War For Water: What Happens When Asia's Rivers Dry Up? | The Longest Day | Climate Change
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2020
- By 2025, half the world's population will lack access to freshwater. For millions across Asia, this is already a reality. We turn the spotlight to three countries: Vietnam's Mekong Delta is in the grip of the most severe water shortage in living memory. Declaring a state of emergency, the local government have begun transporting freshwater into the worst affected areas. Over 24 hours, we follow a young durian farmer, Ms. Nho as she races to keep her small farm alive. This emergency water is her family's final lifeline. In Singapore, urban fish farmers are forced to conserve the water they have, as they strive to protect Singapore's food security in an increasingly unpredictable climate. In Jakarta, people's daily search for water is threatening the megacity's very existence. Over-extraction of groundwater is causing the city to sink by up to 25cm a year. We follow two well-diggers as they manually install a 12-metre well at a residential property - but at what cost?
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23:03 Respect for The lady for thinking long term than being blinded by a short term profit
Anyone who notice the Mom named LE THI NHO who always show her genuine smile even thou she experience a lot of problems in life. More power to everyone , Love from Philippines!🥰
The older Vietnamese durian farmer, Nguyen Thi Chi, was wise to keep that reserve pond while the others tried to make short term profits by filling in their ponds to plant more trees.
Yes, usually older men are wise.
@@gaipa2006 Chi's a woman.
Thank you CNA for free and eye opener documentaries. Godbless and keep safe to all the staff behind these documentaries. Love lots from PHILIPPINES
As an indian its heartbreaking to see ur people suffer for the simplest basic needs.Thank you for this eye opening documentary.
Leonard Carr wat?
I can't imagine living in a day without water. I should be ashamed of myself taking this privilege for granted. Even though we drink tap water and we don't like the taste of mineral water, at least water is water.. We never get sick or ill as our stomachs are already used to it.
This series is too good to be free
It’s not it’s supported by ads and tons of them.
@@kenshinscott The ads would not even cover the cost
they want to warn the people? for what is coming right in the future 4 or 5 years
Read description. They're partially paid by the government.
LoL I was just about to say the same thing about reading the video description. Most of the channels like this are funded either with some money or completely funded by their governments.
Meanwhile Coca-Cola, Nestle, and others still have an unlimited supply of their water
😈😈
I do solve water problem in any place of the world!plus nine nine eight nine nine five five five four three seven four- Gary))))
And for something that provides no nutrition, instead promotes "welfare" diseases like obesity, diabetes and adds to the plastic waste
You get the feeling that that next 2 generations are gonna get it real hard, if we have a mankind left to exist.
@@joehalliday6081 And you are an insulting troll. It's my opinion. At least try to come up with an intelligent comment to the contrary.
Quit having children, for goodness sake, stop!!
This brings things home to me. I have a large koi pond of around 120,000 ltrs Evaporation and the need for fresh water means I add around 5% a day, so some so about 5400 ltrs a day. One thing I notice is that the farmer who gets the water sprinkles her water, this allows for a lot of evaporation, she would be better drip feeding I think, and what does her husband do.
Thank you CNA for another fascinating, highly informative and thought provoking documentary. Here in the USA we often take for granted our running water and other utilities and complain about the "high cost" to us. Through you I am gaining new perspective. Quality listening. KUDOS. 👊🇺🇲🔜
Such a quality docu I've not seen in a long long time.. loved how you show the crisis in varies different countries... Super interesting.. can't wait for the next one already!
Glad you enjoy it!
@@CNAInsider I advertised on reddit docus sub because I really liked it
We in malaysia are blesses with the abundance of fresh water 24/7 from our mountains and rainforests. Sadly however, its the corrupted politicians that usually create water-cuts crisis keep on happening here in Malaysia
Hmm only in selangor 🧐
She is watering the whole area if they had drip tubes or hand water each tree she could use half the water easily
I’m a farmer and we learned many years ago from the Norwegians I do believe that hydroponics and or drip water were much more efficient growing systems
They know it too but lack of fund is the issue.
A lot of good hard working people here and many other parts of the world, even with all the hard work and uncertainty they still have a smile. Here in the US we have a lot whiners, emos, criminals, and drug addicts not content with how easy we have it here. Thumbs up for the Doctor and all the people involved in this story.
Exceptional docu making !! Keep educating
And these are suppose to be tropical places with plenty of rainfall still facing clean water shortage, Humans are toast now, I wonder if we can even survive for 10 more years.
We have ruined earth permanently.
Ruined it for us humans, if we suddenly disappeared life carries on for the rest of life on earth.
Excellent work cna , very insightful content and outstanding graphics
Amazing and extremely informative documentary series. Great Work CNA :)
The government of these countries should build more reservoirs and preserve water during the rainy seasons
I've done well in life but always stayed away from having children. I never believed I could provide enough for them. Some people need to follow my path and stop having babies mainly all 3rd world countries.
Excellent documentary 👍👍
Timestamp 28 minutes 53 seconds! There are plenty of motorbikes plenty of cars plenty of high-rise buildings! No drinkable water?
Here in philippines, people actually stop fire trucks and deplete the fire truck’s water supply
exaggerated mo nmn masyado. As far as I know there wasn't that kind of incident recently :P
Actually, nangyari nung nag cut yung manila water
Very insightful!
I'm a Vietnames and I'm seeing all these happen. Drought is not only the reason for lacking of water but also the pollution which is rising up every where.
how much trash have you and your group of friends or neighborhood picked off the water ways? What are you doing to stop people from polluting the waterways? Education and big fines are important to re - educate ppl regarding the immoral practice of polluting their own water.
stop having children, for goodness sake. it will never get better. NEVER
We need to consume less.
Hats off to her carrying 260L of water on her bike and she never swerved like she was carrying nothing amazing I'd be all over the road with that weight just before I'd kiss the dirt. She has skill....
its strange how rich nations waste water from running taps and use hoses to wash their cars, and buy imported water from France, (aka Evian) or Fiji, while calling their piped waters "undrinkable", when ppl from developed countries look in awe at water being brought into homes in pipes, while they have to transport water by buckets and containers miles away.
GREEDY PEOPLE WHO DESTROY MOTHER EARTH ARE TO BLAME!!!!
So all humans?
@@kuchikopi4616 No, just Chinese and corporations
43:09 that doggo be like YOLO
As usual a great documentary and need to be battled from many different angles
it is cheap propaganda.. to ignore the damming of the Mekong and population growth is to destroy any credibility that these cheap producers might have had...
Question here Please ,I have No Idea where this is other than what this Video is Showing and Saying here
Jakarta is that Island and Surrounded by Salt Water in between those Islands ?
Singapore doesnt have water shortage.. Thanks to Malaysia..
Thanks to God..water fall from the sky too🤲❤
Thank you to country , for sharing the water flow to Neigbour’s country. 🙏
By doing 20+ trips just to transport water everyday to save cost for renting a rickshaw $7+, I feel she could have done so much more with the time she has by getting some kind of job or selling some products (food etc) rather than focusing on farming solely she should diverse her source of income.
children might be small, taking care of household work, rural location, etc.
I wonder what her fuel costs are for all the trips on the bike compared to fewer journeys with an auto rickshaw.
Answer one question in your head
Do we have any less water in the world then we had 1 day or 10,000 years ago ?
We do not
All the water that was on this planet us still here
We just are mismanaging our resources
We are seriously mismanaging our resources. The point, however, isn't the sum total of water on the planet, but how much is usable by humans for drinking, irrigation, hygiene, etc. Water contamination by industry has drastically reduced the volume of clean, potable water available and global heating is causing more droughts, of longer duration, causing flooding that further contaminates water sources, melting glaciers that humans rely on for water, etc.
"Until the rain comes again, we will keep fighting" - Le Thi No
Le Thi Nos for Trump!
They might as well do the native American rain dance 💃💃💃🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧
Stop propaganda
heres why jakarta situation is very silly:
1. they build houses in silly area such as swamps and stone area like in your video. those stone area can barely get any water, while those who live in swamp area get flood every year.
2. they get flood yearly in many areas not just those in swamp areas, and yet other areas still experience drought. it's a proof of poor water management system. like why dont they just save or transport those flood water somewhere else with extreme drought.
3. and finally, they blame the heck out of climate change. their "sea water level rise" is mainly caused of their insane extraction of ground water (the ground lowers, not the sea level rising). they just need to implement a good system here not just blaming climate change left and right, but yes obviously nobody in charge and/or government is willing to implement a proper watering system.
So basically there is drought in some areas and flood in some. This is saddening but we need to control overpopulation and overuse of natural resources which will improve with lesser population.
want to genoicide half of the population?
@@abelesperanz4196 Crazy , aren't you???
@@abelesperanz4196 When does overpopulation control means genoicide??? People like you are nuts. So you need to keep on overbreeding when there is shortage of resouces huh!!! Family planning can go a long way Dumbass!!
You can make desalination to drink but it is expensive and you won't waste expensive water on agriculture like rice fields. Country needs build reservoirs, and extensive aqueducts to transport water across country from wet places to dry places.
Is it ? A small unit could provide whole village
Good job u man
It is predicted that WATER will n
be the cause of another WW. Hope I was not alive that time.
I agree with you the control of River Nile id bringing alot of problems between Egypt and Ethiopian who are and building the biggest Dam in Africa Kenya Uganda and Tanzania also beed the water too for the Lake Victoria there is a very high tension now.
Desalination technology will ease up water shortage along with water conservation. Have lesser people is the long term goal.
Yep, what seems to be a problem. All the tech is avalable. Just call Japanese. Probably corruption on all levels.
Very interesting. Milwaukee Wisconsin I’m blessed n grateful for my many things I do have. When I see topics like this makes me more humble.
Having to face water shortage practically all years round, shouldn't nations act like China to harness water from regions of plentiful water to the the drier areas; instead of spending so much on defense budgets? India could have done better using similar man-made canal to distribute water across the country. In smaller area like Java Island, the government could create larger artificial reservoirs by enlarging existing ones so that the rain water could be saved for later use. After all heavy rains occur rather often in the tropical areas. There should be a change among the Asian nations so that expenditures on defense of every nation could be reduced towards creating infrastructure that promote economic progress. To reduce defense expenditures of each nation, there should be some kind of platform where the concern of all nations could be openly discussed and resolved!
Christopher speaking perfect Mandarin :)
miss the years before 2010.
Flat earthers have been flattening the curve of their brains.
For the past 30 years, global warming, had melted over 40% of glaciers in Tibet. In the next 25 years, there may be little glaciers left to provide rivers and stream with fresh water. Instead of polluting water with sewage, chemicals, fertilizers and dead bodies, people in downstream countries should (1) educate public on water conservation, (2) stop polluting water, (3) develop water management for sustainable usage. Yangtze River has just started the 10 year moratorium on fishing. Likewise, Mekong should introduce moratorium on fishing ban. The government must compensate fishermen for the moratorium.
Here in indonesia, we build more than 86 dam for agriculture,industry, household etc, 1000 water-pond for a group of small independen farmer and this year more than 273 Aquifer for small-community like village, a group of poor people that live on hallway etc across indonesia. for dam some already finisih, some still underconstruction. I think clean water is never enough, its global problem, water-crissis, climate change. and i think human still dont know how to use water properly.
you know its a matter of when when Johor is gonna have a dry spell for months to come, how is Singapore gonna cope with it? theres gonna be tension on who gets what percentage and tension leads to violence etc
Desalination plants in Singapore will ramp up production to meet the shortfall. Main shortfall is the process is expensive even though desalination is using reverse osmosis.
I think you are either too lazy to find out the info, or illiterate and cannot read news. FYI, we got 4 taps in Singapore. 1st tap which is the NEWater that recycle water provides up to 40% of Singapore’s water supply. 2nd tap is the desalination plants which converts sea to drinkable water and we just complete 4th plant this Sept, we have 5th plant completing this year too which when all 5 plants complete can provide >50% of water supply for current needs. The 3rd tap is reservoir which provides 10% of our needs and lastly the malaysia tap. We still need to play nice to Malaysia simply because we have to lower the cost of desalination as it’s still costlier than importing water from Johor. I like to also remind you that the reason our government is trying their best to do all these many years ago is because we understand Malaysia’s Tunku once said that any unhappiness with Singapore they can always turn our water tap off. We never wanted to be at any country’s mercy so we have to be self sufficient at all cost even before our water agreement is up. Actually we need to thank Malaysia for this water issue. If not for their threats we will probably never be more ready.
The hard part of all this.. is not building the system.. but the people it self are the problem, they want free water... or pay once type of deal, like a well..
well here something crazy, every breath you take are accounted on a hospital bed.. even air cost something
heartbreaking truth😔
By the way, how is the quality of durian from Vietnam compared with those from Thailand or even that of Malaysia's? Anyone with the experience?
It the same even better . I ate both the Vietnam durians is the best
Are the droughts in Mekong really about climate change or the Chinese dams upriver?
both, The climate change make it worse
both
As expert says, natural phenomenal will become more extreme with drought and flood coming to Mekong which wouldn’t be a surprise anymore.
@@user-gc1hg9sp9k climate change will make it worse in the future.. now, the issues are unsustainable population growth and the damming of the Mekong.. but this cheap propaganda video ignores these issues completely and that just destroys any credibility they might have had
@luvin nana i
The dams and people taking water are mostly responsible for the low water levels in the mekong at the lower levels. It waa like this before any drought. Get an education on the matter
Try to save rain water for farms, washing cloths, washing dishes. We need to get proactive not panic.
I saw in Gravitas that China construction of so many dams to redirect and store water for them; so the water doesn't flow to other countries
That is definitely something China would do.
Climate change has been happening since the earth was born, humans and animals alike have moved from continent to continent to avoid these situations I am not sure how this will be for today's greedy society and with so many living things on the earth, it will be intriguing to see how this all pans out
Timestamp 9 minutes French businessman running a shrimp farm in Northern Vietnam! Look at the history do the research I guess the heroin trade has dropped off in that region
As other elderly Vietnamese, this is the first severe and extremely serious time disaster come with us, water crisis is affecting total our lives. The climate change is appearing as clear if we damage the nature
we have done the planet in. it is finished. later it will even be worse. quit having children
Maybe then family planning will become a fact of life.
Singapore can help just give us more space
why dont they grow dragon fruit instead even more valued fruit . rarely needs any water
because most trees takes years of growing before its mature enough to bare fruit
even if they tried to switch it will take many years before they break even on the costs
while in the meantime they still can't water crops and maintain an income
Kiamat su dekat
Timestamps 34 minutes 43 seconds! Look at this woman's wrists! What do you think those shiny things are made out of? She does not look dehydrated or starving! And if you see the car in the garage covered with the silver cover that's a Mercedes-Benz?
vietnam woman are so wise and also beautiful.
They should make water caches or underground reservoirs and rainwater collectors.... Desalinators should be used to clean fresh water..
Machines that can draw water from air should be acquired ASAP. Treaties with nations who experience typhoons should be made so that rainwater can be collected for them and delivered ASAP....
You ain't gonna dry Mekong river 😝🤫
Showing wrong map main land is Malaysia and showing it as Singapore?
“Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink . . . ” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. If we could find a way to desalinate sea water with a low cost.
nuclear fusion
If even half the people in these water stressed areas would make an effort to catch rainwater when it is available it would ease the stress on the ground water supplies and give it a chance to recharge. The man growing the shrimp and fish in Singapore could decrease his use of public water supplies even further if he caught all the rain water coming of his buildings.
Singapore is 50% reservoir. Yes he could capture rainwater off his roof, but I can't believe that'll help much with the water stress
@@ginsederp You'd be surprised how much water you can collect off a roof. I watched a video where they used an approximately 2800 sq. ft. rain roof they collected over 15,000 gallons of water from 2 3/4" of rain.
Now imagine 50% of the buildings in Singapore captures just 5,000 gallons of water per storm in a cistern and uses that water to flush toilets, for cleaning, or bathing, or industrial use like the fish and shrimp farm. This water is very clean with zero treatment and can, if stored correctly, be used as drinking water as well with little or no treatment. (many people use only filtration)
I don't think so? It's a lot of water in southeast Asia compared to Middle East they relay on sea to convert to fresh water much more in Asia
China wanted all the water to itself, so God blessed them with floods and typhoons.
One month later, now, other countries in Asia also face devastating floods. It's probably climate change. Not linked to politics or karma.
@@BlancOwly China built hundreds of dams upstream and stopping the flow of waters, if you in the fishing industry downstream then you know how devastated it is , at the mouth of the drought rivers connecting to the sea ,salt waters are flowing in land and river fishes are dead, field crops like rice relied on rivers and rainfall but many places are in drought, the whole ecosystems of natures are now ruined for the next generation and so on.
@@medialcanthus9681 the floods in coastal countries are from hurricanes and typhoons, not from upstream rivers and broken dams like in land of China ,
@@MaximusDC406 torrential rains
@@MaximusDC406 @Viet Boy Indian regime sends its madheshis into Nepal and in Sri Lanka they sent tamil LTTE hindutva extremists. In northeast bodos nagas lands they flooded with mainland indian hindus. They tried it in Maldives too and Mauritius coup to occupy African island by mainland indians today its out numbered by African in Mauritius. Like native tribes island called Andaman Nicobar jawarense tribes were owners but mainland indians were flooded and outnumbered jawarense. Likewise kashmir Muslims land flood with mainland indians biharis to outnumber kashmir Muslims and khaslitan sikhs lands broke by hindus and what not even Indian regime supported Myanmar regime against rohingyas case. And Malaysia Indonesia have British era hindus in Malaysia Indonesia if these both countries adopt Myanmar regime case to send back hindus to india will be return favour for rohingyas
Wow... I feel bad for the Vietnamese lady who travel 15 times back and forth per day on her motor bike to get water. Where’s the husband. I wish her good health. I feel bad for all the people suffering.
I thought those lawn sprinklers were inefficient.
Again I'm a very uneducated person! Survival 101 first it's breathable air! 2nd drinkable water! 3rd a food source
If each person plants and take care of a tree until it is full grown, that tree will help in rainwater absorption underground, replenish the aquifers.
What country is that in Asia
You mean that if whole Asia river dry up...??? Singapore sure die die die laa..hehehehe...Anyway, thanks for the great content...we should not overuse our freshwater..
Right.....
www.pub.gov.sg/watersupply/singaporewaterstory
Oh you don’t know we have 5 water recycle plants and another 4 desalination plant completed plus another desalination scheduled for completion this year? We have 100% self sufficiency by the time our 5th desalination plant is completed end of this year. But we still need to play nice cos desalination plant is more expensive than importing water from Johor. So ya we are going to die of water price increases if Johor turn tap off... so scary!! 🥺
@@ditsygirl5409 Didn't you know that water desalination would lead to the Ocean saltier. and saltier ..and eventually will kill all the Fish and anything living in it , imagine the sea surrounds Singapore has become a pure salty liquid with no more fresh water to extract and not a single Fish or algae could exist there , scary eh ?
Julius Vinh you mean if it kills the fishes, if it did Malaysia and Indonesia will be the first to complain already. If you think Singapore government don’t understand or don’t care like other countries, we check the water for saltiness periodically after releasing the brine to the sea to Ensure there’s no damage to surrounding waters. We always check and test if things are sustainable before deciding that desalination is workable here. If not we are just killing ourself in another way.
@@juliusvinh109
Scary ? More like scaremongering.
www.straitstimes.com/askst/askst-what-happens-to-the-salt-collected-from-the-desalination-process
That where a whole country must be vigilant and form their thinking unified on a country contract to sustain and preserve the minerals we need, also too live with it is out worth LIFE
Overpopulated! Overpopulated! Overpopulated! When are Asia going to admit they are overpopulated!?
Kids grow up in United States never understand this risks or issues.
Yes, somewhat true, but there are stories like flint and other small cities
Can anyone help me in understanding?
Let's say. Water is used. Then it evaporates. Then it rains down again.
How come we have a water shortage?
BTW. This channel has fantastic documentaries.
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Yet another question. Can't the Shrimp farm use seawater?
@luvin nana Thanks a lot!
Its finding ways to contain that water is the problem. Countries aren't building enough reservoirs to contain that water during rainy seasons. Deforestation is also a factor as trees can help form clouds through transpiration.
They need to dig swales, berm, rainwater catchment systems....Permaculture Rainwater collection system.
The headline is irresponsible!
Human life is about survival.
My worries for the future
guys, it is ALREADY HAPPENING half of the Brazilian - São Paulo state dams/water reservoir are below 40%. The pantanal region is on fire. The Amazon is on fire. The rivers are dry. In the arctic regions also there is enormous fires. The USA california along neighbor states are on fire. The aquifers are drying up due to excessive monoculture of crops (in my country case, sugar cane) they are making once a fertile soil, dry and sandy.
Too many people.
methane will proly wipe us out before then ( sigh )
Earth is under stress, it will fight back.
Get that pure water from Mother Ganga?
People should take water as precious and limited resource. Everyday i see people use it carelessly like it's unlimited. For me, really frustrating scene to see with knowledge that some people seriously run out of it. People take convinience over everything that it's already cross the limit.
Yeah like for laundry, people use too much detergent and throw the used water to wherever. Usually the housing developer creates a settlement without the water plan (where the sewer water go). And some people carelessly ignore simple thing like not turning off the tap water when they've already used it.
Yeah tell that to resort and waterpark owners...
@@astaridjatmiko8187 it's because upperclass household use automatic washing machine. It's not water efficient and costly. Even normal washing machines when dirt water is discarded we throw it right away awaiting for the sun to evaporate it.
If you're in a developed country, you'll be safe at least on water space, because the countries can afford to build desalination plants. If you're from a poor country, you're pretty much fucked. Next 20-30 years will be a weird time
@@romella_karmey to compare water waste on home usage in daily basis to waterpark is complete foolness.
I am literally crying when I see this video
Water is Life 💦
So she goes 15 times to get water isn't it cheaper to pay for one tank all that petrol
It seems to me that those who are concerned about climate change and its lack of rain should be looking at how the rain forests are being destroyed. From what I've learned they produce the entire weather systems that make rain. It's what I learned in school a long time ago and I know that the rain forests are disappearing at alarming rates. Weather changes have occurred since earth was created changed mankind's behavior over millennia and yes, some of it is manmade but it is NOT a carbon footprint. You can get to zero carbon emissions until a volcano erupts and everything you've accomplished is all for naught.
overpopulation is THE PROBLEM. quit having children just to throw into an oven of mysery, QUIT!
Ayy CNA don’t want to be rude but why don’t you cover a report for Singapore water is from Malaysia..
Everybody knows that.
Because of population explosion we are putting pressure on limited water resources. Durian like avocado require lot of water I guess we discourage farmers to venture on this fruit trees.
That is why SG should lead the way and introduce these affected places to NEW Water and in India's case NEW Cow Water also can.
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