10 MASSIVE Cities That Should NOT Exist
Вставка
- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- The Top 10 LARGEST Cities that should NOT be able to exist. Most big civilizations in the world are located near water (ex. ocean, natural harbor, major river, lake, etc.), but the following places aren't near ANY body of water AT ALL! And a few are in the DRY Desert with VERY little rainfall! How do so many people live in these cities that have no natural source of water in 2023?
➽ Join our OFFICIAL Discord Server!: / discord
► Most Isolated Cities on EARTH - • Top 10 MOST ISOLATED C...
► Creepiest Small Towns in the USA - • Top 10 CREEPIEST Citie...
The cradles of civilization all started along major rivers, as they provided water to drink and for crops to grow. And once trade between cities became necessary, water served an even GREATER purpose... as the most convenient form of transportation!
Nearly every big city in the world was built along some natural water way, whether it be an ocean, bay, river, or lake. But that all changed with the invention of the railroad, and later airplanes, highways and air conditioning! Now people can build cities wherever the HECK they want, even in some of the DRIEST Deserts on Earth! And some massive cities with plenty of skyscrapers, are now FULLY Abandoned! These are 10 MASSIVE cities in the USA, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa with no natural source of water, which frankly should NOT be able to exist if it weren't for human innovation.
My biggest suggestion is to visit these cities and states first to decide where you want to move to and live.
➽ SUBSCRIBE for 2-3 new videos EVERY WEEK!
Thanks for watching From Here to There! This is another top ten video where we explain cool facts about the world, it's history and geography, starting with the different states, cities, and towns in the United States.
➽ Looking for cheap places to stay when you travel?
Get $55 off your 1st booking with AirBNB! - www.airbnb.com...
*Can we smash 5000 likes for MORE unique video topics like this one?!* This list was a TON of fun to research, and I hope you all really enjoy it! It really is remarkable how humans have discovered ways to live in naturally uninhabitable areas, and that some of these cities with no natural source of water have grown to be SO LARGE!
U ARE HHERE BACK AGAIN
wow, you really made a video for 2023 new year. I am happy now.
Very interesting! Great work
Very nice video. Thank you for taking so much time to make it
5:24 ... what's the connection between Quito in Ecuador and the shown Kayan people from Thailand and Myanmar?
🤔🤔
Understanding personal finances and investing will most likely lead to greater financial independence. By being knowledgeable about money and investing, individuals can make informed decisions about how to save, spend, and invest their money. A trader made over $350k in this recession influenced market
The best course of action if you lack market knowledge is to ask a consultant or investing coach for guidance or assistance. Speaking with a consultant helped me stay afloat in the market and grow my portfolio to about 65% since January, even though I know it sounds obvious or generic. I believe that is the most effective way to enter the business at the moment.
My advisor is *ROCH DUNGCA-SCHREIBER*’s highly qualified and experienced in the financial market. She has extensive knowledge of portfolio diversity and is considered an expert in the field. I recommend researching her credentials further. She has many years of experience and is a valuable resource for anyone looking to navigate the financial market
Sad that you didnt mention Amsterdam, since it's literally impossible to build a city there. Every building is painfully built on large wooden sticks that stand up to 30 meter deep in the water since the whole area is a swamp. It took years and years and generations and generations to build only the city centre!!
Yes, Amsterdam and a few other basically underwater cities would be interesting for a different video. This video was mainly about places with a lack of water however.
Cant be impossible as... Amsterdam exists.
thats like my city... except we are not being threatened to be underwater
@@blaineherrington9502 I do think, in any alternative reality, this city would've never existed.
You know what literally means right?
All these huge cities with booming populations, most lacking a long term sustainable source of water. It doesn't sound like this is going to end well.
BS Many of them are millennia old cities. They’ll continue to exist waay after you.
"end well" not end altogether...
Changing salt water to drinkable water is easy..cheap and becoming a well used source in many parts of the world..combine it with solar...making it even cheaper to produce
@@bobfrantz534 doesn’t help inland cities though…
Pipe lines are cheap....often covering 1000's of miles.....if it leaks....who cares
I would suggest also Astana which is the capital of Kazakhstan. The city growth was from 280 000 to 1200 000 just because Nursultan Nazarbayev decision to transfer capital from more or less natural city Almaty which is located in much more pleasant place in the mountains foothills to the middle of hollow steppe (cold windy and dry grassland).
And now the city is named after Nursultan lmao
@@konarkvinod2801 not anymore, but it used to
It was a city of Akmolinsk with 250.000 people before, also the river Ishim runs through the city. Historically Akmolinsk was an oblast center and even in some period a regional center for all Northern Kazakhstan as well as Northern division of Kazakh SSR Railway.
gg
@@liliya_aseeva Yep. I know. But the majority of north Kazakhstan cities experienced rapid rise due to "podnytie celiny" program in 50-60x. And It also was a quite voluntary process. Nevertheless the Astana is only one city in north Kazakhstan which experienced such growth. Shymkent has rapid rise due to more natural location without capital status.
Great video. Having videos about non-US cities are fun for a change. But for some reason imperial system sounds funny while talking about other parts of the world, like the lenght of “The Line” 😏
Haha yeah, I know most of my audience is US so I still used it, but metric seems much more natural for the world :) Glad you enjoyed, definitely wanna do more "unique" videos like this in the future!
Very interesting. This must have required a LOT of research. Well done!
Thanks David! And when the work is fun, it's not work at all ;)
I can't wait for the best and worst states and cities lists for this year!
I'm excited too!
In reality Milan has 3 rivers: in addition to Lambro we have Olona and Seveso. Though those two nowadays are buried they are still active (Milan has too much water than what we need) and they were really useful during history!
you need to start posting some minecraft vids on the mincraft channel i will always remember thos RIP @theironmango and mangotango
I went to Riyadh many times, and you missed a huge fact about its water.
Yeah, I know that the drinkable water in markets is from sea by clearing the salts. But, all of the water in bathrooms and kitchens is from water wells. That's way its taste very different as I remember when I tasted it. The city is historical from 300 A.C, and used to wells as a main source of water, and now it is replaced with large machines of hydrolic pumps.
Nowadays, geological scientists studied the water geological tank of water under Riyadh, and it doesn't seem to end in any time soon.
So, the city HAD its own resource of enough amount of water.
I know of the underground aquifer you reference, had thought it was being used up at an unsustainable level.
@@mrmr446 yup, but thats still dozens of years at minimum, more than enough time for renewable energy production and water desalination techs to become cheap enough to even replenish the aquifer as a water storage. (current solar panels are useless due to sand well... sanding them)
@@Jack-he8jv so possibly twenty five years then? If the kingdom wasn't distracted by Invading Yemen or building a new city in a line or whatever mbs wants next I'd agree with you about enough time.
Very interesting video full of great content, thank you for teaching us.
Glad you enjoyed! :)
Yes another video can't wait until the worst/best states of 2023 and speaking of which happy new year
Mine still probably won't be great :/
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hope you enjoyed :)
wow a lot work making this video - great content!
2:02 Thank you so much for actually mentioning the “Mormon money” in Las Vegas. Very few people know that the Mormons actually run LV, as they do much of the Mountain West of the US. The Mormons have money… and money has the Mormons.
Wait he means the Mormon Church?
Mormons are a disproportionate number of politicians here
Yep the Fifth estate did a nice investigation of the mormon money moving to the area from other countries biggest land owner in the usa :)
Mountains of Yemen receives Rain, Sana'a became a city because of the higher rainfall of South Arabian mountains than surrounding region, with proper management Sana'a can survive and flourish easily.
Agree. He must be wrong on Sanaa
Very enjoyable to learn through your videos
Please explain how a city grows being the center of a civil rights movement. How many jobs does that provide? Honestly, have we gotten to the point where political consideration trumps information? Did you really need to pander? Would they have demonetized you had you neglected to inform us of this then lied regarding how germane it was to the topic? C'mon, man.
Here are the top industries in Atlanta.
Sector Employees (thousands)
Construction 83.9
Education and health services 282.3
Financial activities 128.5
Government 311.9
Information 73.7
Leisure and hospitality 218.3
Manufacturing 146.5
Mining and logging 1.4
Other services 90.5
Professional and business services 391.4
Trade, transportation, and utilities 530.3
So where are civil rights jobs? Glomped in with "other"?
When are you coming back to mango tango please come back you were our child hoods
Hello Love Form Florida :)
Thanks Samantha! Hope you enjoyed the new video!
The one thing most cities have in common is they have built upon the fertile land that once needed
Every Egyptian city!
I really enjoy your videos and i learned a lot about USA from you. Waiting for top/worst rankings for 2023 now. :) Do you plan on doing some EU episodes too?
Nice comment!
Definitely planning on a 10 best countries / cities in Europe / every continent video at some point!
Wasnt expecting my city (Quito) to be in this video, but you are right
You mentioned that the Shah of Iran was deposed post WW2. That is correct, however it was 1979 which along time post WW2. I know, I was on the USS Midway during that time and spent months off the coast due to the taking the US embassy personnel as hostages.
The Shah originally lost power in 1951 when Mosaddegh was democratically elected Prime Minister. Although he was then overthrown in 1953 and the Shah reinstated until 1979. The Shah was socially much more accepting than the current regime and thus Iran was still not a theocracy until '79
@@FromHeretoThere although the shah was more of a tyrant than a simply a permissive leader. Many were starving while he lavished money on his idea of imperial Iran
Cant wait to see more great videos this year happy new year!
Thank you! Happy new year!
Leonardo didn’t invent the canal. Canals had existed for many thousands of years before his birth. He may have designed that particular canal, but it was by no means a new invention
He invented canal locks, which are what modern day canals use
@@FromHeretoThere Canal locks we’re actually invented in China, somewhere in the late 900’s AD. In fact the technology had spread to Europe by at least 80 years before the birth of da Vinci
super cool video
Los Angeles? Without the numerous aqueducts & reservoirs, the city and basin couldn't have grown to current size.
Los Angeles and other "dry" cities like Dubai and Lima weren't included as they are technically on the coast at least, which would allow for transportation of goods by ship to be easy. Although, yes, their populations are WAY too high for their water supplies'
great video
Man it sure feels good living near the great lakes right now 🙂🙃
Hey, since it’s 2023, can you try making the Top 10 Best States To Live In 2023
It's... not 2022. Just saying
@@Peaceloveharmonyroads it’s 22 in most of Asia’s and South America
@@awil8891 oh I’m stupid lol
Will do both best and worst!
Thanks for the content 🤙
Fortunate to live in a time and place where we can access information like this; had no idea of the history and complexity of many of these cities before this.
There are other big cities around the world without major rivers or any water body directly serving them.
Nigeria has three big cities (each above 3.5m residents that are away from water sources). They are Kano, Abuja and Ibadan.
I think Yaounde in Cameroon also needs mention.
I guess, cities around the world have various reasons for their population explosions that had nothing to do with water sources to sustain the population or enhance trade through waterways.
Yes water is essential
There is a lot of ignorance and misinformation about Riyadh in this video. Riyadh is a city that existed in 300 BC and witnessed important wars in the early history of Islam to unite the Arabian Peninsula under the rule of the Rashidun Caliphate. And the name Riyadh literally means a garden, as it was full of farms and gardens, and its water source was wells, and fertile valleys crossed it, such as the famous historical valley, Wadi Hanifa, and it witnessed development after making it the capital of the state and after the discovery of oil. And it is true that the source of water for its growing people is the desalination of sea water. Riyadh was called by other names, such as Al-Yamamah and Hajar
What about Beijing, China? It is running out of water.
Well done bro. I learned a lot. I had no idea some of these countries were that developed
at 4:12 ...Almost all of Harare was built by the British, including buildings, infrastructure, piping, and other amenities...I doubt that the indigenous population would have built this city and accomplished this...especially in this area...and yet colonists were the bad guys...
Dude the indigenous population were also living under white minority rule and segregation 💀 colonisation is more than just "they built roads"
So killing and oppressing millions of the natives is fine, as long as the infrastructure, buildings and amenities meet white standards. Indigenous peoples from around the world were quite fine and prospered before you whites ventured out of Europe and destroyed millions of lives, cultures and traditions.
amazing video - very educational
Love your videos can you please more videos!?
Happy new year, From Here To There! This video really was an interesting topic. So are you ready to update the Best/Worst states list for 2023?
SOON!
Bangalore , India is also a major world city not close to a river or sea coast
That's an interesting one! I studied a LOT of cities, but I did miss that one, thanks for letting me know!
@Maina B exactly the point , the video illustrates cities that are not on banks of rivers or sea and therefore have to get their water via pipelines from other sources , also all cities mentioned in the video are not located in dry deserts but are dependent on water being pumped from other sources that are far way , Bangalore also falls in the same category.
@@vinayk5634 but Bengalore gets lot of rainfall as compared to these cities
@@RohitPatel-bk8fo compared to Riyadh and city in Yemen yes , other than these the other cities mentioned are not in deserts
Amazing video! I really enjoy learning from all your videos. People can live without love but not without water. Because water is required for all biological reaction and is the driving force of all nature. No water and no life. Nothing is softer than water, yet water is the best weapon since no weapon can resist it.
very cool comment
nice
I used to live in Vegas and knew it would be in this video. Vegas is, as far as I know, the best city for water recycling on the entire planet. They recycle more than 95% of the water they use. The issue with the Colorado River is primarily climate change and Californian agriculture.
Climate change?
California agriculture feeds half the country so it’s not like they’re just sucking water for no reason.
@@JohnWSmartNow Yea... that's the problem. All of that food supply is gone if the river dries up, which it is quickly.
@@JohnWSmartNow Half of the fresh produce
Yea if u live in ksa u will find water 1000km away
The government does that use sea water to filter then supply to the cities
The price of the water 1-2 sar(250ml) which is more costy then oil prices
Pretty good video. Keep it up.
Amazing video! Make more when you have time. No pressure
Braylookflipaclip spoting
I’d still say Phoenix makes the list. A tiny river can’t/doesn’t support millions of ppl and Lakes Mead and Powell are draining fast due to the mega drought and shrinking Colorado river. In addition, the dams supplying hydroelectric power to millions in a scorching hot desert are at risk of failing from lack of water.
The future ain’t lookin so bright
I read a thing recently that Phoenix actually sits on one of the largest aquifers and is in no danger of running out of water soon. Would need to do more research though
@@FromHeretoThere have I got some links for you! from: cnbc, the guardian, vox, the intercept, secular talk, ap, the ny post, ny times and possibly fox (of all places)
Ps: there’s a reason az received billions to augment it’s water supply-and it’s not for it’s residents
we have plenty of water in Phoenix from the aquifer to 7 reservoirs which fill every winter. Phoenix uses less water now with almost 5 million people in the area compared to 50 years ago with only 1.5 million people. We have no lawns , golf courses and the Nuclear plant use Grey water.
See Lake Pleasant.
Farmers will lose their water first as farming in the Sonoran desert is mostly commercial and an after thought. There currently is no " drought" in 95% of AZ. ....see US Drought map
..
Vox, guardian, nytimes, cnbc are trash @@mdj864
Man you know I REALLY miss the Who's your Daddy Roleplay series with you Baby Nathan and Baby Ryan you HAVE to make a comeback PLEASE! 🙏🙏🥺🥺
10:56 This footage is of a plane arriving at London Heathrow Airport. The stadiums are Twickenham and the Stoop. Not sure why it's in a section about Johannesburg.
Of all the cities didn’t expect Harare to make it on the list
Well thank you for not including my city, Phoenix AZ on this list. Perhaps Las Vegas is close enough that its inclusion kind of covered us too.
Phoenix actually sits on one of the largest aquifers so it's in no danger of running out of water, surprisingly!
Delhi and Bangalore should've been in this list. Because, while Delhi is by a river it is currently going through a water crisis because more than half of the population is having trouble getting reliable water. This is also the same case with Bangalore, some say that if it gets worse people will have to evacuate Bangalore by 2040.
Doesn't feel like the most accurate list though. The city that really should be number 1 is Dubai
even if las vegas would still be a town without illegal activity and gambling coming legal, that would mean reno, the so called largest mini city would be the biggest in nevada
Thank you for using B.C. and A.D. instead of BCE and CE
⁉️
u tell me, 400,000 people lived in “the new world” city before Columbus “discovered” the Americas 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Los Angeles is another honorable mention, it has access to ocean but that's not usable, and it was in a huge drought, and yet it has around 18 million
It technically does have a port in Long Beach, although yes, it certainly grew for other reasons
Thats a bit of a reach
Hi Mango
were have i heard this voice before i know ive heard you before do you have another channel since i know ive heard you before
yes very famous minecraft roleplays channel with 568M views! He has put a smile on your face + 2 M faces in 2 gap year every day.
@@grayemme MangoTango
@@grayemme should be happy
super cool video
Will you never return to minecraft?
Nothing gold can stay (> 500M views in 2 gap year) amazing Journey
Need to grow with him & travel with him for life!
Wheres your video of the top 10 best Canadian cities? I have been waiting for a long time for that video.
Should be out in 2 or 3 vids from now :)
What? No Beijing? It's even more of a whale than Mexico City. Sure, the Grand Canal is, like, 25 km away in Tongzhou.....
Mango tango
Everyone loves Mango who makes us laugh every day
Dude Varanasi in India is the oldest continuously habitat city on earth ......
This video is great but it’s so depressing Jesus Christ
as fresh water becomes harder to sustain say goodbye to these places
Alternative title: don’t live in these cities
lol
El machangara lleva la mierda de la ciudad pero tenemos el Cotopaxi y de ahí agua mineral embotellada.
i miss mango tango😞
Can I suggest nuclear power stations to desalinate sea water and then pump it inland (However far it is) to these cities.
Your facts about Riyadh is very old or wrong lol
I’ve watched your videos for 3 years now and I live in Riyadh.
Riyadh lays just west of Wadi Hanifa which is currently running all year round.
And Riyadh since last year has been having lots of rain thanks to cloud seeding (It’s raining right now as I’m typing this).
Hundreds of years ago people used to get their water from underground
Makes you wonder if with climate change Saudi Arabia will become green?
@@andrefalksmen1264 It’s getting Greener now in west of the country. And technology really helps
@@Faisal-ww1pi bro you now what that means if your a muslim
Do a video ranking all 8 Rust Belt states from worst to best. That would be interesting, as in the 8 states that border a Great Lake, and you can add Kentucky and West Virginia if you want as well. That would be a video I’d love to see.
And so begins the modern era of warring over water.
5:23 random ethnicity from Myanmar come out from no where
Could you do top 10 countries to visit for 2023?
Amazing content can you do more mango tango vids
Weird to think that these random ass cities i have never heard of have a far bigger population than Amsterdam, Milan or Venice which are all well known world wide.
Haha yeah, most European cities other than London, Paris, and Moscow are actually quite small. Like mid-sized cities such as Kansas City or Portland would technically be bigger than a lot of them!
I wonder how these cities will survive into the future.
Water wars
water desalination with renewable energy. (water is literally the most abundant resource on earth)
*Thanks bud for keepin us financially Educated! Regardless of how bad it gets on the economy, I still make over $22,000 every single week.*
That's awesome!!! I know nothing about investment and I'm keen on getting started. What are your strategies?
As a beginner investor, it's essential for you to have a mentor to keep you accountable. Myself I'm guided by Mrs Julia Oswin, a widely known crypto consultant C
I recommend mrs Julia Oswin, she has an astounding track record. I've worked with her for some time, and there are a lot of people investing with her, she's the best of the best. I hope she doesn't stop taking new comers any time soon because of the high number of the applicant..
Here's her direct info
📝🖍️
┼𝟷𝟾𝟻𝟼𝟹𝟿𝟻𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟾
📍📚
Completely butchered the city names... and I'm loving it
And Lesotho lol
Beijng🇨🇳
Definitely shouldn't be as big as it is based on the water source, but there is a river in town
7th
Gringo loco Quito es hermoso y tiene de todo el Ecuador es el país más bio diversio del mundo.
Man it's real concerning how many of these cities are in a major drought
Desalination seems like the only way forward
Aqueducts are far cheaper and more efficient than desalination. I don't know what people's fascination with the idea of desalination is, but it's extremely expensive and energy-intensive. With exception of the usual protocol boundaries and security, it makes more sense the build 2500 + km aqueducts than to build a desalination plant.
In Melbourne, Australia, I think that the city's administration has found a good solution when they decided on solar powered desalination. The desalination place has been working for a number of years now, supplementing the existing sources of clean water.
@@andrefalksmen1264 OK and what happens when the place were getting the water from dries up too? Or we take that water from someone else's source? Or something happens somewhere along the line with hundreds of miles of aqueducts.
We already have the 400+ mile California aqueduct and that's not enough. The aqueducts taking water from the Colorado River isn't enough and is rapidly depleting.
The entire west coast of the United States has been mired in drought for quite a while now and it'll only get worse going forward.
Desalination gives us basically unlimited water that's drought resistant. It'll become cheaper and more efficient over time. Especially with innovations in tech like the other guy said when speaking about Melbourne's solar powered solution. LA gets quite a bit of sun.
@@andrefalksmen1264 actually, further than that, we'd have to build an aqueduct basically to Mississippi River around 2k miles away and that'd require infrastructure through mountains or desert on top of getting a bunch of states to agree to their water being taken by states they hate. Just build a desalination plant and let the tech develop and no need to worry about the issue any further. No need to complicate things.
@@KuroshiKun let's take a look at the numbers, industrial-scale reverse osmosis requires between 3.5 and 5 kilowatt-hours of electricity per cubic meter of water! To pump one cubic meter of water to a height of 1 m, requires .002kwh of electricity, do you see the price difference is three orders of magnitude!
That is all aside from the fact that Aqueduct water, after being pumped uphill can generate electricity on its way back down hill, and desalinated water will also still need to be pumped.
From time immemorial, from the ancient Sumerians on, human beings bring the resources to them, that is the basis of civilization. California's the aqueduct program is not impressive by historical standards, the longest Aqueduct built by the Romans was 426 km. The length of the Chinese south-north diversion aqueduct is over 1,200 kilometers.
Until there's some massive leap in power generation technology, reverse osmosis is a pipe dream.
You want to know where the western United States could get the water needs, look up a proposed idea of the 1960s called the North American Water and Power Alliance.
AM SO HAPPY YOUR OKAY!!!😭😭😭😄
We need to use solar to desalinate water and pump it to places like lake mead and restore our reservoir
11:20 the racist laws were not the doing of the British, I should point out, they banned slavery, it was the boers from the Netherlands who came into power after their independence who brought these laws in
Yes, they both implemented racist laws, but officially apartheid wasn't until the 1940's.
Extreme water challenges
I think the Tehran section is mostly incorrect. It's true that our city has many reasons to not exist in its current form, but water isn't one of them. In fact as far as I know, there are very few large cities in Iran that are near rivers, Isfahan (2.2 million) and Ahvaz (1.3 million) are two examples and apart from the Caspian coatal plains which receives a lot of rainfall, the rest of the country is dry. Historically our people were dependent on underground canals called qanat or kariz to transfer water from aquifers and water wells to the surface, so having a large city in most of Iran will probably makes not much sense from your point of view, and well you would be correct, currently Iran is headed for a catastrophic water crisis in the next two decades that will destroy the country unless the current regime is overthrown. Iran is country that should have an advanced water policy similar to Israel.
The waffle house has found its new host
Some cities here are okay. I'd mention Aktau, Kazakhstan. It has NO WATER, no ground water, no rivers. Anyway, it is located on Caspian shoreline, but it's all salt water. City gets its water by desalinating Caspian sea water.
Idea: Rank Every Single Country!
That would take a while, and it would depend on which countries you recognize.
You Do Have A Point 👍
;)
5:23 those people are Kayan tribe living in eastern Myanmar and northern Thailand. They do not live in Ecuador.
Civilization started more than 5000 years ago, I bet that you even believe that Dinosaurs existed 8000 years ago right?
city without water story:
>small settlement by people
>oil monies or water aquifer
>population boom from 10000 people to 6.23 milion people
You're not wrong with most of them ahaha!
These are the cities of the future!
Next, they will learn to depend on desalination technologies. Then more remote places will be built. Then after Greenland starts to sprout major cities, we will be able to colonize mars! After that, is the space colonies.
Doesn't seem too far off now lol!
The waffle house has found its new host
Yay, we are no 1.. México! México! México! ... ... ...
...
wait...