Don't take it for granted!

So this week I was looking for some documentaries to watch and “Last Call at the Oasis” caught my attention. This is an eye-opening documentary about water which was produced in 2012.

I found it as a very good documentary that looked into some of the different aspects of water management such as water availability, water pollution, public perception, politics, different sector demands, and economy.

It shows the evidence of Climate Change on water cycle and how as we discussed in the last post, it is causing more droughts and more floods. One of the scariest part of the documentary for me was how early conflicts are getting started over water within a country. I had my fright night right then. When they proposed to pipe water from an oasis with population of merely 150 to Las Vegas with population of over 2 million , you hear people saying"This project may succeed over my dead body".

To see that fight over water is happening within one country, makes the idea of wars between different nations not so far-fetched! As Ismail Seragedin said: "The wars of the 21^st century will be fought over water".

The documentary also shows how the trend of water pollution is continuing from Cuyahoga River fire in 1969 that made firemen to pour water on water (!) to current carcinogenic substances.

Cuyahoga River fire-source:time.com

The example of Hoover damn, which is on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, and is facing the risk of not being in operation due to lack of water elevation, showed how economy is intertwined to water scarcity.

Hoover Damn with loss of water elevation-source:hcn.org

Even though I managed to make my family watch this with me-and they really liked it too- I cannot make you guys to watch it but I definitely do recommend it.

This question has been occupying my mind: Can we reverse the situation? Or is it that issues such as Climate Change are not reversible and it just comes down to managing the situation? and the question got even more challenging after the Geoenginnering seminar, just looking at what kind of ideas are being researched to reverse the Global warming and try to cool down the planet. 

Anyway, I shall leave you with that question,

As Erin Brockovich’s dad sang to her: “See that lovely water trickling down the spring, don’t take it for granted someday it might not be seen”, let’s not take it for granted...