Water
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She sells water, sells soft drinks and sells recharge cards for cellphones.
Do you want to bring clean
water
to a billion people?
With two sets of eyes, this female prowls the deeper
water.
The deeper you go, the more you run into a conflict with
water.
It's basically like a tree collecting
water
coming down.
It's a place where there's a fold in the geologic stratum that collects
water
and fills to the roof.
That signal was so strong, it could only have been produced by 10 trillion tons of
water
buried in the sediment, collected over millions and billions of years by the impact of asteroids and comet material.
We can build space tugs, orbiting platforms for holding cryogens and
water.
I set up the type, I printed it out on an Epson printer with water-soluble ink, taped it to the wall and threw a bucket of
water
at it.
So we're using an enormous amount of land for agriculture, but also we're using a lot of
water.
It turns out they're growing lettuce in the middle of the desert using
water
sprayed on top.
But what's really interesting is, this
water'
s got to come from some place, and it comes from here, the Colorado River in North America.
Well, this is a lot of water, and again, we're mining
water
and using it to grow food, and today, if you travel down further down the Colorado, it dries up completely and no longer flows into the ocean.
The reason it's here is because, on the right-hand side, you see two little rivers kind of coming down through the sand, feeding this basin with
water.
Well, in the 1950s, the Soviets decided to divert that
water
to irrigate the desert to grow cotton, believe it or not, in Kazakhstan, to sell cotton to the international markets to bring foreign currency into the Soviet Union.
You turn off the
water
supply to the Aral Sea, what's going to happen?
This is not only a change in
water
and where the shoreline is, this is a change in the fundamentals of the environment of this region.
They were so desperate to try to, kind of, float the boats into the remaining pools of water, but they finally had to give up because the piers and the moorings simply couldn't keep up with the retreating shoreline.
We already use about 50 percent of the Earth's fresh
water
that's sustainable, and agriculture alone is 70 percent of that.
So we use a lot of water, a lot of land for agriculture.
So we have this incredible presence today of agriculture dominating our planet, whether it's 40 percent of our land surface, 70 percent of the
water
we use, 30 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions.
We've doubled the flows of nitrogen and phosphorus around the world simply by using fertilizers, causing huge problems of
water
quality from rivers, lakes, and even oceans, and it's also the single biggest driver of biodiversity loss.
Now, this would require nutrients and
water.
Plants need
water
and nutrients.
Irrigation is the biggest use of
water
on the planet.
We use 2,800 cubic kilometers of
water
on crops every year.
Widespread
water
pollution and massive degradation of lakes and rivers.
We need to invest in real solutions: incentives for farmers, precision agriculture, new crop varieties, drip irrigation, gray
water
recycling, better tillage practices, smarter diets.
So cucumber, even though it's only really
water
in my opinion, but cucumber is perfectly fine for them.
He was laid to rest in the Ganges River, where the dead are cremated along the banks of the river or tied to heavy stones and sunk in the
water.
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