoosifoou4211]

@@2loaves388 look at the huge brain this guy has

[@2loaves388]

@@ahoosifoou4211 unlike you a subhuman yes it is. How about you read a book for once

[@artman12]

@@2loaves388 Birds aren’t real, round earth isn’t real, and now water isn’t real??? Can’t tell if people today are joking or actually believe it.

[@lim8581]

Watching this documentary was truly eye-opening. The urgency of preserving our planet's precious water resources couldn't be more evident. From the Swiss Alps to the depths of the Mediterranean, it's a stark reminder of our responsibility. Thank you for shedding light on this crucial issue.

[@arnehofoss9109]

OK! So you think the sun are going too cool down? This fairytail are one year old. What has happened in the world since then. A lot of rain all over the earth. So, as long as the sun shine there will be plenty of fresh water.

[@davidsiegfriedklinger2422]

​@arnehofoss9109 you're another social media "expert". God help us!

[@fluxcapacitor1621]

California doesn't have a water shortage. We have a corporate greed problem. 80% of California’s water is used by agriculture and many of the crops shouldn’t be grown in California. It takes 1,900 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of almonds. California supplies 80% of the world's supply. It takes 1,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of pistachios. California supplies 99% of the nation's supply. Growers have added over 173,540 acres of pistachio trees in the last 5 years. Residents aren't the problem. It's corporate agriculture and they keep increasing consumption. They've figured out that annual crops are subjected to water restrictions but if they switch to perennial crops(nuts), they're guaranteed a continuous supply. Corporations and shareholders are only motivated by profits. They don’t care if they drain our state dry in the process.

[@prolarka]

"They don’t care if they drain our state dry in the process." But that is not profitable.

[@jokers7890]

Well said. The real underlying problem with clean water access is inequality, or the need for capitalism to turn water into a profitable commodity. Until access to clean water is a universal human right with public or socialist ownership, there will continue to be a lack of planning to meet the needs of humanity. The privatization of clean water is a existential humanitarian crises which clearly exposes the problems of capitalism.

[@Kosovar_Chicken]

Also over 20 million people aren’t supposed to live in the desert

[@pinuuturner7777]

Most of the water California uses is from the Colorado River, which borders Nevada and Arizona . Unfortunately those states get very little because of California's greed. Much of that water goes to golf courses and unused swimming pools.

[@Kosovar_Chicken]

@@pinuuturner7777 seldom see unused swimming pools.

[@bradmetcalf5333]

I can’t seem to get enough of these DW documentaries

[@joelnunez355]

This is why research on how to easily convert saltwater into drinking water is very important. Maybe even more important than reaching mars, or other meaningless voyages at this point of time in our history. We should focus on the sea, maybe even exploring and mapping our entire ocean.

[@barrettstokes3136]

Absolutely!! We need to focus on our planet before showboating!!

[@insAneTunA]

That is not the solution, because it will use a lot of energy and it will never be enough to supply the entire food chain from start to end with fresh water. However, there is a solution to restore dry land and the natural water table from the land so that the land becomes fertile and alive again, and it is called permaculture. With permaculture they use contour swales and ponds to harvest and store fresh water so that it can naturally refill the natural water table and aquifers, and to prevent fast run of from fresh water. And with permaculture they also use specific plants and trees and bio mass to restore the natural biological system and to ad natural nutrients, bacteria and fungi to the soil, and to stop the erosion of fertile soil, and to prevent evaporation of the water from the soil. There are many examples about permaculture here on youtube, but Geoff Lawton is a big name in the permaculture world. And if you want to follow a relative recently started high quality permaculture project you can also watch the following channel which I highly recommend if you want to understand more about permaculture and restoring the land and the natural water tables, ▶ Polyculture Farms Dryland Permaculture. Some African countries are applying permaculture at a huge scale with huge successes, for example Ethiopia. Which used to be a country with a lot of famine, but in recent years Ethiopia has done a lot to make the land fertile again based on the principles of permaculture.

[@joelnunez355]

@@insAneTunA good, I hope we improve on that.

[@thisnthat7760]

Like ,as if those "elites" cared about us enough that they'll give a damn .

[@edgardosanjuan8221]

Ice will melt in the polar region and may fall back to other parts of the planet, ultimately reaching the sea . The cycle repeats. No worries on drying water. It will go back to Earth's surface in the form of rain or snow. Technologies are already in place in capturing moisture from the air and desalinating seawater using solar energy.

[@reneeleuther7937]

DW should push these informative docs into schools everywhere!

[@Flamingpins]

The Republicans would just try to ban them

[@cksh4182]

we have fake news people who think Global warming is still fake.

[@philipsamuelsen7904]

What most far left climate calamity ideologues don't realize is that the train has already left the station. People across the spectrum who own businesses, run large corporations etc already agree clean is the way to go minus the social engineering. The close mindedness in calamity camp will be left behind. Climate calamity scientists have built an industry around the narrative. The goal posts have been moved so many times and the next generation is asking hard questions that angers many in the industry.

[@hbahoo]

More info and politicizing it, are not the answer!! We’ve been bombarded by such stuff for years. Did that change the majorities behaviour?? No!

[@ashes_menagerie]

Let's help them do it by showing our youth

[@nathanjarboe4927]

Earth is not loosing any water, its just stuck in the wrong places and we need to artificially put it in the right place.

[@1960ARC]

They've been controlling the weather for years.

[@kumara5492]

Yes, it's stuck in human bodies , since human body is 65 percent water. Human population will decrease due to war and the water will return back to where it came from.

[@Quiddiey]

​@@kumara5492Got a bit curious and had to do the math on water stuck in humans here. Fun facts 6.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 liters of available fresh water on earth atm (by googling, not frozen etc), 360.000.000.000 liters tied up in human bodies. Dividing it gives that you would get like 0,000000000006% extra "fresh water" from going from 8billion to --> 0 people. But all that aside maintaining our lifestyle takes a huge amount of freshwater thou lol.

[@gregorizi]

Deforestation create erosion of fertile earth, lose of humidity, potentially loss of water. Water near cities is totally polluted. In that aspect we are drinking something that is poisoned with our work. The chlorine in our drinking water is pure poison to us and all biological creatures.

[@gregorizi]

@@kumara5492 That is total lie, 65% of water can not have solid structure and if that was real that we have that amount of water in our body, we would lose 65% of our weight when we die and that is not the case. Same is with lies that human body has same amount of blood. Our modern medical science is total lol.

[@shinku2826]

Governments saying "we need to fight global warming NOW" has the same energy as "Thoughts and Prayers". Drastic (and necessary) changes won't be made until it's too late.

[@thegreataynrand7210]

Too late for what? Doomsday ain't coming. Also the ideas you people come up with for"drastic change" would cause mass poverty and stone age living.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

It's been "too late" for over 100 years, now, but, Humans keep adding more inhabitants to a failed environment. ✌

[@PG-3462]

@@thegreataynrand7210 The idea YOU come up with is problematic. No, we don't need to go back to stone age. We need however to stop overconsuming and to eliminate everything that's not truly needed. For example, the average American drives big 4x4 SUVs, eat a lot of industrially produced food (which also affect people's health, but that's another topic), purchase tons of cheap stuff they don't even need and live in massive empty suburbs which destroy all nature and cause huge trafic jams. Reducing pollution would thus require all Americans who can use other methods of transportation to do adopt those alternatives, and for those who can't, to purchase much smaller vehicles and to do car sharing. People should also restart cooking more food by themself and to stop purchasing stuff they don't actually need. How is that "going back to stone age"???? As another example, the average French citizen produce less than half the garbage that the average American citizen produces and yet, most French people live very well, probably even better than the average American. If they can do it, you can do it to. Your comment is simply pathetic.

[@thegreataynrand7210]

@@PG-3462 The BS you spouted is absolutely BS.

[@thegreataynrand7210]

@@Diana1000Smiles You have no idea what you are talking about.

[@skepticangel286]

'We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.' (Thomas Fuller)

[@ValMartinIreland]

I get it hard to believe fresh undersea water would not mix with the sea watwr above.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

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[@garygoldstein327]

All of the water is not in the oceans as the scientist just stated is in our atmosphere and readily available through dehumidification. The water collected in those tanks from our dehumidifyers that we pour down the drain is water from air. And air is comprised of H2O and Nitrogen. So there is plenty of ways we can extract water from air if we stop dumping out the condensed water collection tanks from our dehumidifyers. And use a Zero Water Filter to purify it. Rather than spend huge amounts to desalinate the oceans.

[@jameslawrence3666]

waste water can be used for some industry.... we need infrastructure for that!!

[@garygoldstein327]

@@jameslawrence3666 I'm sorry perhaps I misinterpreted the video in my comment? I thought it was about clean available drinking water. But you are right about waste water reuse. Matter of fact I used to work for a plating company ahead of it's time in Elk Grove Vlg, Illinois An independently owned and operated plating facility that perfected the infrastructure to reuse our waste water before it was required by law. (pardon my spelling errors, as I.don't have my glasses with me)

[@MyKharli]

Its a crazy expensive way of getting water , very few people can afford them let alone run them and maintain them and the energy use is counter productive unless its from entirely renewable source .

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

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[@sachinrv1]

DW documentaries are above the ordinary. Excellent research and informative. Good work..

[@TheDoomWizard]

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[@NoNORADon911]

BS Alert climate change baloney means you pay more and own less get a clue folks

[@nobodyisprfct]

Don't you find it interesting that there is no mentioning of the permafrost or the overdue polar shift?

[@jimjones8736]

Well I suppose they are better than American documentaries at least

[@sachinrv1]

Informatively engaging

[@rf8003]

Nothing lasts forever... This is true!

[@иЛЬДАРгАЛЛЯМОВ-м9ь]

... except for plastic

[@Dhurvboruah]

Wrong

[@j.6230]

How do you know genius, do you know the ultimate truth of life? Is time finite, will God (if you believe it exists) not last forever? Who are you lol?

[@sydyidanton5873]

Imagine how much we could resolve these life dependant issues by collaborating as citizens of the planet, instead of hating and attempting to destroy each other with frightening technology as citizens of bickering conflicted nations! It's a heartbreaking travesty that something so achievable, that affects us all, is only a mere fantasy. Unconditional love and compassion to you all, especially the children who are inheriting this!

[@sag1970]

Gretta is the voice of the future

[@slevinchannel7589]

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[@bobjones2041]

you want to abort all the children in the West yet demand the West give every child born in Africa a free ride in life so that Africa can turn into one endless homeless encampment

[@EasyModeFishing]

For every drought there’s a flood somewhere. Climates have always changed. Florida was once under water.

[@gayasamarasinghe845]

Iam from Sri Lanka , we also have 2000 years old agriculture and irrigation systems . That is not a big point , at 34.01 you mention Limas irrigation method "AMUNAS " , our ancestors also have to distributed water from lakes to there fields . They call is "ARMUNA " ( අමුණ - in singhala letters ). How can that be , thousands miles a part both civilizations use the same word.

[@abderrahimmark]

In my native, Tamazight, a very ancient north african language, Amun is the god of water (and in egyptian mythology too I presume.) And Aman means water. Such a coincidence, don't you think.

[@gayasamarasinghe845]

@@abderrahimmark yes , good point.

[@wezy002]

This incredibly important topic. Thank you for bringing it to light.

[@kathleenarsenault3929]

Yeah because climate change is thee single biggest crisis in the world right now when we all know all it takes is one zap into the ionosphere to f up the wind currents and cause dominos to fall

[@Dhurvboruah]

Not important

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

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[@user-nz4ux4cw2z]

The earth will be fine in the long run. Its humans that will die off and I must say that’s probably not such a bad thing given how apathetic and self centered our human nature tends to be.

[@marionpfander8752]

Almost 8 billion people is not sustainable for our planet . The collapse of the food chain is next with no more guaranteed harvests . What's missing in all our doings is ethics , it's putting the balance in living with nature first . We manufacture , consume , pollute , travel! , without any thought about the impact it all has on our environment . I don't see science / technology helping us unless it puts a total and quick stop to any more extraction / rape of nature . For all countries and their governments it should not be anymore about growth , big business , more technology , but the best simple ( = doable for anyone ) and most sustainable way to survive . The solutions are always simple , except that nobody wants change / sacrifice / down- sizing to help heal nature , which is to help ourselves . If no money can be made of it then usually nothing will change anytime soon . What we need is to stop thinking in an unethical way of life , and from all people a personal commitment to a much simpler lifestyle , so we can all simply live . ( and learn to respect nature as a first rule , because as we can see and feel now : without nature we cannot exist , but nature can exist without us ) I would say that nature should always be considered first .

[@A-la-Weiss]

Humans are the biggest mistakes of evolution.

[@WolfgangVonKempelen838]

@@A-la-Weiss Proof that nothing is perfect, not even mother nature😢

[@Highvalue365]

Yeah the most intelligent species that any planet has ever seen dying off is a good thing, you sure are bright.

[@MyKharli]

@@Highvalue365 Its proof of our intelligence , the self awareness that we are chimpanzees with guns and no one cares whether we funk up or not !

[@tiffanym4202]

At least half of household water usage can be recycled as greywater and diverted to the garden. From there, it can seep back into the ground, replenishing wells, rather than flow out to the ocean. There's a fellow in Tucson, Arizona, that encourages cutting curbs so that excess rainwater from the streets can flow into basins in yards to be used to water trees. Rooftop rain collection can be used for household purposes and even for drinking if filtered properly. We take water for granted. It's a shame the above techniques are illegal in many places.

[@jamespatrick3462]

And yet again, if we look at the entire picture, it's not people like me and you and others watching this that willfully and gleefully cause these problems. We use the tools, methods and resources that are "handed" us. The politicians politicize everything in order to get more power handed to them and corporatists commercialize for their own power and profit so they can financially influence the politicians. Now we have big govt and big corp working hand in glove like never before to "save us from ourselves" and the problems that THEY created. Anyone can see the ratcheting up of everything in the media and especially the claims of climate change. Inexplicable weather events all over the world are now daily news feed fueled by social disease media yet no one ever asks if any of these events were "created" on purpose or by accident through man made weather modification. To deny that weather modification has not been the in the works for decades is to deny reality. It's been the desire of despots and the power hungry to be able to somehow control or modify the weather either for benefit themselves or the detriment of their enemies. The Government. The media. The corporatists. They have all lied to us in the past. They lie to us now and they will continue to lie. There is a simple exercise that people need to do anytime a politician or government or corporatists tells us the "we need to pass this law or we need to make this illegal or we need to do things with this energy not that energy"......... Ask yourself, who is going to gain power and money and who is going to lose power and money through the perceived change? That's what it's all about and always has been. Every single American citizen should on the steps of the capitol in DC demanding accountability and answers from all those old drunk and empty suits called Congress. They need to answer for what they have done to our beautiful nation and they need to pay a very very heavy price. All of them. Then we need to go after the lifelong bureaucrats that really run the show.

[@annedonnellan6876]

Nestle wanted to privatise water. Another swiss swizz

[@marcyanderson4268]

As a child visiting my grandmother in the countyside in Jamaica 🇯🇲 she had a big drum to catch the rain water for drinking, cooking and taking baths.

[@Quack_special_prosecutor]

DW never disappoints!!! Kudos

[@NoNORADon911]

I detect BS

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

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[@maximus0928]

Surprised when they talked about desalination part, that they didn’t mention the negatives of releasing the grime back into the sea, especially killing marine life, which in turn affects fishing, etc, etc

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

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[@thesilentone4024]

The brine try putting it in a evaporation pond you can collect the salt. Or evaporation pond with a dome to collect water with it and increase the speed that it evaporates. Try using thirsty cement for your parking lots and add trees to them.

[@Daniel-fl5oq]

You are so diligent. Such a high quality documentry. Thany you guys.

[@Andy.mikhail137]

This is a very important documentary

[@philfeedback2155]

Good video, thanks for posting this video! 👍

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and for the feedback!

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@@DWDocumentary. You’re Welcome!

[@drakekoefoed1642]

in southern louisiana the oil companies cut canals to extract oil, and the sea came in and killed the trees, and the tides washed away thousands of square miles of marsh, leaving nothing to break the force of the hurricanes. it benefited a few rich people

[@Butterflyechoes]

Thank you DW Documentary for this very important video 🙏🏻 I love nature and I take care of nature as much as I could with planting new plants everydsy at my garden, love nature, nature will love us back 🙏🏻🌴

[@MishaDaBear]

Your garden will fix nothing, we must fix the artic permafrost melt maybe by planting more on permafrost melt sites!

[@tracesprite6078]

Thank you for your garden. The bees are struggling to survive and your garden gives them much needed nutrients. Without the bees, we humans are kaput.

[@davidortega357]

We need for ocean liners to cut off chunks off antartica glaciers then get them toad to California Arizona , Colorado Wyoming better yet get 3 ships one to absorb the melting water

[@beyourself3711]

I really enjoyed this doc. Sometimes I wonder if this world will survive with the way mankind is draining if not destroying its resources through climate change, population increase, etc. I like reading or watching these articles so I know perhaps there is hope for the future, not just for mankind but for other living things that I love and care for that rely on water.

[@speed9070]

Don't believe too much over the conspiracy climate change. And do you really believe is hard to convert those sea water into fresh water.

[@beyourself3711]

@@speed9070 There are 16,000 desalination plants around the world using this method to restore if not balance freshwater reservoir or consumption. Maltas( in the doc) supply and demand of water highlighted to me, that to use this solution of conversion cost enormous amount of power and finance to sustain. I would like to think that countries suffering from water shortages, could use this method to redevelop their drought stricken lands, Forrest restoration,etc. But not just for the human population.. but for nature itself, living organisms, diverse plants and animals, just things that at the moment I feel at some stage may disappear entirely. I'm all for using any solution but sometimes I just wonder that's all.

[@tracesprite6078]

One place for the water is disappearing is into us humans. There are millions more of us than there were in the middle ages. Each of us contains a lot of water.

[@rubosrex7303]

Bruh, the planet will survive no matter what. And life will as well. Sure, a lot of it will die, but thats been the cycle of the planet since life was initially formed. There are cycles to the planet, weather etc. Same goes for life on Earth. There are mass extinctions, then whatever survives mutates and expands, later another extinction kills most of life, some survive and expand. Humans overthink it to much. Look at all other animals, they don't care about how future generations will live and survive, they live their own life, reproduce and say goodluck to whats coming. Climate changes and has changed ever since the earth was created. Humans can't stop it. Oh we have to do this for the future generations bullshit. Future generations have always dealt with their problems. Just live your life and stop worrying about so much.. Its pathetic to see all these people advocating for the climate, while enjoying their house, air conditioning, tap water, internet etc. You cannot have modern technology and society without damaging the climate, it doesn't work because everything is made at ridiculous scales. Nor should people worry about it. Live your life, enjoy all the comforts and technologies and stop worrying to much.

[@deniskelleher9034]

It won't wer fucked In the future

[@totoxclub]

Great documentary! Very interesting would be an analysis of the systemic risk (chain impacts) of extracting the ground water of such a huge pockets 🤔.

[@deemushroomguy]

Also, what about the army corps of engineers, and the way they designed every bit of land to force the water to flow off of it? That water needs to soak into the ground to replenish ground water, bunch of genius land management we got going, eh?

[@freespiritable]

@@deemushroomguy agreiculture needs it and city waters are not drinkable.

[@deemushroomguy]

@@freespiritable Many places have a "toilet to tap" system in place now. A lot of that recycled water went to watering city landscaping (another waste of water and money) for years - before going to tap. Any land with slope or stream beds can be moved around in a manner so as to prevent the water from running off of it, thus forcing it to soak. The Romans made horseshoe dams in the wadis (wide, seasonal, dry stream beds) of African deserts to make the land farmable. Swales are excellent tools to get more groundwater. Trees need to be farmed more, in a biodiverse manner with other food plants as it is the best, most sustainable way to treat most (not all) farmlands.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

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[@andykadir-buxton3294]

Turbine generators in the UK use half of our fresh water, by replacing them with solar and wind we will double our water supplies.

[@alkaiable]

l live in Montreal, certainly no drying up here it seems , I see people hosing the sidewalks in front of their houses very day.its completely ridiculous.

[@nelditaroseong9659]

God bless you...and thank you so much for your informative documentaries...more power to your program....

[@morenofranco9235]

Always interesting. Some people waste water as if there is no tomorrow. And then - there is no water tomorrow.

[@AliAhmad-ro1ns]

An excellent documentary by DW, thanks a lot

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for watching, Ali. :)

[@Dhurvboruah]

😂

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[@citechscience]

Thanks to DW for these informative documentaries. From North of Kurdishland.

[@adamcarnegie5660]

It's always so awesome to se these incredible individuals who are out there doing such incredible and vital work.

[@kaileeo6096]

The "run off" from the flooding of Mississippi river in Iowa,WI, Il, is staggering. I have always said it should be captured and directed to the sub-terrain aquaduct. The damage is catastrophic and there is a flood zone expansion where existing houses can't be sold or rebuilt if they flood.

[@sag1970]

Excellent😊🌈

[@ValMartinIreland]

I would like to discuss this further. What is happening with the Mississippi?

[@satyamevajayate7838]

WATER 1.Drinking system 2.Agriculture system 3.industrial system 4.Environment eco system 5.Recycling Rain system with out water no one live

[@madwisdom4929]

*The Bush family owned fresh water aquifer is larger than Texas and California combined. BUSH's family bought 300,000 acres on South America's and World's largest aquifer, Aculfhero Guarani. Jenna Bush (daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush) reportedly bought 98,840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, near the Triple Frontier (Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay). This land is said to be near the 200,000 acres purchased by her grandfather, George H.W. Bush, In 2005. The lands purchased by the Bush family sit over not only South America's largest aquifer -- but the world's as well. --- Acuifero Guarani, which runs beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay,*

[@madwisdom4929]

The second disturbing trend is that while the new water barons are buying up water all over the world, governments are moving fast to limit citizens’ ability to become water self-sufficient (as evidenced by the well-publicized Gary Harrington’s case in Oregon, in which the state criminalized the collection of rainwater in three ponds located on his private land, by convicting him on nine counts and sentencing him for 30 days in jail). Let’s put this criminalization in perspective: Billionaire T. Boone Pickens owned more water rights than any other individuals in America, with rights over enough of the Ogallala Aquifer to drain approximately 200,000 acre-feet (or 65 billion gallons of water) a year. But ordinary citizen Gary Harrington cannot collect rainwater runoff on 170 acres of his private land. It’s a strange New World Order in which multibillionaires and elitist banks can own aquifers and lakes, but ordinary citizens cannot even collect rainwater and snow runoff in their own backyards and private lands. “Water is the oil of the 21st century.” Andrew Liveris, CEO of DOW Chemical Company (quoted in The Economist magazine, August 21, 2008)

[@Dhurvboruah]

Bacteria and viruses can survive 👍

[@MrCarl2020]

Excellent work. Thank you for this :)

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Great job DW Documentaries team. Love this documentary.

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[@Kizkoz1989.]

It would be nice if DW could do a documentary on Miyowaki crowd foresting 🙏

[@woocheongan1437]

Thank you very much for providing such a rich documentary. We only know that the environment is being damaged, but we don’t know it is so serious. The visual impact brought by the images is still unbelievable. I hope that the environmental problems can be improved.

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It's a remarkable documentary. Thanks DW!

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[@sunnydaze1]

Recently saw a helicopter doing soil measuring in the inland beach areas of Delaware. We were gobsmacked when we saw it flying over and had no idea what it was. We even took photos because it was so unusual. We have rural well water so I'm keenly interested in the challenges we're all faced with access to clean water. Excellent documentary, thank you!

[@Jay-dq6vu]

You have the photos or is this fake media

[@Video_collection]

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[@DarkPesco]

@@Jay-dq6vu I don't think you know what "media" is.

[@Jay-dq6vu]

@@DarkPesco I don't think I remember asking you anything?

[@Jay-dq6vu]

@@DarkPesco Lol sure I do; it depends on a few things. Fake or Real? is that not the how things are summarized these days? More so Paraphrased ?

[@phyllisjeanfulton]

Then create water holes for water collection during rains to refill the underground water level. There’s a effort to do this in Africa with very good results. Trees and grasses are regrowing and wells refilling. There are ways. Create water collection farms.

[@harpreetbhullar8556]

Its not natural way..what about chemicals, sewage, microplastics etc

[@edmartin875]

Never going to happen until some multibillionaire finds a way to make money off it. Where is the money in collecting water and allowing it to seep into the ground ? Some states in the U.S. already make it against the law to collect rainwater.

[@ruthcr8839]

Thanks DW, great information shared. 🌟😘🌟

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for watching, Ruth! :D

[@howardharris4718]

We have to turn sea water in fresh drinkable water, farming, house hold, and industrial uses.

[@mickzammit6794]

In the Australian outback at the moment water is reaching the surface and forming small lakes in places water was not found in the past. What explains that?

[@zayree81]

Excellent coverage in the latest issue DW Documentary. Please continue on another pressing issue as well. Some issues need an overview of documentary method to further understand its implication.

[@Bexcah]

Thanks for highlighting this important reality

[@enatp6448]

Hopefully we are heading more towards nature and other species having rights - rights to live without undue harm. This means industry and individuals need to look at the obsession with production, consumption, and expansion.

[@freeffree4133]

That's not happening

[@bobjones2041]

Yeah we need to tell the black Africans in Sudan to take down the dams etc they are building along the Nile that will dry up Egypt. Nah, we need to find a way to blame Donald Trump for Sudan being forced to build a dam. And we need to encourage radical Islam in Egypt and beyond by telling them its all the US fault Sudan is forced to build a dam in self-defense because Mar A Lago is stealing the worlds fresh water.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🌳

[@ivangudelj1065]

We just have flood in Queensland and New South Wales Australia with over 600mm of rain in some places in few days . We usually don't mind extra rain but this time was to much.

[@sentientflower7891]

Too much water is as great a catastrophe as not enough.

[@studyonline4763]

Flood waters after long droughts take away the top soil and make it worse. Of the 600 mm, not much has percolated into the ground or been stored

[@scubaguy5389]

and it doesnt soak in. just runs off to the ocean

[@juziajuzia1234]

In Poland we have problem with rain 😔 when i was younger i remember snow and that rain a lot. Now... i cant remember when rain comes maybe last year

[@johannageisel5390]

@@juziajuzia1234 Same here in Germany. Or at least in several areas of Germany.

[@dipendragahamagar2386]

Thanks for providing informative video ❤

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for watching! Be sure to check out our channel for more content. :)

[@sobrayoung]

What happened to your algae documentary guys? I wanted to rewatch it and I couldn't find it

[@wowJhil]

One of the most important topics, great documentary from DW!

[@Dhurvboruah]

😂

[@turquoiseowl]

enjoy your affordable water bills while you can

[@buggyridge]

We were out of sustainable water in 2000. I was a national emergency coordinator then for USDA. Moved from Virginia to Michigan as a result.

[@WolfgangVonKempelen838]

All is well then ?

[@Dhurvboruah]

I hate watet

[@jimwoody3056]

The drought seems to be affecting almost every part of the Earth but...I live close to the coast and tidal levels haven't changed either up or down. Where is the water going? If glaciers are melting, lakes drying as the terra is and yet no change in sea levels. So, again...where is the water going?

[@ValMartinIreland]

I agree. Sea levels in Ireland are exactly as they were 50 years ago.

[@sagnikkarmakar8429]

Educational channel for students and reachers obviously. They will learn more and apply their skills. more to provide pure drinking water to the whole global community. Thanks a lot to the owner of the Educational channel. ❤from India. We want more on various subjects.

[@pauljrogersmusic]

Very well made. Thank you 😎

[@Dhurvboruah]

Welcome

[@gallopwave]

The world's water stays consistent. It may change locations over time.

[@gamingtonight1526]

Humanity, dying from the death of a 1,000 cuts. This is just one of them.

[@stepout993]

What ‘s the point in finding fresh water in the sea, when all the water we need is on land. We just have to reduce wasting and we’re good.

[@WolfgangVonKempelen838]

And breeding like rats

[@bullpup1337]

if only it was that easy. try stopping a drought that way…. not possible

[@johnalver]

9:27 look at that SO MANY PEOPLE 💀

[@clanrocks137]

Truly terrifying what humans have done

[@danihuddi5869]

I love your documentaries, always so informative, interesting and eye opening. Many thanks. This documentary in particular, is so relevant it would be interesting to have a follow up after this summer of extreme heat and global drought warnings. Again, many thanks.

[@gabemendoza1052]

The world isn't drying up. Certain regions are. That's the trouble we're in. Here in America, my state of NY has no drought problems. Move further west, those people are facing a water crisis.

[@shanetay7389]

Pulling drinking water from the ocean deposits is like pulling from land river systems. Same as land abuse but the equipment for under water piping will have it own type of effect. Oil leaks and such.

[@croutardsparrow]

Good afternoon! Thank you sincerely for the video! I hope to see new videos coming out soon :)

[@msallies]

"Humanity is at the threshold of great global change, world change on a scale never seen before, caused now by humanity’s misuse and overuse of the world, by human ignorance and human greed. It is a condition now that will affect the lives of every person. Though few are yet aware of it, it is a global emergency. You have changed the chemistry of the atmosphere, of the waters and the soils. And now the world is changing-changing so rapidly, so dangerously, changing now in ways that will affect you more than you realize." A quote from The New Message ~ The Global Emergency written by Marshall Vian Summers

[@johnchapman5125]

Thanks Mara

[@qaifkhan5309]

Plant as many native trees as possible

[@johnwakamatsu3391]

The drought in Southwest United States is a good example of changing weather patterns due to higher temperatures. The construction of dams on the Colorado River created very large reservoirs and twenty years of drought has created water shortages for 40 million people. The long term solutions are very difficult because where do you find millions of acre feet of water in the desert? The rationing of water is a short term solution and long term solutions are very expensive like bring water from other parts of the United States or converting sea water to fresh water which is extremely expensive and creates environmental problems.

[@user-te1nq4im9l]

You're still thing about long term solutions from a supply outlook, the fact of the matter is there will be less supply and we need to look at how to manage demand of water. Rationing might be short-term but, long-term, managing our demand by improving HOW we use water as well as how much is an important place to start.

[@ValMartinIreland]

I do not agree. I think it is simply a lot of people moving into an area never populated before. The climate is not changing, the population is. Nature does not bow to people's demands.

[@brianatippens3010]

What’s crazy is people talking about how expensive the solutions are. People are more worried about 1s and 0s in a computer than they are about running out of something no human on earth can live without. At this point, who cares how expensive it is??

[@mathiasfriman8927]

The solution lies in the skies above. Billions of gallons annually. For example, more rain falls on the city of Tucson, Arizona than all drinking water its people consume in a year. And Tucson gets just 11" of rain annually. That rain could be harvested in garden and streetside basins to grow native plants and create a living sponge of vegetation that slows, spreads and seeps the water into the aquifers, replenishing the groundwater. This mitigates floods, and makes water available for plants. More greenery brings shade and lowers temperatures (up to 5 degrees difference has been measured), and also brings rainclouds. Check out the work of Brad Lancaster in Tucson, he's a pioneer that should be world famous.

[@cookielapaz8927]

California had record rainfall in the last quarter of 2021. There's no drought its called theft and mismanagement of our lakes, dams, and reservoirs. Stored water lasts 5 years unless unscrupulous people steal the water.

[@SonyDjuana]

I think every countries should have their own water reservoirs

[@WolfgangVonKempelen838]

And what then ?

[@dwavenminer]

As a Brit it really surprises me that some countries don't have any form of water reservoirs...we have loads of them and most of the time we have the 'problem' of having too much water raining down on us most of the time...

[@oneshothunter9877]

Yeah, right, but that doesn't help Nature which we are a part of - and so depended on.

[@amilaperera1]

An Excellent Documentary. Thanks all the way from Sri Lanka.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and for the feedback!

[@ericcloud1023]

I live in central California and our water crisis is such a foreboding existential threat to our entire agricultural economy. Farms, ranchers, orchards, fowl farms, dairy's & all supporting business' are set to race to the bottom (of the water table). They're so preoccupied on staying out of debt, or trying to claw their way out that they're planting the most profitable crops they can regardless of it's water consumption. Almonds for example are sucking the rivers, land, and aqueduct dry. I've even seen dozens upon dozens of new Almonds orchards planted, even though it takes YEARS to begin harvesting & water is predicted to run dry in 10-15 year's! It's absolutely infuriating how they compete to drill deeper wells to tap ground water, which bankrupts the family farms & ensures only large conglomerate "Super farms/dairy's" are all that's left. Who pay absolutely terrible wages to skilled workers, and are caught using illegal's (which is fine, we all need work) but paying them like 1/2 of the minimum wage

[@tomredd9025]

In the United States, there has been an ongoing drought in the west for years. Things are really drying out. However, in the Great Lakes region, we have had record high levels in the Lakes. Two years ago, boat docks were completely submerged. Remember, the Great Lakes of North America contain 20% of the Earth surface water. They are veritable small oceans of clean sweet water. Yes, that is true. I would like to make a couple of points. First, the American west is over stressed. The major river in the west, the Colorado, which is no great shakes compared to other larger American rivers is pretty much dried up by the time it reaches the Pacific Ocean. That many people should not be living in the area. These are bad policy decisions made by the government and citizens who have been propagandized to distain the American Midwest and live in an area not sustainable for the level of population. The second thing, I would say is that the climate around the Earth evens out. While, the Great Lakes have high levels now, not that long ago they were at a very low level. Which brings me to my final point, which is that the whole New Ice Age, Nuclear Winter, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Crisis (Opps that didn't play well so let's go back), Climate Change and "in 12 years we will all be dead" scare tactic is just not believable anymore to the general population. People are not stupid. More and more, Climate Change is viewed as something that happens naturally and in cycles like the rise and fall of the Great Lakes. More importantly, in spite of continual propaganda like this video, people are viewing climate change as a way for the rich global elite to make major changes in society to enrich themselves even more. Inefficient and expensive windmills and solar panels will nowhere near produce enough energy to replace fossil fuels which are becoming increasingly clean. However, people are making a ton of money marring and yes polluting our beautiful landscape.

[@lisalu3994]

I haven't watched this yet but with the heat wave in the UK, some reservoirs have almost dried up. All the government do is ask for people not to use their hosepipes. We aren't prepared and the government aren't drawing this to people's attention. It's sickens me. O and my neighbours are just filling their hot tub. Seriously!

[@sarahemilymonk8877]

UK is too busy selling its water elsewhere

[@salamyj]

Water is life

[@Dhurvboruah]

No

[@PaulJones-nk7kp]

Definition of a climatologist BLUDGER ROYAL.

[@vanduong058]

I would really like to thank DW Documentaries for so many high quality videos.

[@rejinarai6129]

Nature is god Save water

[@Dhurvboruah]

No need.

[@lucasjames7524]

If there were fewer people, less water would be required to meet everyone's needs, and more could also be left for nature. There are simply too many people on the planet, and every person requires resources and energy.

[@jarvis911]

It's not just over population, there's about 5x more Indians on Earth than Americans but the average American uses 10x the resources. One American family driving an SUV and eating their own body weight in food everyday uses more resources than an entire village in some developing countries.

[@fireman-phil7307]

@@jarvis911 India can barely sustain its population, as does China. Both are over populated massivly. Also many small countries are. People cause polution and need water to do it. So population should be an issue planert wise.

[@jarvis911]

@@fireman-phil7307 nah I agree those regions are massively overpopulated if they want to live any kind of modern life, maybe agriculturally they can grow enough rice to sustain that kind of population but once they begin to develop and demand iPhones then its gonna be a real problem of resource scarcity but Americans have no business telling Asians to stop reproducing when America uses more resources than their entire country does even with a far smaller population

[@romeob.8369]

100% agree

[@jesseharriott4253]

what do you think world wars and vaccines are for? ask bill gate$? lol

[@kenlindsey3169]

With mass flooding in a lot of countries every year, perhaps giant reservoirs could be created to contain fresh Water?

[@mj8325]

Needs good filtering and processing due to pollutants no such thing as fresh unpolluted water any more

[@EnzoLuka21]

There are people that truly live in another reality very far away from the real world.

[@oneshothunter9877]

That "reservoir" is an undisturbed forest or a jungle. We just need more undisturbed Nature. But I guess that's probably too much to ask humans for.

[@eddymohd5282]

#visiting #memory. The Great Drought. #thankyou And #congratulations DW Documentary For Sharing This Video Which Was Uploaded On 21st March 2022 With 2, 150, 828 Views And 14K Likes With Us All. #yes #indeed. DW Video Documentary Recieved On 14th October 2023. That's Approximately 1yr And 7months Ago. #amazing #throwback. #lookingback And #movingforward.

[@reygieflorestv13]

Water is life it is more important than electricity. I think all of us we need to fight climate change.

[@SevenEllen]

Absolutely! We can survive without electricity for a long time with the right know-how on how to stay warm, healthy, and happy. But without water, you die within three to four days.

[@cornebod]

We have the technology for desalinization, thus lack of drinking water is a political issue and not a unsolvable problem...

[@Fireneedsair]

We don’t have the tech to make it less energy intensive maybe

[@hunterlindy]

This might be a good thing. Things appear bad usually are. The world's changes and shifts and sometimes you get to witness it. This could be a good thing because of all the movies about the shorelines rising and flooding. It is impossible to destroy water ultimately. So it's interesting to watch it move around and take shape

[@shawnthompson3059]

Let's make having as few kids as possible the new trend. This will help reduce the strain our species places on our planet

[@lucasjames7524]

100% agree! This is the reality that people need to wake up to and start to accept. There are simply far too many people on the planet. If we had 1 billion people instead of appx. 8 billion, our water needs (and every other resource need) would drastically decrease, and then large parts of the planet could be returned to nature, and the remaining people would also be able to have a better standard of living. People are highly resistant to this, but the basic fact that all resource and energy needs must be multiplied out by the population is a fundamental fact.

[@tnepc1845]

@@lucasjames7524 the further back you go in time the lesser people you had and the more poverty, violence, diseases etc so this whole overpopulation narrative simply don't hold when you look at history. 21st century human beings are very strategic and innovative. To think that our ancestors had more resources untapped and fewer people than us but lived in devastating times than us actually says alot.

[@JM-zg2jg]

Ummm people are doing just that. You just don’t notice it because you make people reproduce less, by improving their lives and sense of security. Most western nations are already reproducing at below replacement rates. The answer is education, sex equality, and a social safety net. The best part of all of that, is that we won’t have to make laws regarding how many children one can have, and the population will still go down. Look to China if you want to see the obvious and horrible result of child limiting policy’s.

[@lucasjames7524]

@@tnepc1845 I don't see where the wider existence of poverty and lack of technological progress was predicated on the smaller population, or where a higher population ipso facto creates more progress or advancement. And all of that is beside the point, which is simply that each person requires X amount of energy and resources to survive, and so therefore the higher the population, the more energy and resources are required to provide for all of them. Also, it's only because our ancestors lacked the technology and numbers to exploit the planet's resources that we are able to do so now, and after our brief party of a couple of centuries of limitless growth, we will have destroyed much of the planet, doomed our own future generations, and left behind an impoverished and ruined world with a smaller carrying capacity than the one we originally lived in.

[@tnepc1845]

@@lucasjames7524 You made an assumption that if the human population continues to grow then the planet wouldn't cope but history tells a different story. And again what makes you think that the future generation wouldn't be able to meet those energy demands, you seem very certain about that? BTW everything you said seems to be speculations and I don't know how you can be so certain of this future predictions you making. This overpopulation narrative has been going on for decades and has been proven wrong countless times.

[@farmerjohn6526]

Recent floods in California seem to end the drought

[@kjjviii1735]

Name me a 100 year period where weather was identical from day 1 to the final day 100 years later?

[@henriknielsen1662]

@kjjviii1735: how could that possibly be relevant to the issue at hand?

[@seniorita3287]

​@@henriknielsen1662try thinking harder😮

[@henriknielsen1662]

@@seniorita3287 : You're a tinfoil hat

[@sunfish55]

slipping that "1.7C" as a livable goal to aim for now? we just gonna blow past the 1.5C goal then? let the normalization of people living in at-risk areas being decimated by climate collapse continue, heaven forbid we ditch capitalism to save the planet instead.

[@bullpup1337]

ditch capitalism? you really think china, russia, cuba, venezuela and north korea are doing better? communism is not the solution

[@zeroxox777]

"We have to ask ourselves: doesn't nature have a value in itself"? Yes - this is the decisive moral question of today, although we can all answer it for ourselves. Let's think: we've been making about 5 species extinct every hour, every day, for many decades: we've destroyed most of the natural habitats in Western European countries by turning them into roads, factories, offices, farms, infrastructure and private dwellings: finally, it is objectively clear that we value our national economies then we do our children's futures as a society. But I'm not someone to put our children's futures before anything else. I think it has to be the biggest crime in human history what we have done to the Earth, and that's saying something. Our global animal farming system - of which 90% is intensive farming - kills 60 billion land animals each year, and routinely we circumcise males and dock tails without any anaesthetic or pain killers whatsover. The animals then enjoy a short life in cramped, barren enclosures to eat unnatural diets and then get electricuted and have their throats slits. Each of these animals is as sensitive, emotional, conscious and intelligent as a small child, and equally deserving of a good life. And to eat all this meat we use, so I understand, 80% of our farmland, both to produce the animals and the grains etc to feed them. Meanwhile, about 9 million human beings die each year owing to malnutrition or starvation, and a humanity as resourceful and wealthy as hours, which let's fellow human beings - many children - die because of want of food, isn't yet worthy of the name humanity. Finally, we all now know that the Earth is very much like an organism - self-regulating (in terms of temperature, salinity of seawater, atmospheric compossition etc), and that the system works as a whole, with each creature playing a part in what is (or was) the most complex, intricate, sophisticated, most beautiful and perfect system in the known Universe. Even an eye or a brain is a miracle: a single creature, even more so: how's about uncountable billions of different species all over the world. It is the most complex and perfect thing we know, and we have sacrificed it on the alter of our greed. Such a stupid creature to have come out of something so perfect shows that we have made ourselves stupid through our social-historical accumulation, development, and ossification into a machine-like, non-living, non-intelligent system made of concrete, metal and glass to which we are all enslaved. We haven't built a paradise, as you can see - we've built nature depleted dystopias, most of which you can't go into, some of which you can only enter if you pay. What's there to do in this world but passively consume other people's mass produced goods, or their holiday packages, or their music and culture thus depriving us of the creative freedom we need in order to be psychologically healthy, to solve human problems, and put the stamp of ourselves in what we do? We would prefer to live like the animals, whose nation is the Earth, and who don't have to work but spend every bit of their lives living. Until we come to disposses them, and ourselves, of all the things that make life worth living.

[@tracesprite6078]

Yes, you're right. Thanks for taking the time to write that.

[@karenreichenbaugh856]

I drink alot of water.

[@timothybybee1192]

Fantastic production and very enlightening....

[@Dhurvboruah]

😂

[@patriotsnation9224]

Maybe a documentary about how countries should be cleaning up their water supplies instead of polluting them might help a little.

[@thepunadude]

since humans are 90% water ... gee whiz, guess where water is being stored? human water balloons!

[@Realtubetv]

Water .

[@larsstougaard7097]

💧💧💧💧

[@vermont741]

🍺🍺🍺

[@larsstougaard7097]

@@vermont741 wonderful I'm thirsty 😋

[@ralphcantrell3214]

Our water isn't "drying up" as much as we are "over-populating the planet". It's time for some world-wide limits on the number of babies a person can produce. We would turn this around in 20 years.

[@captainalex157]

overpopulation is a problem, but not everywhere. Egypt and India have a massive overpopulation problem, Iceland, not so much.

[@juziajuzia1234]

Consumpzionism its killing us... we buy all things that we dont need. We eat too much meat... and we make this suicide. I change. I eat meat one time in 10 or 15 days i sold my car. Dont waste water and a lot of other stuff. Before i was so stupid!!!!

[@robbenvanpersie1562]

@@captainalex157 India's tfr is Falling . 2.2 now

[@matthyde3088]

thank you for such a great documentary

[@PRLIBRE_SOBERANO]

Don’t know about the rest of the world, but in Puerto Rico it rains every day.