The fight for water | DW Documentary

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

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.

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

agendas for 2023: water shortages, alien invasion

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 !

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…

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

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

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

Lol at #disinformation & #propaganda

The last war on Earth will be over water 💦

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.

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.

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.

Pray for rain that's hilarious

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…

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.

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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.

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 🤔

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