World Without Water

I can't thank you all enough for doing this! Rivers worldwide as well are shrinking as are the Great Lakes.This is truly a worldwide crisis and conservation is key as well as working to keep freshwater resources from corporatization while also bringing education regarding sustainable irrigation practices to developing areas of the world as 70% of all water used is wasted through irrigation.

Drought in Southern China now causes people to have to sell their sheep and livestock in order to get enough money to buy their water rations, and in Africa they cannot dig deep enough to get to water as their livestock dies as Lakes like Victoria and Chad are disappearing. Australia has all but said goodbye to the Murray-Darling River, and the Southwest US as well as Florida and other areas are also feeling the effects of persistant pervasive drought which now covers at least 40- 45 % of this planet touching all continents but Antarctica. And in the area of the Himalayas where millions depend on the quickly melting glaciers for their water, time is running out.

This is truly the moral environmental issue of this century. We can live without oil, but not without water. Thank you so much again for covering this crucial crisis. Mismanagement, waste, pollution, political upheaval, pritivitization, irrigation, overpopulation, climate change... all moral issues we must confront to save this planet and its water for future generations.

If anyone has seen the comedy Idiocracy or the Pixar movie Wall-E, those massive hills of trash should strike an eerie similarity to the huge piles of trash as signs of human stagnancy. It's obviously not the same as these extreme examples, but all of these are symbols of societal priorities only concerned with urban sprawl rather than long-term negative effects.

How can you do a report on water scarcity in China without mentioning three gorge dam? I wonder which dam is shown here in the report, but my guess would be that the changing water tables in the dam shown in the report has been impacted by the three gorge mega-dam project.

There are many precedents of how large scale dam projects re-map the natural ecosystems of surrounding areas. Tennesse Valley Authority, Itaipu in brazil.

I am thrilled to see the Chinese taking steps in the Green direction every little bit helps. I live in Colorado and I know how water scarcity works. My husband does landscaping and many clients of his out here are switching to xeriscapes in order to reduce the water needed for thier lawns. People in the mid-west don't realize this because the great lakes out there are just such a great resource. They are freshwater oceans. This is a great pod and you do great work.

I'm speechless.

Water is the new gold. Only kindness - trust, friendship, sharing, care and consideration for others - will reduce the suffering.

FIx = Make a Sea Water vehicle/car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiKa4nOkHLw

PROMOTE THIS, MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Reality is that it will make Sea Water evaporate, creating rain therefore abundance of Fresh Water.

What are you waiting?

What about the airplane carriers and big cruise ships dumping waste in the oceans. Trash and human waste is thrown out every night. Talk about terrorism.

the nex world war will be over water not oil...

Thank you so much for creating and posting this video!
This is a wake up call to all people about the globe. Our current administration along with its corporate sponsors, seem to wish this upon us too! The Chinese people are trying to do a lot more than we realize - I know this because I was part of a team of delegates that was called upon to assist and created a mutually beneficial relationship to exchange ideas! The Western world also has some part in this tragic mess - want cheap products made with cheap labor? This is where many of our factories and jobs went to. As our mainstream media does to us, so it does to anything that is positive news - nixes it as not newsworthy - hence our collective ignorance on what good is being done there. No different than how other countries currently perceive Americans - and yet there are millions of people here that work diligently to "change the course" of destruction we are on trying to improve our world for future generations. One way to assist is to stop supporting corporations that have no care for the environment! Those junk piles we see in this video are our junk piles, and I'm not speaking of boats!

I don't think we will go to war over water. i just think it will become more expensive. If all of the surface and ground freshwater sources dry up, then there remains two alternatives. artificial desalinization, removing the salt from seawater to create fresh water, or cisterns, big tanks that are used to capture and store rain and snow runoff from the local area.

We could, of course, just stop global warming and avoid all of the trouble of desalinization and climate change in general.

cisterns are, however, a cheap and environmentally thing to use.

I'm glad there are people out there doing something about this! But more people need to! Water is decreasing everywhere so please, people, be conscious of what you are wasting!

Stand up! you know who you are....your bold journalism is appreciated.What ever you do...keep raising the bar.
Thank you!

Okay first of all, I live in Florida so when i was watching and saw the full danger and severity of the drought it really scared me and pretty much convinved me to go out and buy a low-flow shower head. also, this story was really intresting and i think more people need to know about the water crisis so we can find ways to find a solution. . thank you vanguard . i just wish more people could see this.

This was a great story.For all of us we can share stories of what things looked when growing up and how things have change through time. They are correct as there is no substitution for clean fresh water. The climate is changing and each day there are stories of drought and what the average person must do. Hopefully one day the people who have created the problems will follow the same rules as the average person must.

I've yet to find part two on the Florida Everglades online.
Can anyone be of assistance with a helpful link?
Thanks.

very good piece. Its scary to see such huges ares that clearly used to have water and now are dry plots of land.

Excellent reporting!

Another crisis we HAVE to face now. At what point will it all become to overwhelming, beyond the point of repair? Lets not even think about it and fix it now while we still have the chance.

Crises like this far supercede any single government/ country/ political party in existence. There is no debating this, and no two ways to look at it.

When one thinks about the number of people in Asia whose staple is rice, and about how much water is needed in rice paddies, the future looks extremely bleak.

Thanks for an excellent and most informative pod.

There's no substitute for water. Soda, nope, Kool-Aid, hell no....

I always felt selling bottled water should be outlawed. It is a sign of things to come, unfortunately....

Great job Adam Yamaguchi and team. As always your videos fascinate me. I should show this to my dad to get his take on it, he has a double masters degree (got cheated out of a Ph.D and worked for the State Geological Survey team in Champaign Illinois (U.S). I'd be curious of his opinion, maybe I can convince him to write feedback to you.

Please keep up the good work.

i think that this is something that could end up happening here in california