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We saw an explosion of a water tank in one community due to the extreme heat. there is a lot of things that impact humans and people in ways that we don't recognize it. fires, what we hear about the drought, is one part of how climate change is affecting us. >> we were on the ground, and as i understand it the folks there didn't have reliable running water for awhile. what is the latest. do they have reliable running water now? >> they still don't have reliable running water. they still don't. their water is being tanked in through a truck into the community and if it is sufficient, water will...

No water comes out. they have to deal with it on a regular basis. there's not enough water in the basin and in part because of evaporation, the canals in a deliver the water, but also just a need to repair these canals that have been impacted because of climate change. >> yeah, as you know, governor newsom asked people to voluntarily cut their water usage. they're not part of these emergency measures. but i want to read part of an l.a. times article. it is from lake mead. he says now it looks like a lawn. he said i knew it was bad, but i didn't know it was this bad. this place is unrecognizabl...

So they're declaring their first ever shortage on that lake. that means the water supply could get tightened even more over the years. what happen there's? what is the end game? >> it is real scary. we have to protect mankind. humans, right? we know that climate change is impacting our fresh water supply. we'll see shortaging, and it's so important that we use the water that we have in a wise manner. but also that we look at innovations. our water is tied to our food chain. i know that is being impacted right now with food prices going

Every year we find ourselves saying it's not that bad. what are you seeing in your district? have the conditions ever been this dire? >> things are pretty bad right now but the reality is what we see physically is just one part. the reality is that there is climate change impacting communities in ways that we don't see and that is what is really scary. and what we're seeing in my senate district is the community that has been out in the news quite a bit, it is issues. the canals are sinking. it is sinking and it needs to be repaired. the communities are sinking and the wells are beginning to f...

Practical solutions for the long term problems. >> have things improved at all? we talk about the dreadful conditions on the ground, and, yes, corruption and hunger and climate change impacting agriculture and things like that. there were programs in place when donald trump eliminated and joe biden said he would reinstate them, and that's not enough. what needs to be achieved? >> the trump administration not only closed the border to desperate people and then confused to continue many programs in central america that would have made it better for those people so they didn't actually have to co...