Climate change is causing rising temperatures, extreme weather events and more and more drought. And, in this changing reality, everyone needs more water. Humans are competing with the natural world for water. What does this mean for biodiversity?
Fewer and fewer countries still have an abundance of water. The climate crisis, overpopulation and overexploitation are the root of this global problem. And, in a warming world, everyone is using more water: people, agriculture and industry.
In Germany, streams and ponds are disappearing, forests and soils are drying out. What does this mean for biodiversity? And how do people cope with drought in countries that have even less water -- for example, in the USA or Mexico? What happens when our water dries up?
This is a three-part documentary series. Episodes will be released weekly on the following dates:
Part 1: The fight for water - August 10
Part 2: What happens when our water dries up? - August 17
Part 3: Who owns water? - August 24
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Fewer and fewer countries still have an abundance of water. The climate crisis, overpopulation and overexploitation are the root of this global problem. And, in a warming world, everyone is using more water: people, agriculture and industry.
In Germany, streams and ponds are disappearing, forests and soils are drying out. What does this mean for biodiversity? And how do people cope with drought in countries that have even less water -- for example, in the USA or Mexico? What happens when our water dries up?
This is a three-part documentary series. Episodes will be released weekly on the following dates:
Part 1: The fight for water - August 10
Part 2: What happens when our water dries up? - August 17
Part 3: Who owns water? - August 24
#documentary #dwdocumentary #water
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst Water conflicts loom in the horizon. The cause is not exactly the lack of water, but the lack of management, and the lack of understanding of its relationship with the rest of the environment and life. Humans as species are totally joined to water not only as a necessary item to live, but to work with, trade, travel, food, etc. We live around rivers and coasts, lakes and fountains and some even say our evolution happened close to water coasts. What happens when waters dry? An example is what happened in the Aral Sea, or in the Chad lake in Africa. Whole cultures disappear, climate changes, hunger and diseases arrive. But what happen when there is water management? short and medium term we see benefits but sometimes long term our better and well intentioned intentions produce other issues, like species extinctions, changes in soils, salination..... the world itself is a close biosphere which understands its own management and the relationships been everything. Humans are changing this. Unless we find solutions on how to manage properly water all around many problems will arise.