No longer as easy as turning on a tap for more and more people water our most Precious Resource welcome to made. Theres a reason earth is known as the blue planet the majority of the globe is covered by water of course around 97 percent of it is so order i mean it to a hospice said is freshwater but much of that is locked away in ice soil and the atmosphere that he bore of it is highly polluted or too deep underground to be extracted at an affordable cost just how tough a percent of all water is readily accessible from lakes rivers and aquifers water scarcity its one of the most serious risks we face and the problem is growing. New deserts are emerging forests are drying up and were still wasting water. The regions marked here in dark red are places where waters extremely scarce and sources are drying up pale red and orange indicate areas where water scarcity is only slightly less critical. Delhi in india the southern part of the city. Water tankers supply poor neighborhoods but only come once a week. If. The line is like water is so scarce some mornings there are so many people you would think theres a fair on everyone is struggling to fill can see that there are arguments fights even accidents water is our biggest problem of the well and we wish they would fix taps on all of our houses just like theyve installed electricity on within the. Delis main water supply is the moon a river but there hasnt been enough rainfall so its water level is low. Problem in delhi today is the availability of clean water. A lot of work has gone into cleaning efforts. Or progress but there is an urgent need to address the issue of making more water available. Is taking place rapidly and with it the demand for water is rising just as fast as we get a government. In germany water is also becoming an issue. U. S. Based electric car manufacturer tesla is planning to build its european factory in brandenburg outside berlin once its operational it will consume millions of leaders of water every day. Water levels in this nearby lake have already sunk due to a series of hot dry summers the water at this point in the lake used to reach us moderns waste. He grew up here on lake strauss say. The prospect of the new test the factory where you see him. We have to assume that Climate Change will continue and that there will be less rainfall and increased evaporation theres a vast amount of water consumption on top of that the water level will continue to fall as it has done in recent years its likely to drop another few metres the ferry will no longer run down no one will be able to swim in the leg and bird breeding grounds will be destroyed. In the state of north rhinewestphalia theres concern about the Drinking Water supply at the gills investor waterworks to thoughts on this that we understand the situation is fraught called for selling some of the lowest water levels since records began as a result of the past 3 dry summers gets placed talking. Sorcha going. Theres a slight improvement on the way but the rain from the past 2 months isnt enough and thats why the needs to be a lot more rain a little humidity in the fire. Water is all part of the fun for tourists on the island of bali and as tourism grows so too does water consumption. Bali residents are getting worried about their Drinking Water supplies. Its all because theres a shortage of sweet water we need to keep that within our system we need to keep it on the island we need to retain it push it into the ground and use it here where we need it the most valleys villagers have to travel long distances to get fresh water the next clean water is an hour walk from where this woman lives around the world to 2000000000 people face huge problems when it comes to access to clean water leave it in a locked measuring morning i go out to fetch water. For Drinking Water at home i fill up a lunch container. I always bring the does he come. Water and wash them every day at flight that. They have enough time to go to the water so several times a day to fetch water back home. What would Global Solutions look like one key aspect is utilizing waste water its rarely treated in india but recycling it could ease demands. Absolute water start up came up with an organic innovation filtering sewage water through plant matter and sand in their system break down any toxins in the water digesting them into harmless components and converting sewage into Drinking Water. The whats important thing is the operational cost which. It. Being. We are not subject. So therefore the cost is the lowest so all in all its a full sustainable. System and it is. Already underway in germany as well where farmers are turning to crops which need little water researchers say Climate Change could make the long hot and very dry summers of recent years a permanent fixture that could lead to conflicting demands on water distribution the Farmers Association is already highlighting a potential flashpoint. Competition for water will increase for those relatively minor parts of the Agricultural Industry which use sprinklers meaning fruit and vegetable farms we need water for irrigation and obviously will have to weigh up the benefits of say watering garden. Machine usage showering. Cooling water and washing up water and ask if we couldnt use it better to produce food for us the world needs investment in water pipes on bali aid organizations have stepped in to help villagers are also footing a share of the costs in projects like this where water will now be pumped up hill from the source to the village. When i went to new zeland in 969 everything was just so like heaven. It got home was not it to have cold water this beautiful and. Everything was kind of all right so so i thought well why couldnt i improve the situation over here so i do it in the state doesnt do much for infrastructure here its the same as in many countries around the world. Hot and cold Running Water a beautiful thing i never really thought about it though it industrialized countries like germany nobody really does things are very different in many other parts of the world where people can line up for hours just to get a few leaders of the precious stuff industrialized nations play a role in that scarcity as well thats because we eat large amounts of products like beef which require a huge amount of water to produce even if it isnt a media apparent heres a breakdown of what some things cost in terms of h 2 o. What is virtual water. Lets take jeans as an example it takes around 8000 liters of water to make one pair thats 53. 00 bathtubs full how come growing the cotton uses most of the water its a very 1st the plant if the rains fail cotton fields have to be irrigated. And if the cotton is to be spun into jeans it also needs coloring rinsing and bleaching that pollutes a lot of water. Virtual water is the unseen water that goes into the manufacturing of our product. Nearly 19000 liters for one kilo of coffee 184 liters for a kilo of tomatoes and about 15000 liters for one kilo of beef. In a country with adequate natural Water ResourcesHigh Consumption isnt a problem unless of course a lot of it gets polluted but in many regions water is scarce or supplies have been depleted by producing certain goods the water level in the aral sea has dropped 18 meters because of irrigation in cotton fields its turned parts of was back you start into a salty toxic waste land. Tomatoes are cultivated in the parched reaches of Southern Spain using water piped into enormous greenhouses. And in brazil where theres a shortage of Drinking Water the countrys huge coffee plantations are never short of a drop coffee is a major export for brazil. Europeans import beans water guzzling goods and by extension all the virtual water needed to produce them seen from this perspective someone living in germany uses free 1900 liters of water a day slightly over the global average but cooking showering and laundry make up only a small part of that most water used here is a virtual water hidden in the products around us. So it takes 8000 liters of water to make a pair of jeans and they use so much more washing them over the years staggering numbers that pose some serious questions like what should water cost who should provide it is it morally acceptable for companies to profit from selling it to those who need it most of schmidt went to talk with the woman involved in a project the us has issues like that she thinks to fix the problem you have to hit people where it really hurts their pocketbooks. Sophia Maria Schmidt is a professional musician and a student of economics who thinks a lot about water. Pipes must shorten the price should go up until it hurts a bit once to december simply to. Make research is water related issues the United NationsResolution Says there is a human right to safe access of all and affordable war to. Conquer the problem is that there is competition for the use of water if we want to introduce a basic right to water we have to consider which sectors which people are to enjoy that right we can identify 3 Major Players industry farming and private households which has priority who has more of a right to and who are less private individuals also depend on farming its a very complex problem and we cant simply demand free water is a basic right i wondered ask if you think that overall the world wide water is too cheap. To believe is never to have compared the United States and in the us water consumption per person per day is almost 300 liters thats a huge amount in germany by contrast its 122. 00. And then compare the prices here water is twice as expensive as to im so if the price is too low we waste water and thats exactly whats happening in the us. Meat is involved in a project to attain adversity in frankfurt that focuses on water and its Sustainable Management worldwide they hold events and have invited representatives of nestle to attend the swiss multinational faces a lot of criticism for bottling and selling groundwater and for generating vast amounts of plastic waste. And again you for some teaching persist. Sponsored by necessity is that a conflict of interest this is a feeling that there are many things to criticize but its very important to engage with corporations its all very well for academics to develop ideas but you can only achieve something if you Work Together with industry we should certainly view nestle very critically but we also need to talk to it and find out what it can contribute. To most of us and thats kind of this little fountain has dried up schmidt says sources of water around the world are going dry so they need to be maintained in a responsible fashion by the public and the private sector. If a company slaps on a 10 percent profit margin water gets more expensive but given that its our most important source of sustenance is it right for it to be provided by a private company from vending marsha. As long as the profit margin is not too high relative to per capita income so as long as people can afford it as long as they stick a fad a low enough price so that they can buy as much as they need theres no problem its the same with everything food clothes so theres always a profit margin and thats ok as long as we can afford it as long as. Theres an odd. Use the only way to prevent a supply crisis is to raise the price of water so we come to value the resource for what its really worth thank. You. Water is used in different ways in different parts of the world in europe for example agriculture industry and household suck up and spit out pretty much equal amounts but in north and south america farming makes up a much more sizeable fraction of total use and agriculture in asia and africa swallow around 80 percent of it just 15 percent is used by industry and amiga 5 percent by private households in many megacities border is growing increasingly scarce in the philippine capital things have reached a critical stage now the government plans to build a dam to supply manila with 600000000 liters of water a day but it will uproot entire villages my colleague milan went to talk to some of them. The color you want river has always run through the share of modern Mountain Range in northeastern philippines but a controversial down project is set to change its course forever so this might be one of my last boat rides here. Up ahead is the plan construction site for the cali watch and all along the forest wall here a big tunnel will be built for the convenience of water. The water behind it could be up to 162 meters deep. Thats more than enough to inundate communities like this one i visited the village of seato keeper russell which is closest to the dam site here the indigenous to moderate people have lived alongside peasant farmers and fishers for generations many of them have put up signs opposing the down as they face displacement and the loss of their livelihoods. Im. Im just wondering. When the flood comes how are we going to find. We cant swim or die for fish. We wouldnt be able to do any of that. So whats going to become of us. For. The dam is designed to boost the water supply in manila the philippine capital and the countrys economic and political center. Were actually just 40 kilometers south of the dam site but this urban jungle feels worlds away from their remote mountain communities. The authorities here say dwindling supply primary water sources is leading to shortages in a city that wont stop expanding. The greater the measure of whether or not hes serious. About. Growing the most with. The government argues that displacing thousands and destroying hundreds of hectors of forest land is justified as it will secure water for more than 12000000 people and that its worth the Taxpayer Burden in the form of a contentious loan from china of more than 200000000. 00 residents whose properties are set to be washed away by the dams construction are going to be taken care of according to official promises. But many here tell me that theyre skeptical. Why down on one of our oh weve heard a lot of offers but were not accepting them because we dont want to give away whats intended for the generations that come after us. We want them to live if really in our communities. What are they offering you a long period they say theyll give us money or theyll provide us with housing but we dont know where they will take us what if they relocate us to bonaire look for example how would we survive when were not used to life. And indeed communities here live in accordance with the rhythms of the river and protect the environment its a way of life that could be lost if the government has its way. Before you all. These are our Ancestral Lands if they build the dam well lose our identity. Thats death for us not just of our physical bodies but our culture politics and economics. Even if they do find somewhere for us to resettle we wont be able to live in our traditional way dependent on nature. On the path. The projects critics say they have history on their side the Current Initiative is a reincarnation of sorts of the let you down a few kilometers away which was never completed that project was shut down by Community Opposition more than a decade ago only ruined stand in the water. Though if the even down project had been continued there be water all around us as high as the walls which you see behind me the fact that the project was halted is a memory for many of the resistance that was successful but the outcome of their present day struggle is far from certain. The desire to preserve the river as it is clashes with their urge to change and control it in a standoff that pits local people against the powerful government in the capital few expect to give way. The poll often lose out the most when it comes to water rights at the other end of the spectrum by the wealthy who have turned water into a luxury good bottle burra that can cost hundreds of times what it costs out of the tap its a sector worth billions and of course there are experts who say that like fine wine. Has many nuances that it detectable to the discerning palates our reporter matthew went to talk with people trying to be what is all he. More turf for gore may but so what it isnt just water. You know region and source give waters a distinctive character and. Were not talking about regular tap water but the kind that comes in bottles in germany that can up the price 100. 00 times. These people are taking a course to become water so millions theyre doing a taste test identify the water without seeing the label on the bottle. You know nothing for us you know sodium tastes salty calcium makes the mouth feel dry magnesium makes the water taste sweet and bitter and then there are a bubbles carbon dioxide. Thats often a giveaway if you throw. The 9 day course costs over 2000 euros sommeliers have to register subtle differences and talk about them key if you want to sell lots of bottles. He squeezes did some of the students work for Mineral Water Companies usually in the marketing or Sales Department they have to be able to explain to customers what makes their water special. Last year the global bottled water market was worth 270000000000. 00 euros average consumption 62 liters per person. Colum lynch for my it is one of the students on elaines he works for a Mineral Water Company entire austria. It has its own spring and has invested millions in a new bottling plant. Were standing right on top of our source the aquifer thats been here beneath him for 25000 years waiting for us. In. Than water contains a certain mix of minerals which is quantified it and the austrian law as a medicinal water in both austria and germany and it is still waters are actually considered drugs are regulated by the relevant authorities. Theres an organ and we have whats known as a sodium potassium sulfate asadullah spring with its positive feature is that it contains a lot of lithium which lifts the mood significantly and. The timer Higher Ground was recently acquired by the billionaire mater shit family which made its money with the Energy Drink Red Bull and knows all about marketing beverages. The mothership seditionist due to hit the shops later this year. Back at the taste test some of the students are fluxed. Distinguishing waters is no easy matter. But what is difficult. Yes very such tiny differences. Here are the answers the 1st was number 21. Not much sodium a little magnesium and a lot of calcium. And mastery of barely perceptible differences makes the. Posh water is big business worldwide. News International Trade is growing all the time the country with the 2nd largest number of somalia is taiwan with more than 21. We need water to survive water can be very refreshing and for some its a delicacy to be savored. I have to admit the only time i really save for water is after a long workout or work but then im a straight no one expects us to be connoisseurs of anything thats all for made today thanks for joining us and do drop us a line on twitter or facebook as you know were always keen to get your thoughts of see you again. The be. Good for coming. To south africa club a better environment. To man or take a look roach to Waste Recycling players garbage was putting their community. To all have become recycling experts the ban theyre planning a great future subjects. For the boats on. D. W. Have fun in funding. The capital city of north korea is reinventing itself but only a few people can enjoy the benefits. 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