Why is Arabia so arid in the first place? How much drier and hotter will it get? Before trying to change something old, *_KNOW$_* its prior history well. ©®Î$P® V$ DN∆ K$∆ V$ Desert Burroughs Well ©ome to the Future ™ today!

A nuclear power plant need water to operate if the water's all gone well so is the nuclear power plant

@@Madasin_Paine WTF? I am certain that the other three people in the world who live with you in your mom's basement, understand this group created nano-language, but if you are trying to convince, explain or even just communicate with people who don't cohabitate in your insular microworld, you are not getting your point across. "K$^ V$ Desert" = Potassium Dollar change in (space) Velocity Dollar (space) Desert. Sure, who doesn't understand that bit of enlightenment? You crafted your first two questions in basic English, but the drugs started creeping into your third sentence and became more prevalent thereafter. What are you trying to say? You could be a genius and I might agree with you if I knew what you intended to express. Let me take a stab at interpreting your final sentence. "(Edgar Rice?) Burroughs (reference to Martian deserts?) Well (a water source?) File copyright (or File come [that's a mixed signal]) to the Future (trademarked because it refers to "Back to the Future"?) today. Nevermind. No idea what you want to say.

Dehumidifiers right over the ocean

Solar dome oh lot sea salt.

Copying my reply to a similar question here. To my knowledge it just creates salt flats. The moisture is carried away by the same air currents that don’t allow moisture to gather there in the first place

@@bewertsam yeah but you can then mine the salt and sell the salt and the desalinated water is also sold.

@@jaridkeen123 My thoughts too. Also the evaporated water from the brine still has some value, it will still increase local humidity and rainfall levels a bit and so help local vegetation growth, which should firm up the soil and help prevent sandstorms.

@@decus9544 And even if it is carried away it can still help other areas

@@bewertsam moisture can be collected via high tech nets

2 Rs

Sounds like Permaculture principles at work! Awesome.

Wow,this is interesting,give me more information to follow up.Thanks

You better submit your project to king of saudi Arabia. We can use it for brine. Namh shivay.

Can you please name the place or project I want to know more thanks!

I've also wondered why people haven't continuously tried to innovate in desalination tech for the whole of human civilization. We've used various wheels: particularly water wheels, dams. But nobody thought of boiling the sea water then condensing it?! Nobody tried running the water through rocks and tried mimicking the natural process? I find this so odd..... Especially that we thought of digging miles below before we thought of trying to capture and process water in abundance that's directly infront of us 🤔🤦‍♂️

@@anneeq008 Desalination isn't complicated, but it's still too energy-intensive.

Try this: Drill a tunnel from Mediterranean Sea to Dead Sea (which is much lower). Fill the tunnel with hydroelectric generators. (And of course lots of fail safes.) Water evaporates from huge new Dead Sea (now alive), winds carry it west to Jordan's mountains. Rain. Huge amounts of green electricity. Jordan shares fresh water with Israel, Israel share electricity with Jordan (and sell it to everyone else). I first heard this idea in college when my physics class had a guest. Guy said he "ride shared" with other physics teachers, they worried at the Middle East's problems, then decided to try and find something that could be done. This is such a strange idea ... it might change everything.

Good luck teaching sir!

@@hamburgerham3057 Thanks, kids are the future in my opinion!! Oops just realized I already said that.😂

Wow we are indeed honoured to hear that! We will keep up with producing new and informative videos! 😊because #terramatters 🌍🌏🌎

No

You actually believe this is good? Bet you live in a city far away from any ecosystem you destroy

What Tickers to invest in? I am going all in.

Brime*

6:58: “it reduces amount of brine” - how can it reduce it without just making it more concentrated? It doesn’t make sense… they just extract water from salty water so the amount of salt left behind stays constant…

Thanks for the chapters! ;-) I hope you don't mind if we use them in the video? BTW: if you're interested in how to deal with water scarcity in the American West, we made a couple of videos about this recently. Have a look: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Ztyjgtd-3MDXnmg.html

that's true, but those 200L don't just disappear together. some of it can be re-used.

Understanding the problem so we can understand the solution. Regional mega drought in the southwest, caused by a lot of things but essentially more water is being used and is in one way or another moved out of the region then the amount of water that is re-entered into the region. Conservation has its place but it is not a solution to this problem. The demands on water will not abate without causing complete collapse so the only alternative is to introduce a new source of water. Drawing water from other regional rivers like the Columbia or the Mississippi or Missouri would only move the problem around, draining other regions. The only essentially inexhaustible source of water is the ocean. One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible. If I could explain my idea in an equation it would go something like. (seawater from the west coast moved inland + converted by combination geothermal/desalination projects = clean water and clean energy.) 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.

The fake royalty likes to look wise. He thinks because he has oil money that he is king 💩. What you wrote makes sense, it examines the engineering challenges. Certainly it can be done. One thing that could help alot, is how people use water, this could be much more efficient than it is now. Another problem is govt perceived control of all resources, the WEF has been working on taking complete control of all resources for 51 years so far, now they are accelerating their evil plans. You won't even be able to grow your own vegetables in your own garden without them knowing about it, and paying them for permission to do so. Remember, they are deceived enough by the devil to think that they own the genetics in those vegetables, and so, if you aren't paying them royalties on the ones that you grow, well then, with every morsel of food you eat, they will own one more little piece of you...until in their mind, they will own you completely. This applies to fresh clean drinking water too...

Sure, but the desert is nothing if not cheap real-estate. Finding land for these projects is not going to be a large problem for Saudi Arabia. Even the more heavily populated California has huge tracks of unused desert land that can be used to house such projects.

400 watt/square now ... Climate change will increase that number right? Will 500 watt/square change your calculation much?

Turn the Sahara into a rainforest. Captures more carbon than all the world combined except China produces.

@Chris Sigurdsson It's going well I guess. Weather is funky as always. Global warming is getting more and more obvious here. Stupid people going to the volcano with no proper gear and masks. People suing the country for making them do quarantine when they get here. Stuff like that. I really wished that a volcano would erupt so that no more airplanes could come, but turns out it's so small that it has no effect on that and in stead we get more tourists. WHY CAN'T WE JUST CLOSE THE BORDERS!!! Ps. How did you know I understood danish?

@@gubjorgm.2259 held að við tölum bara svo mikla dönsku við dani. Btw hæ annar Íslendingur hahahha

It will produce water much cheaper for sure but it will produce brine as well. It is just a total BS they can use the brine as it would cost many times more than producing water so it will be dumped back into the ocean.

@@litresdomines1356 var ekki að búast við annan íslending. Ég veit að við erum kent dönsku en nánast allir hata döndku og skil hana ekki. Ég er bara heppin að ég ólst up út í danmörku. Ég heyri oft að þau hata allt tengt danmörku og ég horfi á þeim og þau segja altaf "ó já ég gleymdi að þú átti heima þar. Þú ert allt í lagi" XD

Glad you enjoyed it!

You mean a video that *ignores* politics. It doesn't matter what you think it's a fact that MBS murdered someone knowing that the most corrupt US president in modern history wouldn't say anything. Your oil is your saving grace, always remember that.

@@phanCAbe dude...not cool

@@phanCAbe Your nuclear and missile is your saving grace. Always remember that.

Politics has a way of messing up a good thing. People are very similar around the word. It’s the politicians who cause the strife

This is really an interesting story, thank you John for sharing this with the community! It is really important to be aware of the water situation in your home country!💧🚰

Yeah in the Holland’s Maybe in Overijssel and the other inland provinces it comes from de ground

Except in the Caribbean municipality (the BES islands), where it's produced from desalination.

My uncle said it came from the sewer treatment plant in Amsterdam.

yeah, it's possible because your sea salinity is low.

vote Hochul

The primary remainder is sodium chloride (salt). It's not useful to break that down since there is little use for sodium and chlorine is poisonous. Also, current industrial processes produce a big excess of chlorine anyway. The good news is that you don't even really need to bother with breaking it down. All the freshwater just goes back into the ocean anyway eventually so you can just dump the concentrated brine back into the ocean with no ill effects so long as it is distributed over a wide area.

Do you need treatment facilities for rainwater? I understand that because of land scarcity you cannot store all the water you need despite the generous amount you get from rain. It's not possible to work a good agreement with either of your two neighbors, Malaysia or Indonesia, to get natural water from their dams. It's a non-sense that you get some of your water through desalination.

Check out the Salton Sea.

@@KingfisherTalkingPictures the main issue with the salton sea is that it got flooded once by accident and has been drying up ever since. If there was actually a way to replenish the water loss it would have been fine.

Good idea because under ground sources of fresh water will also increase.

@@KingfisherTalkingPicturesSalton Sea is completely different. Qattara depression project would have a permanent connection to the Mediterranean sea. The Salton Sea has no connection to anything and will eventually dry up unless it is refilled.

@@yggdrasil9039 The whole Mediterranean Sea would dry up if no Atlantic Water would flow in. We humans have the brain capacities to make all deserts on this globe green, but we abuse this planets recources to make local and global wars, and without war we destroy those already green parts of planet into deserts, so instead of paying scientists to develop ways to make regions habitable, we pay scientists to develop ways to make regions inhabitable. Scientists should stop work for those satanic politicians giving them orders to destroy this planets recources. They need something like hippocratic promise to use their knowledge only for healing and helping, never for killing and destruction.

Offshore windmills would pose danger to marine life - so, it would be interesting to know about the design created to prevent harming the marine animals. :D

It's worth a few marine lives

@@marthaelenacorral3042 I was talking about tiny little fans the size of a kids hand windmill that floats on the surface. The wind blows across them and they scoop up water into the air a few inches above the surface where it evaporates. They can't hurt fishes cos they are floating on the surface. However I have seen turbines that are built to go under the surface and have circular blades that rotate like a turbine engine as the tide comes in and goes out that have a hole in the centre that allows any marine life to flow through without getting harmed.

@@sharonjuniorchess Thanks for the clarification. :D

Isn't air above the sea already saturated with water vapor? If that's the case the droplets won't evaporate! It would only work in places where the air above the sea is dry.

You're not alone!

@@ranjitsharma5811 i was going to say that

Same

Yes, extremly easy solution. I dont know why they didnt build it earlier. Maybe using oil was even cheaper.

@@peterlustig6888 in the short term, yes In the long term, hell no

Indeed - this would be amazing! 💧🚰

half of Netherlands is reclaimed from the sea. UAE didn't do anything unusual

@@shahrukhkhan8307 it was a debacle because many didn’t finish construction after the 2008 financial crisis. It’s more about the failure rather than it being a new idea

I don't see why it wouldn't work. They are basically running a giant still that produces water instead of alcohol, and the sun is providing the heat. Seems like it would be pretty easy in the middle of the freakin desert.

@@avshockey6633 the problem is not that I would not work. The design is so simple that it's guaranteed to work. The problem is that it might produce way too little water, the fact that it only works during the day and the cost of construction. We will have to see how it fares.

Get some degrees or make a startup/business plan. Find make an efficient way to make your ideas reality. The truth is you perhaps one of thousands from billions of humans that have think of this at least once in their lifetime.

I like it roll their eyes all they want good idea

Engineers without Borders is a fantastic organization, though I doubt many of the projects they work on would involve such scale. They mostly focus on providing standard engineering services in areas of the world that might not otherwise be able to afford it.

@@adamhigh9888 sounds fun! thank you.

If your White & Western you’ll 100% be able to find a job in Saudi as in engineer. If you’ve also got a crackpot plan that nobody in their right mind would fund they’ll do that for you too!

@@abs6kader lol I’m going to be a process engineer and that’s where I wanna end up

You would like to see engineers work on less important issues?

Greenland blending in: Our water has build up 3500 meters above sealevel.

Ha ha..I see wat u did there..Fukushima water

@@oneshothunter9877 Im 100% sure it isn't 3500 meters anymore...

fukushima water

If you market it well, you might just run into a shortage of it. Fukushima water... A glass in the morning and a glass in the evening will leave you simply GLOWING!

I’ve answered this before. The main issue is the byproduct of desalination. Left over salt and how to dispose of it safely without destroying the ecosystem. People say, “well you can just use the salt”. Problem is, you’re going to produce more salt than you can use if every country starts to use desalination. I know this because when I was stationed in the navy for several years we would desalinate seawater on our ship when we ran out of fresh water in the Persian Gulf. We had evaporators designed strictly for that purpose. It’s also very slow and time consuming to make seawater drinkable. Another thing is, you can’t monitor and guarantee every country is going to follow safety protocols when disposing the brine and salt. I do know that if we don’t figure out something fast here in Western United States there’s going to be mass riots and millions of deaths when the water runs out. I’m in southern Arizona it’s hot, 90-118 degrees at least 7-8 months out of the year in my location. Several of our main rivers are drying up. It’ll probably be within this decade will start seeing a national emergency declared by our government that there’s no water for the entire southwest.

@@adammijares9222 Political will is the biggest hurdle to accomplishing big projects. Especially in California and after blowing $100 billion on a high speed train to nowhere. I think it is obvious to most people that something drastic needs to be done to solve the water problem and that conservation only goes so fare. I would propose to fund the tunneling part of this solution with a system similar to the Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund is a type of permanent fund called a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). SWFs are typical government funding tools. They consist of investments and assets that the government is not allowed to cash out or deplete. However, while it can't touch the principal, the government normally has the right to spend any revenue these investments generate on appropriate functions and expenses. Each state, California, Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and of course Wyoming could place a small 2% tax on the energy sector and use those funds to invest in Geothermal energy projects and eventually the aqueduct can link up to those projects. There are already over 800 geothermal energy projects in California alone. The equation for my big solution is (ocean water brought inland through large underground aqueducts + combination geothermal and desalination plants = clean water and clean energy). You are absolutely right. Riparian areas are lands that occur along watercourses and water bodies. Typical examples include flood plains and streambanks. They are distinctly different from surrounding lands because of unique soil and vegetation characteristics that are strongly influenced by the presence of water. Beavers are critical to managing these areas and they help to recharge the aquifers and make these areas drought resistant. Most farms in the US get rid of this habitat and turn creaks and streams into drainage ditches. If we reversed this by repairing these lands and reintroducing beavers those farmers would find that they will have more productive farms.

I think this would be worthwhile to do. It makes sense because we are boiling water anyway to generate electricity so might as well get two birds with one stone. Not sure how much water can be made this way though.

And now, as our planet is dying, we're finally seeing some more advanced technologies sprout

@@adriel1478 “We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me. The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are! We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” Plastic… asshole.”

@@jabariuswilliams9264 liberals are pathetic

@@jabariuswilliams9264 that is Carlin’s text.

@@laurafulop2486 text alone fails to grant the consumer the same experience... you lose his cantor and emphasis, his comedic intonation and delivery... truly the best there’s ever been.

Wow. Thank you for this interesting & informative local insight.

@@terramater you're welcome :) the 2019/2020 drought and subsequent bushfires were particularly nasty. For a bit more insight into Australia... we have some awesome existing water infrastructure projects like the "drought proofing" of South East Queensland and the Perth-Kalgoorlie pipeline, the controversial Tasmanian dams and Snowy River scheme, but we have some politically-popular, white elephant projects which promise to secure water too... the Bradfield scheme promises to divert the annual flood waters of North Queensland through the Great Divide into rivers that would eventually flow into the Murray-Darling basin. Another crazy scheme is to dig a canal from the Spencer gulf to the below sea-level Lake Eyre to open up an inland sea for more moisture 😅. Both are unfeasible and would be environmentally harmful (at this point), but they're examples of desperate solutions to people with a constant and desperate need for more water. What I find particularly interesting though is how our local Aboriginal people moulded and worked with the land and how even in the dryest of times, the artesian basins would provide. We have a lot to learn here :)

Lol, never knew 2020 can be positive considering all the other shitting things that happen.

@@htoodoh5770 we've been hardly affected by the pandemic here... only about a dozen cases in the whole region about a year ago. 2020 was a much better year locally than 2019... especially for introverts 😊

@@thripples1 I am sure it was pleasant for most introvert at least for a while.

Hi jebmak! Thanks for watching it! :)

You know that people--including kids--drank, at least, "small beer" (low alcohol) for breakfast, lunch, and (maybe high-alcohol ales for) dinner, all through middle-ages Europe, and especially England? They weren't smart enough to not urinate and defecate in their water supply, so disease was rampant, and even 3.2% pisswater lite beer has enough alcohol to kill bacteria. Yeast and grain are a tasty way to un-contaminate water. Three cheers for yeast and barley!

😁😂🤣

Please become professional comedian because that comment cracked me up xD

I prefer the distillation process and it always tastes like Jack Daniels

Same! 😁 Cheers 🍻

What you are describing is a dehumidifier and it used a signify amount of energy because it relies on a refrigerant loop

@@Art-uz3fk It’s solar powered, produces 52l/d to over 5000l/d (that’s $0.03/l) and it’s equipped with a disinfection and ceramic filter units. This is not your commercial dehumidifier, it was built to be scalable and sustainable.

Calling this green is really deceptive, and removing water from sea water will produce brine or increased salinity. It is more efficient but far from free! Just because someone else is paying does not make it free; it still requires energy to function. You can't get something from nothing!!

@@garybulwinkle82 There are very few places in the world where people drink water for free. In England I could catch, store and filter rain but there is still a significant capital cost plus on going maintenance costs, therefore, it is important to try different approaches. It seems that the effluent issues are still the biggest drawback.

@@garybulwinkle82 Saudi Arabia is the 13th largest country with the largest continuous sandy desert in the world. Also has one of the largest area covered by constant sunshine = solar power= free energy. It also has a leading company that produces solar panels. As for brine we could just fill some of the empty desert with it and make an artificial brine lake and use it for other manufacturing purposes.

I’ve been saying this for years. We need to get a storm water cleaning plant/refinement system setup. Maybe use some low laying land or old lake beds to hold the water. Otherwise it’s clean water lost to the ocean eventually

Smart idea

lets have water for the animals, as well.... no one is looking at this, and it is precisely the lack of respect and love for our native planet that got us in the mess we are in now... add to that the uncontrolled population.

@Dan Beech pump out salt brine as needed (probably once a week/ maintenance). Could be left in a kiddie pool type concrete pad to be dried/ scraped and collected. Or left in place and ocean water stopped pumping in until brine dried into salt and collected.. Or pumped back into ocean to help correct the low salt levels of the ocean

You can bet the more arid and thirsty portions of the country are hungrily eying the great lakes.

I seen a kid just throw a plastic bottle right out his window at a red light,we need to teach everyone not to litter , we already got plastic in our water and other Hazzardous waste .

@@rafetizer As a Canuck, I'd respond to your suggestion simply: "No." There are myriad reasons why, but I think the place to start is the unfathomabletomost size of the country. In my province alone, I can drive for twenty-four hours from the south-east point to get to its diagonal cousin at the north-west corner.

@@probitionate I'm not suggesting it, some western states have already tossed out the idea.

Living in the desert is hard for most of the people but ones u r used to it .... Its like living in heaven.

Lucky.

“How long have you had this tumor?” “I first noticed it shortly after I started drinking the lake water.”

@@regolith1350 true

our lake ontario is polluted as ever . Thank god for filters.

@@shmo3723 i live about 6 hours north of montreal. there’s barely any pollution in our lakes. specific lakes are crazy polluted, but most have really clean water.

@ Iguana Pete says; " The salt should be made into bricks to build homes " ! But what about When " The Cattle " come for " The Salt " ! 🐱‍🐉 🐱‍🏍

Move over lithium ion,sodium ion batteries also work.

@@gurugreat5663 What is the use in disposal? Wouldn't effort into recycling the batteries create a more sustainable and beneficial use for the waste?

@@gurugreat5663 Hot metal batteries are going to eventually put lithium ion out of business for large scale work.

Glad we could amaze you that much! 😊

It's interesting, right?!

Great idea! Would that be feasible is they pumped the desert with the brine instead? Pumping brine back into the ocean is SO NOT ideal *sigh* it can harm aquatic life

@@lili-ke6dp Yes, giving brine to plants can have detrimental effects and is generally not recommended. Brine is a highly concentrated solution of salt dissolved in water, typically used for preserving food or in industrial processes. While small amounts of salt can be beneficial to some plants, excessive salt or brine can be harmful and even toxic to most plants. Here's why brine can be harmful to plants: Osmotic imbalance: When plants are exposed to high levels of salt, it creates an osmotic imbalance. Salt draws water out of plant cells, leading to dehydration and reduced growth. It disrupts the plant's ability to absorb water and nutrients from the soil. Soil salinity: Continuous application of brine or salty water can increase the salt concentration in the soil. This creates a high-salinity environment that adversely affects plant roots. Salty soil can inhibit root growth and limit nutrient uptake, leading to stunted growth or plant death. Ionic imbalance: Salt contains sodium and chloride ions that can interfere with the balance of other essential nutrients in the plant. High sodium levels can disrupt nutrient uptake and cause nutrient deficiencies or toxicities. Toxicity symptoms: Plants exposed to excessive salt or brine may exhibit symptoms such as leaf burn, yellowing or browning of leaves, wilting, reduced fruiting, and overall decline in health.

@@lili-ke6dp this technique can be used to stop flooding of Florida and refreeze freshwater to save the Arctic

This technology is also a ecologically friendly solution 🌍 which is key because #terramatters

@@lenafromterramater3690 Did you mean "ecologically"?

@@lenafromterramater3690 Yes, terra matters. That was a smart 🧠 reply. 🤭🤭

Groundwater is finite, most places have it (or have had it) but it's easy to drain, never to return

@@planefan082 I'm not sure what the point is you're making. Every water source is finite, isn't it.

This is indeed alarming and there needs to be a sustainable solution for this issue! 🚰💧

There was one company in Mexico City that is selling a method of collecting rainfall and cleaning it in house to serve the needs of the property owner.

Dont be so optimistic

I live in Karachi Pakistan and I like your comment send 10 month ago

@@isakjohansson7134 I live in Karachi Pakistan and I like your comment

@@sayyamzahid7312 I dont know but i suppose you have had your nation largely destroyed by USAs military

@@isakjohansson7134 Pakistan hasn’t been destroyed by U.S. military. It may have been corrupted by it though. The Muslim nations of the Middle East are starting to emerge into the modern age and leaving the Middle Ages version of Islam behind. That is why they are able to start big projects like this. Countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan are still living in the Middle Ages and as long as they do they will not progress and continue to be impoverished. Afghanistan is sitting on the biggest mineral treasure trove in the world, but their hardline backwards Middle Ages version of Islam prevents them from taking advantage of it and enriching their people. In the Bronze Age Afghanistan was the primary source of tin. That country is loaded with mineral wealth. It’s like a poor goat herder living in a thatched hut on top of a mountain of gold. Ignorant fools now control Afghanistan. Sad.

We are sailing in the same boat😁

China is turning the gobi dessert into forest

You mean on purpose? Deserts are far from lifeless. They have quite the ecosystem and any alteration to that would spell certain doom to the indigenous life there. Desert life is perfectly suited for their environment and changing their habitat would be destructive.

I think it also is one of the greatest dream I have!

@@clintforest44 we cannot terraform all deserts into productive lands, but the Tabuk province (Neom) and Sinai in Egypt in perfect for new projects. If you look at a map of Sinai, it looks like a heart. Sinai used to be lush, but now it's a desert. In half a century I predict that rain will come more often in this region. Egypt is spending a lot of money to combat poverty and unemployment in Sinai.

Hi Becky! thank you for watching it!

Why do idiots ALWAYS support despotic dictators over scientists and doctors. Because dictators will tell you anything you want to hear, while scientists will tell you the often boring truth. And idiots don't have any time for the boring truth.

@@Poler777 bill gates is a thief and a business man. He doesn't do anything out of goodness of the heart.

@@arjitmishra100 nor do the Saudis 🙄

Nah, mr. Gates prefers to find more innovative ways to force windows updates to force you to change your computer every two years or more frequently. You really mentioned the wrong person here, sorry.

We almost need to sell it as profitable... Where as we don't do anything without it.

i see you didnt graduate.....jayzoos

If somebody did do that, he would be assassinated immediately, and his invention would be stolen and/or destroyed.

You are too kind! Thank you! 😊

Salt + Saltwater can be used to block radiantion from radioactive waste. So killing off fossil fouls for a mix of reneable eneergy and atomic eneergy may do the trick.

I belive it s the natural process in atacama desert in Bolivia. Actually the salt is lithium, which is a good business

What will you do with all the salt. There will be megatons of salt piling up everywhere. You can't put it back in the ocean.

@@edwardhanson3664 you think the mass of salt humans could extract from the oceans (and put back in) is significant to the mass already there and also added continually at vents? Besides, removing the salt via sea water and returning it is a mass balance, not an addition.

@@jaymacpherson8167 the eco system where the brine is put back in can be damaged

@@ChrisMuehlberger60 Right, so return it where damage is minimal. Many organisms adapt to the vents where plates spread. They will adapt where the brine is returned. There is a difference between blindly causing gross damage and admitting we are affecting the environment wherever we touch.

@@jaymacpherson8167 the question is how costly is it to pump it into areas where it doesn't matter

It would be really interesting if you could find out where the water for that complex comes from! Please share your findings with us, we would love to hear about it! 😊🚰

@@lenafromterramater3690 in the direkt surroundings of my City are two dams, which store the water for the four filter colmplexes.

Basically all water in Germany comes from rivers or ground water reserves fed by rain. Here in Cologne our drinking water comes from the Cologne Bay, a fluvial terrace along the Rhine river (which has its main source in the Alps) from Bonn to Düsseldorf, which contains a subterranean stream that is fed by rain and surface water from the Rhine river. It is naturally filtered by the soil and extracted via a multi-well system and processed in waterworks before it's being fed into the water network. Thank you for making me research that, I've never thought about it before.

@@littlerave86 Exactly. On top of that Germany has a well developed system of of cleaning and reusing used water. No system is perfect, and some regions actually lack water. But overall water supply in germany is really good.

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rivers get their water in the mountains. strong winters are essential.

@@rokpodlogar6062 Agreed. Good additional point.

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Not a solution. We already have this with or without solar panels. It still creates massive waste and is unfeasable. - Reverse Osmosis would be the safest, but the most expensive way.

Can the waste heat from the Nuclear plant used to produce fresh water? or the power generated itself needs to be used for production?

Because what could possibly go wrong by putting nuclear power stations near the ocean lol..

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Because it’s expensive to maintain solar arrays or mirrors in the desert. It’s easier to just burn the excess methane that comes with the oil. Don‘t get me wrong that this is bad for the planet but please don’t think that the saudis simply didn’t think of the sun.

@@StephanBijzitter yeah but they can do it the whole year minus a very few cloudy days. That was my whole point.

@@kreep182 solar panels and mirrors will need constant cleaning from dust, doubt the cost will be worth it.

@@Jack-he8jv yeah good point. Never thought of that. This method would definitely have high maintenace costs, but I dont have a clue how they'd stack up against the costs of water purification.

@@flintube2622 I mean if a country like Morocco can build and maintain the biggest solar plant farm in the world in the desert, surly a country 6times richer with the same number of ppl like saudi arabia can do the same and more.

Hi Jon! Thanks for sharing your experience with us!

most Americans anyway dont know whats happening around the world.. you aren't alone

Lol I saw this in some film where the guy was lost at sea and had to use evaporation and condensation to drink

This has been known for centuries you silly man. It has only been possible recently due to efficiencies in cost and technology. Even then it is expensive and very harmful to the environment.