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From California’s epic few years of droughts and floods to wells running dry and aquifers depleting, water is a critical environmental issue. So, what do we do about it? In this episode, Maiya May tries to figure this out. To start, she visits Tulare Lake, California, once a critical water reserve and cultural site for the Tachi-Yokut tribe, which has re-emerged after 150 years. Maiya learns about agriculture’s challenges, the depletion of groundwater, and finds hope in innovative farming practices that reduce emissions and conserve water. She then heads back to California to learn how water officials are utilizing floods to recharge critical aquifers.
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Thanks for watching! Weathered: Earth's Extremes is everything you love about Weathered but bigger and better. Across 6 incredible episodes, Maiya and the Weathered crew travel around the world to tell the definitive story about our changing weather and climate, and how a better future is within reach.
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Let's stop seeding clouds and playing with weather machines and see what happens then.
The SouthWest is cooked, literally. Its going to be abandoned totally in twenty years, its just going to be too hot with nothing growing.
This girl's nostrils are huge. She can smell where its going to rain next.
You lost me at – we use a drone to spray fertilizer.
God is the only one who makes water. But no one believes it. You can do nothing without me😅you will never be even with God pollux and castor😂🎉
11:25 1 fart of the world 😢
We need to eat less red meat and rely less on cattle for our food source
The Black Dragonflight is always recruiting Please Khaz'goroth let me meet her
Agro Floresta é a solução
Agro Floresta Ernst Gotsch check it out
Ok now hear me out….. all these people about the environment and how to save it…. that easy.
Stop changing the world to fit your view and needs and live off whats provided. like mammals do in the rest of the animal kingdom. Not humans, we are the largest disease this planet has ever seen.
Agrivoltaics should be looked at in the US more. Combining farm land and solar can reduce the amount of watering needed because it reduces the amount of direct sunlight the plants under the panels also can help cool the solar panels increasing efficiency. Although I do agree over time it doesn't make sense to grow most of our food in a desert.
Imagine all the people cutting most of their meat diet. How much of the problems described in this great report would go away over night, plus many health related problems…
Na, too simple a solution. Just lets go on making our lives harder.
We should be investing way more in improving and innovating new desalination technology as well as environmentally-friendly cloud seeding, as well as reservoir infrastructure, and protecting our national and state park land.
This is quite literally like the monsoons in India. They have a project/contest in which they build tiny burrows/dams that traps the water from the floods in certain areas and helps to replenish the ground water. That's very much like the solution that they presented at the end. The people in India have made sustainable farmlands where there were deserts before.
There was also an agricultural/nature advocate in Australia that discovered farming and conservation methods which includes planting water-needing plants along creek beds (black berry buses, willows, etc) and letting weeds grows to full height before tamping them down and letting them refertilize the land. His dead creek-beds came back. His grass was green when his neighbors' lands were dead. He managed to revive his property and several others during *droughts*.
It's 100% possible. It's just up to us to actually DO IT while determining areas where we need to cut back on in the mean time (ex. growing grass for cattle in a desert).
Maiya, will you have dinner with me?
While i feel for Nancy…being stubborn and trying to do something in area it shouldnt be done in, is just wasteful and stupid.
I hadn’t heard of these recharge stations , what a brilliant idea
And Donald Trump just signed an Executive Order reversing water conservation… the man is an id-it with virtually no understanding about any of the serious problems with are facing…
I do not have a Economics Degree, or Business Degree, but due to future severe weather, and do not have to be a Prophet, I foresee many insurance companies folding up due to damages to homes in many sprawls… course, due to all the damage from nature and the many homes to be rebuilt the forests (resources) will not be able to keep up with the demand for materials. But hey, that's just one paradigm due to people breeding like rodents and bunnies and not thinking ahead. Same happened to the forests in Wisconsin if you know history… well, such is life with a bunch of ignorant fools in government and citizens that are just as ignorant in a dumbocracy.
8:24 Colorado River 10:52. 17:20
What about the bottled water plants?
Defund PBS and NPR
People whom chose live in the southwest desert have to understand that water is only getting rare, their property is now or soon worthless as no one is dumb enough invest in place that has no water source
California need to pay 150 trillion is fines for 200M gallons water of over usage and waste. Also take back the land owned by foreign governments