Saudi Arabia's Water Supply Is Drying Up

[@TheGeoScholar]

Saudi Arabia is not the only example of this either. There are water conflict issues between Ethiopia and Egypt too. I agree that resources play a big part of geopolitics. Saudi Arabia is just one example.

[@mohainimohamad4038]

You missed the obvious one, Israel, who attacked Lebanon for the Litani River .

[@royalenfield8372]

Ya May Ethiopia wants to makes a DAM on river nile I am right

[@8digitPDX]

Not sure if you can call it scarcity when they can afford to build bigger desalination plants and more pipelines to push that water inland. I saw some pretty interesting stuff where they were doing permaculture in containers and greenhouses too. It seems they have the means and motive to invest in advanced food production and will probably develop the best technology for food production used when the human race expands into the stars, or at least some orbital colonies.

[@TwentySickCows]

They can use their oil money to fix the problem.

[@swrtsolutionsinc.1092]

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[@MegaTravianer]

Did she say it would require 33 bn dollars? or trillion?

[@richiesubron5003]

They gonna drink distilled oil in future.

[@مصعبالرواحي-ه8ص]

oil in my country is cheaper then water

[@mishalalhajri5497]

مصعب الرواحي Me as a Saudi, what would that benefit me. We all know that is cheap but 10 years forward may not. Saudi Arabia trying to be productive in other resource rather than just oil.

[@Mr.Haveaword]

مصعب الرواحي - oil in my country is cheaper than coffee!

[@hassanhooshmand2710]

Mishal Alhajri studies don't have any other resources but oil. After oil is finished in maybe 200 years, they will return promptly to herding camels and trading goods.

[@KLKLKLDUF]

hedron rediloc I doubt it! We are going to be the first country to go completely renewable.. The future is Solar power and guess what! The sun here shines for 18 hours and we are the 13th largest country with only 20 million citizens.. and we are covering 1% of our desert with solar power generators which can provide enough electricity for Saudi and all of the middle East!

[@DeepakKumar-ym1hd]

Lol you can drink oil but not water because it's expensive.

[@yomikmc]

30B in 15 years is nothing. I mean: nothing.

[@DavidElzeitsinfill]

Understanding the problem so we can understand the solution. Regional mega drought in the southwest, caused by a lot of things but essentially more water is being used and is in one way or another moved out of the region then the amount of water that is re-entered into the region. Conservation has its place but it is not a solution to this problem. The demands on water will not abate without causing complete collapse so the only alternative is to introduce a new source of water. Drawing water from other regional rivers like the Columbia or the Mississippi or Missouri would only move the problem around, draining other regions. The only essentially inexhaustible source of water is the ocean. One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible. If I could explain my idea in an equation it would go something like. (seawater from the west coast moved inland + converted by combination geothermal/desalination projects = clean water and clean energy.) The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.

[@keyboarddancers7751]

How can you be a science and technology analyst and not own a decent microphone or camera?

[@imranyousuf649]

This video is wrong i live in Saudia arabia and there is no such thing as this here, instead look at the secrets of Saudi Arabia, there are greenery and water source, so.....yeah SHUT up.

[@shopofff]

They must use Indian Ocean Because of the Fullfility of the Ocean What we see A Land who don't have water A Ocean who have Plenty of Water The key is in the Simbioti Call me Pharaoh

[@abo0od1996]

I live in Saudi No one protest when they increase the price of water.

[@jakeryker546]

Abdullah u need water 2 live..

[@blackadam2533]

how can someone protest if mutawa will jailed you

[@hani3760]

everyone is protesting .. the wheat prices rose up because of the lack of water which made farmers lose money .. although city people didn't feel it because bread water and oil are being supported by the government which means that the prices didn't change for a bag of bread or a bottle of water etc. the main people who protested and u can check tweeter hashtags and see it, were the farmers camel owners etc

[@slapshockredeemer8757]

If you protest in Saudi Arabia the police will rape and beat you to death..

[@이창열-c1s]

In saudi arabia water can be created by making kilimanjara a permanent show mountain

[@Mr.Haveaword]

currently I like the content, don't sell your stock!

[@mohainimohamad4038]

The only country having urgent water problems in ME is ISRAEL !

[@dikiodon2165]

Satuju Pisan dasar Bangsa penjajah.. Indeed

[@oneilbuchanan8377]

They are a mega wealthy country funding such a project is no issue for them

[@Shiyam-eh3dj]

The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and till the land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers.( Sahih Muslim book 12 hadiz 76)

[@LanceWinslow]

Quick question for Strafor, where do they put all the salt they filter out, some big pile in the middle of the desert? Anyone know what they do with it all, must be a mountain by now?

[@abdullahalrasheed394]

You basically mean brine. Roughly speaking, when sea water is desalinated using reversed osmosis, you get around 1/3 clean water and 2/3 high salt water (which the industry calls brine), that brine is returned back to the sea soon after it was produced. The sea water has a TDS of 30,000, so if you desalinate 3 liters of sea water for example, you will get 1 clean liter and two liters with around 45,000 TDS, which will be returned back to the sea and so on. This what the industry has been doing for decades, and it's the most cost effective way to do it. It will need substantially more energy to desalinate the entire 3 liters mentioned above, because the higher the TDS the more energy the system requires.

[@nz_]

I live in saudi and the water is free and there is no taxes

[@53nobel]

Population growth in the middle east, as the case in other parts of the 3rd world, would need to be minimized or even stopped because of environmental limitations.

[@croicullagh7530]

53nobel Saudi isn't 3rd world. They're one of the richest countries in the world since they produce about a quarter of the world's oil.

[@pisse3000]

Jonathan Herz Some people seem to think that if the majority of the population of any given country is brown or black, that makes it a 3rd world country.

[@53nobel]

SA is a 3rd world country: Check out this link or google it urself: www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world.htm

[@Aristocles22]

They are 3rd world if you factor out the Saudi royal family and the upper 0.1% of the population there. And they absolutely DO NOT produce 25% of the world's oil. Other producers like Russia, the US, and Iran have increased production while Saudi Arabia has stagnated.

[@salshalash]

@53nobel That is totally nonsense! What kind of a 3rd world country that provides Healthcare, Education up to the highest levels, Education sponsorship programs almost Worldwide. Government supported Public utility...Etc. Saudi private sector has more than 170 public listed companies its capitalization over $569.87 billion. Shares (daily) trading turnover more than $1 billion. The Saudi population is below 30 million, almost half the population are expats working in Saudi. the country hosts 3.5 million refugees receiving Gov benefits. If that is a 3rd world country, I want to live in the 3rd world!!

[@alexandracuco6352]

water is necessary to all in special agriculture im praye to Allah

[@rendypulungan1509]

their growing consumption can reduced by birth control. less people less water consumption

[@Mr.Haveaword]

thegamerpower - 20 million? that simply cannot be true!

[@brockmarks3984]

kinda hard to do when women are not allowed access to birth control without their husbands permission

[@brockmarks3984]

***** well dont say we didnt warn u... not enough water = revolution

[@TheGeoScholar]

The problem isn't birth control. Saudi Arabia's birth rate. Saudi Arabia's birth rate dropped rapidly from 7.21 births per woman in 1980 to 2.7 today. The problem is that Saudi Arabia is a desert. Deserts are not especially conducive to rapid urbanization. Before the discovery of petroleum, Saudi Arabia had a mainly nomadic/semi-nomadic population. After oil, rapid urbanization. That requires alot of water.

[@brockmarks3984]

***** birth control effects the birth rate

[@abulazad7451]

Is the name my Allah dearest all world all time top queen fathema kulshum kingdom Saudi Arabia let's explaine why Holly mosque mashjidul haram imam read juma khutba face to we human?

[@abulazad7451]

Khutba face to we human? Allah gift to us we human upper status than Holly angel this is the reason

[@brockmarks3984]

stop the breeding

[@iraqianbloodian]

saudi fertility rate is 2.2 children per women you pig

[@ShrimpZoo]

Inshallah the gulf states oil will dry up ASAP. Only then will wahabbi Sunni Islam loose its funding and die out.

[@marcusdanizel9816]

Shrimp Zoo - inshallah Allah will do it fry there ass

[@theheart2585]

You talk rubish