What If The Southwest Runs Out Of Water
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2023
- What If The American Southwest Runs Out Of Water
The American Southwest consumes a staggering amount of water. With over 60 million inhabitants, tens of millions of acres of farmland, and massive manufacturing industries to support, a steady supply of water pumping into the region is crucial for its survival. But what if I told you that the entire supply can run dry? Well, It’s true.
You are criminally underrated, I must say. Very well informed - wish more people were this way
For the US, the 21st century is really shaping up to be the Century of Lessons Learnt
We as a society need to really start thinking about better ways of farming, and in my opinion, cattle should be largely phased out by slowly reducing government subsidies to the industry and giving these subsidies to more sustainable farming. Here in Australia, we’re having a lot of the same problems that the south-west of the US is having, if not worse, as there’s just far less water to go around. For example, massive amounts of cotton are grown out in the outback, bleeding the Murray Darling River dry (Australia’s largest river). Also, we still have one of the highest rates of deforestation on earth; I believe it’s the highest rate for a developed nation, thus worsening the effects caused by climate lastly we’re literally shipping our water away as a massive food exporter making every day there being less and less water available in australia.
But thats the thing, there are people with the solution, with key. Yet our voices are over shouted and are often straight up ignored. The native population that has lived in the southwest for years years and years, already practice using as little as possible. But no one wants to listen to us because they feel ashamed or guilty and think we are gonna blame but we just want the land to return to its natural health.
I don’t understand why we can’t make huge reserves of lakes (like the old Californian Great Lake) that supplied so much desert with an abundance of natural rainfall and gave Utah its own series of massive lakes.
Desalination on the west coast, Las Vegas water conservation and water recycling system, and huge reserves on the high rocky mountains to evaporate enough for rain water to slowly trap more water inland where there’s no fresh water.
Loss of ground water also means that surface water will be sucked into the ground. Due to the lower water table falling below the river bed, drawing in the surface water to recharge the water table.
damn that sucks..
(me who lives next to the Great lakes and many smaller lakes in my state)
It's almost as if your shouldn't build cities in the DESERT
Was this area not desert before the USA was formed?
People would move, i think. Unfortunately, they would probably be moving closer to me.
2:47 This is Florence de-hydrated. Taken out of context, it would be weird
This video is a good complement of the video by Geography By Geoff, i recomend all the viewers to check that guy out!
Good video.
Grew up mostly in agriculture areas (outside of the southwest), but now live in the southwest (not on lake Meade though) . . . The agricultural methods of irrigation in NM particularly are a huge issue. Where I grew up we used sprinklers, in NM they use FLOOD irrigation which is the least efficient method of irrigation. If NM and all the other southwest areas would ban flood irrigation it would make a huge difference. . .
A lot of the issues ARE mismangagement. For just the Rio Grande. . CO and NM are required to let a certain amount through which they have failed nearly EVERY year. The mismanagement and selfish behavior is so bad that NM has occaisionly INTENTIONALLY redirected the water from their dams to unused land (not agriculture) just to spite TX and so they could lie about amounts in the courts. Now also one of the largest TX cities on the Rio Grande doesn't treat and reuse waste water. . . they just treat it and send it down the Rio, yet are one of the most vocal about lack of water and ABUSIVE of neighboring cities, counties, and even states. . . Their water company has bought land in other counties and states with different aquafers to start draining. . . This same city also has one of the worlds largest desalination plants, but ONLY does ground water with it instead of pumping in water from the coast.
Our town has been fighting like crazy for decades to get a real sewer system and public water system and have hit MANY corrupt road blocks in the form on certain people in the congress and senate denying funds in favor of their donors (despite giving the same funding to other areas). We have also suffered from the theives and leaches of that large city that tries to piggy back on our work even though they basically have their own congress woman who claims she helped us, but never did anyting. . . We are giving up on it all, it is just too corrupt in this area and impossible to improve anything. We are moving back east in the near future. The blatant corruption in the SW would make the most corrupt "good ole boys" of the south blush and make the mafia and unions in the east look like teddy bears.
On climate change. . . models show the southwest should be getting MORE rain, not less. . . but that is "models."
Am Curious how much domestic farmers take from the ground water. Rather than just focusing on foreign companies.
Also, consider that very few Natives lived in this region for a reason, it's not the kind of area that consistently gets water for many centuries. It was only properly colonised when the Americans took over and we know that 1000 years ago a major drought happened that led to Natives dying and many fleeing the region. We may see this happened again with colonisers, and these colonisers are using the water far, far more than the Natives ever did.
Humans are a non-native species to the Americas. There are no 'Natives' just for your info
In fact, there is already talk that the so-called _Rust Belt_ may experience a major economic revival. Reason: plentiful easily-processed potable water from the Great Lakes. Don't be surprised that the area around the Great Lakes experience an economic boom as people realize that's the best place to live in the world of climate change despite the potentially fierce winters.
Lol. No. That's not a good reason.
There's still plenty of room for more people here at the convergence of our continent's two great rivers. ;]
Informative video! And great editing!
What if the Southwest was all lush green and had lots of bodies of water?
1,588th viewer of this video!
Shut down all off the stupid golf courses.
Well, California's effed if the title turns out to be true
I have the solution, as Me how to produce fresh water, Me, I know the anwser.
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The world is screwed. We have less than 100 years to find a suitable planet for migration before the end of times here on earth. Stephen Hawking’s prediction.
American Southwest? You mean Chile? You should have said the US Southwest
Both coloniser states, it's irelevant. And Chile is also going through a megadrought
No, he meant what he said, which is the Southwest Region of the USA/America. Southwest South America (Chile) has nothing to do with a video on the American Southwest.
@@riksmith874America isn't a country but a continent
@@MattUK36There's one country on the planet called the United States of America that goes by the United States or America for short.
Despite the outdated stupid view you inherited from your Spanish colonizers when they were still unsure what the Western hemisphere looked like in full, there is no one continent called "America."
There are two continents called North America and South America. The first word in each are not simply descriptors, but a part of the name of each. You are not an American, only citizens of the country called the United States of America can properly be identified as simply just Americans. Look to the example of the United States of Mexico properly referring to their citizens as Mexicans. Everyone else can be identified as North American or South Americans. Americans are properly known as Americans and North Americans.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588sure mate, using your same childish, disrespectful manners, following that absurd, pathetic logic the folks from Switzerland, Norway or Ukraine (just to name a few countries) are not european, because they are not in the European Union, which has 'European' in the name. And again, following your stupid logic, that unalterably means that they can't use that term to refer to themselves.
By the way, ever heard of the Olympic Rings? Any idea what they mean? Do some research, dear US American friend and quit annoying with your inane moanings. Cheers