so other floors, well, you can tell further into any of those stories by checking at ortiz, twitter feed, new updates, interviews, analysis, and plenty more. besides every few minutes there, you will not be a with ah, nearly 71 percent of the earth surface is covered in water. even in modern times, we have still not been able to develop the ability to provide a clean water to those who desire the 29 percent of the are. but it's not just the

problem which 3rd world countries are encountering. i'm trying to huge on this episode. we're going to give you the 360 view of why clean water is increasingly becoming if 1st of all problem. let's get started. on the every year, nearly $1100000000.00 people like access to fresh water with $2700000000.00 of the global population finding clean water scarce at least one month per year. now increase in demand by a growing population, mixed with poor management, pollution, lack of infrastructure. and of course, climate change, or key elements which affect the availability of fresh water diverse regions of the world. and while countries in the middle east, like tar, israel, lebanon, and iran are most prone to water crisis, despite technology, 1st world countries and other regions are seeing it increased in their inability to

provide fresh water for all of their citizens. was a far stretch to say that our world will ever run out of water. the ability to purify it and make it easily available is a continuing challenge, which has more to do with poor management and decisions by those in power than a result of nature. in fact, the blame for the 6 major examples of water crisis currently being face to the united states fall not on mother nature rather on mankind. joining me now for more all of this is jim olson. now, jim is a lawyer and public water rights advocate. welcome, and we reached out to you because in the usa we are seeing yet another water crisis and a predominantly african american community. this time, jackson, mississippi, were flooding from climate change, a strained and already underfunded in the collected municipal water infrastructure all to create another crisis. was citizens without water relying on bottled. now i

can flip michigan, a cynical attempt to save money, lead to public health crisis with a generational legacy of destruction. and part of that we had detroit where cities bankruptcy problem led to city officials cutting off water to residents who couldn't pay their water bills. what's the common issue with all 3 municipalities in terms of delivering safe drinking water to the residences? is the real question is right. i think there are several factors. one is, at least in the united states. when we began to shifter solutions in the market place, re shifted away from more for government action and took on, i think, even in government sort of business attitude. george got it. so in that crime, it devolved over the last 40 years,

at least in this country. since during get into this ration intelligence very more the ninety's and certainly more in the last decade we've seen this hurry or what we're one public services education prioritize. prisons. dr. dies healthcare privatized somewhat in the energy field, lesson because of the public utility regulation. and i think that that shifting in coverage has affected water services. i think it affected more than mars since i think it's affected the way we adjust or problems. right now. the other thing is that i don't think there has been an understanding of what role and delivering water really is. it is taken

treat jacket for those around the world. fighting in the year end for you and right wire ultimately accomplished in 2010 with the work of clinic project tomorrow, warriors, and lot of white counter canadians made by my borrower, who was in serrano and achieving great grandma's right. the human right to water and the un doesn't necessarily translate to what happens in jackson, mississippi or what happened to jackson, mississippi and continues today or the detroit short. austin began in 2014 or the lead crisis. and let me add one more dark in michigan. great. lakes region, the algorithm crisis in the west year,

one 3rd year and we have we have one of the great lakes. western lines are experiencing serious over lunch last 89 years, and there's no government action that is adequately addressed. the problem and 400000 people were shut off from the water supply years ago because the toxicity of these birds. so what government has done is they see their, their utility water service, and i'm just going to talk about water service on that. the bigger, wider issues on the plan. i should like to show and maybe talk about what's called the public just started. but i think what we do, we shifted in this wire delivery as a product. and people are customers are record contractual relationship.

and i suppose you have contractual rates. right. but it doesn't mean that you have some fundamental, right? it's already as good as the contract. and your remedies are only as good as the contract. and what we're lacking is an understanding of what the role of governance government governance is when we're dealing with water on this planet. and every time we see a crisis like this, this lack of attention that you mention shows up as one of the fundamental, if not the fundamental cause of the problem, or at least the, the cause of the continuing problem after we become aware of what happened in the fight in jackson, mississippi, we finished all over the world, me just what's going on in packaging. and elsewhere. if we're seeing the effects of climate change most dramatically, as we saw in pakistan and 10000000 are displaced and caused at home flooding in

houston. why is the right to save drinking water being addressed as part of a discussion of climate change? and much of the focus has been on fossil fuel pollution, but little is actually discussed about floods and the impact on water. i think the problem is that we don't view kind of changes in water issue if we did where we live and i just fear i if you want me to put some sides of a well. but if we don't, if i just describe it we live and i just hear the water of average. it moves in water in the sky and clouds and it gets cold and condenses. it comes to the earth that it runs over. the land is right, it goes into the ground water, crazy lakes and springs, rivers and streams and rivers and oceans and goes around around implants are merchant trans, reparation. it's a cycle and every arca, their cycle through the rear becomes crucial to every person on the planet. and

away from them. but in so climate climate is, is i guess your issue, it's a water issue, not or is, is greenhouse gas emissions, but we're so focused on emissions. we're not focused on the fact is, is disturbing. the entire high, just fear and all the water on the planet in various times in various places, causing these appeals. so we need to understand that this is a public water is your pirate. why? the other thing we need to understand when you get to the jackson mississippi issues is that we can't sit idly by in the face of changing climate. and we know the weather is becoming more and more extreme. we've known it for 2020 or 30 years in the last decade. it's been more well beginning with her again, katrina. we understand that this is a, this is a, this is

a very serious problem and it's getting worse. and as job things intensify in action of jackson, mississippi's or any government, any state govern in the federal government, the in action of not beginning to understand everything we designed in the past is obsolete. we're living in the 21st century and then probably just start and i mention is a 21st century principle. yes, it's roots or 2000 years ago. but the fact is, this is a 21st century issue. in this doctrine addresses the absolute lessons of the why the lessons of refined ability in and the inaction of understanding that we live on river water cycle. and the climate change is what is the public trust doctrine and why is something that was created back in the

seventy's even relevant today? you know, i'm kind of wondering how it was used in your case against nestle and what change and what's going on. yeah, assuming the case is reported in for those that are interested in regards to the michigan court of appeals. our reports are published by law states and particularly michigan. it's in volume 269, michigan app. it's called and the, the cation rouse, nothing in michigan in selecting an area that they thought was robust and grow our, but they were selling spring miners. so it was connected to a spring and the company had to demonstrate dewitt spring water, their marketing, it shows free water on the bottle. ended demonstrate that every every gallon out of the watershed for going in the bottle is a gallon out of the spring spring hard for their stream and the late in the lakes

and their buffering reduce the stream anywhere from 18 to 35 percent of the time of the year, and we were able to file a lawsuit both under canada law rage and live on water bodies and also our law. but also the michigan and protection i was jo, sex had drafted creating rights and citizens to sue under this public just which they have because they're beneficiaries, you are legal beneficiaries like trust in banks. and so you ever write to correct these wrongs and use those principles and demonstrate an impairment of the water system in a series of environment raven to limit the pumping what hasn't been addressed to me? and then get back to probably just action hasn't been adjusted. the privatization issue. i mean, when you think about bottle water, it either comes from

a private well or municipal system. these companies get it one way or the other are the ground in last you asians, already paid for. they just, they just take it under the right of what they call regional use her country or uses. but it's basically a regional in years. and really until water came, or nobody really thought about the sale of water, there was the water pumping water services with the shower water is a reasonable use you ever use wire with the question is the right to show it or if it's public water does the sovereign through it, so i just say you have to consent on that and i think the entry, yes they do interestingly enough that would create a level range, you know, between generations, government and those privatizing and profit profiting off the water. again, bottle water, bottle water. but it should be under the umbrella of sovereign,

it should be consented to by the sovereign and the sovereign therefore, should not be standardizing the private private. it should be shared misery, our systems, the over gamblers go back to detroit and designing coke investing. they get their water from detroit on a non profit cost. they just they've really a barrel and they make the profit. and even though other users are sharing and their nonprofit basis this year, and the cost are using the cost and no product goes majors this year in the cost, they don't share in the profit. so it goes to the company that says what we're using a lot once we average ours. no, i don't think that's true. i think they're getting it from the public based on public expenditures to create that system to begin with. and they're being subsidized by everybody else. tax fairs in the state of michigan as to why. and we

have to understand this. this has to be corrected, is privatization water through by wire privatization, miserable systems is yet another issue. whether that's a solution or not, most people have concluded that, you know, these major coverage buying at mutual waters because jackson, mississippi's, in the world can no longer fix or just so you know, larger companies that have the money will get the money. and then compound interest on these people, i'm a profit and into the future. these are a serious question to need to be addressed in the context of the governance of water, public, and public trust. thank you so much. you know, that was jim olson, lawyer and public water rights advocate. alright, stick around because when we come back we will be joined by a guest, an expert on water right out of india. stay to ah,

ah ah, ah, there's no us strategic national security interest in you created all i would say there's no interest us interest in your brain. whereas the very vital interest of the russian federation that ukraine be restored to a neutral buffer state, separated for nato countries. ah ah, with in the 1950s, the u. s. used former nazis against the soviet union. in the 21st century,

they engineered kuta, the fish, the former soviet republic, into our confrontation with moscow will certainly if the united states and the u. k and the rest of the western world had not engaged in conflict with the ukraine and with the soviet union and its successor, the russian federation. we would not have the horrible situation we have today. i think that if the american stopped, we would be at peace and the role would be a lot better place and the economy, the world or function, certainly better than is doing now. ah, holden is the aggressor today, i'm authorizing the additional strong sanctions. today. russia is the country with

the most sanctions imposed against it. and number those constantly growing. but i figure which of our rooms the cosigner as we speak on the bill in your senior most the morning the sheila were banding all in ports of russian oil and gas. new g. i suffering the price. i mean, i know they plenty of holes with lower with the letter from, you know, we're pretty good regarding joe biden, imposing these sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. so there's your boomerang. ah, ah, welcome back. today we're discussing water crisis that are plugging western countries as was developing nations. and so for a look beyond the borders of the us, we want to bring in van dana shiva. she is an environmentalist activist and author

of the book water wars, and she joins us now from india. thank you so much for being with us. you know, you've written this great book, water wars, pollution of privatization and profit all back in 2000 or 2. then it actually got reprinted in 2016, but a lot of the points it was making then are still being discussed, even debated. and we're seeing more and more privatization of water and corporate control of water. what are the state of discussions and the 2 decades since you wrote that book? you know, i wrote the book and the early stages of privatization, including the privatization, by default, when you take the water as a commons, you take a river that throws for all and you use it to dump your pollution. that's one kind of privatization. the other kind of privatization is you take a remind i good. oh, hydro electricity or full irrigation. so the water is the ultimate comments. and after i wrote that book,

the pressure to privatize water increased intensity withheld from the world bank. and i'm, if i'm, if was given, every country that was trapped in debt was being given a restructuring loan with water privatization as a co, competent. and, and if we hadn't had a movement of the international program and globalization. and if we didn't build a movement against the patenting of seeds and the privatization of water, frankly, they would have been no free water. they would have be no communities to protect the water. so if you think of how bad things are, think of how much was they would have been if we would not have had movements standing in defense of the what? what is the state of things in india at the moment? now of course i wanna recognize it's a massive country that we're talking about. i know, for instance, places in the eastern part of india were getting had decade after decade with climate change effects. is that still the case? are things actually improving?

well, you know, the it is the pollution of the land and the atmosphere keeps increasing. of course the disasters will keep increasing. the big suicidal that you're mentioning was 1999 and it killed thousands of people. we've had more frequent cycle since then. and a more intense cycles. but after that took the cycle, the government, of course i did amazing work in cycle and warnings and cycle and shared us. we had been saving seats and among the seats that our community seed bank in odessa had said was seats that could tolerate sold and flooding. and that was distributed with those recess super sack long and when the soonest hit south south india. and the bill being also nannie. oh, that was a palmer's kid. the salt or in a black toner and seats to the farmers of come in. i do. so yeah, climate extremes are increasing and all of the predictions are the south asia

are subcontinent. will be the worst effect it. and i have personally worked on the research as well as movement building 1st because we are the 3rd poor. we have the maximum snow's in the himalaya, after the north and south pole for the north and south pole doesn't have a population asked knows, and our water support, half of humanity drinking water. now the glacier meant is one impact. and these seen a disaster in 2013. when heavy rain came, a glacier was melting the des bell, the building of huge hydro electric project. daughter devastated the river and the combination of the 3 things intense rain, racial melt and mal development created a disaster that washed away 20000 people. and 2021 in the source of the place where the beautiful movement which inspired me chuckle to protect the forest. and the

women were seeing you destroy the forest in the catchment. you're going to get more landslide. when get more plants, you wouldn't get more drought. sadly, in 2021, that village was impacted because another glacier melted. another m was being built and 200 people were washed away. the 2nd reason why we have huge impact is we are totally monsoon dependent economy and destabilization of the monsoons either by creating intense rain or lack of rain is making our aggregate, your supper up, people suffer and then we have the long was fullest line more than 7000 kilometers and so i clones, sea level rise coastal erosion are a pud dimension of the impact that comes why a climate have a through water. i have said from the beginning at the end of the day, climate change impact slides either through intense flooding or through drought.

the temperature aspect is there, but it's not the most serious in terms of the impact on life and death in the immediate situation now. okay, so in situations like you were discussing where you've got these massive climate change events happening across at the united nations general assembly decisions in 2010 that recognizes water and sanitation of the human right and essential to human rights. how is that? and those decisions where people agree to them, we're all the countryside on to them. and how are those being addressed in any of the climate discussions that are underway at the moment? i do think water is being given the central rule. it should be given because what's the climate system? the climate system is the biosphere managing the climate, and when the climate is the stabilize, the hydro, logical system is the stabilize with the same systems that are leading to emissions

of greenhouse gases and possible. pollution are water intensive systems that are anyway destroying the hydro, logical balance on the land. i did a book on the green revolution in punjab. open job is the land of fi rivers. it should have no war to crisis. this is why the green revolution was taken to pin job and in a few decades it has of course, destroy the saw. it's destroyed, the palming is created. the cancer trin, what was it, is leading to a water famine. when you use chemical agriculture use 10 times more water to produce the same amount of food. but worse, you create water pollution. the nitrate pollution is one of the more serious impacts, whether it's in local water bodies in streams or it's the dead zones in the oceans . which is absolutely killing life. and then the nitrous oxide that comes from the synthetic fertilizers is $300.00 times more damage than carbon dioxide. so whether

it's the atmosphere or the dead zone, or the dead sizes and usually empty food, we should be looking much more at how fossil agriculture is, has destroyed the water body that you do in analysis. oh, how did lakes dry up like lake chad or rivers dry out? it's because this chemical agriculture, the green revolution, including in africa, the alliance of the green revolution, but pushed by mr. gates and miss and rock solid, sadly though, and the cop $27.00 rock fellow, it destroyed india spandau. is standing there with the food in agriculture organisation looking at future solutions for them. the future solution will be future streaming in water with their starting. it will be treating water as a financial asset which had started rockefeller and the new york stock exchange has started talking about not allowing nature to have integrity, to reduce nature, to

a financial essence and to allow the black drops and the van does to decide the future of water according to how you can trade in on it financially rather than protected. ecological. thank you so much for their shiva author of a water wars. you know, it's other than politics. i have to wonder how low can politicians sink and using a natural resource which life depends on, is truly the definition of hitting rock bottom. it doesn't government of an area which finds itself facing a water crisis have failed to do what of the key task of their position. and if they cannot be held accountable by a court of law, they at least to be held accountable by the ballad box. for those countries who face a water crisis, because the physical water scarcity and the lack of water to meet all demands, others should be compelled to step in and help resolve. however, when the problem is actually poor decision making by those in power,

no grace should be given. however, oftentimes those same folks make decisions which allow the problem to purposely persist while crying in front of the cameras at the injustice is displayed. her policy is nothing new. hovering today's modern day society should be unacceptable. if we have the ability to put a man on the moon to find cures to diseases, then we are fools. if we continue to repeat the same issues which cause such danger . tar most vulnerable communities as more light as being shown demand action rather than just words from the politicians. and most importantly, demand accountability results and accept no excuses. i'm scared now. hughes, thank you for watching this addition of 360 view. until next time. ah ah, me the the,

the the ah, i really thought that we were going to die. i crawled all the way right other than i hid behind death. a few years before i was even born. and this is happening again and again and again and again and again, because people continue to stick with the system i do like any other day. and only one of them came home basically, we want to make sure that certain things that are just too dangerous or regulate the 1000000000 should be in the hands, those people who are and say that i take no with

mm pool a. i have to say that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treaty. but the country you will not to abandon the pack. the last surviving agreement on nuclear disarmament between russia and the 2 of them made the remarks during his annual address to the russian parliament on chief or no died over the motives of the crime or it's perpetrators. but was russia's view about the new extreme pipeline that fell, died up a special session of the un security council. moscow is demanding an international in the.