@@edwardroche2480 The thing is, water supply remained at the same level while population continue to grow. This is classic fact regarding fixed resources and variable demands. Their choices are water distillation, or start buying water from nearby countries!!!
@@analienfromouterspace they could do that but they can also run their own water through a desalination plant that works by running water under high pressure through a diaphragm that separates the salt from the water Marion Saudi Arabia has several of these plants in operation. Iran probably does too
@1:16 that's not in Iran, that is the bottom of Pantabangan Dam reservoir in the Philippines, when the water dried up due to drought (El Niño) . The ruins are the remnants of an old town, deliberately abandoned to give way for the reservoir.
Too much water extraction from aquifers is a worldwide situation that will become a huge problem. History shows loss of freshwater has led to many civilizations collapsing. But we also now have climate change.
Amazing how Climate Change seems to be affecting everything BUT the climate. Look at the satellite record and ignore the "adjustments" made by NOAA, NASA and the GISS to hide the inaccuracy of their predictions.
@@mattyguff1 Climate change is causing an increase in drought across the globe as well as an increase in heat waves. This exacerbates the draw on subsurface water. It's all tied together.
If true, it's good news. My understanding is Afghanistan also controls dams/rivers that dump into Iran. Wouldn't it be great if all of the misery they've caused in the world ended because the've run out of water? It's also tough to keep a nuclear program going without water.
It's interesting seeing that there may be a correlation between radically unsustainable water use and following fundamentalist sects. You see the same phenomena in the US midwest Oglala aquifer depletion. This makes sense because once you hit unsustainable populations and natural resource use you start to drift away from natural healthy processes and into webs of human generated systems.
Good journalism. No arguing, no opinion, full of facts, and it was brief. Why can't American news media be so direct and neutral? They would've hyped the fear of running out. It's a real threat but the hype sells commercials. It's way more "show business" than journalism.
Happening around the world too, fixed resources vs. increasing demands. Countries with water distillation projects are the early victims of low water supplies vs. demands.
Honestly I have never heard anyone make fun of Africa like that. I have heard many people over decades talk of scarce water in Africa in the most empathetic and immediate concern ways though.
@@dbmail545 no matter where on the globe.... religious fanatics, dont care about reality....how could they?! when they give a 2000+ year old book more meaning then things that can be seen/measured with their own eyes?! -.-
@@mikepalmer1971 No. Do they attack, unprovoked, ANY other nation? I do not think you can cite any circumstances where this has happened. Stick you hand in a bee's nest and you get stung. Walk around it and they make you honey. Get it yet?
Hell of a time frame there...a thousand years of water just gone like that...pretty scary stuff...it would seem that people are taking water too much for granted...
@@dbmail545 That's the result of real geological climate change. The S.W. U.S. once had lots of water. A civilization the Navahos called "the ancient ones". Ruins of cities, some with 10,000 or more inhabitants, flourished. Then the slow changing of climate turned it into a desert and they vanished. Like N. Africa was the bread basket of the Roman Empire, but now little more than sand is there and that's only 2000 years ago.
A report about Iran, but not one single picture in this video is from Iran. Footage is from California from Philippines, Africa, and everywhere else but Iran😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's a well known fact that water shortages are an issue in the Middle East. Experts say that the Euphrates river will have dried up by 2040. Iraq and Syria have water issues so in all likelihood Iran which is next door has the same. They seem more concerned about developing nuclear systems though.
I wonder what the farmers over the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer and the farmers in Arizona are going to do. They are both pumping water faster than the aquifers can replenish.
While analyzing the water crisis in Iran or anywhere in the world is interesting, its more interesting why Indian media wont analyse the same issue in India. 1.5 billion and counting. Its not like the rivers and lakes are getting any wider and deeper. Water crisis, heat wave deaths have been an annual affair in India taking 1000s of deaths, and failed crops. Ground water extraction in India is a serious issue gone neglected by every successive govt. While a lot of success is reported from private water conservation movements by citizenry, there is not much done by govt.
@@estebancorral5151 Ground water extraction, using fresh water t to encourage bottled water industries, concrete plants, mining are all even worst. Not that the Ghat thing is any better, but it is eye catching and attention grabbing to talk about for sure. So much so that the other issues I mentioned get eclipsed. Pointing only one thing to redicule a society won't solve world water problems.
The subsidence is a bigger problem than just endangering infrastructure. Once an aquifer starts to collapse, the damage can't be reversed. It will never hold the same amount of water again.
The US of fossil water is increased because of the population explosion in the post WWll period. Climate change has exacerbated that water use. It is a global problem.
Only in the west are populations being terrorized by Climate alarmism. The Chinese who produce half of the anthropogenic CO2 on the planet certainly are not concerned. I don't hear the UN and IPCC calling out China's coal-fired power plants that they are building at an astonishing rate.
It is, but the US faces the same issues. Idaho had to put an order in place to shut down farming over the Eastern Snake Plains aquifer. The farmers screamed bloody murder so the state had to back off, but the reason the state did it is because the aquifer is being depleted and at the current rate, it will not sustain the amount of acreage serviced today. The farmers seem to be incapable of understanding that they are using more water than the snow pack can replenish. Meanwhile, the giant Saudi Arabian farms in Arizona are sucking up the water in its aquifers at a rate that is unsustainable. Climate scientist warned of issues with groundwater as early as 1988 and predicted that Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida would be the first to experience massive economic damage due to climate change. I would say that they got it right. In Iran's case, as with these US states, it is simply due to the fact that the planning ignored what would happen if the temps rose and lower rain and snowfall areas started to receive less rain or snow. Everybody loses.
@@shenmisheshou7002Yes, they blame farming, which does use a lot if water. Of course, the golf course at the country club and the daily watering of the lawns of the upper crust folks doesn't count, right?
@@johnchandler1687In 2015, the last date I have figures for, in Idaho, irrigation accounted for 86% of the total water withdrawn for all uses, with 15,273 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) used to irrigate nearly 3.78 million acres of crops. Probably many of those people playing golf are wealthy farmers. Idaho has some of the wealthiest farmers in the US. I agree with you though that golf courses use an extraordinary amount of water. That is for the state legislature of Idaho to work out though, and I am sure that a lot of them are golfers.
@@shenmisheshou7002 Yet uncountable tons of water flow into the sea by rivers each minute. Eventually we'll have to have large pipelines to redirect this water to dry areas. We need nuclear power for that as well as for safe clean power generation.
@@johnchandler1687 Idaho and Arizona are have put in some pipelines to re-direct water in to aquifers but there is a limit to how much they can take out of the rivers. There is a drought though, but the levels of snowpack, which is the main source of water for the rivers and aquifers, has been getting shallower over the decades.
The environment in the middle east and beyond has been suffering since the hey day of mesopotamia Iran is- in the "middle east and beyond" "The hey day of mesopotamia" refers to a period of time in antiquity. It's both reading and comprehension One without the other is like salt without pepper ...ok?
@@estebancorral5151 at no time did I say Iran is in mesopotamia I said the middle east and beyond ..."since the heyday of mesopotamia".. That means since around 5000 BCE ITS A TIME PERIOD You could benefit from learning what comprehension is
When any 1 occurs in an area and/or a region: your GDP grows by more than .25% per year~ (1.0025^100...), a fertility rate > 2.04~ (~1.02^100...), a population density > ~100/km² (look @ countries/cities in countries > 100/km2's century~ outlooks), your emissions don't decline (nothing's cleaned), hostages are created. ~Regions/countries'~ yearly % differences between GDP per capita ≠ life expectancy's, similarly, your ratio for '% changes in GDP per capita to life expectancy' > 1, w/o a STATED (hey ~gov't's!) tying~, or at least, annually compensatory $/resource mechanism, more hostages/inevitable conflict/harm in, /to a ~region/area~'s created. How many people have been held hostage by whom, for how many years domestically/internationally?
She managed to slip in 'Climate Change' at 0:46 even though climate change has nothing to do with the depleting water tables. Everyone has to take a bow to climate change in their videos in order to show that they are believers and not infidels.
There are people all over the world with the same reductive attitude toward climate change. Increase in global temperatures, drought frequency and population increase are puting an increasing strain on water availability.
Water quality in American is going to hell, all the fish are dying, you can't drink the water out of the faucet, especially in cities like Flint Michigan. what good is the water we have if you can't drink it. Worry about America Iran will worry about Iran
When the Shah fell the suitcase money Iranians showed up in the USA big time. Now the expat Iranian top money is in Canada as well. Iran folds, other countries get their elites.
When I was in college around 1970,there was a lot of talk about zero population growth. Now the population continues to explode,and every country is looking for more and more resources. Maybe it's time seriously face the real issue. Just too damn many people.
