A little bit d. W. Made for mines. Water is the foundation the source and the mechanisms of the govern wife but also govern the whole bio system and the climate of the blue planet. Around water is there trash air. Its a miracle. Somehow its a miracle. Thats been more than a 1000000. 00 every year on electricity to pump water. Out before that we have a larger impact on the planet than ever before to climb up the water the land biodiversity the ocean city hall. And the cycle of water and being able to understand that is one of the most critical questions that we have to deal with today in a changing climate. Is dangerous hard to logical climate extremes that are going to be threatening a whole lot of different ecological and human values. And eventually we called ourselves closed for all you know why water it coats and before you realize its going to water so hopes that its going to die. So we really have it in our hands down. To understand so that we can sustain the health of the human population. The water is the foundation of all life as we know it but its the most wasted Natural Resource reflecting mans intents in short time on our. Water is like you. Know. We measure it in Drinking Water but its much more than that. Water must be present in all of the Planet Systems for it to be a balance for. Us all you can think of water as her blood supply. Flows through the landscape down supplies nutrients to nature and plants. The need to do. So water is also the source of human life and society. And you dont know. If we manage the water as we do now where we use it polluted and then try to dispose of it with very serious consequences that system is not sustainable. And that that current system. We have running out of water. We are losing more and more useful water the association between the imbalance of the water cycle and climate related problems is bigger than what most people are aware of. We are also not taking care of our most important substance. We just regard it as any liquid. Still water is the very foundation of life itself. Was to a large degree formed as the earth to shape. Its a chemical compound of 2 Hydrogen Atoms and one oxygen as him its a simple compound but with very to sting qualities. Water is one of the the universes most unique materials it has a completely unexpected unique properties. We have it as a vapor we have it as liquid water running down the rivers and lakes and in the ocean we have it as snow and ice in its coldest days. 97 percent of the planets water ceiling and found in the oceans the remaining 3 percent is freshwater which more than half is contained in glaciers. Only about one percent is available to us nevertheless we act as if water is an endless resource. The water something that we all take for granted until its not there we just take it for granted no water you go were going to turn the tap in the hotel room or another city that theres going to be water there. I saw study that the majority of the people in the state dont know where their water comes from they just know the water bill. Comes. We dont understand the value of water north of the hydro sphere is crucial for the ecosystems that we depend upon and in the magic and that everything is created in the meeting between sun and water. The a 3 nest malkuth you out to. Be a solar energy cleanse a sea water and produces fresh water. Thats kept still nature is constantly cleansing water in the water cycle. The rain water is clean but unfortunately chemicals can be dissolved into it in the atmosphere. No matter. The amount of fresh water on the planet depends effectively on evaporation and transpiration because sea as water evaporates it leaves behind all the salts in the pollutants that may be in the oceans away from and it just goes up as water by pure water but and so it regenerates fresh water. Temp. On the sea and a certain level in temperature water vapor condenses muesli into ice particles or snowflakes to form clouds. On the clouds get heavy enough to put it simply you get precipitation. Fall at the box to you marc. Precipitation. Rain and snow that falls in large volumes to hardly at all. For water molecules to form drops its been discovered that aerosols are needed. Small ice and salt crystals which are the starting point for condensation. 1000000. 00 of these cloud micro droplets need to be coalesced into each rain drop for it to be heavy enough and large enough to fall out of the under gravity back to the left. And so this new creation of these water droplets that came balancing process in nature. In driving rain. But there are other aerosols that are important for creating raindrops. Bacteria. Through the about peroration of trees specific bacteria and up in the atmosphere with a bind water vapor and create drops. The bacteria return to earth with the rain that they themselves created. We have pursued petition that comes down on to the surface of earth so that either goes into the oceans or it goes on to the land if it goes on to the land then some of it percolates down into the ground some of it evaporates back into the atmosphere some of it goes into the plants some of it runs down the hill right of. If it falls a snow then the beauty of that is that it stays as a mountain reservoir of water and it doesnt move out of its system very quickly. So theres just this Constant Exchange of water moving across the surface under the surface into the atmosphere and then back down to the surface. And the rain falls down there becomes groundwater and it goes slowly deeper than i am it takes up minerals here and bravo we have ground water at about 18 may just deep and about 200 meters deep its coming from belgium and it travels with the speed of about 20 meters per year so its very slowly i took about 10000 years. From belgium to here. We use it for Drinking Water and to irrigate our crops. Its also known as fossil water depending on the bedrock page may vary but most ground Water Reservoirs are ancient and were created long before humanity appeared on earth. And its formed by rainfall that dissolves minerals and nutrients. Its the best and purest of all water and the most important water resource for us and the ecosystems. Think. If you pump groundwater and in every year youre using that ground water without it being replenished then the groundwater is going to decrease how far can they go fly how much water we pump air flow 2000000000. 00 with a b. Gallons a year. I spend more than a 1000000. 00 every year on electricity to pump water its the land of the big acreage is from farmland grows animal feed such as corn and grain on 14000. 00 hectares. These cultivations are possible thanks to one of the Worlds Largest systems of fossil groundwater being available legal Ogallala Aquifer supplies 8 states in about 2 and a half 1000000 inhabitants with water. But the levels are dropping. Unfortunately weve pumped in this area at least 30 percent of the awkward for say dryer weve we have lowered it and as we do that the well is more pressed to give up the water and theres a lot of wells that only half of what they did when they were 1st developed. The death of cancer they get there might be enough water for 50 to 70 years. And then it will be gone groundwater is being overused all over the world into. Large scale operation and monoculture cost water. Its not only the farms in kansas that consume. About 70 percent of the planets freshwater goes to cultivation and food production. To the large scale model cultures drain the groundwater systems to dangerously low levels. Of the Ogallala Aquifer ever be drained it is being drained right now for people use the word mind because its something mistaken out of this ground not put back as if we were mining gold or pumping oil so mining operation. Thousands of years were required to create these groundwater supply and so pumping those out of there. In order to get back to the same awkward for level that we had before we started pumping them. And its going to take a long time. And so this creates a numerous problems in the next couple decades to see agriculture that depends on that is designed to collapse. We extract more than what is replenished. We are draining the worlds most important Water Resources. But there is another very important water existing in environments that we hardly think of the soil water. The hidden resource found in the soil which is essential for life in the biosphere. The years soil which cover you know that 29 percent or 13000000008 days of land surface. And depending on the quality of that sponge they can hold up to 50 percent of the volume in water. A significant amount of water is actually stored. And as a ground water thats more than the water that we just see in a formal like. In order for soil and cultivated land to function and supply water it must be healthy and alive. Microorganisms and organic matter preserve water flow in a time when rainfall is unpredictable this is extremely important for. The critical thing is that what happens to every rain drop that falls on this. Does it intro trades and get retained in a form and location where its a valuable for plant growth or does it run off the road. Systems and then get lost into the ocean and the difference with it infiltrates old runs off depends on the soil cotton sponge whether that sponge can have the perasso tea in the bill of the to absorb water and then feed it into the deepest sort of rise and. In so reservoir because its that water that governs life in the bot system. Think its real formal farming before the ability of soil to fold water. It just needs to be almost and the whole body complex soil on top of that which is dry lets say you have a heavy rain or any form for space station it just leaves on the surface because the soil will become paper from the salt. Its leaving ousts and groundwater char is leaving us because of it so were just flushing the vital component of life away from ourselves. It comes down to impoverished soil that has lost its capacity to infiltrate and its ability to hold water. At the same time we drain and divert the water from its natural cycle. Theres. We are been is the planet through Industrial Development and the soil horizon that was an important Water Reservoir is being sealed under concrete and infrastructure. If they have a mix that so few would your cities are growing and were asking the planet yet are you gonna be tarmac for farmland we isolate farm one from the water cycle the other book that they would cut off greenish divert surface water into reverse and leaks. And as often quite polluted. Water from heavy rainfall has nowhere to go toward life form just the hood for that runs straight into the sea. Isnt pretty use. To me i mean it doesnt replenish the groundwater but feel its not a resource. For one and 2 little. Innocent drinker want to decrease do with long we decrease the value of diversity we decrease the water situation and soon we decrease the want to cycle. We consume groundwater and create hydrophobic soils. We isolate the soil under hardened lands and the precipitation is diverted to. This means less water on the continents and declining groundwater systems and the consequences of this more extensive. D. R. Duration is a long term process also less and less washoe reaching the groundwater that makes the edge for instance trees and all of our plants cant reach the groundwater anymore. And the impact through these are surely quite horrific because at the one show we call ourself closed for all the water you know we mean if its corks before you realize its going to water so hard that its just going to die. With berry theyre opening it with washing away less water is coming in and this is all going to certification come here slowly but. The different regions are experiencing already significant a river cation losing 20 to 30 percent of their rainfall risk turning more and more into days. When nature withers from thirst it gets warmer. More solar energy and neither water nor vegetation can help the cooling of the soil. Our consumption and use of Water Resources have a direct impact on global temperature and our climate. Is water that in a sense governs 95 percent of the hate dynamics of the blue planet. And for the last 4000000000 years it is water that is actually regulated the climate. Its the different water processes that govern those dynamics. Are being set for forced our Research Shows that its not just a matter of Climate Change things we do at ground level have an impact intensified farming to increase the yield pissed square meter or if the a creating creases all we use more was here we increase transpiration you mean than come out than transfer. Up to now weve been so focused exclusively. On the c o 2 concentrations in the atmosphere that has obviously gone up abnormally now we have assumed that the c o 2 rise because it is a Greenhouse Gas thats cause the planet to heat up and certainly that is a k. Contributing factor but a big effect has been the changes weve been making. Not only do we release previously reserved water that increases the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere but we also contribute to Global Warming by large scale model cultivation and increasing carbon sation. We create islands of heat that reports clouds of rainfall. If we have a grain vegetated landscape with transpiration cooling the soils under that landscape rarely get above 20 degrees centigrade even in tropical regions converse slee where we have been exposed. Subject to the incident solar radiation space shes sold it hasnt got water that soil or as foetal concrete well that surface can often heat up to 60 degrees centigrade all about. Which means a profoundly more infrared heat is residing ated from hot surfaces compared to cold say. The more cultures and industry all. Farming to bring along these phenomena of heat islands because from one day to another a large area is harvested and from one day to another you just switched on and you snip off a finger and you klar power plant that is there anything upwards of d. C. Is how the i recall church and industry a form of a culture that forms the weather. And the sad warm atmosphere can contain more water than a cold one and we can safely assume that hurricanes and ensuing severe rainfall will become more frequent. In order and they will intensify the form of living the intensity of the cold enough there. We water the atmosphere with fresh water. And with rising temperatures the hydrological cycle is affected. Its difficult to observe but imbalance contributes to weather processes that affect every part of the planet. It is dangerous hydrological climate. Streams theyre going to be impacting intensifying and really threatening a lot of different ecological and human values these are the hurricane these stones floods very difficult droughts wildfires and it sees hydrological it strains that kill human beings. So thats pulled back up with climatic effect on the water that leads to disasters floods and droughts. For the long term effects can change the conditions for a large number of societies on earth and you know. It is the one who could these extremes be the norm in 50 years how are we going to handle them you know the. Extreme will become the norm. Dont we already see it today. That environments change for the worse for all living beings. What will our existence look like in the future. It seems uncertain with a changing world view. We can do ok when. We get droughts and we get wet periods and its and its minor but if it comes 456 years of intense drought or as in the Colorado River basin now were in 18 years of drought we have 40000000 people in the state of california that are very strongly dependent on that water resource. Where are they going to go if it goes to dry people dont survive those they have to. Civilizations dont survive the feels. Like a fresh water is a reality in many parts of the world but thats far away not here. Water is also consumed through direct consumption and as a commodity in our trading systems. Its a virtual invisible water that hides primarily in products linked to cultivation and agriculture. And. Some to suit it all seems pretty had a lot of goods are imported from regions where there is a shortage of water with. A lot of water flows from arid areas to areas where Water Resources are already plentiful so should. So have in the fast mines and do you tend to think of as a local call so that trading goods means we have an impact on each other. In everything. So bottom. Everything contains water from textiles to cut flowers our lifestyles are costly and we exhaust water stressed nations access and right to safe clean water. Its not only about products half of the food we consume is imported. The 40 percent 30 to 40 percent of all food stuffs are never consumed. There ruined by poor storage or poor handling or just thrown away. If there are the equivalent to the us production of foodstuffs is just thrown away. And that means were also wasting water that the youve got them among us that. We consume large volumes of water through overproduction and discarded food. Things that dont just Waste Resources but also generate pollution. You. Know what surely affects our behavior because sooner or later everything we do or use or. Half as up in the watch of. The Chemical Footprint that were finding in reverse and lakers definitely be a reflection of whole shewn society interacts with interest when were taking some boats near a city its more dominated by teetotum some of the cultural its modeled by a saw its if you take it near a mining area you have a specific mentions and the others will continue see the human activities on driving the Chemical Footprint in the river. Of the agricultural use of water here in our state of kansas the majority would be for watering crops and one of the concerns as water filters through the soil and makes it all the way down to where they are for is Water Quality and the one big concern we have is leaching of nitrogen fertilizer. In this country we have a lot of livestock so we have a good mood of the problem we have far too much when you are and we see that in our groundwater and also in the water in the kitchens and into kennels. So i think im not a trade and about water is also a problem for biodiversity sort. Of nitrogen leeches down into the awful for what you can tell nature for drinking it it isnt just Irrigation Water that can do that one of the big sources is the runoff from feedlots kansas is the largest meat packing state in the United States and there are areas around feedlots where the Drinking Water is to contaminated. Its not just the fertilizers from the Meat Industry that affect Water Resources negatively and pollute groundwater. The water that naturally gives us minerals and nutrition also gives us completely different substances. Rocksmith in them this but all things for me and those here is an excellent solvent it absolves pollution so that it becomes part of the cycle. They are lotty of they are all sorts of pollutants in different parts of the water system. Cleaning it up is energy and cost intensive. The question is how much of it can we claim is ours come. Youre seeing are used for the pollutions are a big problem. There are many unrecorded issues we dont carry out tests everywhere the dissolute of it all. We dilute the chemicals on the belief that the consequences will be smaller. But despite our efforts to minimize risks the effect of our usage of chemicals for extensive and already noticeable. The drugs that are in the service what are painkillers but pressure medicines diabetes im tired the left calls all sorts of medicines we use daily antibiotics and while there are also all different effects on the ecosystems in the water. Our naive relationship to chemicals and chemically manufactured products is unsustainable this makes large volumes of the available water on earth useless. And in addition we have plastic this means plastic that its not that the fins there are plastics in tap water and there are plastics even more often in bottled water give us were drinking plastics pulled out of each day per square meter indoors more than 300. 00 plastic micro particles collect to leave a glass of water on the table and youll be exposed to them with yes theyre in the air water and food and its explained the impact on humans has yet to be studied in the city and were starting to understand the impact on animals and organisms but we dont yet know the full effect. Yet man the hoarding in the last summer months of water for effect then. Plastic is everywhere and in places where people often meet artificial turf small plastic fragments and granules make their way down the sewage systems. Theres also the possibility that micro particles attract and collect chemicals. What happened. The water cycle is everywhere cleaning filtering Drinking Water rainfall climate palettes. But it has been downgraded to a consumable and a transport system for pollution. The planets bloodstream a strain. And surely this reflects on us assumes and our short intense time on earth. Over the last 200 years thats the period that humans have really come to have an enormous influence on the earth system and industrialization itself is not all bad its just how we capture what were doing and understand how are influencing ourselves influencing our ecosystem influencing our water supply. Biodiversity is like a pyramid at the top of the pyramid this is a place for human beings and if by a do as he does this be a human being to disappear too so its very important to protect the value diversity. And also there is a big connection was water clearly or decided to play a role or for the good water kept true but also for the good water if you tradition i did beat moss. And decided we are you so so important to to read you good to go by our warming so well and peoria and this guy you know what i said but that sort of kept your 10 ties more suited to being i was just going on as a story its very important to preserve this place to get you and to redo the bar room. We have to take cabin out of the air that was basically put there for mad they good ation about lansing and put that back into our soils to rebuild the sponge so we can rebuild the hydrology. 2 to 3 percent carbon added into the soil. Can create the structural regeneration effects. At all weights. So this is into that sort of matrix and really reboot so. To photosynthesis carbon can be bound in the soil but in nature transformed Carbon Dioxide into a rich soil with microorganisms that make the soil healthy and water retaining. This way the climate the water balance and our arable land will be positively affected. In the spring one defocus into these turns on you will see a significant drop in terms of the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere which goes down as default as interest so progresses through the summer and then the one we had before and everything is harvested again you will see a significant increase in terms of the concentration of the Carbon Dioxide from the shoulder magni off impacted before posting to this test on the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the office here. Soils are also fundamental because its the only point of agency the only point of influence we humans have on the air is climate hydrology and our future sea we cant change the oceans you cant really change the ice caps we cant really change the atmosphere we can to some extent but the real point of agency is the sponge. There is clearly an over consumption of the Water Resources on the planet. A consumption that affects the climate the ecosystems and everyone on earth. We have to end the idea that freshwater is infinite and we have to understand the value of the hydrological cycle as well as the solutions that nature has already developed for the climate. We are not using the systems that nature provides us a lesson that nature provides is some ways think we are back in nature and we have lived the last century with delusions that we can fix things technologically do i think the reality is coming that there are limits there is an imperative for regeneration and hopefully we will have the wisdom to now say hey this is work with nature it is get out of this road and live a breeze and live her hope to actually regenerate these thoughts just. We should be more aware of the fact that our ground water is trash and use it with. Respect as you treat a treasure its a miracle. Somehow its a miracle that we are so used to when we cant see the miracle in. Some of the most to you and what society has to do now is monitor how we use our Water Resources. Sources so that we avoid over use and too much pollution of which would ruin the basis of our existence then for would be in existence. So we really have it in our hands now. To understand how these Water Supplies are changing these water forces as well as the interaction with the climate are changing so that we can sustain. The standard of living and. And. And the health. Of. The human population. We are one. Of us the water and nature. We need to rethink to stop polluting and draining and instead retain the water on the continents. Because the Carbon Storage and think of cultivation methods that replenish the water in the soil in the ecosystems and in the ground water. We must think of photosynthesis and natures own climate control. But we must also understand that balance in the water cycle is a fundamental condition for our future. Clearly we have messed up the show we have degraded the lenses spongers are in so reservoirs are i draw logie the cooling of the planet. 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