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and he's ready to lead journey this week on d. w for the economy has been growing steadily for over a century of creating prosperity and security. but everything has its limits. we need ship, we need energy, we need food, but we're gonna need it for centuries and centuries, pen, millennia, evers longest. humans around and all of these things need water law saw in unit one for the days when we had abundant water supplies are going to fall by it says on and many regions of the world water has run out. can you imagine no water at all? not i trust you that the economy versus humanity versus nature on that a joke. it then it was this, we have

a right to clean water the the data by locally 70 percent of what it goes to irrigation the vessel. ah, look, you need water to make for agriculture uses a hell of a lot of water. the water will be the new old they are not matching the reality of the disappeared water with their desire for economic growth m. we've always known water to be plentiful. hm. but that's changing because of the climate prices ah, with water becoming scarce, this series asks, what happens if we have no more water?

for years, the potsdam institute for climate impact research has been warning about the effect of the climate crisis on the water supply. that's handy, that won't find any st. louis my phone falls when i let it go, a lot of i don't need to do an experiment on that. i already know what will happen . my video is simple because we understand physics. i cancelled if we increase c o 2 in the atmosphere, then we will warm the planet when and, and a woman planet means more water vapor, more drought, more periods of intense precipitation a business. we don't have to do an experiment to know what availability is decreasing. now posit, as it gets even warmer, we will need even more water for agriculture to drink and for industry was in us quite. or we can see this very clearly with tesla test, which needs a relatively large amount of water locally applesauce. and of course,

this has to be balanced with nature, because what we do now, i will have a lasting effect. its height for its giga factory and brandon book, outside of berlin. tesla wants access to especially valuable ground water reserves . critics say to testing water from the region. yeah, that's your internet. it's so much. what's it a look around you? but the local, what does apply a south of kilowatt for further developments they, none of us are completely wrong. it's like water everywhere here. it does seem like a desert to you. thank. this is ridiculous. a bang. tesla's application hasn't yet been approved. but it's just one example of many german industry now seems to be waking up to the increasing scarcity of water to 20 sh handy toyota and spy 1000 us

since for 1000 the dry years in 2018. 20192020. we also showed companies how important water is of the needle, and now there is a big rush to permit italy to stay and we must really be aware of the tree water supply now from them so that we don't sell at office for cough as fast as current water is a sought after commodity and the chairman of the federal working group on water. professor martine gumble wants authorities to use restraint when allocating water rights. hum, felix, also undertaker. it's in so we have a lot of big office or with the global war to shortage, are the biggest water companies in the world and knocking on our door. or it's not big names that everyone knows if they will want to get water from us because the quality is simply excellent afford suitably. coca cola is planning a controversial project to extract water and luna berg. germany's largest beverage company has been bottling its vio, brand water, and the northern germantown for years. a credit, american name, we've owned awesome good was allowed at the owner of the 20,

already have approval to draw 350000 cubic meters from the aquifer, which is the same amount we put in the application for a 3rd well on to double the amount of water we're taking for dobrinka. coca colas quest for water leads to hadn't stat just outside luna berg. ready the company has drilling a well 190 meters deep into the earth here, putting the mayor in a dilemma to progress i will be for coal from the all 4 of us as for call from b submitted us in berlin. the question is simply, how do we sell, or rather how do we communicate to citizen? is that the ground water that is actually there to ensure the supply of public drinking water is partially being given to the beverage industry. so and then we have to tell citizens when they get in return or go about an o 100 a sounded awful. resistance is stirring in the region of luna book. more and more

people are protesting against coca cola. more than 1000 people recently took part in a demonstration organized by our water luna, book the initiative fears their water is being sold off. yeah, dan luna bogus. my name is marianna thomas felt and i am also a member of our waterloo board. as mercedes and what i want to stop this wow. i want to prevent coca cola from taking any more and they will say okay. and we can't produce anymore via dr. mahayana t. m. as fed has been involved in the citizens initiative since the beginning of 2020, local politician yann's buttah issues, water extraction permits even coca colas. his decision will last for decades. and so the water from san cristobal ask is that all the surrounding neighborhoods don't have enough water. this is debra. how quickly is the water supply changing in the region? how long will the reserves last?

nasa's grace mission can provide information about developments in san cristobal. the region has been losing water since 201160 per cent, faster than the rest of central america. on average the data cannot determine coca cola role in the disappearance. or if it has one, we asked coca cola for a comment, and the company said it's aware of the water problem which is why it helps local residents install water tanks as well as rain water and other collection devices. the people who have hardly any water left want change. and also that us get m was, is vicky they, can we won the coca cola company out of fia akiva to leave the last you laugh. people are rebelling against the powerful industries. huge thirst for water. it's

david versus goliath. was italy? yes. if that is what we want. but you know what? it's like to fight a monster. the monster is huge. not yet. it's a war for water. and because there will be normal alotta. southern mexico was once the country's most water rich region and will eventually lose its water reserves. just a few hours flight to the north lies phoenix. this city of over a 1000000 people in the south west u. s. is as dry as dust a rapidly growing metropolis in the middle of the desert. the economy is booming and micro chip manufacturer intel is building a gigantic plant. here it is the largest private sector investment in arizona's history. $20000000000.00. really unbelievable of a where we drive around here, we just see the scope of this place. it just stretches and stretches and stretches . and it's hard to see where one plant ends on the other plant begins. and this

water facility is about the size of a facility that you'd see for a small city who micro chip production requires a huge amount of old tro pure water. but intel has been expanding in phoenix for more than 25 years. anyway. why invest in the middle of the desert? we are here in the middle of the desert. it is warm there's. there's no question about it. so why build in the desert? we take many factors into consideration when we decide where to build a favorable business environment is certainly one of those. a strong workforce educated workforce is another. but thinking ahead about an infrastructure including utilities, water is very critical to us as well. when we evaluated arizona 25 plus years ago, we saw that the state had done that and was looking ahead and preparing for that drought in the future. every drop counts. that's why intel is investing in this

state of the art water treatment plant to further purify the water, the city supplies 25 plus years ago. what we decided to do was to fund the building of a facility that i believe you'll see later called the o b r f. fact it's, it's here over my shoulder. you can see it in the background. and what that facility does that partnership with the city is it allows us to send some of our water from intel to the city where that water is cleaned, to reuse standards, and then it can be reused for irrigation. other applications, parks, golf courses, et cetera. in the city, and it can also be cleaned and put back into the aquifer, which the city has done for many years over the past couple of decades as well. this water treatment plant is located next to the company's waterworks, intel financed it together with the city to recycle some of the waste water from production b and that we are in arizona. we are in the middle of

a drought. we have been for many years. there's just not a whole abundance of water to get the water conservation is really important for the state of arizona. for info it's plants like this are going to be needed in the future to basically squeeze every last drop out of that water. herculean task. but will it be enough now looking good, we just need to get more rain. me to fill of reservoirs up. right? the fan sure that we have water in the future. why is the industry investing in one of the driest places in the world? scientist and journalist a brom list garden is also curious. why are corporations moving to regions that have hardly any water in the united states? especially there are still these weird, perverse incentives that do keep a flow of population going in the wrong direction in a way, you know, the city of phoenix, the fastest growing city in the united states. we, we've made water cheap in the south west. if you own

a house in the city of phoenix, you don't pay very much for your water. even pay less than somebody in philadelphia . pennsylvania pays for their water despite the fact that your water in arizona is incredibly scarce. but those price signals, that's the market at work. and so the market in that situation is telling people in an incredibly water, scarce region that they can afford all the water they want. and that it's really not that valuable does in tell, know about the lack of water. how are it's people dealing with the climate crisis? we are in the middle of the worst route that we've seen here in the south west and in any of our lifetimes. how do i see it? personally? i recently did some landscaping in my backyard. the grass came out, the artificial turf came in. so i think we're all learning how to adapt to this new world and say ok if there is going to be less water available, you know, not only what can, what can we do as a company? what can i do personally to make that a little better? this region is running out of water and it's running out of water very fast. and so

there is that information is not making its way through to the city planners to the elected officials, to the, you know, to the governor. they are not matching the reality of the disappearing water with their desire for economic growth. those things are, they are there at odds right now, and that is the definition of unsustainable rural areas in the western us provide more insight on the water crisis. we've seen all the struggle said people face in the cities to conserve water are going through some real herculean efforts to, to use water efficiently. and then we come out here, we see this reading of the desert, a strange sight,

a kind of mirage in the desert. once completely parched ground turned into vibrant green fields. as far as the i can see, kilometer after kilometer desert artificially irrigated. welcome to the imperial irrigation district. one of the largest agricultural regions in north america. and coca cola is here to the imperial irrigation district, known as i, i d holds the largest and oldest water rights on the west coast a good morning. how you doing? good rubber. welcome the i b robert shatt lar of the i. d wants to show jeff i'm an yeti, his agricultural associations fields. many of the water writes from the colorado

river belong to the id agricultural association. the idea knows the value of its water without water, though everything here would disappear. ivy's main concern is the protection of its water rights and these have been argued for the years, but we we still have these water right that for, for this water, for mainly for agriculture purposes. yes, sir, in this appellate industry, but it's really important that we keep that because we are providing food and fiber for the nation. without water, there is no agriculture, but how effectively is agriculture using the precious resource and what is it being used for? to grow feed crops, for example, this here is alpha hay which is used for cattle. and

what we're coming up on is couple fields of alfalfa. and what we see here is, sprinkler irrigation system for the imperial irrigation district is right at the end of the colorado river. but it is 1st in line for the water, right? it has the senior water, right? so it has access to a tremendous amount of water to grow alfalfa in the middle of the desert. this is to me, a growth misuse of this, of this great, right? that they have this great, unfettered access to a tremendous amount of water. and about 75 percent of the alpha that is grown in the imperial irrigation district is exported to china. so that is like taking colorado river water and shipping it to china is the

agriculture industry, even aware of the situation, the enormous agricultural sector is keenly aware of how scarce it is because they fight to the death for it, and they lobby for it. you know, in state houses in, in washington and, um, you know, and they, they argue so, you know, vociferously for what they need. so they're keenly aware um, but perhaps less willing to sacrifice their share of, of that water distribution. battles over water are inevitable by 3 quarters of the allocation of california is colorado river. water comes to the eye, right? so when, when other arid regions like san diego and coachella valley and a lake are booming with people and need more water that from left there rather looking at if this is of been an ongoing dial 4 for

a long time and probably will continue. but we're in a whole lot of room because we believe we do the imperial irrigation district fields use about 3.7 trillion gallons to water crops each year and unimaginably large amount that is now lacking elsewhere on the countries west coast . san francisco is the gateway to silicon valley, which is home to the world's largest tech companies and a center for innovation and progress. the water is even running out here in the country's richest city. anderson reservoir is the region's most important and is nearly empty at only 3 percent of its capacity. a serious threat to say managers from valley water. we've always had to import water. okay. the price of water on the exchange or it's kind of traded is $5.00, was what it was 2 years ago. there's a limit to what people can pay number one,

but we also can't get it here even if we could buy it. the problem we're having is there is no water to import any more. the water crisis has unleashed a modern gold rush. business men like real estate magnet john veto, which are investing in water. and american water law suits them just fine. whoever owns the land also owns the water rights. how much land do you is to take a number to it home? it's somewhere between 80200000 acres of agricultural and grazing land somewhere. so here's an idea of how much more you actually own. nobody, i don't, the anyone owns the water. you have a right to use. nobody owns it, you own. and when you put it in a glass, then you own it. you drink it, he pay it out. ok. speculating with water has made video which unpopular

anybody that is of size. you know, sometimes it, it causes people to, to not like that. most of his land holdings are here in the central valley. long established farmers like can and michael don't like to have financial investors like video, which in the region our farm is not something to me. that's just a number on a spreadsheet, you know, and of 50 different investments that we have. it's something that we care passionately about that we care about. michael's family has been here for 3 generations, and they own the bowls farm. michael's great great grandfather, a penniless immigrant from battenberg in germany, built an empire here. my 3rd great grandfather was a man named while heinrich chrysler. he was born and brought home germany, but he came to the united states and ended up changing his name to henry miller.

but he got to the san francisco area, 18 fifties and partnered with another young german immigrant and a stablished butcher, business versus competitors. and then they work together and they got here in the time when california was growing very rapidly and it needed food and reliable sources. of meat, they ended up being able to purchase over a 1000000 acres of land in california and then all the way up into oregon and into washington. and so for a period of time, henry miller was the largest land owner in the united states. henry miller realized early on that water would be the key to the success of his business. he took his water rights all the way to the federal court. and one to this day, the laws he fought for apply to everyone in california. we still have access in our area to, to a good amount of water really based on the decisions and foresight of that of henry miller. my ancestor only those who have land have a right to water,

which is what is louis the financial speculators. their bedding water will become more expensive as it becomes scarcer wood cannon michael cell, if the price was right. we're not ready to sell our land or sell our water and, and do something else. we think we're doing a valuable service for, you know, humanity, investor, john, feed of it says the criticism of him and his business model or a double standard. you need water to make food. agriculture uses a hell of a lot of water. everybody in the u. s. i think except for vegetarians, the, the hamburger me takes more water than amens do an arm and takes a gallon to make one. went on and meet. makes more 70 per cent of water around the world goes to agriculture. we feed more than half of our grain to animals. no food requires as much water as meat.

what is this agriculture and cattle region runs out of water? that's what happened in saskatoon, canada, just how quickly the water would disappear. here was also underestimated. we need as human beings, water, a good water supply. cattle are no different. and they have a, they need a large volume of water because they have a very big stomach on them. people lack water, animals lack water. farmers have so little water. they can't even grow enough feed . the water shortage has brought farmers to the edge of existence and a place that was once one of the most water rich regions in the world has been very devastating. and the tough decision is they don't have the feed to overwinter their capital. so they're going to have to put them through the sales system. and so we're seeing anywhere from $1020.00, maybe 30 percent in some areas in reduction of the heard. and that's devastating. why?

because it's taking generations to build that number of cattle up on that farmer that ranch. and so they're going from, it could be $400.00 capital on that on that farm. and they're having to sell it down to 200 head or maybe 100 cows. and so it takes years to build those herds up. psychological pressure is affecting the cattle farmers as much as economic hardships. mm. ah. as suicide, an issue here? oh, it is. we have our government stepping in with support programs. ok. and so those are only one year programs. they're going to hopefully help you stick candle through this drug situation in 212022 ad hoc programs. and we're always, we're always very hopeful in the egg industry, so we're always looking at next year at

the global institute for water security at the state run university of saskatchewan, j. familiarity analyzes satellite data. india was one of the 1st places where we did in depth analysis. why? because we could see this tremendous hot spot from space. we did some research and we figured out that it was the depletion of ground water that was driving this tremendous water loss. northern india lives from the water that comes from the rivers of the himalayas. but the climate crisis is changing the water supply at an unimaginable speed. even if it doesn't look like it at 1st glance, water last here is almost the highest in the world. because the soil in the region is particularly fertile, boone jobs, agriculture can still feed up to 1000000000 people. but the decline in water availability is now threatening the entire subcontinent model that, that brought about that or possibly get the got the idea. our ancestors all formed

by the associated that for our grandparents, the ground water was right under ground. that when we started, it had already fallen 3 meters. i've put a beta. the ground water has now dropped to 20 or 25 made as ga. gov. yes, the port. okay, be it. can i get the more the ground water sinks, the more people's existences are threatened. people here have nothing but agriculture that body did by law in that i told them the diane, that we had that body. we used to have natural, so seems like leave isn't canal is think out of there. now we have to get grand water from the underground, isn't godaddy i the farmers here are in despair over the water shortage and the loss to their livelihood. when nolan, i think there are come about another guy, i know not what he has done, but thanks to my father's upbringing, myself, i'm a respectable person admitted to repair it by box bad. okay. but he used pesticides

to commit suicide tale god needed. or what does that go bad over on january 25th, 2022 swan ron sing took his own life. this came as a complete surprise to his wife and their younger son. no warning. he never mentioned his problems to his family. but on, on noah puzzle, negative would own. and willa will come without a political kind of civil a large part of the harvest failed. and we had even higher costs. looked at the note that my father had to take out a loan because we had an earned any money with our coming up with that were gonna go to the other rising temperatures and the falling water supply are leading to smaller harvests, more and more farmers and ripped, now gar, in the state of punjab, are falling into debt with loans they can't pay back, swore on sings suicide is not an isolated case. they not only want to look at it

and turn it on the scene and he was really stressed about the loan or get on board . the bank kept calling it and he was getting more and more depressed answered with you always got to pay. the pressure became too great. he knew no other way out if we were going to get the money for him, but we had no idea he was going to take his own life, needed to know that and with the city is grieving with the family. but not the bank, it didn't the through the do the phone as we went through the very day after our father died, one of the bank called me up with they've called us every day since and demanded that we pay back the debt as soon as possible. or otherwise they're threatening to seize the farm. and i didn't know about his debt until his suicide with the family will need many years to pay off the loan. if they manage to at all,

the climate crisis will continue to dry up the fields, and the next generation will have an even harder time. her ornaments. i didn't my money got me if it i thought i've done my body medicine and when i got him his own i knew. but as i knew, one of the responsibilities on me now, he met my whole family as huge problem. so it's taking a toll on me, i'm under, i can't even find peace in my house. so 40 that i'm not like go to my field alone crying. i don't know what to do when i bought anton randy or got it. we might think around nowhere in the world do more farmers kill themselves than in the indian state of punjab. their survival depends on water. get open. yeah, that can't be bought and sold by kept ego. but if we're a net about it from job is an agricultural region he got it, agi, if there is no agriculture, there is no economy where we will have no industry. i'd. we use very little water

to fund the flourishing green fields here. but the future scares us, especially in the region near the border. i cost our is about radio kidney on the border with package and the water shortage could also become a political threat. the concern is that old conflicts will flare up again. punjab borders directly on hostile pakistan until 1960 bloody wars were fought here over water from the himalayan rivers. since then, the indus wander treaty has brought relative peace. it divides the water among the neighbors. will the climate crisis reignite the war over water? it could be a water between india bugs than the former general of the indian air force confirms the concerns of the people in punjab. he thinks such a war is quite likely. ah yes. 16 bosom the result mission

that lead people sort of what we're going to fulfill. currently, the governments of both countries accuse each other of diverting the rivers water for their benefit. tensions are increasing. one percent of thing that because it once was but you were does it when people switch over to that location of the district of, of and is stopping complete flow of water from these under was the thing that it is interfering with the cropped little thin bucket them and it's causing a huge amount of joblessness lumber. funny pedophilia because of because of india and that effect selection. the increase in the political sabre rattling is in turn, fueling farmers anger on the border. they no longer want to share water with their hated neighbors. the bonnie gets almost have out of the barney and what i gather that every day the problem with water is getting worsening and most of it flows to pakistan anyway. even if the situation gets worse,

we are ready to fight for our water. this gets hot letting of want to get a sing is also ready to go to war for water. i wonder what's gonna happen to this region. there's one and a half, 2000000000 people that live in this region. what is going to happen to these people? when the snow pack on the himalayas disappears, when the glaciers melt and the big rivers are no longer being fuel and the aquifers are no longer being replenished, i wonder about conflict. i wonder about climate refugees, right? i wonder about livelihoods. i wonder about political stability. these are all on the table. nasa data has provided early warnings about water availability and hot spots around the world. what about the situation in germany? and so we're seeing a fair amount of water loss, and one of the regions that's really impacted quite significantly is the lunar burke region. the trend for the luna burg region is clear. the water supply has

deteriorated significantly over the last 20 years and now coca cola germany's largest beverage producer wants to drill a 3rd well and double its capacity. the citizens initiative is protesting and politician yann's buttah is weighing the company's application. he doesn't yet know the results of the nasa mission, which you have to step in if this situation gets so not too long distances off. yes, of course. that's the way it is. if we reach that conclusion is our mandate is to protect the ground water. and if we find that the long term supply is at risk, then we would have to do something, for example, using water sparingly and sustainably. or we're using water for irrigation of headboard or find a technological solution available. or i could limit the use of anyone using the water commercially, for instance. um, oh, what i would recommend must us indian will. so god, she will new nasa data influence his future decisions about water rights permits.

we provided him a copy of the analysis. i think your mother's also sent us mum. yes. i think that when we talk about time frames about perspective, then we have to take advantage of the latest technological possibilities. if something like that's available, then it has to be included with this come and it could lead to a re interpretation or reorientation one. 0, my also still got dr. money unattached has failed, is frustrated that global warming is progressing faster than politicians. legislators and society are responding as an indian into this and we'll finish typing. it was vital to push them back. be tied to the fire design. if i didn't, i, i know the demonstrators have been taking to the streets again and again for the past 2 years. wow.

well, coca cola application was still pending. the company made a surprising announcement. it would put the project for a 3rd well on hold for the time being the demand for vo water had disappointed the well remains, protected with a casing, but has not been dismantled. dr. thomas feld doesn't trust the company, and as far as the door to dust the of us know, that means we now have to be vigilant and missed it. we can only celebrate when the well no longer exists. i, as when it cannot be reactivated only then, will we be rich if this is not well in new new block, or we aren't yet breaking out the champagne, and mach natasha. the 3rd well doesn't appear to be completely off the table of, of that and of when will the, will be demolished. the anti don't do those who yags and britain born the

decision to drill a 3rd well was a general decision that we considered very carefully truly if over the next is the trend in the mineral water market reverses. it may be an option again as well, but for now it's definitely unlikely actor it is t as low as the hellish ellen version. it is unknown whether the company is planning to extract water elsewhere or whether any applications are being prepared nor whether coca cola is taking global warming into account. tesla's application and bon book is still being considered here to the data from nasa satellites show how bad things are for our water. but what did e long mosque say when he visited the site southeast of berlin? it's like water everywhere. this seemed like a desert. dear, thank a ship. yeah, it's ridiculous with mosque should be more acutely aware of the dangers of water

scarcity than any one. millions of people in his home state on the west coast of the us where his company is headquartered, are already feeling the threat. what we consider to be all right, that doesn't exist anymore. that's, that's got, is life going to go on as usual? no way. right. so no, everything is not going to be. all right. and the only way our only choice is to adapt to the water that we have available to the amount of water that we have available. and that's going to take a lot of work. and so that's the, not all right part. and if we don't adopt, you know, then it's like the apocalypse ah,

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