Western Megadrought Shrinks The Colorado River, Bringing Multi-State Consequences | Nightly Films

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The Colorado River is a 1,400-mile, life-sustaining artery for the American West - supplying water for seven states while generating hydroelectric power for millions. Experts tell NBC News’ Steve Patterson that the river’s power is shrinking, thanks to heavy demand, combined with rapid climate change and a decades-long megadrought. Steve gets exclusive access inside the Glen Canyon Dam as the crisis leads to historic water rationing. Levels at Lake Powell and higher water temperatures are changing the ecosystem inside the Grand Canyon.
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@chaosawaits Год назад

98% of California is in severe drought yet the state has 940 golf courses, second only to Florida. Arizona has 325 despite being in a desert.

@chaosawaits Год назад

@Nate Night what a great idea! When you design a cost-effective, energy-efficient desalination plant, please give the plans to me so I can make billions!

@daharos Год назад

Yo, and you act like the majority of CA residents are responsible for golf courses? You know the overwhelming number of people at private and public golf courses are white and wealthier. Yeah, like a LOT of Californians I don't like the fact they're watered, or that so many people fill their pools etc. Lawns should be replaced with natural vegetation, as well as along our highways and other public spaces. And in many places we have. It's a work in progress. I do believe we should already be on water restrictions everywhere in the State except the few areas that are drought free (which aren't many and usually in the northern part.)

@causeitsthere Год назад

And Kim kardashian uses over 200k gallons a month on her lawn.

@paulasoutchek3747 Год назад

Along with movie star homes. Water the grass and flowers pheasants.

@paulasoutchek3747 Год назад

@@causeitsthere on her hair.

@blairclarkjr.4791 Год назад

Problem is, is that we treat finite resources as if they’re infinite. We’re paying the price of what “infinite growth” does to the ecosystem

@cardmansales9376 Год назад

only way to stop desertification is more large animals to graise

@joshuagarner1654 Год назад

Water is the most abundant resource on earth

@chrish6818 Год назад

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell

@skaetur1 Год назад

Ah. No one looked at a river fifty years ago without thinking, this has been here for a thousand years.

@ElliotWallace Год назад

@@joshuagarner1654 most of it in the form of salt water. Desalination is expensive and uses lots of resources. There are already desalination plants popping up in the southwest with states fighting over water usage. Aside from the environmental issues, it’s also an economic issue. Clean water will become increasingly expensive, which will be a barrier for some to gain access to it.

@i8dan Год назад

The mistake was incentivizing / enabling the development of large metropolitan areas in water-scarce regions. If you insist on living in the desert because you don't like snow, you have to accept the downsides to that as well. Lush golf courses, gardens, etc. would not exist there naturally and we are foolish to enable that sort of development. Especially when it's so auto centric and the people who "love the heat" are blasting their AC to escape it...

@TheCommunicationCoach Год назад

well said

@TheMarcosvolta Год назад

Theres a word for what you describe. Hubris.

@BC....... Год назад

This is not correct. The great majority of the water use (over 2/3rds by many sources) goes to agriculture, not residential. Cities like Phoenix actually use very little water per person, as nearly all the landscaping, except the occasional ridiculous golf course, is just desert landscape. Water use per person will go down even further as more and more people get solar power. The major problem is that agriculture in the southwest, specifically southern California and Arizona, MUST be required to make a transition to water efficient crops and better methods like hydroponics rather than just flood irrigation.

@kevinxie2155 Год назад

@@BC....... this Is educated explanation

@JoeVideoed Год назад

@@BC....... True, but every little bit helps, + I grew up in Phx (did 2 tours of civilian duty there), so I know the sitch down there at least. The population of the Valley of the Sun has tripled since the year my family 1st moved there. When I left 5 yrs ago there were still HOAs that refused to let people replace grass w/ xeriscape gardens. Every single person, regardless of what role they play in life, has to play a part in collective responsibility.

@florinadrian5174 Год назад

When it lasts 10 years or more, you can't call it a drought, not even a megadrought, it's the new normal. Also, can't NBC News afford stereo sound?

@Justusson Год назад

No. It’s still a draught.

@drewbreezy5854 Год назад

Good point. After so many years it is time to consider having ample water as a being an outlier. These people have no sense.

@reheedygo3718 Год назад

yeah strange video not stereo sound, i thought my headphones broke :D

@dewilton7712 Год назад

They should not be allowing certain farming, golf courses, lawn sprinklers, pools, etc in any drought areas.

@adamjankowski4315 Год назад

What about the economy surrounding the water. Do you care about the jobs these people do?

@alexandersupertramp7353 Год назад

@@adamjankowski4315 No! Not if means humans go without water! How about get rid of Nestle and ANY other water bottling company?

@felixthecat2786 Год назад

@@adamjankowski4315 I'm sorry whose job is it to let lawn sprinklers sit outside all day long wasting water?? I'm certain that there are many more ergonomic ways to store and utilize rain water for the farmers and as for golf.... ...Are you out of your ever loving mind?? There isn't enough water for drinking, but we're supposed to invest in golf courses in the desert?? These people could do anything else for a living....literally...anything

@Syrnian Год назад

@@adamjankowski4315 Those jobs are going to go belly up with the dwindling water supply.

@mrtee3477 Год назад

Too many people little water.

@cardshow...... Год назад

All these years and nobody listened . Now we all will suffer and the worst part is our kids will and their kids will the most.

@TheVuduYuDu Год назад

Exactly.

@Mr_CAM0 Год назад

The generation that did the most damage just knows they'll be dead before it gets that bad so they never cared. Even for their own kids. Lol

@fredcoyote9477 Год назад

@@Fusion_4000 Yeah the weather in the rest of the country is going nuts, too.

@lbazemore585 Год назад

Some of us listened. Zero population growth was what we heard.

@RIXRADvidz Год назад

Your Children and your Children's Children will not pillage the planet like Your ForeFathers and your Grand Fathers and your Fathers and YOU They will learn to live within their means, they won't destroy the planet for the sake of shareholder profits. LIKE YOU

@le-oc3yx Год назад

Way to go humans. We've destroyed a river that carved the grand canyon over millions of years in what, 150 years?

@dmannevada5981 Год назад

It's destroyed? Wow, I wasn't aware the Colorado didn't exist anymore. What a drama queen.

@le-oc3yx Год назад

@@dmannevada5981 you must be a very unenjoyable person to be around

@dmannevada5981 Год назад

@@le-oc3yx Thank you for noticing. Now on the other hand, who wants to hang with an emotional, non intellectual? I mean, based on your comment...drama queen nailed it! "Destroyed the river"...how utterly ridiculous.

@le-oc3yx Год назад

@@dmannevada5981 well it seems all you can do is call people ignorant or a drama queen. How about refuting the facts laid out in this video that validate my statement or the previous person's statement about the mega drought? Or is your game just to call people names without bringing any kind of intellect or critical thought to the table? You don't even have to bother replying because this is childish. Hope you find some happiness and meaning to life soon, and try not to think too hard, it looks like it kind of hurts for you 😉

@dmannevada5981 Год назад

@@le-oc3yx How do you converse when a person makes a completely ridiculous statement? Just the fact that you stated..."destroyed the Colorado". Good God, that's the definition of hyperbole. There's nothing going on with the Colorado that it hasn't done the last 300 years-per the 300 year study, performed by the U of Col & N. AZ U, a study I know you had never heard of before. The Colorado isn't going anywhere, yes, even after millions of years! You want facts...you want me to refute a statement. Ok...here it is. The "megadrought". What megadrought????? That term is used to push a narrative, to make people like you skitzoid. Here are the facts. NOAA, which is science, doesn't claim or use a term called "megadrought". In fact, NOAA only made the meteorological drought designation 3 years ago. Is "3 years" megadrought? Don't believe me...good. Then go to NOAA's "drought maps". Then look at NOAA's data from 2000-2018. It was actually on the "wet" side out west during that period...PER NOAA'S SCIENCE! You don't see drought along the Colorado until the last few years. I'll wait your acknowledgement after going to the NOAA"s drought maps. Are you prepared to state your comment was hyperbole?

@tillettman Год назад

If you live in the desert, you’re gonna need to live like you’re in the desert. There’s no solution that’s going to please everyone and probably no solution that’s going to please a majority of people, but they’re going to need to force a solution soon.

@KOSAMAGAMES Год назад

the thing is most of those people moved there because they couldn't afford living in coastal states. it's like punching them while they're down. Though I'm not saying they shouldn't manage their lifestyle to their environment (rain barrels for irrigation). Also, Los Angeles itself has mismanaged its mega city alongside its large water usage and should be broken up into smaller cities to manage their resources tighter.

@TheMarcosvolta Год назад

@@KOSAMAGAMES simply breaking something up into smaller segments doesnt equate to "easier to manage." theres literally nothing to support your nonsense.

@BreckThePanther Год назад

Your food comes from there too.

@tillettman Год назад

@@BreckThePanther No. Most of my food comes from my field and from my neighbors. Or it comes from Central/South America. Or it comes from wherever they grow wheat: Europe or Kansas or someplace like that. Or it comes from wherever they grow rice: maybe Georgia or Texas or Asia. But they better not be growing rice in the Southwestern desert. I suppose I get some tomatoes from somewhere, I’m not sure where from, it’s already bottled into ketchup or tomato sauce. But it still stands that if you live in the desert you’re gonna need to live like you’re in the desert. That includes implementing desert farming techniques and growing desert plants. As for those people who do rely on food from America’s desert, this is why it’s stupid to maintain grassy lawns when you don’t have any grazing animals. It’s wasted space that would be much better suited to growing food that you can eat.

@beetlebob4675 Год назад

@@KOSAMAGAMES I can't afford any rent price east of the Mississippi. It's definitely a thing. I'm lucky i have my childhood home, or I'd be screwed. New England is expensive AF to live in. I spent some time in Quartzsite, AZ, and there's a lot of homeless, PLUS a pretty large community of people living in their cars, RVs, Volkswagen busses, school buses, etc. Part of that is the Bureau of Land Management, and the fact that you can stay on public land, even if there's a 2week limit. You just go to a different spot. There's nothing like that on the east coast. Nothing. If infrastructure fails or is crippled out there, the housing crisis will get worse, because millions of those people will have to move in this direction. I welcome them, but whoo boy. Things will be difficult. For everyone.

@northerniltree Год назад

Instead of working together to try to find solutions, the affected states bicker and fight for "their" share of the Colorado river. Pathetic, but predictable human behavior.

@Juan-lf6qo Год назад

Szsz Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what he said. "Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 CHURCH LA LUZ DEL MUNDO/THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

@ADDeeJay Год назад

Well, if we take the 200k invasive beavers from Tierra del Fuego, destroying old growth rainforest, and put them back in the Southwest US where they belong, maybe all the dried up streams and and Rivers will come back and resist the drought (like has already happened in Elko NV after the beaver came back).

@kespo5358 Год назад

@@ADDeeJay YES! The removal of vital species and all these dams are the problem. Natives told Americans in the 1800s that this would be a problem in the future. All these floods in the desert are nature's way of correcting the water situation but the dams and non-natives like orchards are impeding the process.

@garymortenson6452 Год назад

When the day comes, they will get shut off. When they get shut off, our reservoirs will fill back up. To many people downstream demanding more than their fair share.

@dmitryxxx26 Год назад

@@Juan-lf6qo if jesus said this would happen 2000 years ago, that would imply that humans have no free will, just an illusion of it 🤔

@charlieewing1810 Год назад

Kind of missing the rows and rows of almond orchard at the 6:40 mark kind of hits the real issue, commercial farming on desert lands is a dense practice that requires MASSIVE amounts of water (assume 8g of water to an almond.) The Caywood family that talks farms cotton, which requires about 10g a plant of water to thrive and produce it's maximum yield. How many gallons is needed to water 247 acres of cotton? We really need to figure out what is sustainable and what is throwing good water at a desert expecting it to stay green.

@burnerr Год назад

both types of crops should become illegal in the area its absurd we've let it go on for as long as it has. if you wanna get all tinfoil hat about it you could argue foreign investment into both producers is just another way to attack our economy from within... increase profits and support funding for crops that dry out a population's water.

@bill9467 Год назад

Yeah now do red meat and eggs. It’s even worse! I’m so sick of the almond analogy from people that won’t quit eating meat.

@guymontag2948 Год назад

California can still retain a huge agricultural sector, but they have to stop acting like it isn't a desert. They just need to take a few lessons from places like Israel, with more appropriate crops and farming techniques.

@SPLSE Год назад

@@bill9467 Agreed. Way too many Almond experts now. 2022s hottest profession.

@marklemont3735 Год назад

@@guymontag2948 Yes. The drip irrigation tubing I use at home is used in Israel, too. The rep. told me to just drip for a short time to let a plume form in the soil, then when it drips the second time it helps guide the water deeper. Not a constant drip all the time. It conserves much more water.

@hitomi7922 Год назад

The reality is, no one is really gonna do anything until the faucets stop running.

@marty5822 Год назад

I think at this point we need to stop thinking about "recreational" needs and focus on environmental survival needs.

@huntermcclovio4517 Год назад

i know right? like we need to save the river so the old guy can fish until he dies...hahahahahaha

@darkhorsejim Год назад

Wow, and we had a 50 years heads up on this scenario. Talk about kicking the can down the road, good d grief.

@fredcoyote9477 Год назад

I reluctantly left northern New Mexico twelve years ago because of the drought.

@user-NofaceNocase Год назад

yup very true!!

@alntr2872 Год назад

yep

@tmmartinesq.6216 Год назад

Crossed the Rubicon. Kiss your butts goodbye

@rustymugg9658 Год назад

I'm no scientist, but why don't we have desalination facilities on every coast or at least where needed where needed. That 70%from the Colorado River can be replaced with desalinated water from our shores. All water flows to the Sea, yet the Sea is never full.

@johnturley273 Год назад

We are not going to do anything specific, we'll just continue to talk about it until the river dries up.

@johnsharrow9196 Год назад

Well, if things go as they usually do, nothing substansive will be done until it's too late and then they'll all cry, 'Why didn't SOMEBODY do something?'

@darthmercur3067 Год назад

Don't blame Al Gore or Democrats though, it turns out..... they were right the whole time.

@Popkins322 Год назад

True

@gorpim Год назад

Eeeexactly

@summerrain7466 Год назад

We have had 30 years to prepare for this. Our "leaders" have done nothing except put their fingers in their ears. The drought has been going for 21 years here. Twenty-one years watching the water level go down. Anyone ask "what are we going to do? What's our plan?" in all that time?

@BigDsGaming2022 Год назад

A 100 million year old Aquifer is almost gone when it is empty so will the desert be too

@3railmike713 Год назад

I’ve been saying this for over a decade. Drought will be the biggest humanitarian disaster the south west US will face in modern history dwarfing covid.

@SpottedHares Год назад

And the few who so much as purposed any ideas what so ever get shoot down by the others screaming about how it will cost “them” to much and how it will ruin everything.

@joellesullivan1 Год назад

It’s funny how great us humans are at responding to literal impending doom.

@Juan-lf6qo Год назад

Gcgc Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what he said. "Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 CHURCH LA LUZ DEL MUNDO/THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

@peforster6725 Год назад

I have two grandkids. I find it frightening the world they'll have 20 yrs from now.

@drewbreezy5854 Год назад

Embarrassing as usual

@markferrari5886 Год назад

and of course you mean not at all

@blank.9301 Год назад

Ecosia 👍🙏

@bethcares17anonymous38 Год назад

Steve Patterson did the best job putting this together and explaining situation

@smoothoperator1083 Год назад

Yeah Imagine that. True , Real, and Legit journalism!

@roxaskinghearts Год назад

@@smoothoperator1083 Yeah imagine needing to repeat yourself millions of times a year to be called real Journalism by the likes of you

@smoothoperator1083 Год назад

@@roxaskinghearts Exactly! You've proven my point. Maybe it's time you my clown friend get off CNN, MSNBC!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

@roxaskinghearts Год назад

@@smoothoperator1083 Thanks for the projections moron your sure showing us your as dumb as a trump supporter projecting onto people like that thanks for making my point lame brain you do realize if anyone can claim that it would be me the data analysis who constantly uses data sets on my points moron because what google did is turn you all into data free for me to use to tear into this nation dont compare me to a lame brain like you

@anthonydoyle7370 Год назад

Hi Steve 😎

@kennyw871 Год назад

According to the Arizona Beef Council, there are 19,000 farms and ranches, with over 908,000 cattle and calves in Arizona. It takes ~1,800 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. A lactating cow consumes 30-50 gallons of water a day. Now consider that Arizona has over 300 golf courses. The average 18-hole golf course uses ~1,304,000 gallons of water (~4 AF) of water a year. Much of the water required to sustain these operations are being supplied by aquifers, which are also dependent on adequate precipitation amounts above the surface. You're wrong if you think seasonal moonsone rains are a lasting solution as these flood waters only spread man-made surface pollutants back into rivers, lakes, reservoirs and aquifers in torrential cycles. You're also wrong if you think a water pipeline or desalination plants are solutions, as these would provide too little water, too late to starve the drought crisis in the desert SW region of the US. This also implies that major economies in the region will suffer catastrophic loses, which must be planned for staring now.

@michaelmunoz679 Год назад

Eat bugs then.. hypocrite!

@roadrunner6081 Год назад

What! No more McDonalds! Auggghhhh!

@The_Savage_Wombat Год назад

4 AF x 300 golf courses = 1,200 AF out of Arizona's 2.80 million AF allocated from the Colorado River Compact. Golf course impact (and lawns and pools) is insignificant in comparison to agriculture. People panic and point fingers without even doing the simple arithmetic.

@Ty-hg8bo Год назад

@@michaelmunoz679 facts

@michaelmunoz679 Год назад

@@Ty-hg8bo fact: Who makes it rain? Do you know? Who tells the wind to blow? Who makes the sun rise and the ocean roar? Who made all things? Who can heal are hearts to heal are lands? Do you know? Fact: I know and I will serve Him who made all things and love Him with all my heart, all my mind, all my soul and all my strength, and than love others as myself.

@arizonabusinessleague918 Год назад

If one studies how much cooler and beautiful Arizona was before it got colonized, one would be completely shocked. Rivers, creeks even in the Valley desert region. Indians lived in the now 120F desert year around without electricity.

@Joelsellers29 Год назад

For real. The things we could have learned if the colonists hadn't been so ignorant. The wisdom that is lost to the ages, or well hidden. The Hopi try to do their best to live as traditionally as they can. Some still farm the way they did before the Pale faced ones arrived.

@joshuatso2052 Год назад

People here have never had to pump or haul water and it shows. Many Navajo homes near the Colorado river do not have running water or electricity. My family is there, and to have running water and electricity is a luxury but for many that is a right and necessity. Too bad the govt and private companies have poisoned many water sources for fracking and uranium mining too.

@burjalmadre Год назад

These levels of droughts and river drying also happening throughout Europe, and China, all at the same time, is nothing normal. This is a glaring red flag for humanity.

@jamesahn9910 Год назад

But other parts are seeing rwcors high rain ans floods.

@tailswinsmore5054 Год назад

@@jamesahn9910 woah..... its almost like... the climate is..... different..... NO! THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING!

@TwiStedZaP Год назад

We just need to start a massive desalination project in California and then pipeline that water to the rivers. Problem solved.

@CaliJatt0809 Год назад

@@TwiStedZaP where would you put all the salt? You can't just bury it or put it back in the ocean

@henrywashington3732 Год назад

@@CaliJatt0809 Why not? Look at how big the Ocean is. That little bit of salt won't affect anything! Where does the salt go when fresh rain water is generated in ocean?

@ricksa2786 Год назад

There are over 200 golf courses in Scottsdale and over 100 in Phoenix, not counting all the other cities just drinking up the water from the lake. And they don't have to cut back on water. We are in a Tier 2, more cut backs for farmers but none yet for golf courses.

@7thSmurf Год назад

the whole AMerican SOuthwest has 2000 Golf courses all together.. put that on your WATER TAB and smoke it .. 8)

@EricTheBody Год назад

@Mac Gyver go eat it then. I’m sure the 9th hole tastes delicious.

@someguy2135 Год назад

@Mac Gyver Las Vegas has led the way in water conservation. The local water company has incenitvized replacing grass lawns with desert landscaping.. Our government has now mandated the elimination of ornamental grass in most cases. What else could each of us do? Switching to a fully plant based diet. Each vegan saves 219,000 gallons of water every year! (829,000 liters) "UNESCO Institute for Water Education: The production of a meat-based diet typically consumes twice the amount of water as compared to a plant-based diet. National Geographic: "On average, a vegan, a person who doesn't eat meat or dairy, indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day less than a person who eats the average American diet." Diet change-a solution to reduce water use? (IOP Science): This 2014 research finds "reducing animal products in the human diet offers the potential to save water resources, up to the amount currently required to feed 1.8 billion additional people globally."-Truth Or Drought (Title follows- "How Would a Vegan Shift Save Water?"

@thasilkyman Год назад

@@someguy2135 No thanks!

@freeheeler09 Год назад

@Mac Gyver - and that recycled water should be used for something necessary like growing food, not an idiotic, unnecessary game like golf!

@TheMonkdad Год назад

We are a country who are way too used to convenience. We’re going to experience inconvenience sooner or later. I believe the agriculture needs to end in the desert.

@mahlina1220 Год назад

Half of our country is too busy fighting amongst each other, creating wars overseas when we need to be fixing our planet, tending to our wounds.

@georgegouvas27 Год назад

greed

@levmoses742 Год назад

Driving through the Southwest and seeing so many new homes without solar over the last decade has been shockingly disappointing. We are creating our experience. Only we can fix or possibly change the trajectory we are on.

@The_Savage_Wombat Год назад

Because they don't require solar as an option during building so new buyers could have it at low mortgage interest rates. You have to refinance to get the money for solar or go with the installers financing which is a rip off.

@mlperez23 Год назад

Because the way to pay for it a rip off. Would love solar but the contacts you have to sign with these companies are not worth it, not to mention makes the home harder to sell if the buyer isn't interested in dealing with the contact.

@alksjda Год назад

imagine thinking building a city in the middle of a desert was a good idea

@keyboardcommando7000 Год назад

🧠

@allangibson8494 Год назад

Cities aren’t the problem - farms and golf courses are. (Cities actually use very little water per acre).

@7thSmurf Год назад

not only 1, but several MEGA Cities

@dirkdiggler2865 Год назад

I do enjoy Vegas though

@jessstuart7495 Год назад

People won't start to change their behavior until the cost of water increases. If it costs $20 to water your lawn, people might think twice about turning on the sprinklers.

@timallison8560 Год назад

people won't stop buying houses in the desert until they realize the rest of us aren't stupid enough to spend trillions of dollars on water pipelines filled with other states water.

@jonmitchell9019 Год назад

LOL! Yes only out west. Instead of worrying about giving people that money, and don't want to work. Or instead, use that money to build enough desalination to provide California with there own water.

@charlieewing1810 Год назад

@Mr_CAM0 Год назад

@@jonmitchell9019 that's one long stupid sentence.

@jonmitchell9019 Год назад

@@Mr_CAM0 Dang homie you didn't even give me 10 seconds. That was super fast. I was editing it already. Dang.

@w.d.g. Год назад

farmers were almost never paying for the real cost of all that water.

@maxinewest4096 Год назад

Amazing video footage of the land, very awesome to see.

@mahlina1220 Год назад

What part? The water shrinking?

@JimboInTheHouse1 Год назад

This is why you don't put a farm in the middle of the desert.

@jtstacey83 Год назад

well seeing how 50% of all produce consumed in the country is grown in California be prepared for much higher food prices as we compete with the world over food.

@irvingceron1016 Год назад

@@jtstacey83 Just farm somewhere else... the Netherlands is a tiny country that is a leading exporter in agriculture. We need to emulate them and stop being wasteful

@CadetBoneSpurs Год назад

@@irvingceron1016 seriously agree 💯 …I can grow enough food in my own back yard to feed at least 4 households…you telling me we can’t feed ourselves….nah…it’s that somebody doesn’t get rich off me growing food. Front yards all used to be gardens until the early 50’s when Petro-chemical companys needed to sell fertilizers etc…so having a fresh green lush front yard was unleashed into society as the “thing to do”. Ever since the home garden has become a “hobby” and not a norm…thus guess what..you have to drive to a grocery store and pay for food a lot of which, you could and should have grown at home. All funnels of money upwards.

@guymontag2948 Год назад

@@irvingceron1016 The Netherlands has a ridiculous amount of premium arable land for its size and population. That's not really a fair comparison. Many countries farm in inhospitable areas using irrigation because they don't have that advantage and a lot of the arable land they do have is paved over now. It's a complex issue.

@JimboInTheHouse1 Год назад

@@jtstacey83 no doubt.

@jtstacey83 Год назад

just imagine food prices if California can no longer grow food

@freeheeler09 Год назад

Over a quarter of the food in the US, and almost all of the veggies, fruits and nuts, come from California and Arizona.

@kristinab1078 Год назад

I've imagined this possibility for the last 15 years when there were early indicators of concern. Not a pleasant scenario for any of us. I will especially miss the almonds...

@aolvaar8792 Год назад

@@freeheeler09 corn, wheat, soybeans, a quarter? dollar wise or tonnage?

@glenspryszak6005 Год назад

The food will be grown elsewhere in North America in places that are receiving more rain..... it all comes down to balance.....someone wins...someone loses. Crops will change as conditions will allow...

@jtstacey83 Год назад

@@glenspryszak6005 yet what happens when these millions of families start to relocate from these areas moving east. There are bigger issues at play when mass migration takes hold and people start fighting over whether land should be used for housing or farming. Heck some food can only be grown out west due to the plentiful sunshine and moderate temperature. Stuff that would never grow in the hot, humid, wet south or cold north.

@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 Год назад

The Colorado river was indeed at one time. Great for members of the OTC (Olympic training center seleted teams) from Colorado springs to go for recreational fun in the spare time which was only on Sundays which was optional to train or recreational times. I miss the river loads and it saddens me to see all this taken place.

@sipock97 Год назад

At what point do you stop calling it a drought, and start calling it what it is. The new climate.

@MrDmadness Год назад

Exactly.,

@johnlux6635 Год назад

News media is calling it a drought. Water resource people know it's the new norm.

@bobthemethguy3450 Год назад

Trumpers: "If global warming is so real why is there ice in my fridge?"

@bartkirby21 Год назад

Yeah we don’t all think that way. Very blanket stereotype.

@dentatusdentatus1592 Год назад

Trumpers: "If global warming is so real, why do I catch colds?"

@branfooy Год назад

😂

@Ed-uz6em Год назад

We’ve been gambling on creating artificial oasis’s in deserts and acting like it’s normal.

@drewbreezy5854 Год назад

Time to get real and live off the land the way it is provided to use. Enough deforestation and artificially making regions suitable. We can do that.

@masterdecats6418 Год назад

“Oh no! My crops in the desert are dying! Who would’ve guessed this was a bad idea!!!”

@dixonbuttes6564 Год назад

Glad you mentioned population as a driver, but you should have shown a graph of precipitation in the CO River Basin, and how it has changed over time. The variables driving this “megadrought” includes production and consumption. What those graphs would have shown is that precipitation (production) hasn’t changed much, while consumption has changed substantially. Everyone who has moved to the interior West in the last 50 years is a direct contributor to the over-consumption of available resources. Your story tells a partial truth, and while a stepping stone to viable information, falls substantially short of the truth. It would be nice to see a more objective exposé on this topic… show the people what’s really changed…

@sl0ls Год назад

Well said. They would never let anyone as intelligent as you be a journalist. Making sense is just not what american “journalism” is about.

@dmannevada5981 Год назад

What "megadrought"? What an uninformed, in fact, ignorant statement. Now, for some intellect for ya! NOAA designated the Colorado as being in agricultural & hydrological drought 20 plus years ago, not meteorological-there is NO megadrought. NOAA didn't add the "meteorological" designation until 2019. I suspect you don't know what any of those terms mean. The term "megadrought" is not an official designation, but one made up by individuals. You'll never see a hydrologist use the term. It doesn't mean anything when it has no official definition. Of course consumption has changed. have you notices, there are more people in the world-duh! Actually, per the USGS, potable water usage is only 12%(and going down). Over 80% of the water is used to irrigate crops, crops that contribute to the food supply of over 700 million people worldwide-INCLUDING YOU! You are just as responsible for the water issues over the fact that you need to eat! Your comment was as stupid as it gets!

@kespo5358 Год назад

22 years? That's not a drought. That's just the way now.

@jimtorres6783 Год назад

So you think just overreacting when the ground is sinking in the central valley of California ( when the ground sinks that is a aquifer lost).

@jasonreed7522 Год назад

@@jimtorres6783 thats not what he said, he said that if a drought lasts that long its the new climate not a temporary drought. (This means you need to make long term changes or join the ancient ghost cities of the Sahara that died when the wells ran dry thousands of years ago)

@jimtorres6783 Год назад

@@jasonreed7522 Sorry I misunderstood, so if you think we still have a chance to turn things around I would agree, but I would say that this not a normal seasonal thing.

@jasonreed7522 Год назад

@@jimtorres6783 im not saying i agree with the original poster, alot of the original surveys of historical rainfall used to size the water infrastructure in the west was from a 20year window that was the wettest the west had ever been in the past 10,000 years. (You can't blaime them, that was all the records they had at the time, and our archeology to study the weather before we started measuring has improved alot since the 1880s) Personally i think California needs to build solar powered desalination to replace its alotment from the Colorado and let the interior water stay in the interior. (Atleast in its watershed) Additionally ways of life need to be adjusted, both to replicate some of the techniques of past civilizations of the valley, but also to consider if growing almonds and cotton in the desert is really necessary. I think it can be turned around but the west can't live like they have the water of New York, Virginia, Florida, or Louisiana.

@loualiaissa6251 Год назад

All their predictions went wrong , instead happening in 2050 , it's already happening globally and severely, what a bad time coming along

@timallison8560 Год назад

the river is 20% smaller, that's an outright laugher of a diminished truth, the river is 40% smaller today, and losing about 7% per year.

@tmmartinesq.6216 Год назад

Panic Avoidance... Hello Climate Refugees.

@someguy2135 Год назад

I noticed that. I think the quote was "20% lower levels" but since the canyons are wider at the top, it could explain the difference in volume from the 40% they reported.

@freeheeler09 Год назад

@@tmmartinesq.6216 - here come tens of millions of climate refugees, from California, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Mexico, Guatemala etc., etc., etc.

@Juan-lf6qo Год назад

Yhyh Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what he said. "Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 CHURCH LA LUZ DEL MUNDO/THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

@pedtrog6443 Год назад

@@Juan-lf6qo Love it how people use 2 thousand year old words to absolve themselves from responsibility.

@markusmuller6173 Год назад

(2:14) "We're 22 years into this drought."

@johnlux6635 Год назад

Yes we should have started fixing things after ten years in at least.

@markusmuller6173 Год назад

@@johnlux6635 Perhaps even more important than self-pity might be the question: Who does support what and whom by what kind of words and deeds today ?!?

@ValMartinIreland Год назад

OK. For thousands of years this river collected rain and snow water and conveyed it to the Pacific Ocean. There the water mixed with sea water and evaporated into clouds which blew over the mid-west and fell as rain and snow replenishing the river again. Now no water is allowed into the ocean, what else do they expect?

@28carter Год назад

Stories like this make me glad I'm closer to death than birth. Earth has been beautiful, and life is going to be miserably different in ways we don't realize yet in a relatively short amount of time.

@martareitmajer Год назад

Wow so dramatic

@Me97202 Год назад

Carter speaks the truth.

@martareitmajer Год назад

@Dovah-chan ok but the main* reason why that river is drying up is because they’re farming almonds in California. The world is not going to end anytime soon and some people are just acting like doomers.

@Rnankn Год назад

A single generation decided to extract and consume as much as possible as quickly as possible. Even that was not enough, they borrowed so much from the future, it is barely possible to pay interest in the present. At every turn, they used their power to take care of themselves. And I think many actually plan to die to avoid feeling guilt, ending their denial, or having to change. They’re using death to avoid the consequences of their decisions. It is the most morally contemptuous crime of all time. And they wonder why we are so skeptical and critical. Enjoy your retirement.

@martareitmajer Год назад

@@Rnankn yeah that’s why boomers are to blame. They’re literally the definition of somebody that leaves an empty used up toilet paper roll without changing it. What can we do? We have to fix it for the future generations, don’t we?

@SealionDefenseBrigade Год назад

Fracking takes a lot of water....

@jaykay3071 Год назад

See I’m a glass half full kinda guy, now we got a second Grand Canyon!!

@grundged Год назад

State Land Department in Arizona began leasing land in 2015 to the Saudi Arabian company Fondomonte. They pump unlimited amount of ground water with no cost to grow alfalfa year round...in a desert. They grow it to feed cattle in Saudi Arabia. This is what is drying up the Colorado river.

@jaybird4571 Год назад

Lake Powell and lake Meade running on a quarter tank. Things are all bad!

@tss9886 Год назад

Well gee once upon a time there were 100 million beavers slowing down the flow of water across the land. This allowed water to regenerate aquifers and saturate cropland. Drought didn't create ideal fire conditions because the land held water. Beaver occupied land in fire resistant even in dought conditions.

@kristinab1078 Год назад

Interesting....I had no idea beavers played such an important part in ecosystems. Sad that it is no longer the case.

@jbkingesq9889 Год назад

@@kristinab1078 Beaver has always been....important, shall we say.

@Juan-lf6qo Год назад

Ytyt Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what he said. "Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 CHURCH LA LUZ DEL MUNDO/THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

@tss9886 Год назад

@@kristinab1078 They are slowly making a comeback but people need to let them do their thing. For the first time in centuries people are realizing that modifications for human convenience are not good land stewardship. Some programs have been copying beavers work, creating beaver dam analogs to improve water quality.

@MrDmadness Год назад

Global temperatures are rising. Thats the problem, commercial farming doesn't help, im not a zoologist but I'm pretty sure beavers don't live in the desert... being Canadian im sure of it.

@bobdole6691 Год назад

thank you for only putting the audio in the left ear, thank you very much for doing this

@Tabacish Год назад

This isn't a "22 year drought", it's the new normal...

@denmark23 Год назад

I woke up to a river on the road outside of my apartment... So confusing... It was like waist deep... Fortunately it took like one hour to remove, cause the whole town worked together, so no major damages, but never experienced it before, definitely a reminder of what's to come.

@joevarga5982 Год назад

What's to come?

@denmark23 Год назад

@@joevarga5982 rivers in my road, maybe i should get a paddle board...

@joevarga5982 Год назад

@@denmark23 Oh, I thought maybe we ALL needed to be concerned, lol.

@Juan-lf6qo Год назад

Dsds Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what he said. "Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 CHURCH LA LUZ DEL MUNDO/THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

@Juan-lf6qo Год назад

Lklk Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what he said. "Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 CHURCH LA LUZ DEL MUNDO/THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

@gregwilvert Год назад

I have been watching Paul beckwith, Peter carter, Jason box and other climate scientists for a year and a half. Learning as much as I can about the climate situation. It’s very clear that soon billions of people are not going to be able to survive.

@The1JBanks Год назад

When you chose to live in a desert don’t be surprised what happens.

@Bonzi_Buddy Год назад

😂 live in fear, coward! Consume more programming and push that fear level higher!

@P.rusticus Год назад

@@The1JBanks Many citizens did not make that choice. They were born into it, worked their entire lives paying federal and state taxes, and even, themselves, or via their grandparents via their children have served in the armed forces for these "United States". Your callous comment belies a deep and detached ignorance of the situation.

@freeheeler09 Год назад

@@The1JBanks - Add Montana, Idaho, Texas, Oregon, etc., to your area of concern. Much of the Western US has been in drought for over 20 years. And, the rest of the country can't be smug. Rising temps are going to dry out the Southeast.

@Jc-ms5vv Год назад

The greatest short coming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function- Al Bartlett

@arklinmike Год назад

I see a lot of concerned people and organizations talk about exploding population, demand on the power system, creating more greenhouse gasses, but almost no one talks about the really big elephant in the room - there are too many people. More people, more need for farming, power use, water use, more land needed for housing, more heat island from cities, more draught. There's too much emphasis on "growth" in the economy, in the way we think about our lives. Having a "big family" because you came from one jeapordizes the very legacy people hope to preserve.

@exzackt Год назад

Spoken like someone who doesn't understand the economic impacts of an aging population. Do a little research

@CLAYMOR916 Год назад

Uhhhh you don’t have kids or siblings or parents? Apply this to yourself and see how you or your siblings or parents would feel? Bum

@hasteandfury2424 Год назад

On the verge of losing everything because we have over abused everything. “Been fishing here my whole life…” well maybe that’s what the problem is…. Took too much out…

@bethcares17anonymous38 Год назад

This news anchor did one of the best jobs I’ve heard explaining the situation.

@mr.v3061 Год назад

my left ear is very grateful

@annraczok670 Год назад

Twenty-two years into this drought & it is expected to worsen still through 2023, very possibly several years longer. This is no joke. This is an historic drought that this Nation can do little to nothing about to stop. We will suffer great consequences individually & nationally across our country. Please prepare. This historic drought is worldwide.

@Juan-lf6qo Год назад

Mnmn Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what he said. "Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 CHURCH LA LUZ DEL MUNDO/THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

@Subcidal Год назад

@@Juan-lf6qo Thoughts and prayers will fix the drought! For every facebook like this comments gets jesus gives us another drop of water

@crazybusdriver1 Год назад

@@Juan-lf6qo God told me we Humans caused this problem and he expects us to fix what we broke.

@ariadneschild8460 Год назад

Seeing European rivers dry up is certainly shocking, even the Thames is dry. I don't how how we prepare for no water.

@mahlina1220 Год назад

And why isn’t the president declaring a National Emergency? We are lucky if we even receive coverage of current wildfires. But daily news gossip and wars are so much more important than actual famines and millions losing their homes. “So lazy” Societal collapse.

@boratwilson9916 Год назад

We put billions of dollars into space projects but we can't even help our own earth.

@duck7927 Год назад

So no ones gonna talk about how sound is coming from one ear????

@KanimWhite84 Год назад

Greed caused this, so let’s fix it by being stingy with the water. Wars are coming.

@ShizzieShizz73 Год назад

and Climate Geoengineering

@ckl5822 Год назад

Great job Steve. Scary stuff, no doubt.

@joshuagarcia662 Год назад

In the hustle and bustle of life we overlook how important these changes are…

@aegaeon117 Год назад

As an owner of several water parks and golf courses in Las Vegas, I am truly upset and blame the poor for taking so many baths.

@christopherharris6145 Год назад

Step 1: Ban the watering of grass everywhere

@someguy2135 Год назад

Would that be more effective than switching to a fully plant based food system? Each vegan saves 219,000 gallons of water every year! (829,000 liters) "UNESCO Institute for Water Education: The production of a meat-based diet typically consumes twice the amount of water as compared to a plant-based diet. National Geographic: "On average, a vegan, a person who doesn't eat meat or dairy, indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day less than a person who eats the average American diet." Diet change-a solution to reduce water use? (IOP Science): This 2014 research finds "reducing animal products in the human diet offers the potential to save water resources, up to the amount currently required to feed 1.8 billion additional people globally."-Truth Or Drought (Title follows- "How Would a Vegan Shift Save Water?"

@christopherharris6145 Год назад

@@someguy2135 Nationwide, landscape irrigation is estimated to account for nearly one-third of all residential water use, totaling nearly 9 billion gallons per day.

@someguy2135 Год назад

@@christopherharris6145 Don't get me wrong. We should end ornamental grass. But animal agriculture uses a lot more, as long as you include the water used for feed production. "In the United States alone, animal agriculture water consumption ranges from 36-74 trillion gallons of water annually."- Penn State Title etc-"WATER SUSTAINABILITY AND ANIMAL AGRICULTURE 05.03.2016 by SKF5159 Another measure we should take is to end fracking. It uses a huge amount of water.

@velvetbear7184 Год назад

Over expanding population, over building certain areas, having more people and need for water than nature can provide…..I’m sure it’s just a drought….

@joevarga5982 Год назад

Mass immigration is responsible for most of the population gain. Nobody mentions it.

@aolvaar8792 Год назад

Ban the growing alfalfa for export.

@AyeCarumba221 Год назад

Thank you for being willing to acknowledge human over population Velvet Bear. Unless more and more people are willing to acknowledge this elephant in the room, we are doomed. Everybody can cry and cry about lawns and golf courses, but that is ignorant.

@aolvaar8792 Год назад

@@AyeCarumba221 70-75% of western water is used for Agriculture/Ranching. Over population is not the problem, It's 3.5 crops/yr of lettuce, alfalfa for export, almonds, growing cotton in the desert.

@AyeCarumba221 Год назад

@@aolvaar8792 Jesus Christ man, what do you think those crops are for, landfill???? They’re for HUMANS to consume. More humans=more crops needed. C’mon man, use your brain and connect the frigging dots.

@ninjanerdstudent6937 Год назад

It’s a desert! Water was never supposed to be distributed across the land!

@patrickk1417 Год назад

A water shortage in the desert? What a surprise!

@user-qr7ee2cp4y Год назад

The biggest culprits will deny until there's no water so might as well just let it go dry... then maybe you'll see change

@someguy2135 Год назад

You have to wonder what it would take to deal with the problem! Same with climate change, which makes droughts much more severe.

@joevarga5982 Год назад

@@someguy2135 Climate change is a natural phenomenon.

@someguy2135 Год назад

@@joevarga5982 "The scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed 99.9%, according to research that strengthens the case for global action at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow." "A previous survey in 2013 showed 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering Earth’s climate."-The Guardian newspaper (NASA also reported this on their web site.)

@mahlina1220 Год назад

@@someguy2135 I believe it’s the “I gotta see it to believe it” mentality. No you don’t. Even a second grader understands global warming as a concept. It’s so basic.

@someguy2135 Год назад

@@mahlina1220 You seem to be quoting something I didn't say. I have read and re-read both of my short comments in this thread and see no words you claim that I said. It looks like Joe Varga deleted his comment that I replied to. Did I forget about deleting one of my own? Maybe you could refresh my memory? Did I misunderstand you?

@carmenmarcus1011 Год назад

Those machines run by petroleum may be one of the factors, among the global warming up

@micahasher7600 Год назад

They don’t believe in global warming anymore, they call it “climate change” now.

@KB-nt7eg Год назад

Do you even know what continent you live on without checking Google? Give me a break.

@timedone8502 Год назад

You’re living and exhaling toxic air is one of the factors too.

@Tarnationnation5 Год назад

"nobody ever expected we'd be here this long" 😂

@Lupine. Год назад

This video releases as the desert around the Colorado had the best monsoons in about 10 years lol

@jamesmason2228 Год назад

Deserts can't be endlessly irrigated.

@quonslecn7755 Год назад

Mother-nature didn't build a man-made reservoir there. Man did. There was a reason why mother-nature didn't. This is it.

@southrichmondtofl Год назад

Exactly, no one gets the Mother nature vs man made water control in south Florida either. Man has the eco system so skewed there too when it come to Lake O and the everglades.

@Indpendent01 Год назад

that reservoir has been a buffer for this drought

@mahlina1220 Год назад

Mother Earth brought us a lot of beauty that a lot of humans take for granted. We are literally losing our Mother that birthed us, fed us, kept us clean..

@tj4787 Год назад

Thank you for this story and insight 💜

@arizonabusinessleague918 Год назад

I see a lot of "well" intended comments here, but some ignorant ones. Arizona in particular has held residential water usage to the same levels as the 1990's; which is an amazing accomplishment given how many times bigger and richer the state has become since then; wealth and water goes up together. The problem is trying to feed the nation (Americans love their cheap food), and the very recent manufacturer boom happening there. Residential water usage only takes 25% of total allocation. Farming in the desert is now past its usefulness.

@HardRockMaster7577 Год назад

1. Prioritize food harvested in America for Americans 2. Food that uses lots of water to grow must be grown less 3. Food grown for overseas has the least priority, and should be cut back the most.

@arizonabusinessleague918 Год назад

@@HardRockMaster7577 I agree, however capitalism doesn't work that way, and capitalism is god is the US. Many people are ignorant to the fact that the US has been an oil exporting nation since the Cold War. Why would I sell Americans oil at historically $2.50/gallon when I can sell it to Asia for $9.00/gallon? National resources are a tricky subject, and they get extinguished to the highest bidder until the land runs dry.

@Joelsellers29 Год назад

@@arizonabusinessleague918 One thing we can is stop having lawns, and start growing own food again. That's what I am doing.

@arizonabusinessleague918 Год назад

@@Joelsellers29 I left AZ. The writing is on the wall. Started my own homestead elsewhere. Best of luck to you and your family though.

@HardRockMaster7577 Год назад

@@arizonabusinessleague918 I would say that food is a National Security Issue. With tariffs, the US Congress can control a lot of what comes in, and what goes out of the USA.

@trenttouzin4032 Год назад

Reducing amount of H2O by 20% is not nearly enough to stop the bleeding long term. Try something in the neighbourhood of 50%.

@KILLKING110 Год назад

Keep in mind California is not being told to cut back water use especially for farms that primarily export good out of the country

@CadetBoneSpurs Год назад

@@KILLKING110 or Nestle basically stealing water to sell it back to us and other countries

@7thSmurf Год назад

Realists say its even around 60 to 70 % cuts to all 4 major consumers, industry, tourism, population and agriculture.

@bengaltiger96 Год назад

California needs to step up desalination. Unlike NV, AZ, and NM, CA has shoreline.

@michaelrmurphy2734 Год назад

Forty million people? The population of Canada is about 33 million. Canada, the second largest country in the world with the greatest amount of fresh water. And some Americans still deny climate change.

@RonsmooveTI Год назад

We have Alaska we can get freshwater to west coast through pipeline

@noelgenoway9360 Год назад

Population of Canada is now 38,654,738 on April 1, 2022 - thanks google!!

@thatcanada Год назад

You are off by 5 million and what does Canada having lots of fresh water have to do with Americans denying climate change?

@corneilusdonaldson1858 Год назад

@@RonsmooveTI Leave Alaska alone! It's been through enough as it is

@ProbablyYoMama Год назад

I agree with Noel, Alaska shouldn't have to pay for the west coast's mismanagement of their resources. Lawns and golf courses should go the way of the trilobite.

@8826avatar Год назад

Is it a real drought or an artificial drought when water companies have been pulling billions of gallons of water out of the ground and hoarding it?

@mahlina1220 Год назад

Both, and all of the above. It’s an ecosystem. If you can’t personally inhale smog coming out of smogpipes, how do you think the planet can breath? Methane gas gets released (from old decaying matter) because the system is imbalanced when the air is too hot with CO2 heat traps.

@justmejm Год назад

Really tragic and it's interesting over the last many years people believe there's no such thing as global warming and think that the weather changes yes it changes every day no there's massive chains going on for many years now and now we're starting to see it head towards a peak

@mahlina1220 Год назад

We accelerated past that tipping point, and yet, here we are- they’re still arguing- not focused on the big picture, starting wars when we need peace in order to fix this planet. George Carlin was still an optimist when he said it takes a disaster for people to come together. It’s happening, and they’re just bludgeoning the poorest at their throats.

@oftin_wong Год назад

The topic has been highly politicised to the point that the science has been overtaken by it

@Yoglawm Год назад

Nature reclaiming what is hers, a reminder that we are powerless to control our environment.

@ghostofsilence2697 Год назад

we are not powerless, just hopelessly stupid and angry at eachother to do anything meaningful about it

@TheCommunicationCoach Год назад

No, we're not. WE ruined it! Get a clue.

@user-th4bu3rw6y Год назад

We are not at all powerless. But in the end, yes, nature will win. This goes for human nature as well. This doesn’t mean we should just say f’ it and do what though will.

@AlmightyFilms Год назад

@@TheCommunicationCoach How did we ruin a desert that is ridiculously dry bro lmao

@ValMartinIreland Год назад

Exactly, no water getting to the sea so no rain.

@Rafael-oi6dj Год назад

80% in 20 years is 4% per year- Without the drought, 5 years left With the drought, 3 months left

@zelgie3013 Год назад

U mean 20% in 20 years. 1% per year.

@off_mah_lawn2074 Год назад

Audio is only in left speaker btw

@crowdedboss8399 Год назад

How many more signs must be shown to us by Earth. How many more consequences must we endure before our Politicians finally wake up and fix this mess we got ourselves into.

@Joelsellers29 Год назад

They don't care. They enjoy this. They want this. This gives them great joy. We can't rely on them anymore, they are part of the reason we are in this mess.

@y_i_fly6256 Год назад

We can learn a lot from other countries such as Israel and how their water system program works.

@rudyb1652 Год назад

We are just devolving in front of my eyes! Such a disappointment !

@livetoloveandlaughlivefora6800 Год назад

Fish is important to the Environment of the river It helps maintain and managed to water It cleans the water It's filters the water it's balance in the water Just like honey and birds and bees Pollination With all of that the environment will not be suspended So him ask him why it's so important to have fish And who cares what a fish never die that's way

@dr3220 Год назад

Think how selfish and self serving our generations are we have deprived future generations of water in the ground and in the rivers we've spent trillions of dollars in debting them for years to come and we haven't spent a single dime figuring out what to do about the water

@billzander2875 Год назад

The reporter states "the two lakes that feed the river". That's not the way it works.

@hypnoticdelta7937 Год назад

We are in trouble.

@Ellie80681 Год назад

You mean y’all-

@patbau96 Год назад

Please balance your audio so it's not all coming through the left headphone

@oldtestament8052 Год назад

People are still in denial about what's going to happen

@barrymccaulkiner7092 Год назад

It's only a matter of time before we have a real Hunger Games where the wealthy pit the lower class against each other just to be able to eat.

@mahlina1220 Год назад

Does it have to be??

@Joelsellers29 Год назад

They already do that. They've been doing it for centuries.

@Joelsellers29 Год назад

@@mahlina1220 Nope. People just need to wake up to what is being done to us by our "Leaders!"

@airbud3 Год назад

This what happens when you live in a dessert and demand water for millions

@johnlux6635 Год назад

Most the water goes to S Californian coast.

@VegasElement Год назад

You forgot to mention, "California's cuts....ZERO percent".

@TwinShards Год назад

Who's the editor that made that big of a mistake? Left Mono audio smh.

@Mr_CAM0 Год назад

The worse it gets the more my east coast property will be worth.

@Daniel-ey2gf Год назад

Everyone has a chance to be part of the solution but if no individual is willing to make the effort, the water will be gone soon and we will have no one to blame bur ourselves. The rich, who expect their golf courses to be green and perfectly manicured, will simply take their private jets somewhere else.

@someguy2135 Год назад

What could each of us do? Each vegan saves 219,000 gallons of water every year! (829,000 liters) "UNESCO Institute for Water Education: The production of a meat-based diet typically consumes twice the amount of water as compared to a plant-based diet. National Geographic: "On average, a vegan, a person who doesn't eat meat or dairy, indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day less than a person who eats the average American diet." Diet change-a solution to reduce water use? (IOP Science): This 2014 research finds "reducing animal products in the human diet offers the potential to save water resources, up to the amount currently required to feed 1.8 billion additional people globally."-Truth Or Drought (Title follows- "How Would a Vegan Shift Save Water?" It is also the single most effective way to fight climate change on an individual basis.

@mahlina1220 Год назад

💯 They’ll “fly” to Mars. And the people should just usher them right to it.

@someguy2135 Год назад

@@tailgatecarpenter26 I am also in favor of each of us limiting reproduction voluntarily! Personally, I don't have kids, and never will. Fortunately, Each of us can do that, and switch to a plant based diet. Where people are in terms of borders will not affect this crisis. It is a global crisis. Our labor shortage here in the USA would benefit from more immigration.

@oldlifter530 Год назад

Oh yeah it has nothing to do with all those cities pumping water out of the river, it's all the weather.

@reason3581 Год назад

There is enough water to grow food for humans but not enough to grow food for cows. It takes 1800 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef.

@charleswatts2503 Год назад

Here's a thought, there's the Pacific Ocean all up and down the west coast, why not build Desalination plants? St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands is desalination the whole island gets their drinking water and water for their cisterns from the plant. It's been that way for years. Build a series of desal plants To take the burden off the Colorado River and other local water sources. It may sound ridiculous but it's not as ridiculous as building a pipeline from the Great Lakes And besides how much would you be willing to pay for a drink of water when there isn't any ?

@alntr2872 Год назад

band aide

@gregwilvert Год назад

Takes an incredible amount of electricity

@dirkdiggler2865 Год назад

A logical idea. But you’re trying to use logic in a state where most people don’t understand that there are only two genders

@Syrnian Год назад

Expensive, energy intensive and no possible way to build enough to supply demand. Also, desalination plants created massive quantities of water with extremely high concentration of salt (42% higher than plain ocean water) and other chemicals that has to be released into the ocean killing animal and plant life. They produce 50% more high concentrate salt water than fresh. That comes from a study of approximately 16,000 desalinization plants world wide.

@Syrnian Год назад

Expensive, energy intensive and no possible way to build enough to supply demand. Also, desalination plants created massive quantities of water with extremely high concentration of salt (42% higher than plain ocean water) and other chemicals that has to be released into the ocean harming animal and plant life. They produce 50% more high concentrate salt water than fresh. That comes from a study of approximately 16,000 desalinization plants world wide.

@southrichmondtofl Год назад

No one is going to mention how much water lithium mining takes in the southwest. You know, the answer to save earth?!

@someguy2135 Год назад

More than animal agriculture? Each vegan saves 219,000 gallons of water every year! (829,000 liters) "UNESCO Institute for Water Education: The production of a meat-based diet typically consumes twice the amount of water as compared to a plant-based diet. National Geographic: "On average, a vegan, a person who doesn't eat meat or dairy, indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day less than a person who eats the average American diet." Diet change-a solution to reduce water use? (IOP Science): This 2014 research finds "reducing animal products in the human diet offers the potential to save water resources, up to the amount currently required to feed 1.8 billion additional people globally."-Truth Or Drought (Title follows- "How Would a Vegan Shift Save Water?"