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Climate models confirm the warning that weve already seen over the last fifty years the predicted loss of rainfall could agricultural productivity fifty percent by twenty twenty second clue to the areas. water resources in the house are characterized by the semi saturated consumption of surface water. on average about eighty percent of surface water is in use. this is due to population growth and the emergence of new uses in this case the tourist demand mixed with the more standard agricultural ...

Percent by twenty twenty clued in surface water areas. water resources in the how are characterized by the semi saturated consumption of surface water. on average about eighty percent of surface water is in use. this is due to population growth and the emergence of new years in this case the tourist demand mixed with the more standard agricultural demand. accounts for about eighty percent of water consumption the relationship between water availability and agricultural productivity is critical. ...

Institution in our country and, indeed, in the world, who could respond to deal with the crises that you have displayed on your screen and we need to be in the rural areas. so many are going to san juan. san juan has got resources and is getting up to speed, but it is the rural areas in which most of the puerto rico lives that are in such crisis without sufficient water and sufficient food and without sufficient sanitation. >> on exactly that point, and whats being done, whats going there, you w...

We grow almost all the produce consumed around the country. as that starts to take a hit, the ripple effects will spread across the country in the form of higher food prices. that will be a big problem. >> people are also moving to drier parts of the country. >> yeah. >> they are moving to sunnier parts of the country. >> yeah. >> everything west of the mississippi, huge expanse or west of the sort of midlands right? the kind of amazing prairie we have. everything to the left of that is sustaine...

Will have a bill form republican caulk us in californias rallying around that would basically like stick it to the smelt. >> yeah. theyre blaming the drought on endangered species and the environment and thats not the case. mother nature and the lack of rain is the primary cause of the drought and the lack of water availability. so there is this bill tomorrow in congress. theyre trying cut the endangered species act. when that really doesnt get to the core of the issue. and there are management ...

Water quality implications to drink it fresh for drinking and farming. >> you have a republican who will have a bill form republican caulk us in californias rallying around that would basically like stick it to the smelt. >> yeah. theyre blaming the drought on endangered species and the environment and thats not the case. mother nature and the lack of rain is the primary cause of the drought and the lack of water availability. so there is this bill tomorrow in congress. theyre trying cut the end...

Rallying around that would basically like stick it to the smelt. >> yeah. theyre blaming the drought on endangered species and the environment and thats not the case. mother nature and the lack of rain is the primary cause of the drought and the lack of water availability. so there is this bill tomorrow in congress. theyre trying cut the endangered species act. when that really doesnt get to the core of the issue. and there are management practices that we can ever as well. >> can the, can calif...

Walsh, environmental editor at "time" magazine. talk sort of more about the real world implications of global warming/climate change. what is beyond what i mentioned there, sort of the real world scenario of what will happen if we dont tackle global warming? >> i think this new report, more so than any previous report from the ipcc really drives home the fact that climate change and global warming are not just some far off, abstract problem that might affect polar bears decades from now. its imp...

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