threats. pete muntean, cnn, washington. and most residents in jackson should have water pressure but it still remains unsafe to drink. city officials say that there have been significant gains at the water treatment plant. it has been nearly a week since the main water facility failed in part because of historic flooding. tens of thousands are struggling to access clean water and the white house says climate change denial has contributed to the problem. first of all, they have to beacknowledge that there is a problem. i think what has happened is that lot of the fixes that are being used are fixes that were probably would have worked 20 years ago but they won t work anymore. and we have to make sure that we build systems that can deal with flooding, deal with systems that can deal with rising water tables. and all of these issues are not being addressed currently especially in places that don t even acknowledge that climate change is real. and until they make that allege
despite some recent rain, a hosepipe ban has come into force today for millions of customers of thames water in the south of england. louise lear is here with more details and all of the weather. yes, these are the hosepipe bans we currently have across england and wales at the moment, the thames water one has come into force today and then we have another one in yorkshire coming into force on a couple of days. if you are wondering why we are seeing them so late in the summer with the wetter autumn months around the corner, to put this into context, the first six months of this year was the driest since 1976 with all months apart from february with the below average rainfall and although we had some heavy torrential flooding rain last week in parts of essex and also into lincolnshire, that is not the rain we need, because the ground is so hard at the moment, we need long term widespread rain or over many months to start to replenish some of the water tables. now we
now we some of the water tables. now we have actually got some rain at the moment across wales, and you can see it starting to push in, so this rain will turn heavy as we go to the next few hours, moving through south west england and into parts of wales, and it will drift its weight steadily eastwards, so that will be the story as we go through the evening and overnight tonight as well. that rain, if we zoom out, there will be heavy bursts moving across the pennines, and into parts of east yorkshire, and to the north and west of that, dry conditions, and to the south and east, still very humid and look at these torrential thundery downpours that might start to develop. as a consequence of that humid air. temperatures are sitting at around 16 17 tomorrow morning in the south east and we can have a look at those thundery showers in more detail. it might wake you up in the early hours of the morning, we need to see how far west
caused by the climate crisis. absolutely. they might delight a paleontologist or historian, but they re terrifying to ecologists and biologists and earth scientists who see that this is the result of our water cycle on this planet changing so dramatically, the one we learned about in seventh grade that water evaporates and condensation and then brings it back down, the water tables under the earth. well, a drier planet means there s a lot more water in the atmosphere. a lot more water in thirstier vegetation or parched ground or in the depleted aquifers. a lot less on land in our lakes and rivers which is why we re finding bodies in lake mead and dinosaur footprints there in texas as well. and then in the ice, as that melts, more gruesome discoveries up in the alps where plane crashes and the bodies of fallen climbers are now being discovered as that part of the water cycle melts. and bill, meanwhile, the climate crisis is also reminding us of what s happening to switzerland s glac
panelists in. i have pulled out for amanda the rainfall map for california, and it looks pretty similar to ours. in fact, i read today s spot prices for water supply are at their all time high, up 56% on the start of the year. that dark area in the middle of the state is roughly speaking the sanjoaquin valley, where they reckon around 1 million acres of farmland will be fallowed by the end of the decade. it isa it is a really big problem, amanda, and you cannot pay those spot prices for water and farm and not pass that sort of cost onto the consumer. that s right. i was wondering when you show the two maps, that we use red and i think the intention is because we have been at this for a long time, trying to get people s attention that we need to do something about that. i grew up in the sanjoaquin valley, my family is in the sanjoaquin valley, and what they re facing there is the water tables are getting so low, they are also beginning to find problems now, some algae problems in the ce