For the plans with blue. I imagine if our water were to run out, this is the realization of what happens to a community that runs out of water. There is no way to survive this our future. Imagine our wells drying up as a job given youngster food, im afraid that we may eventually run out of water here here, or skips. And what if the fight for water turns into war . Some parts of the world are going to become on livable because of rising. Keep your big big here. The water crisis is the tail of never ending. Missouri water is disappearing everywhere. That suggests a huge global migration. Think the site is need water to survive. Could International Conflicts will become inevitable . Um yeah, on this mention mit the boss. From a global perspective, the human kinds approach to water is potentially lethal to song leaving when dia, once politics is dictated by the fight for water, then god help us canada. And scott, me, we are used to having plenty of water. But thats changing thanks to the Climate Crisis with water scarcity becoming an increasingly important issue. This series asks, what happens if we have no more water . Ah, the vila beach is a picturesque resort town in Southern California with an old wooden pier stretching far out into the local bay. But appearances can be deceptive. As were told by pete kelly from the local Community Services less pacific coast. Paradise is facing disaster at a beautiful spot for sure. But its also very dry now compared to what it usually is. I mean, after a wonderful rainy spring, its so green around here. You wouldnt believe it, it looks like ireland, but not this year. Its semi desert. After years of drought, the land just behind the coast around a vila beach is now yearly barren. We will be out of water as will most places in california. And hes going to get worse. I would just say, pray for, were a 300 kilometers up the coast and comparatively water rich, Northern California lies the town of mendocino. I grew up here, this is home. I actually was a firefighter and worked in mass for about 15 years, so im not new to emergencies. Im not new to protecting the community. But i am relatively new to water and wastewater management. And starting this career in the middle of one of the worst routes in the last 100 years has presented quite a few challenges. Mendocino location perched on the cliffs overlooking the ocean, has made it a popular tourist destination. But these days, fresh water has to be trucked in the ongoing drought is threatening to think its key industry. Weve been dependent on truck water since at least january. And the real problem happened. July 18th, when fort bragg shut off the tap because every month were more and more dependent on the trap water, everyone declared an emergency. But all the sudden there is no more water. Vale, thats when panic said an entire county now dependent on water brought in by trucks and subject to a drought state of emergency declared by the state governor and 2021. A nightmare for locals. When shop owners started calling me and restaurant saying, we have to lock our bathrooms to the public because we dont have enough water. This is a health and safety crisis. Its a human emergency. You know, you cant have people deaf akkadian on the street all over town restaurant and cafe owners have had to set up a portable toilets. Water makes the world go round in, in a 1st world country fact that we dont have, you know, continue access to. It is difficult and every day brings fresh uncertainty. We dont all, hey we go day by day we, we have various chair to sometime we can open the door because we dont have the wall that were on. I would have these mossey, mo, melanie is originally from italy, like nearly all restaurant owners. His business cannot function without water and his case its provided by the authorities, but its ration. The county gave us was that so these, what they wanted will use for the cost of it actual we gave it to each customer to wiley robado and obviously dashboard or was it, it was even rewarded. Water never used to be in short supply here. So what is it like now being left high and dry . Its an embarrassment. Its scary. And it makes you really reevaluate your life where you live. Ah, and it makes you think about things differently. You know, its one thing not to have why fi . Everywhere you go . Its a whole nother thing. If youve got no water to drink. And 10000 kilometers east of california in germany, water shortages have become a problem as well. For 5000 sponsors, madison slight vamps the yon, Deutschland Wilkin lung mr. Saunders hoard simpler to and, and kind of he annoyed the cult for this to good template. One in some parts of germany. Searing temperatures have repeatedly strained supplies of Drinking Water as here. And the town of lauer now this is the local Water Authority o father. Due to high levels of consumption, the local water supply levels remain critical. The supply of Drinking Water could occasionally be interrupted. The Fire Department will soon be distributing a final supply of Service Water in your area. The omni, listen, we have seen Critical Situations in the drive, some as of the last few years, but nothing like this year. In extreme situations like this, the local Fire Department provides people with water until the local supply can be restored. But why didnt those responsible anticipate the shortfall . An expert explains how a resource once taken for granted became a scarce commodity. Without anyone really noticing vasa is absolute and get out of the school on saw in ownership. Lisa ot and water is very much a vulnerable resource front or in various ways seen. But in germany. For the days when we had abundant Water Supplies are gone to hot sake and in some parts of northern bavaria, there is a dire shortage of water leafy give asa armored skippy this in here in upper franconia. One of the areas hardest hit by water scarcity in germany. Regional water authorities monitor the ground water level. Klaus onset is joined by the mon prize from the no hamburg Water Authority to conduct checks at a critical measuring sight. Readings taken at key points like this will they hope reveal any hidden developments under ground. As the probe is lowered into the ground, a light indicates when it hits groundwater. Ziemen pies records the latest data. You sent me the new guy lets the host intimate is low and then last week and wanted to have me to lower than last year. We still measuring this side since 2012. Since then the ground water level has dropped. I 30 meters going to be a bit oba who not turning on and on. May we also monitor other measuring sites in the various things and weve seen that ground water levels are dropping into our taking longer to be replenished. Our if the recovering at all god who is but one is ground water levels continue to sink at this rate. We couldnt actually reached options. Theres no way we can make any medium or long term predictions. When, if these lengthy dry periods persisted throughout the ground water level will continue to drop the highest as a large proportion of the Drinking Water in bavaria comes from groundwater. And obviously it will be less water available on da midstream not really, really got so far frugal. And one result of the drop in ground water levels is already visible at this. Well, it supplied 200. 00 households with Drinking Water for over a century. The. This is the well house extending and renovating the well would be costly. Michelle bailout from the Regional Environmental agency monitors the facility. So i 1000 fancy so few 2020 we recorded reco lowes for grand would a levels. And you notice from the discharge that theres less water level this vinegar called and with those levels no longer sufficient. The well is said to be closed while the population here in toys units is growing, the municipal wells and springs are yielding a dwindling supply of water. Chris john miller, head of the local utilities maintenance department, a companies clouds asset and michelle bail out of the communities last remaining. Well also Climate Change has had a particularly bad impact in the dry years. 201320152018. 201920. 20. With a situation that nobody here had expected to escalate as dramatically as it has a suit open this summer. I cant remember us ever having had summers as dry as the ones weve had over the last 5 or 10 years. And nobody here can remember a summer without any rain at oss, to skip the heroes and with the last well now also being shut down at toys, it will need to look elsewhere for its water, produce completely strewn of Climate Change means our wells no longer yield what we need to see, or were now entirely dependent on a remote water supply, which weve noticed a huge change in recent years, right in there for every live cod wrong. Yes, its been brutal to for im scared that one day the water here will run out here. Oh, excuse me, thats a Community Like choice. Its no longer has its own water supply because its wells have dried up, shows how dramatic the situation has become. And how advanced Climate Change is now and how this is something we will have to adapt to in the future. Im still in this one of germanys Drinking Water is already supplied by Long Distance pipelines from the mouth. House damn, for instance, seen here under construction in the 1970s. The construction of dams causes massive damage to nature, which is why they were disapproved of for so long. But now they are the backbone of water supply in the likes of southern germany. Without a Long Distance, water supply big cities like no. Hm. Bag or votes, book could not survive. It thing was sort of on here. Nick, you only had a wanted he thought, put in a ticket. If it werent for the damn field, theres no way the water supply in this region could be guaranteed. There a lot of communities and Water Companies depend on mount house level and on a Long Distance supply while so because their own water sources cant always meet the needs of people and industry on a new study, falster needs to take the water from the dam is fed via pipelines to the Regional Water association at the control center director, macos vow shows us the full extent of the Long DistanceWater Network in bavaria. Global warming, he explains, also presents a growing challenge to Companies Like his these addictive fun, maxine malware, we had this rapid sequence of peak values in 2018, 2019 and 2024 go peak temperatures on and low precipitation and swung the and it did surprise us for rational from here, the company palms water as far as 140 kilometers without a Long Distance supply, large parts of bavaria would already be dry as skipped over ca, telephone. Both of us. Org either really are major Water Companies in germany that was in terms of volume cof are all ready at their limit that you saw. And they said this quite openly or not in bavaria, but in neighboring bond. Rude and back, for example, the thought is a switch. Its quite clear that at the moment no more major lions can be built on for a foot and can remote Water Supplies give those affected a sense of security. But what if surface water becomes scarce to professor martin gamble is a member of germanys joint federal and Regional Working Group on water issues. He spent years studying the availability of the resource in the country bus damage. Thus very minutes from inside the home phone for the house at garden 30 years ago. No one believes that to day the Northern Europe could be facing a water shortage or is almost weir. Im masa magnon home, current is or if anything, just an occasional drought to the shrink or but no one could have envisaged a scenario that would require such strong attention of the foss newson, the dog, new mark on a painful admission. But what does the future hold for us using im gleam of and weve now reached a point where were starting to feel the impact of Climate Change and many other issues. People are extremely worried that this was to come for the didnt ended at school in some parts of canada. The speed at which water scarcity is increasing has been completely underestimated. G. Familiarity is a hydrologist and the executive director of the Global Institute for water security at the university of saskatchewan. Hes also been a key figure and a joint Research Mission launched by nasa. The u. S. Space agency and d l are its german counterpart. What we see here is an animation of how the Grace Mission works there to little satellites. Each one is about a meter taller and theyre separated by about 200 kilometers. That really work like a scale in the sky. In that they respond to the mass of water on the ground. When a region is losing water, it exerts slightly less of a gravitational tug on the satellites, and they float a little bit higher in their orbits. So by keeping track of the ups and downs of the satellites, we can map out the regions around the world that are gaining and losing water mass. And weve been doing this for 20 years now. What might sound like Science Fiction is reality. The scientists have been recording massive water losses worldwide. They can forecast droughts and identify which regions are drying out even before the effects are at all tangible. The Grace Mission shows, for instance, that the u. S. West coast is drying up and an alarming and growing pace. Phoenix, arizona, a city built in the desert but with its abundance of green lawns, artificial lakes and fountains. There is no indication that water might be scarce here. Phoenix is the Fastest Growing city in america and home to a booming high tech sector, and that makes it a particularly big consumer of water. Phoenix is water comes from 450 kilometers away through a Long DistancePipeline System that runs right through the desert from lake powell. One of the 2 biggest reservoirs in the us, in total, some 40000000 people depend on this water. But the lake, which is filled by the Colorado River, is at its lowest ever level. A development predicted by j familiarity with the help of satellite data. I was standing at the bottom of the new boat ramp. You can see that at no longer reaches, it just goes up to where these orange barriers are. So both cant be put in water over here. And if you take a look on google maps at my position right now, youll see that just a few years ago, i would be under water it. So this is where were at. Once upon a time, lake powell was full to the brim as far as the eye could see. Originally, the reservoir was to protect the entire west coast from the threat of water scarcity. That was the plan, at least with interest by the federal government in expense informing, states in the western part of the western part of the territories. And so they commissioned John Wesley Paul to go out and explore the river. And he comes back with a recommendation that you know, this is really a non starter. Its really fully dry. Of course, you know, you could go big and really try something crazy and try to engineer the river and build giant reservoirs. But, but i really dont recommend that i dont think that is sustainable in the long run. And what does the government do decides go for the big reservoirs and, and i radically the name the reservoir after paul himself. And thats what we know is like paul today, what for decades was seen as a visionary idea for the settlement and future of americas western states has become directly heal. It gives me great, great concern, and i think it gives a lot of people, great concern. When they see just how far the level has dropped last time, i was here and about the same spot was 303132 years ago. And this wasnt an issue. We werent thinking about this back then. Were just starting to think about Climate Change. There is no best to bring visible. So this is, you know, this is the future. This is the future for the western United States. Will the water disappear completely . Is it only a matter of time . People here face a future with many unknown factors, and also an immense challenge from lake powell, the once mighty Colorado River flows through the grand canyon to the next desert metropolis. Las Vegas America since city is famed for its extravagant aquatic shows. Visitors are treated as spectacular fountains, artificial lakes, and even a venetian style hotel, complete with singing gondoliers. In the middle of the mojave desert, las vegas draws the water it needs from lake mead. Here to the water level is at its lowest point in the history of the reservoir, the biggest in america. This road was billed as an extension to the boat ramp down to lake mead. Jayce, i mean he has come here to meet scientist kristen everett, the state of nevada, 1st Climate Policy coordinator. Hey kristen. I got well here we are pretty amazing. I know pretty unbelievable. It actually really is. Its actually its really bad. So i mean, its pretty apparent you can see where the water used to be up there with where you have that bad, pretty stunning, bath tub rin