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- Extreme weather has parts of North America burning down, melting away and drying up. Heat waves have been fueling dozens of wildfires raging across the western United States.
The flames are also being fueled by dry conditions from North America’s ongoing drought. In the Klamath Basin along the border with California and Oregon, farmers have no water for their crops. The drought has pitted them against native tribes who have historic water rights.
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Just wanted to say as an American that I LOVE these Deutsche Welle videos. You guys are so much better than the majority of anything I see from the major news outlets.
I agree, but sometimes their coverage is exaggerated for the same affect, to capture emotions. This story they've blown out of all normal proportion, and conflated water issues in California and Oregon, which is factually incorrect.
竹島は，歴史的事実に照らしても，かつ国際法上も明らかに日本固有の領土です。
韓国による竹島の占拠は，国際法上何ら根拠がないまま行われている不法占拠であり，韓国がこのような不法占拠に基づいて竹島に対して行ういかなる措置も法的な正当性を有するものではありません。
日本は竹島の領有権を巡る問題について，国際法にのっとり，冷静かつ平和的に紛争を解決する考えです。
Yeah....another Yank who watches DW for the news!!
It would probably be a good idea for people in the United States portion of the Californias to listen to people that lived there for a long time before them.
In a completely unrelated matter, an Asian entity named "China pha" is upset about a land dispute between South Korea and Japan and seems to be "venting" here. haha
100%
The craziest aspect of the situation in U.S. is the GIGANTIC amount of food the country throws away annually.
They dont say that these farms make up a tiny percentage of our agricultural though. Also, horseradish and mint? We could live without seeing it again. The central area of America is full of cattle, chicken pig farms. I hate to say but if we lost all ag from Washington state, it wouldn’t affect America. Also, unfortunately we do waste but it’s because we have so much excess. People are only frugal when there isn’t enough. BUT the government always bails out in these temporary situations. We dont like losing farms over a two year natural disaster
@@amazingsupergirl7125 the spring wheat crop is considered now a complete loss due to global warming. This drought goes into Minnesota as well - maybe a third of crops otherwise will be lost....
give it to the poor, find ways to use it, and keep the surplus if crop failures or other unseen problems occur.
what u dont want is 0 overproduction in food.
good luck, from austria.
Amen to that. I hear people complaining all the time about the high food prices while still wasting food. It's estimated that the average household in the U.S. throws away 40% of food due to spoilage and waste. Americans buy too much and complain they have nothing to eat in their pantries. They stock up on food stuff from Costco and Sam's to the point the food is not used beyond its 'best used by date' then it is thrown in the trash. Since the great recession I have been developing a habit of buying and wasting less food. Taking a few weeks every couple of months to use nearly everything in my pantry and fridge before stocking again.
Even with the shock of high food prices it's been easier for me to adapt and economize because I've learned to buy less over the years and appreciate and use what food I already have on hand.
P.S. Most Americans could use a diet and eat a little less anyway.
@@amazingsupergirl7125 It's not a two year natural disaster, it's an ongoing 22-year mega drought across the western U.S. Do you live in the western U.S. ? If you have, you've not been paying attention.
Unfortunately, these folks are fighting mother nature and she always wins.
humans stupidity wins
mother nature has had enough of humans....like covid, u got droughts and wildfires. u got floods in other areas, u had texas freeze over u had mudslide/landslides in other places. mother nature is gonna get rid of the cancer she has been putting up with.
2 days ago. 07 28 21 At nytz in my room did I said it shake the ground under an earthquake if u know what I mean even in text I did say or said it on text my fone weekly text gudday 07 pray
You speak as if humans are an entity distinct from nature and fighting nature
@@RavagHer
You speak as if humans are an entity distinct from nature
Native Americans “we’ve lived here for thousands of years and we take only what we need”
People who’ve live there for 3 generations “this is our water so we’re going to take as much as we want and if you try to stop us we’ll fight you!”
Different attitudes. But farmers generate profits. The tribes help maintain a liveable plant. One of those things always gets priority.
3:27 Scott needs to learn about the sunken cost fallacy. And choose whether he owes something to his ancestors or to his children. Can't be both.
It’s an excuse to do what he wants.
His children will inherit a desert
"Nothing like that will happen to me" said every person ever.
Just the willfully ignorant ones-dragging the rest of humanity _down._
Meat farming is not sustainable. It uses to much land and fresh water. I feel for the Native American. If we had adopted their views and respect for nature we might never have created this catastrophic situation.
Industrial farming of anything in the southwest USA is not sustainable, not just meat.
These farmers don't get to dictate to the gov't. The gov't, both state and federal, built those canals and waterworks. Hire a water lawyer, fight for your water rights, but threatening violence is just going to end bad for him.
At least they could try their hands in hydroponic tech?
Because from what i gathered
You can make a water efficient system with a green house
Water waste from evaporation can br avoided if the green house can be sealed
Even a Unsealed greenhouse can conserve water much better than a normal outdoor environment
It will also lessen the need for pesticides because it is sealed or a bit harder to enter
You might say that normal water dont have the useful nutrients needed for the growth of plants but that can be fixed with Aquaculture, fish will produce waste that is useful for plants and this will give the farmers access to another way of making money
Over all Outdoor farming will be relegated to small porch farms with the waste little
And many farmers using Stacked farms to produce more food in a smaller area
true
"We're gonna have to forcefully take it" yeah that's what you've been doing. That's why it's gone. About time for that "bend to my will" mindset to die off because it's only screwing us all over.
Like what’s he gonna do? Take his gun to the water plant?
@@amazingsupergirl7125 oh he'll do a stand ups alright. You just wait. Totally going to stand up and force the government to use HAARP and alien machines to make the waters do the wets for whites. You just watch.
@@amazingsupergirl7125 Building pipelines for water instead of oil/gas or use the later for the former ^^. Take from poor regions, maybe even other countries, what the US needs by force. Wouldn't be the first time.
As the drought looms Barona Casino trucks thousands of gallons of water a day up the mountains for its big golf courses and casino. Doesn’t matter if there is a drought the mega rich can get away without water conservation.
Things like this need to stop.
Hoarding life essential natural resource should be taxed.
@@thephoenix2115 In some places trucks doing that would be stopped, and their contents would be emptied.
@@JA238979 Barona Casino Sovereign Nation entity are lawless
Agreed, Nestle is draining wells to make their drink, why don't they colaberate with Corporations to Desalinate Seawater?
There’s an old saying in the west: Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.
竹島は，歴史的事実に照らしても，かつ国際法上も明らかに日本固有の領土です。
韓国による竹島の占拠は，国際法上何ら根拠がないまま行われている不法占拠であり，韓国がこのような不法占拠に基づいて竹島に対して行ういかなる措置も法的な正当性を有するものではありません。
日本は竹島の領有権を巡る問題について，国際法にのっとり，冷静かつ平和的に紛争を解決する考えです。
That's only if there is any water to fight over.
2 days ago. 07 28 21 At nytz in my room did I said it shake the ground under an earthquake if u know what I mean even in text I did say or said it on text my fone weekly text gudday 07 pray
5:15 I wonder how he's going to "forcefully' take water. This is the essence of the primitive raiding instinct. We don't have what we want, so we are going to steal it from others by force. Things don't exist in isolation, btw. If you take that water today, it may have an impact that means everyone has even less next year.
Greedy farmers are big part of the problem.They dont care if they ruin the eco-system, they only care about the money... like there is no tomorrow
@@hipsu555 don't be naive. Everyone needs money to survive. You make it sound as if those farmers are multimillionaires or billionaires. Most are just barely making by like 95% of Americans in general.
Of course they care about money, and so do you and I.
@@jponz85 excellent said
We are currently dealing with a water issues here in BC Canada as well. Sorry but not the natives can't dictate how much water is used to help them pillage salmon. WHY because they don't they shop at Walmart same as you all and cry cry my indigenous right la la la.. enough already there worse than BLM
Mad Max world is coming
One side of the world is destroying by water.. another side without water 😢😢
It's because of the melting of the arctic from global heating. It weakens the Jet Stream and keeps it locked in place for multiple weeks. That way some regionsnget too much heat and others to much rain. And from tye south come the hurricanes who get more energy from the warm seas and tye warmer air can take up more moisture. All this will get MUCH worse over the next decades. Infrastructure will be destroyed faster than you can rebuild or repair.
@@pcuimac this is mostly hype info, the floods are a natural process that happens cyclically. We should definitely be more mindful as humans though.
@@apotheosisofarose1425 no.
Inequality
Yup it gone upside
Unconsciousness and the waste of natural resources for many decades are the cause of this tragedy due to water and the war between farmers will be inevitable.
I grew up in the Klamath Basin, never thought I'd see it on German news.
With such a distrorted view of reality.
Hello from Oregon!
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems Hello!
@@nuqwestr Distorted how? Matches well with what I've seen with my own eyes.
DW does a good job reporting what is at hand and having various involved parties have their say about it.
You can't farm in the desert.
Most of California is not a desert. How do people get this idea. But there isn't enough water in many parts, especially not for the level of intensive farming.
The richest 10% of the world's population are actually responsible for most of the CO2 emissions. Those with huge cars, who fly very often, and who consume a lot of everything. Yet, the poor are the ones that suffer the most from climate change. Less inequality is what the world urgently needs. Less inequality would help us tackle the two biggest problems humanity faces, poverty and environmental degradation.
Your "Jerimiah" is laughable, and as predictable as human behavior that will ignore it.
Don't forget the US military, which pollutes more than most countries combined.
Africa and india aren't rich but are the biggest polluters.
@Delray Beach Yes it can, Buckmiinster Fuller said 20 billion would be fine, but regardless, same scientists predicting climate change say population will level off at 9 billion, which is sustainable, and in fact, necessary.
World needs less people not more equality.
Not us permaculture farmers....doing just fine with 15,000 liters of water, ponds, and hugelkulture.
Yep but tell that to ranchers and chemical based farmers n they can't deal with it. Thanks for having a brain n growing great food
@@russelmurray9268 thanks. The funniest thing is....we live in a city, near downtown!! Our water storage is broken up among 110(?) liter barrels under our back poarch and basement. Got the design from a 1972 (71?) Mother Earth News issue. Have the first five years in mint condition. Great historical asset to any permi.
How are you using permaculture to get water?
@@jamessang5027 called "capture and store energy"... Rooflines are great water collectors, 55 gallon barrels played in the right locations make water storage easy, and hugelkulture makes watering not necessary. When you think "rooflines" you need to be a permi and look at ALL rooflines: cars, trailers, outbuildings, ect.
@@bruce-ruhldesign168 Thanks for the answer! I've been recommending that the farmers subsoil plow their land to capture the rainfall!
Did I understand it right that the farmers want to take the water from the Klamath tribe’s land by force?
Sounded to me that this is what they wanted to.. To leave their children a desert with no lakes or rivers..
It seemed like it. It's those rotten apples that ruin it for everybody else. We have to get rid of people like that.
Yes sir that's what he said.
Well, it's the european tradition, they did it some time ago, of course they would do it again.
Yes that is what they said and they are going to leave their children a desert . it takes 600 gallons of water to produce a gallon of milk
Cadillac desert, book, by mark reisner. Hydrology engineers knew about this for decades.
Will look at this. Thank you for the suggestion
KM Hemmans The TH-camr
Not the same place, not the same issue and DW has the context wrong, and you know it. the Central Valley of California will have to get water from elsewhere, and yes, that's been known for decades, and planning for it is in place.
@@nuqwestr It's pretty close to the same issue. If you look at where the continental divide lies between north and south, you will notice that a large swathe of southern Oregon, the Siskiyou mountain region especially, drains into the same water channels that are being talked about in California. The bypass aquaduct that takes water from Northern California and ships it to Southern California, in essence, steals water from Southern Oregon, without paying a price for it. Now, I will say, that issue is not the same as what the rest of Oregon counties are experiencing. Oh, wait, mismanagement is exactly what people are experiencing. Well, that and climate change.
@@nuqwestr 'Cadillac Desert' addresses the California Water Projects, both the state and federal systems. There is simply not enough water coming out of the Sierra snowpack. You can't squeeze water from a dry sponge.
Alfalfa is one of the least efficient crops to grow in a desert. It was one of the highest evapotranspiration rates of any crop. Its fed to cattle. It's a waste of water.
@@romanmanner Agreed, at least you have the context correct, DW did not, nor did any but you and one other get it correct. We will adapt, 2019 had a record snow pack in Sierras, and why even liberals don't want to take down Hetch Hetchy, no way to predict the future, so hard to make plans, it rained here in Los Angeles last night.
LOL "it's our water". I think the people who rely on it for drinking water will disagree.
DW had it wrong about water being the issue related to the fires. Water is an issue in the West, but not in this context.
@@nuqwestr damp forests do not burn down
@@Pyrochemik007 Neither do forests not stressed with disease. In my local mountains the combination of smog and insects make them extremely vulnerable to fire. But it is not the end of the world, and humans are not a deadly pathogen on the planet. I thought that when I was 16, but at 66, don't think that at all.
@@nuqwestr The insects overpopulation are a combination of several factors, all of them caused by humans.
1) A bit more heat means the larvae in trees do not die to freezing.
2) Insecticides incidentaly decimating bird population by attacking their reproduction, which is the only predator these insects have.
3) Forests planted by humans, monocultures of the same age. No young trees which would survive natural calamity and keep the forest going.
4) Slightly warmer climate which makes the trees weaker to insect damage.
5) Less moisture kept in forest, as middle and low vegetation is not existing in these forests.
6) Melioration and other effects removed water from surrouding area, thus there is no local rain, returning the evaporation back into the land. Water gets evaporated and blown away instead.
Farmers whining for lack of water. Same farmers drying the land using the worst agricultural practices ever created.
Thank you for finally putting it out there
That is the truth that has to be known more
Mid-europe and east-asia is drowning, north-america and middle-east is burning and drying.
Nordics are growing grapes now
Whole world is a mess.
Why have a newborn on a doomed planet?
@@javierfernandez1126 Finland is not just a worlds most happy/cleanest/stable/uncorrupted/trusted/best4kids/best4women/list goes on... But it is most likely one of the last countries that will survive. It's has massive amounts of 100% renewable freshwater sources and no need for irrigation in farming. World leading wildfire control and planning (US is asking us help). Apart from strong winds, there are no other natural disasters in Finland. So I have 4 kids in this country that is the only country in europe with increasing birthrates.
@@Redfizh Fair enough. I just wanted to know how someone who is aware of our impending collapse would bring a child into existence. I wish your children a great life with as little chaos as possible, even though I don't think a country in the world will remain stable (for a start, Helsinki is at sea level and will definitely go underwater).
@@adfr3d470 I do not see that in the stats I google.
@@Redfizh don't count yourself lucky too fast. Who knows what climate changes has in store for you
Seems they could seriously do with some of that German rain.
Contain it, bottle it, sell it back.... Most of the rain here is in part in contribution of droughts on other places, the world is one, it is connected. Like the butterfly effect.
i read online, from a few different sources that to produce a 1/4lb beef burger it takes 2000 litres of water and if you have a burger with cheese and bacon then it takes 3000 litres of water to produce this.
Maybe it's time the world cut down on burgers, especially in the USA?
The USA is tens of decades away from having this discussion
If you cannot rear cattle on natural grass alone, then don't rear cattle.
It means Africa will be invaded
Meanwhile McDonalds is having record growth in Europe and negative growth in the U.S
Humans the only creatures to spend more energy on their food than they get out of it. This cant end well.
If they just take what water they want now, there will deffinatly not be any for their children when they take over the farm. The reason for global warming is due to humans , yet some of those farmers act like it's the fault of those trying to regulate the usage
California had record snow pack in 2017 and 2019, water is an issue, but not in the context of the fires.
The American way is to never take responsibility and always blame someone else.
Normally China or Russia, I am suprised they haven’t been blamed for this by hacking or something?
Those farmers are plain ignorant.
@@billjane5522 oh but also reject all pragmatic solutions to your problems, because _freedom & democracy_
"In the short term, there is nothing we can do about climate change" brutal honesty.
It might be easier for the farmers to let some of the land lay fallow, and the government pay for the lost of the year. The whole agriculture industry will have to practice water conservation more rigorously.
Why should i pay from my taxes for the farmers lost...that is COMMUNISM ..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And i left a communist country to come here in USA..!!
@@bogdan78pop do you know what communism is? It's the working people controling de means of production.
So, your example only works if every taxpayer gets a share of the farm.
Taxpayer money being used to compensate lost crop yield is the opposite of communism.
Then it'd be easier for me to buy land in the basin, leave it be and wait for my govt paycheck
I agree. The government does it every year
@@bogdan78pop the government saves farms all the time. It’s nothing new. We dont want to lose farms over a couple years of drought that’ll eventually end.
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
Wonderful reference to Mad Max: Fury Road.
Ever since I took my first breath, I've been addicted to air...
@@chaosXP3RT in a other side, the average american citizen is one of the most thirsthy citizen of the world
Any famer who don't care of the forest never be able to crop ,water is forest's blessing
What do you mean?
Humanity is unsustainable.
non-whites are unsustainable and should be abolished.
I am not surprised that the tribes have been disregarded. Disappointed but not at all surprised.
"insulated from climate change"... Did he just say that?? Instead of demanding from the us government to stop messing around and decisively fight climate change? You deserve to be lacking water man
That Lui Uri is the kind of arrogance ,and ignorance you get from a typical Nort American.
Fossil fuel uses should be limited
Mono-crops are exacerbating the situation for farmers in America. I've read an estimate that the crop states have less than 40 seasons left before the nitrogen in the soil is so depleted, they won't yield a harvest. That has me worried, a lot of the world is fed off that land..
Nitrogen is not a problem. We have fertilizers. We literaly make nitrogen fertilizer out of air. And oil.
It's the animal industry that is using to much water to produce meat. 600 gallons of water to produce a gallon of milk. Meat should not be produced. Only vegetables and fruits are the only foods we should have been producing
The problem here are not mono-crops. The problem is large scale intensive farming. Too many farms, too much water used.
It has been a tough year on Canada’s west coast, so many wild fires .
It has been
In Manitoba too.
Really, how many?
So what? What food is grown there?
Yea we saw there’s heatwave
Those farmers are too selfish to think only about their families legacy and their own farms, when the ground water is a resources that could take thousands of years to replenish and they just pump them out like it is their own.
The "right" to farm a natural desert. 👌
most of California ist not a desert
We know it takes 1910 gallons of water to get you a pound of beef. If you can’t go plant based, at least start eating other animals like sheep or chickens that require much less water.
The beef are big
So are the people
Nobody has any business farming in the middle of a desert. They are growing rice, and corn, and almond trees, and wasting massive amounts of water in the process. I am horrified by what is going on, and I’m immensely saddened by how many lives are being destroyed. But if you want to farm, go to the Midwest, and let the people living in the desert have their water. The states should have been on top of this issue many years ago, but nobody is even freaking talking about it.
Americans love dry areas...Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Tunisia...
You.ll become it soon enough...
this is in California.... uhhh. a place that ISNT suitable for farming. i dunno why anyone is surprised. California was settled for gold. not for farming crops. so... yea... next time do your research cause the rest of USA has no issues with crops
Now how has Tunisia made its way onto this list?
@@diegoaespitia there are many areas in US affected by droughts besides California
@@leob4403 if u mean Arizona, New Mexico etc then yes... but what's ur point. those areas are deserts
@@diegoaespitia colorado, dakotas,wyoming, iowa, nebraska, kansas etc
Indoor vertical hydroponic farms and aquaponic farms can recycle majority of the water with two to three times more yield. And practicing regenerative agriculture can restore the soil and refill the aquifers.
yea cost to much not enough profit
It's not climate change it's 100 golf courses in the desert.
It was perfectly sustainable under natives...
Yes, and they also lived in stick and leather shelters, had no agriculture, and regularly died from the common cold. I'll keep my internet and pizza delivery in the 21st century, thanks.
@@richard7743 comfort and death
@@richard7743 lol you're weak
Not true, many came to the Western Hemisphere and failed, there are lots of abandoned sites, and people who were unable to sustain existence prior to the arrival of Europeans. What you assert is a myth.
@@nuqwestr Sad to say but Natives don't evolve, it's just their nature. 10,000 years later and they use the same tools, no evolution. Humans are supposed to evolve past growing thumbs, you do know that, right?
2:04 ... this tree was not burned it was "liberated from its restrictions"
I like the way the fire just leaves the trees unburned.
wild fire just races through and then gets blown on very quickly natures way of clearing rubbish
if only man would do this things would be better
Did us pay carbon tax for such huge emission?
No
American food is so cheap that so many huge women and men are appearing in the USA. You can see more in the tv
Uh, there's a reason water is being regulated. Without it, these farmers just take what they can get and that's gonna be much worse for their "grandkids' future" that they do care about
" I'm not willing to roll over on this. " Refuses to change and adapt to resource reality.
This is why I live in SE Alaska where it gets 160” of rain a year . Living in a highly populated arid region is ignorant AF .
_Summer has been living here for more than 20 years._
Of course? More than 20 years I should think.
The American farmers are hopefully thoroughly educated on the impact of the use of water (climate wise) and understand the full impact of farming. It triggers me when anyone states that it's their 'right' to do anything whilst totally disregarding the impact of their work - be it farming, mining, drilling, foresting and so on.
saying that 'muricans are thoroughly educated about anything except selfishness is an oxymoron.
The irony that the remaining water is used for putting out fires...
The irony is DW has captured your mind with this exaggerated story that conflates issue out of context.
It's not that ironic. The ground cover is the only thing that holds the water table together. The more loss of ground cover, the less total water your system can hold. Rain doesn't mix with completely dry dust and clay. It will create erosion and loss of habitat, natural is or human.
@@nuqwestr Who are you? What exactly is out of context? The people or the situation?
Food prices will be going... up. Soon.
2 more months until i can grow vegetables in my backyard again (Florida)
Summer is mango time.
@@CHMichael grow pasta. Can't live off vegetables alone.
They are already up...
Probably not. Dont forget the massive agricultural in the rest of America.
Actually here companies are shrinking goods so prices remain relatively the same
it was 2 month without rain in Latvia, now started to rain, it is blessing
It is not "their water".
The water is not owned, it circulates all across the globe.
US condemning Brazil for burning amazon forest but doesn't reforest their own territory after destroying its natural habitat
This is California. a dry place to begin with. essentially to farm there you have to divert rivers. Burning rain forests is much more different than say trying to farm dry land and being surprised when it doesnt work well.. LOL think before u comment
@@diegoaespitia yeah imagine sucking up ground water in a already dry place for agriculture
@@diegoaespitia This in the video is Oregon. But it is the same down south of us.
Water is a finite resource. We’d best recognize that fact. Maybe less beef?
They don't have any "right to farm". If there's no water, there's no water.
You don't have a right to eat either
$50 we see actual water wars on the west coast!
Read The Water Knife.
Buy water with that $50
@@DSAK55
Buys $50 of ammunition
There have already been "water" wars in the West, and adaption to the historical dry conditions, we don't go extinct, we adapt.
Nah I don't think so.
biologist studying this using 40hp outboard!? Why he doesnt use canoe and paddle? This is blatant disrespect. he could at least put on an act for the video.
😁
The original people of the Americas warned Europeans to respect and to live in harmony with nature. What do European Americans do after they completely drain the lake? Pack up and abandon the place leaving behind a lake dustbowl?
There are many "abandoned" "original peoples" sites that pre-date European arrival. In fact, there were "waves" of "original peoples" who came and themselves disappeared. You are mythologizing, creating a fantasy that did not happen.
@@nuqwestr The western mind is drunk on science, has polluted the world through its abuse of science. The original people of the Americas didn't impact nature enough to create global warming and have nature spring up and slap them in the face.
@@errantball2012 Yes, that's the myth, and the complaint, that rationalism and empiricism has robbed men of their soul. I've been hearing that now for 50 years. I live because of "Scientism", having almost died from a blood infection cured by it. I'm all for balance, and wish you would take that view, too.
@@nuqwestr There is nothing wrong with dying either. It's natural. What is unnatural is the Western mind's extreme fear of dying.
@@nuqwestr Focus on just the history of Oklahoma, it's not a "fantasy".
When you drive around anywhere in California. The home gardens are very healthy and the sprinklers are working just fine.
Floods, heatwaves, drought, and all in food growing areas. I am worried.
good to see the nature strikes back - fast and with system
And farming that scale NEVER should have been done in a desert. The greed of their fathers is coming home to roost! I hope an Almond orchard and dairy farm close every day
it looks like americans never heard about water desalination...
Not feasible consdiering how much is needed.
The short term solutions are so frustrating. They need to return grazing herds to the plains. It will begin the procession of habitat restoration. The moisture and nutrients from the feces in these massive herds is needed for that land to remain as soil. Several grazers, each with their own niche, used to roam that land, it was fertile then.
THIS THIS THIS THIS
The world is changing quickly and we have to adapt fast.
Nobody adapts to a gas chamber.
@@donutemptycircle8717 There now is a possibility to desalinate water and bring it inland at reasonable cost.
Why are people not talking about how the groundwater is NOT limited. It is getting depleted. Why are they not talking about Allan Savory??
Montana State University website estimates 30 inches per acre applied on one acre produces 6 tons of alfalfa. USDA estimates about $250 a ton for alfalfa in Oregon. So about $1,500 is produced from 2.5 acre feet of water. Or $600 per acre foot. Cost of water in MWD is roughly $2.55 / hcf (hundred cubic feet) for a single family. 1 acre-foot is about 436 hcf.
So an acre of foot can be used to grow alfalfa and earn $600, or be used by single families and earn $2.55 * 436 = $1,112.
Why wouldn't a farmer just sell the water and cash out?
remove the golf courses
remove the lawns
remove water intensive crops such as almond
develop an arid oriented economy like that in the mideast
adapt, or destroy the future of the west coast
FACE IT ,WHAT CROPS DO WE NEED MOST ??
CAN TRACTORS RUN ON ELECTRIC MOTORS ?
WHAT ABOUT TINIER VEHICLES ?
DO WE NEED COWS , PIGS , AVACADOS ?
Not one Golf course goes without water
Ever !
We have no water shortage here in Ontario, we have about 1/5 of the worlds fresh water here.
Essential to all not only the tribes.
I live in southern New Mexico and we've had a bit over Three inches since last October 2020, its snowed twice and that is it. No rain here at all.
Our ancestors; What you sow, you reap! Said...
Not a hedgerow in sight
That's funny.
Nor Hedgehogs, birds, insects, wild animals, butterflies, bees. Without wildlife and the underground microbial world we are finished.
It's the water and land you stole from the local tribes and their fish species. Farming is not sustainable At that intensity there.
Frustrating that they don't provide PLACE NAMES. What town is the protest tent in? What is the name of the lake? etc.Just nice to know.
Bad management and outdated agricultural methods combined with heavily populated desert terrain make for a disaster.
Meanwhile in Asia floods are rampant.
The water had to go somewhere...
The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution.
Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions
tis not about farming, it's about commercial farming see the different?
All farming, which is not done for recreational, hobby purposes is commercial farming. Whether it is one big corporation or a bunch of small farmers, they all use recources. Your garden or green lawn in arid places ads to the problem.
This year Europe faces the highest level of drought 🌡️☀️
um is this a repost? i literally watched this yesterday. or is dw just copying other news now?
Yes, they are stealing clips from PBS.
It uses some clips from earlier videos but adds other material to look at the problems from another angle.
Instead of a day wit out a mexican a day wit out water🤘 take that people of America🤘 Go Natives👍🤘
A quote I remember was "WW1 and WW2 were fought for land, WW3 will be fought for water".
Can't remember who.
I couldn't care less about the cattle...they are largely responsible for global warming. The wildlife though, just heartbreaking.
Whats with that soil, kinda looks like desert?
Water belongs to the lakes rivers and the nature. Farming in many places are unsustainable and unreasonable.
The native nations have the ancient rights from the historical reality. Agriculture by irrigation is abnormal under the circumstances. Regards.
why dont they install lots of sprinklers on the area were wildfire always occur so if wildfire will rage theyll just turn it on
Look into Native American forest management
House burnt down, but the barbecue grill still stands. :D
burgers at the ready
Farmers should experiment with wick irrigation. A deep post hole packed with wet paper for the first plant in the first row.
Had a similar problem here in Australia 3 years before decent rain. How bad you ask well it was so bad even non fire affected gum trees were just dieing.
They need to learn to use the water more efficiently. Drip irrigation etc.
We must concer about this issues.
THE OWENS VALLEY WATER WARS! the OWENS VALLEY PAIUTES HAVE BEEN FIGHTING THIS FIGHT SINCE 1863..