Comments on: A World Without Water

By: M.j. Ollie

M.j. Ollie — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:05:00 +0000

You’re wrong, there is a water shortage. Only there’s no shortage in the western world, most of the time. I live in Holland. We are also beginning to experience problems. Our has the problem that sea water is rising making farmland useless.
Our waterfootprint lies mostly in products made in other countries, and for a great deal in countries which have water shortages. That is because the use of (ground)water in the western world (at least in Holland) is restricted through the issueing of permits to extract and use the water. This costs quit a lot of money. These regulations don’t exist, or are not being issued by government due to, for instance, corruption. There might be a permit for extracting the water, but you have to ask yourself if all the interests of the invironment and other users are being considered in the proces of permitting extraction. Clearly they are not. A factory like coca cola could extract something like 150.000 m3 of water a day (or week) doesn’t matter which. Considering the porosity of the ground (for instance in a course ground aquifer around 30%) This means for one m3 of water you need to extract all the water from 3 times that amount of soil.
If the aquifer is 100 m thick, you could pump from that depth (with industrial pumps that is possible) and with hardly any refilling of the aquifer, as is the case in for instance parts of India and Africa (or any other dry part of the world) drop for hundreds of miles around the well for several dozens or even a hundred feet. Precisely what these farmers describe. This can be simply calculated. Coca Cola will investigate if theyr production proces won’t be troubled by this, but they don’t consider the consequences for the locals. They don’t care.
70% of the worlds water footprint is agriculture, that’s true, but most of that in developing countries, the farmers use only what they need en will never use water they don’t have, they can’t pump that much up, it’s to costly for them. So the problems emerge where great companies are not properly regulated or controlled and cut in to the water cycle of farmers and other users.
so roughly 70% is farming 25 % is used by industrie and 2 % is used by households, such as in the western world. We have to limit our use, only for awareness, not to make the biggest difference in the world.
Companies can also be agricultural, but are always focused on profit, not “doing the right thing”. That is the problem.
Off all the water in the world, 3% is fresh water, and 90% of the fresh water is not (directly) accessible for drinking water. So there is really a limited amount of water available and we are greatly abusing it. And I mean, we the western world with our profit driven companies providing us (we don’t have a direct shortage, we earn enough to pay for it) with drinkable water.
But we do have a great issue at hand here for the coming generations to solve. That is worldwide.

I’m sorry to tell you like this, but you have no idea what you’re talking about.

By: Ivan Lee Dankewich

Ivan Lee Dankewich — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:11:00 +0000

I’m NOT EVER drinking COCA COLA again.Blaming the farmer that was thier 1st.

The farmers should sue them !!

By: jednme

jednme — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:02:00 +0000

We who are so lucky to live in Countries of wealth and with adequate clean water to drink, just take it for granted. OUR WATER IS RUNNING LOW AND THERE IS SO MUCH WASTED. Watching this video is heart breaking but very true. The horrible repercussions of lack of water is devastating. We must all work hard to conserve water and to lobby our govts to ensure that the water we use is taken from areas that can support the demand. As the populations grow the water is being taken from aqifers and many other means to support the demand. Something serious neds to be done to stop deforestation, raoing of the land and wasting of our precious water, so that our children and their children can enjoy the freedom to turn on a tap and there is the water they require. Without water the world will not survive. Mankind needs to be more vigilant and not just take water as our right to use, however and when ever we wish.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:33:00 +0000

and the kids get sick and die, so at rate they get born some are getting sick and die..its no as though they are falling into the sea…oh wait did you overlook that little issue about land ownership?

By: bob

bob — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:30:00 +0000

why own water? next water companies will claim they own clouds..

By: bob

bob — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:27:00 +0000

next you will be promoting eugenics..it doesnt matter that multinationals ar e wrecking the planet..oh no thats fine but some poor peasant ,,well never mind we can gas them

By: Winston Smith

Winston Smith — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:06:00 +0000

isn”t most of earth’s fresh water frozen in Antarctica?

By: donlars

donlars — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:11:00 +0000

You seems to think that all water is the same. Try drinking sea water for a few weeks… This documentary concerns fresh water.

By: Nandkishor

Nandkishor — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:57:00 +0000

This is the best for showing the school students as a teacher I will definitely show.

By: bo

bo — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:59:00 +0000

That is exactly correct… water being pumped and stored in reservoirs, put in plastic bottles for the stores, and so forth… and not being reintroduced into the ecosystem. One step further to analyze the ‘global climate change’ rhetoric… in particular, the ‘ice glaciers’ are melting and when cause the water levels to rise in the world, threatening most everyone. So… if the glaciers are truly melting, as the claim goes, you will have more H2O introduced into the system… and that would make ‘global climate change’ a welcomed event. Yet, they want to say that global climate change will be responsible for world wide drought… so what is the truth there, if any?

By: bo

bo — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:06:00 +0000

There is not a water shortage… it is being artificially created by those pumping the water into their reservoirs. There is no logic and consistency to the ‘global climate change’ rhetoric. Remember that they say the glaciers are melting away and will cause the water levels to rise? The idea is to scare people that many coastal cities will be threatened by this rising water… yet they also say that ‘global climate change’ will mean less water? Logically it cannot be both ways.

By: Justin Mars

Justin Mars — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:54:00 +0000

Has anyone heard of the new danger to the world ? They are finding it in lakes, rivers and oceans. Its called DHMO and it is very dangerous. Just thought you should all be aware.

By: Charanjot Singh

Charanjot Singh — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:04:00 +0000

great work vlatko……

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:26:00 +0000

supper visualisation

By: Oscar Sanchez

Oscar Sanchez — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:38:00 +0000

you are so ****** you actually belived what they said in that show that show had so many flaws it is not funny keep telling your self that maybe if you repeate it enough times you can convince yourself