Chile’s government says a critical water shortage brought on by the longest drought in history is much worse than thought.
There are fears it could even be permanent.
Experts say the country is now facing an unprecedented climate emergency.
Al Jazeera’s Latin America Editor @Lucia Newman reports from Coquimbo, Chile.
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Yet most people don’t like you.
They should stop selling their water to China under the table or in the closet.
Such is life on planet earth
Solar powered desalination is the future for many places in the world.
You could not create the energy required from solar to run a desalination plant, it is too energy hungry. This is why desalinated water would be 4x the cost of what people pay today. There would be riots in the streets from the poor who could not afford water to survive.
@Gaming Tonight Sure.. that is exactly what would happen in a libertarian utopia.
@Gaming Tonight Wrong, markets will provide
@Gaming Tonight Your ignorance on the subject is astonishing. Solar power is power and of course businesses including industrial businesses like desalination plants can be solar powered using solar covered parking area.
And desalination tech has improved greatly over the last decade so no, it would not be 4x the cost either.
please don’t!! This is madness
Drill deep down,there is an endless supply of water below MOST of us all…we’ve been lied too!!!!!!
@dubplateriddim correction
Reallist pal…1000% facts
Many aquifers around the world have already been used without replenishment. Nearly as many have been badly polluted. Aquifers take thousands of years to replenish naturally.
You’re not the first to think of using them.
@dubplateriddim I only speak.facts based on real facts proven by many and with my own eyes. get out there and drill a well or 2 anywhwere..endless water
And yes its weather is 10000% factually controlled..usually ppl that parrot the TV mind washing machine just comment with that statement and haven’t done an ounce of research or witnessed it first hand!!
@ M M agree w U 1000% .. no way can NASA scientists be thinking of tera forming Mars & not know Earth ‘s weather is being manipulated 4destruction2implement global control of land resources & all life
@MIZZ MOZE you need to replenish aquifers…please go back to school or get a tuition fee refund
Pope Francis has to come to Mexico and tell how they imposed Catholicism on our ancestors is part of the Spanish colonization
Pope Francis has to come to Mexico and tell how Catholicism was imposed on our ancestors Aztec eagle 🦅🌞🦅 de Guerrero caballeros
And what has that to do with drought? Pick your battles a bit more intelligently.
@Gaming Tonight well, if god exists this is solely his fault
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the difference between 1.25C (where we are today) and 1.5C is actually an increase of 80%!
You could get rid of every human on earth and the temps would still go up. It’s because of the sun’s natural cycles of heating up and cooling down
Man made global warming is as real as unicorns. CO2 makes up 0.4% of the atmosphere and humans contribute to THAT 0.2%. Every other planet in our solar system is warming up as well and it’s because of the sun’s natural cycles of cooling down and heating up
Australia is currently getting a year’s worth of rain in one day, leading to terrible flooding. Southern California’s drought has meant food production is down 60%. Same with Chile, same with many other places, leaving World Food Production down 14% in 2020!
California has over 100% of rain in the last 6 weeks. Oraville dam literally turned back on.
Northern California and the Sierra Nevada have record breaking snow and rain, the reservoirs are filling with runoff to be sent to the rest of California. You’re a little out of date, maybe gaming too much.
@Kim Jong Skillz It’s *Oroville,* and the dam isn’t “turned on,” the outlet gates are partially opened to release some of the water into the Feather River and Sacramento River downstream.
@Kingsley Kester Sadly to Say…..as in Animal kingdom…..the Strongest will dominate and kill the weaker… As Nature intended…
@Sralaine 007 o-007 Shame. You are living on a stolen land. Have you thought about that? Europe is your ancestral homeland not the land of the so called Australia. Remember, that evil that Men do live after them
Everything is in dire shortage in the majority of countries such Latin and African countries.
Earth is a planet not an island
The actual problem is the availability of infrastructure that can extract the resources available not the lack of them. Too bad a maniacle cancer called nato is spending its time destroying as many attempts for people in the global south to build themselves out of their misery
@albert einstien Correct diagnosis of the illness. Short sighted to blame “NATO” rather than the corrupt global capitalist class that buys up and appoints politicians to do its bidding. But, of course, it’s easier to blame an existing body than to think big picture and to rightfully blame the rich and powerful in our own countries
Bussinerman pillage.
Saqueo empresarial. El calentamiento es politico
Reroute the ocean water for crops after purification and use the salt for meats or table salt
Do you have the money to do that?
Sadly the cost is still too high and the efficiency limited. There are many people working on this type of technology there might be some breakthrough eventually.
Pump seawater to the salt flats, let evaporation assist in raising moisture levels
@JAMSAI De Melo of course you have to treat the sea water to get out the salt and other minerals.
@JAMSAI De Melo Wikipedia,
Salar de Atacama is the largest salt flat in Chile.[1] It is located 55 km (34 mi) south of San Pedro de Atacama, is surrounded by mountains, and has no drainage outlets.
@JAMSAI De Melo But that is a long-term solution, with limited impact. Farmers and people need water now, desalination and distribution through all means possible as well as environmental conservation and major changes in agricultural techniques. We need to apply multiple solutions as soon as possible.
@Pedro Henriques that’s freaking stupid.
@Perry Pelican they deserve insults. Since they had forgotten their father’s belt lash. They need discipline and to shut up
What, a water shortage in one of the driest countries on the planet…..
Well I never seen that coming 😂😂😉
End of the World scenarios…next World War Iii
Improve water preservation. Desalination plants should be avoided as we move from problem to another. Instead work on water preservation, plant more trees, and etc.
I think you’re missing the point, we need all and as many solutions as possible to mitigate these problems.
@Jesse Wetherell these problem were exacerbated by corporations and us. We are going to destroy the ocean/sea ecosystem which why i try and avoid desalination
@Dav S I understand, but at this point, we need to put all our cards on the table.
“To govern is to foresee” water management and water production have been ignored for decades by most developing countries, everyone is waiting for global solutions that will never com.
How true you are
Take your mask off dum dum. stop living in fear
Climate change is a b*tch, isn’t it?
We’re the water planet !! It’s in the ground . But their gonna charge us ..😔
i agree . but the “they” those who have the technology to wage silent weather wars ..who profits fm Chili’s devastation .. those who want to own Mother Earth .. & control all the Humans creatures plants water air etc etc .. hmmm 🤔 now WHO could be so Alien w AI tech .. N W O control freaks is my guess
This world has many scientists as you can see in the comment section.
Cutting edge technologists,offering their solutions to mankind.
Purify ocean water as someone else said then use the salt for another resource. This is very simple and will work till another solution comes about. Take California it is right beside the ocean this could be easily done.
These are the last days and times. The winter’s will be like summers and the summers will be like winter’s. There will be drought, famine,war, death, murders and pestilence.
Yes. World is heading towards an apocalypse and a collapse.
Thats interesting. I am so bored. Want to witness world war. World war 2 was so long ago 😪. Please use nuclear bombs. Why build it if you never gonna use?
learn from China! 40 years ago, China Gobi has a place called Hai Gu Yan, and according to UN, it was inhabitable because 9 out 10 years it was in drought and no rain. In the 70s, China gov sent a guy and started to turn the place into an agriculturable land. The guy paid 4 villages all workers to remove the rock underneath and it took 3 years… today, it is a 10,000 hectares of vineyard and the rain comes back.
China has water to green the desert. Chile does not. Imagine what would happen to china if the glaciers in Himalayas dried up? China has millions upoon millions of extremely water dependent crops, they couldn’t live like chile.
@Sepilok Fui What is the government guy’s name? Was it his idea? How does removing rock bring rain?
Funny if they had a dog shortage then u can see they are low on Chile dogs 😂
The result of planting tropical fruits in the dry subtropical climate.
The eradication of the Amazon in Brazil is having a major effect on rainfall in South America as well.
Search an alarmist title for a video.
could devastation be planned weather war❓control❓rural people off their land❓a solution cited here is “social discipline”❓hmmm
..used to get best grapes & produce fm 🇨🇱 Chile 🇨🇱 🙏🙏🙏.. hmmm . many climate change global warming posts fm this channel but not seeing any good solutions .. hmmm 🤔.. esp when NASA scientists are planning to terraform Mars & weather control technology is known fact .,
@Kawakeb Astra what?
Hello global warming 👋
In country where I am from this year they had 61 degree plus ! Traffic lights melted away
20 years ago it was about 45-48 at peak summer days
I am really really scared
South Iraq? Rural Kuwait?
Which country is that hot?
Build underground homes.
@UnstoppableEmpire small country in Central Asia at the Aral Sea 😓😓
The surprise is it wasn’t declared permanent before. Chile is mostly desert. They need to capture water from the south. This planet is dying.
dying planet is a psyop so Elites can use human’s to sign-up for “10 year stints to terraform Mars w no guarantee of returning to Earth” i heard a NASA scientist say the in quotes part on USA radio 4 years ago
Large projects by multinational companies are culprit…let people live the way they wanted to live
Did you miss the part of where the glaciers dried up? No glaciers, no water.
Learn from 🇮🇱
Isreal and palestine
Use HARP You know weather. Chen trails to produce cloud and rain 🌧 kinda like what they are doing now around the world Duh
HAARP was shut down a long time ago, some geo engineering has been tested the most likely to be used is the salt water cloud seeding, conspiracy clowns use fear to get clicks
@OG Sky Watch hun they know how to produce rain 🌧 stop playing.
80 % whole our planet is water only need school learn from Israel desalination solar energy this no problem in fact creat jobs technology so government working firstly problem is tiny bc 21 century learn Israel 2000 years drought miss management land Sahar change in to green by water desalination from sea
Oh God of mercy please send them a peaceful rain to revive their land 🤲🤲🤲
If Only God Can hear you… but the Rest of Majority in human Population still deny GOD Existence…
…. That’s so sad….
@Sralaine 007 o-007 show me proof then
0 allah subhanahu wata alla give this land our bros and sisters in chile and also my bright and beautyful somalia and remove the satan evil terorists
Is chile rainfall generally low? Like their country is so huge but they cant find a source of fresh water? Im from the philippines and our country is like 2.5 times smaller than chile but we have 6.5 times more people but we never had water shortage
Ask israel how to do it. They created something great from a desert that was always a desert. It’s not impossible. You just have to go at it as if there is no choice.
yeah thats one solution i think the problem is the infrastructure needed to pipe it everywhere Israel is a very small country Chile could pump it to the local cities seems it would be a massive project to pump it to or over the mountains
@OG Sky Watch I am only suggesting to seek help where there was success. Israel is small but they managed to irrigate it. Many said it was impossible. Those who were there before didn’t even try. If it was done there on that scale then start small and get water to one place and many will follow the method. You have to start somewhere. Whoever starts will become the leader. Do not make excuses. Israel was no easy task especially because everyone around them was hostile. They had heart and determination. They had no choice, just like in Chile. The older ones will run to peru and other places. The younger ones must fight to rebuild. Do not allow the politicians to destroy a beautiful land with bull talk. Do not allow to be taken advantage of. It’s an opportunity for Chileans to become strong by rebuilding as a team.
at the end of the day nobody does anything
except pass laws to control & restrict people while big corporations keep their pollution going big time
The answer is to stop breeding and consuming to give the planet a chance to heal. There no chance we will do that.
Desalination plants would help
Desalination plants (basically turning seawater into fresh water) have come a long way and would probably be a good solution.
@Akk91 Exactly! Desalination is like putting a bandaid on a decapitation victim. Unless corporations are stopped from abusing the environment, climate change will continue & NO amount of desalination will be enough.
@wtf_ usa Corporations will stop when people will change their lifestyle. The sales of 4×4 suvs are increasing, people travel always more by airplane, people purchase always more cheap stuff they don’t even need on Amazon, people purchase always more fast food delivered by uber instead of cooking themselve, and the list could go on with hundreds of examples. It’s easy to blame corporations, while not doing a single effort to change their own lifestyle
@Kings Dan Desalination is not feasible for agriculture. It takes up too much water and the technology is no where near that capacity
The braindead mentality of fixing things once they are broken. Focus on climate change not droughts caused by it
@TheOneGeneralMunch Your way of thinking is also stupid. Going on one extreme isn’t better than going on the other extreme 🤦♂️ We will need to adapt to climate change no matter what. We do need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. However, the Earth is naturally in a warming cycle since the end of the last ice age so even if humans didn’t produce as much greenhouse gases and accelerate climate change, the glaciers in Chile would still disapear eventually and require humans to adapt to it. His idea of desalination plants is not very good, as how would you pump water from the ocean to the Andes??? It is not possible without wasting a lot of resources on it.
Most of the water is always underground. Surface water evaporates.. this is a planet of plenty of water… total lies about water drying up and running out.
Surely the free market will adjust for this and solve all our problems?
Grow coke we need it now
So I could see hydroponics being beneficial and reuse that water
Lucia Newman always does a good job
Totally false news
Isn’t Chile rich enough to build desalination plants? 😕😞💦
It is on the edge of earths biggest Ocean after all 🌊
What about the water utilized for the lithium mines?
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Why is that funny?
@krnpowr because in this era of weather control wars .. could be created or reversed .. & yet everyone’s buying into climate change agenda programming
@Kawakeb Astra weather controlled? Reversed? You’re deranged
Less water with an increasing population is a worldwide problem. Fewer people on this planet might be the only solution to the water shortage.
No ice peaks on the mts? Then it’s gg already.
Nice knowing you Chile.
Geoengineering
“Global warming is a hoax created by the Chinese to make American businesses less competitive.”
– Donald J. Trump, POTUS 45
There’s an agenda to dumb down the world’s population, and it’s working. Instead of doing our own research we believe everything we are told. Once in a while they come up with something ridiculous like man made global warming to test our intelligence.
That’s what they get for stealing the sea from Bolivia
Somebody left that valve in the thumbnail in the “on” position. Might want to turn it off and save water.
Water is now more expensive than Bitcoin….in Chile.
Build desalination plants
STUPIDITY OF Human GREEDINESS and Clueless about Greenhouses Effects and Global Warming problems….
Scientists have Warned but the Governments of every country Refused to Listen…..
Now look What happened Around the World 🌍🌍🌍
The climate crisis is non-linear, exponential and abrupt.
We Need to Creat awernes about Water Crises in Future 💚.🇵🇰
its a lie
glow-baal warming lmao
It’s too late, Carl Sagan called for a united effort to face this challenge, 35+ years later we are nowhere close to a united front, and exceptionally stupid political leadership all over the world, just enjoy the show.