Thats enough to fill an olympic Swimming Pool two and a half million times. Now, were not short of water, but the vast majority is ocean saltwater. And less than 100th of 1 is carried in lakes and rivers. You know, there is enough for all of us, but we dont all enjoy equal access. So what are the consequences for societies facing Water Scarcity . It depends on what else is happening. What other pressures are on, what other stressors are there. But Water Scarcity, which we could translate as drought, for example, will lead to famine, it will lead to migrations, it will lead to warfare, all sorts of things. So Water Scarcity is just the beginning of a long list of things that could end in societal collapse. Well, theres a stark warning. You know, Around The World today, one in four of the worlds population lives in a region facing extremely high water stress. It means they regularly use up almost their entire available water supply. So lets take a look at those countries. Here they are,
We spoke tojoe burton, professor of international security, Lancaster University and he gave us his assessment on what exactly people should be aware of. I think there are two main trends at the moment. The first is we are in a worsening geopolitical environment. Our relationship nationally and internationally with russia and china is not great. And in the last five or ten years, theres been clear evidence of both of these countries trying to subvert democratic processes in the uk, in europe, in the us and indeed elsewhere, and theyre becoming increasingly brazen in doing so. The second element, i think, is the technological tools they now have at their disposal to interfere in our democracies, whether thats the political use of ransomware, whether its synthetic media. Youve just showed the clip of the robo call of a call mimicking joe bidens voice in seemingly a very authentic way, whether thats more traditional hack and leak operations or indeed disinformation disseminating through s
Of stalking that he underwent and says he underwent in real life. And a lot of the controversy revolves around what happens right at the start of the first episode, where were told by netflix, by the producer of this programme, this is a true story. Exactly. Because it is unusual. You know, were used to seeing these kind of programmes where it might say, this is inspired by true events, or, this is based on a true story. Its very rare to see, this is a true story. And as a viewer, when you watch this as a true story, i suppose, what do you think . You understand its a fiction, its a drama, so you might think they might be taking some liberties, but you do assume it is very mu. Very. Its sticking to the truth. And when we were talking about it last week and we were planning that section of the programme, of course we invited netflix to take part, and it chose not to put a guest into the programme. So the only time weve actually heard from someone at netflix talking about this was to a p