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The fight for water | DW Documentary



Climate change is causing temperatures to rise. Extreme weather events and droughts are increasing. Springs and wells are drying up. And everyone needs more water. The battles for control over precious water reserves have begun.

In some countries, water has always been available in abundance – and is wasted carelessly every day. But the climate crisis is changing that. Because the climate is warming, everyone needs more water than ever: for drinking, agriculture and industry. Water is the new gold.

In many countries, the distribution battles for precious water reserves have already begun. In Mendocino, California, there is no longer enough water to flush the toilets. And in Germany, regional drinking water supplies collapse in hot weather. Groundwater levels have dropped to record lows in many places. Will we still have enough drinking water in the future? What happens when our water disappears?

This is a three-part documentary series:
Part 1: The fight for water – https://youtu.be/1MZFrJPPIQ8
Part 2: What happens when our water dries up? – https://youtu.be/pWTg-Gpb2Tw
Part 3: Who owns water? – https://youtu.be/9edWX7TTsLw
Series playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLovlAKbQVz6A0u1yGUdaG7MSh7fG9SR3t&utm_source=EKLEiJECCKjOmKnC5IiRIQ

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44 comments

SueDenim November 20, 2022 at 1:55 am

They can buy it back off coca cola with poisons added, whats the problem?

SueDenim November 20, 2022 at 1:56 am

They can buy it back off coca cola with poisons added, whats the problem?

Martian Soon November 20, 2022 at 10:53 am

Are we making droughts worse?

Before our time there was huge forests almost everywhere. What a single tree does everyday during growing season? It does lift hundreds or thousands of litres of water to the canopy and spray most of it to the air. This water vapour will come down as rain. In Amazon area there might be 7 rains before water comes to Andies. Trees also seeds the clouds with particles that makes rain more likely in the area. We are currently interrupting 2-3 of these rain patterns, because there is farmland instead of forests. What happens in Amazon rainforest is pretty well known to science. Same kind of thing is happening in our wide farming sites.

We have had artificial watering on our crops, where some of the water evaporates to the atmosphere and comes down as rain. Now we are thinking that there is no need to give any extra water to our crops. This leads diminishing evaporation and therefore diminishing rains. Drought resistant crops uses less water, so we give them less water and diminish evaporation. We dig our watering pipes underground leaking just tiny bit of water and reducing the evaporation even further. Finally, there is no rains in the area and we need to bulldoze our farms, leave only desert behind and there will be almost no evaporation from these areas.

Ie. in California there is laws that forces people to use less water for their lawns and gardens. Water companies are even giving money if you alter your lawn to desert vegetation. In California they used to wash streets with water, but this is not allowed any more. All of these lessens evaporation and therefore the needed rains occurs less in the area.

So are we making drought worse with our practises? I think we are.

Part of this is due to climate change (air carries ~7% more moisture per 1C heating) , but seen patterns are stronger than climate change studies show. Lessened evaporation might be a key issue.

You could make a rough estimate when you take a large area, change its vegetation from forests to watered agriculture to water scarcity fields to a desert. Every step reduces evaporation and alters rain patterns.

We need to study this. This causes crop failures around the world and that causes hunger in many places. This is economically very important issue too.

Looby loo Roden November 21, 2022 at 3:15 am

Living in Scotland it's hard to comprehend having drought.

Rossie Heredia November 22, 2022 at 12:26 pm

Grasias,un millon,no manejo bien la tecnologia,pero a ustedes los conosco de hace muchos anos,cuando yo pensaba que podia hacer alguna,diferencia,grasias,por su educada,y buenisima Media,la otra…….los esta matando,….por un pedasito de Mundo🌳☘️🌝🌈⚘️💓💐que les queda a todos los ninos pobres,y inosentes,Hope for Humanity☘️💓🌳y grsias,una vez mas💓Peace

Night Storm November 29, 2022 at 5:19 pm

Biden is behind the shortage of EVERY THING and higher cost of living.

Bartosz Barejko December 3, 2022 at 10:22 am

Nestle will bottle water in plastic any amount you will need. Plastic water is the future of man.

Guido Sillaste December 3, 2022 at 3:03 pm

No scietist knew this was coming ,but the politicans and corporations blocked the info. Most older scietist could predict weather up to 200 years in the future and they gave there opinion openly. Many sayed that europe will face water issues and even worse desertification.

Ev Iv December 3, 2022 at 4:55 pm

agendas for 2023: water shortages, alien invasion

Bryan Smith December 4, 2022 at 3:42 am

Gotta pull it out of the air.

Abdoutube December 4, 2022 at 7:48 pm

I'm in a town southeast morocco now, and I'm really living this experience!! Hopefully I'm staying here just a night with a friend who lives here he is telling me that he is living this difficulties 1mounth and a half since the main river they pretend in is dry! And this makes me feel and live this issue seriously it's a bad thing !

Bernard Scheidle December 7, 2022 at 12:55 am

In Doctor Strangelove, Jack Ripper went to war over the purity of our bodily fluids.

Techno News December 8, 2022 at 5:59 pm

This planet is actually made of water. Caribbeans and Islanders have been using desalination plants facilities for more than a 100 years now, and they are doing great and even better with harvesting the solar power, wind power and wave power, now their desalination plant facilities are no need to use fossil fuel to run their desalination process, making it even cheaper and highly inexpensive than ever. See Israel and Australia how wonderful are their projects to expand their investments to fix that issue… yet still we can see people talking about droughts and water wars 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻 are you guys serious???
We just need something about the water wars technocrats… just one thing… stop being ridiculous… just stop it… those water wars ideas are simply over… there are other serious issues to deal with as humanity… So thank you… Next…

consequences December 8, 2022 at 11:28 pm

If planet total human population was 50-70% lower would that make any difference? Of course that might effect GDP, rather than individual quality of life, but half a loaf etc..

Richard Williams December 11, 2022 at 11:37 am

Sooner than 2070 where u Get ur predictions from it is right in front of our eye

Porter Smith December 14, 2022 at 5:52 pm

bro Gary is weird

street cat December 17, 2022 at 4:49 am

How about taking a method of desalinating seawater like Saudi Arabia?

Anna Carter December 18, 2022 at 7:56 pm

You can tell them to cook and eat at home. Restaurants closing is not a humanitarian crisis. So arrogant

John Robinson December 30, 2022 at 4:56 pm

WHY WHY WHY, are they waiting…. A solution and rationing its needed NOW !.

Lynda Gatlor December 31, 2022 at 4:55 am

Earth is a closed system isn't it? Where is all the water going? Makes no sense…

LoRe ZampaDeFerro January 7, 2023 at 12:46 pm
LoRe ZampaDeFerro January 8, 2023 at 11:41 am

All deserts. Only germany is not

Casual Youtube Watcher January 17, 2023 at 4:36 pm

The last war on Earth will be over water 💦

Johnny's Teradactyl January 22, 2023 at 1:59 am

PLEASE HARVEST AND STORE NATURALLY OCCURING RAIN WATER.

Aniket Tripathi January 31, 2023 at 3:18 am

Basic needs are most precious for those who are deprived. People can pay even whole wealth for just glass of water. Water, air and environment are very basic for thriving /living. We don't have scarcity. Only mismanagement and wastage causing problems. Over industrial /construction uses of drinking water can certainly be prevented. Irrigating roads, toilet flush and many others place sea water can easily be utilized. People using bath tub and shower causes huge wastages of drinking water.

Aj Stone January 31, 2023 at 1:48 pm

Governments globally need to pursue the idea of more Desalination Plants/projects water bores and wells only fill up if rain fills the water table we talked about this 38 years ago I guess we were right but people who govern such matters don’t like to listen

K roon February 9, 2023 at 10:51 am

I'm from the Netherlands. We are basically one gigantic river delta. 1/3 of us is even below sea level. Last place you'd expect water shortages… And yep, even here droughts are more and more common. Less and less rain. Every summer regulations for agricultural irrigation with ground water. There was even talk of regulating the amount of water used by companies this summer.

Alex Goslar February 11, 2023 at 1:37 am

Water has always been the Gold on this planet. In my next life, I wish to be reborn as water. It is an essential ingredient.

Genki Feral February 14, 2023 at 1:48 am

a shortage of water yet these countries keep allowing immigrants in. not smart.
A shortage of resources is one reason some countries (at least primitive tribes) have gone to war – to conquer areas with more resources.

Tracy February 15, 2023 at 1:33 am

CocaCola is the Worst for greed of draining water from already scare global Aquifers in poorer countries! 🧐💦

Brad Zimmerman February 21, 2023 at 1:23 pm

Pray for rain that's hilarious

Healing Inspirations February 23, 2023 at 12:15 am

If we reduced or eliminated our unneeded consumption of flesh and dairy, we could reforest vast pastures and cropland to absorb CO2 in the atmosphere and reverse the climate crises.

Mark Bagnoli February 24, 2023 at 3:20 am

Water is drying up because the world has forgotten the creator God think back to the book of Genesis God created the planet and furnished it with water and plants and animals….mankind is unthankful by way of action and life styles and God is not pleased…

Mark Bagnoli February 24, 2023 at 3:49 am

Jay Famiglietti is exactly correct apocalyptic in scope and measure it is foretold that mankind will search for water and none will be found…and it is coming to pass because God is withholding His blessing upon mankind….

WhyeLoon Tung February 26, 2023 at 8:39 am

I live in Singapore and we don’t have water in the past (water used to be mainly imported from Malaysia and we still do today to a lesser extend) so we decided to be self sufficient since independence by allocating precious land as reservoirs and built water desalination plants and recycle our waste water. Now we are fully self sufficient if required but because desalination is expensive, we are still importing water from Malaysia. It’s important to be self sufficient not only for climate change but for our country cannot rely on others for such an important resource as it would compromise our country’s sovereignty should we unfortunately go to war one day with our Neighbours where they can threaten to cut off our water supply and we would be at their mercy if we are not water self sufficient. Therefore, I see this problem to be a common threat to countries in the future where wars will be waged for water rights.

Puji Jaya February 27, 2023 at 8:51 pm

The zam zam is great resource

Diana Muringo March 4, 2023 at 12:54 pm

Do you have a Spotify version of your documentaries?

Filippo Rotolo March 14, 2023 at 12:44 am

And the world keep producing Coca Cola and all kind of fuzzy drinks … waste of water and health

Filippo Rotolo March 14, 2023 at 12:48 am

Top accountables for this catastrophe: The Coca Cola company, McDonald’s, all the fashion industry. We are selling our water to multi billion industries to produce crappy things we have to pay for.

The Cursed Lullafairy March 15, 2023 at 11:49 am

Who else is watching this because you had to <3

Vernon Bickerdike March 21, 2023 at 4:01 pm

If water is the new gold Ireland has just become the richest country in all the universe, it rains most days, we can trade it gallon for gallon for oil 🤔

John Metzger April 21, 2023 at 6:36 pm

Arabs use Arizona's water to grow alfalfa on American soil for their cattle feed back in the middle east.

Nara Steeples April 22, 2023 at 5:52 pm

We live n uk and thow we have a lot of water Yorkshire water company wast more than eny one as it tCks them three howers to fix a Leck we are not on a water meter we share a bath and we got a twin tub to do Ower washing as the uthere waste a lot water alot of water and power to so it was a win win Ower bath day is one's a week and a Leck and promis the rest of the week

Michin Waygook April 23, 2023 at 4:26 am

So glad I live in Canada where we have the most freshwater in the world. Now if only we could make Canadians appreciate that fact and not squander it.

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