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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Water Moving]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Rain]\N[Water Dripping]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1906 Pablo Valencia dared the journey from Mexico to California in search of gold.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He survived without water for a week.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,7 Days
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was rescued and documented the experience of thirst.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saliva becomes thick...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lump seems to form in the throat...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tongue swells so large that it squeezes past the jaws.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The throat so swollen that breathing becomes difficult,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creating a terrifying sense of drowning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The face feels full, due to the shrinking of the skin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people begin to hallucinate.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The eyelids crack and the eyeballs begin to weep tears of blood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Pablo Valencia was found,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his skin was like purplish-grey leather, scratched but with no traces of blood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His lips had disappeared, as if amputated...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his nose, withered to half its length...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his eyes trapped in a winkless stare.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a film about saving the environment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its a film about saving ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because whatever one's environmental, political, or religious opinions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever one's race, sex, or economic standing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whomever of us goes without water for a week,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cries blood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Thunder]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is always a lot of focus on: “well, what's the environmental impact?”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's a perfectly valid issue and concern.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The abuse of water and the taking of access of water,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,diminishing flows and levels can destroy the sustainability of ecosystems.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we can't in the name of preventing environmental impacts, there's a mentality that says,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“well as long as we're not causing any significant impacts, we should be able to use the water any way we want”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including selling it, exporting it, for private gain of the few.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When all is said and done, people need water to survive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what the bottom line is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we search the universe for life,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we search for water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it is only from liquid water that all known forms of life exist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The blue planet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only planet known to harbor life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only planet known to be flowing with water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Water management has always been of key importance to humans.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Egyptians depended entirely upon the Nile.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Romans expanded the boundaries of engineering to use gravity to bring water to their cities.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ancient societies cherished water,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,molded their lives around it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even worshiped it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a god.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For whatever reason between 800 and 1000 AD,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,climate change dried up most of the Mayans' local water supply.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Farmers were forced to extend their agriculture into the jungle forest to grow food.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was not enough water for both the crops and trees,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the forests died.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The soil eroded...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,air humidity decreased...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food decreased.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mayan leaders prayed to the god of rain,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the regular rain season brought little water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hydrologic cycle was damaged.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life in the cities became less civilized, as the main focus of Mayan life became providing food and water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People abandoned the cities to begin a new life in the forests.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In hopes that there was still a sustainable watershed there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There wasn't.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as we enter a new era, combining high technology with the demands of global economic trade,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are entering into a unique stage of history.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Water, which is the source of life itself, instead of being common and universal to everybody,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we all depend on it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,profit is made out of the running of and the delivery of water to people and to communities.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those that have the ability to pay will have access to the water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who do not have the ability to pay, will go without and therefore it is a life and death situation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a final analysis on the basis of profit."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Birds Chirping]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Music]\N[Singing]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Thank you very much, its a great honor to be on this stage with you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to talk comrades and friends about a global water crisis,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which we know that the world is actually running out of water.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that wasn't supposed to happen,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it wasn't supposed to be able to happen because we were all taught,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back in, I don't know, grade 3 or grade 6 or whatever... that there's a cycle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it rains, the water falls from the clouds, down all the way to the ground.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It soaks into the ground and then the grass and trees grow.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes there's so much water underground that lakes and rivers pop up,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like when you squeeze a box of apple juice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rivers carry the water back to the ocean.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inside the ocean, the water floats up to the sky as clouds again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, the wind pushes the clouds towards the land and it rains again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This all happens over and over, forever and ever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator]\NHow is our water being polluted?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Agriculture uses chemicals to increase farming productivity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ironically, implemented to counter a diminishing water supply,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these chemicals pollute the ground water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Automobile gas emissions pollute the clouds,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but perhaps the most damaging culprit is industry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Water pollution has been linked to the rising miscarriage rates in women,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lower sperm counts in men.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is so globally severe that the Malaysian government proposed the death penalty for anyone caught contaminating water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the most polluted river in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's active Polio, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We try and reason with the aliens and tell them what's in the water and try and get them out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of the agents are going to get in that water to get any of the aliens.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are just contaminated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a gate that we deploy across the river down a ways a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll deploy that gate and then they'll all pretty much go back into Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We already have a battery of shots we take here at local hospital.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about 18 different shots for if any agent falls into that water
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to keep them from contracting something.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we saw today was a river of human sewage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The water smells like nothing you could ever imagine, as much as 25,000 liters per second flow.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It goes into the northeast where people grow crops that later on are sold in the Mexico City market,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we're being poisoned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our waste water is returning to us in the form of food.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you look into the rivers you can see bubbles, that means that the rivers are losing oxygen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contamination and pollution of the water systems is creating Cholera
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and water diseases are killing more children today than Malaria or AIDS, or even wars themselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The wetlands would normally have been a process whereby there would have been some cleansing of that taking place.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It goes through the wetlands and comes out more purified into the river systems, et-cetera.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what happens when the wetlands are destroyed?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where we poison the certain amount of water that can never really be fully recycled?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we now know is that we are polluting and depleting this finite stock of fresh water so fast,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're now mining the ground water faster than it can be replenished.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It rains.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The water hits the ground and percolates into the soil, collecting underground into what are known as aquifers, or ground water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how much of our finite supply of water is underground?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can only estimate, as there is no reliable method to accurately measure it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is why our growing dependency on ground water is such an urgent concern.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fabled Atlantis in the middle east had a real city attached to it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was called Ubar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It disappeared and no one could figure out what happened.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then some archaeologists found it and what they realized is, it collapsed in the dessert sand from ground water pumping.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only could it happen; it is happening today in Florida.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Giant sinkholes have merged, all of a sudden just big cavities on the ground, opening up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The effects are not always evident as with a sinkhole or lost city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Entire regions can slowly and evenly sink as a watershed is depleted.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A perfect example is where Mexico city is now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was once an oasis of water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the Spanish came, they didn't want their new city to look like Venice, they wanted it to look like Madrid.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they used slave labor to cut down all the trees that would protect the water sources and to trench the water systems.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what happened was that they just destroyed the water table.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, that was one thing when they were 10,000 people living there,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's another one when there are, what, 25 million, they've taken the rest of the water underneath the city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The city is literally sinking in on itself, and these great big churches are beginning to, you know, go sideways.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mexico is having to go further and further and further away from its local water sources,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there aren't any left, to find water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human ingenuity has found out ways to get water from beneath the surface of the earth for thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's changed, though, is technology. we now pump approximately 30 billion gallons of ground water every day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The farming community started tapping into our aquifers at the time when there were really not other demands on the resource.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way that the law works is that they're allowed to use limitless qualities, and then the added kicker is that the law said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"if you don't use it,if you don't defer all of this water, you may lose your water right."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, with that scenario, it doesn't encourage conservation of water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean why am I going to go ahead and quit pumping to save water and lose everything?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then, a guy like me who may want to quit pumping, to quit depleting the aquifer, I have to keep pumping in order to keep my water rights.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we pump water for such irrigation, some of it percolates back into the ground which is called recharge or return flows.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So long as we pump no more then water is recharged, we are using the ground water sustainably.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem is that we are pumping up to fifteen times more water from the ground than is returning back into it, creating a global crisis.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing that most people don't know is that the world is desertifying very quickly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are becoming a desert in many places.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our soil is eroding, simply meaning that overgrazing, winds and flooding damage the top layer of earth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,essentially hardening it to the point that rainwater can't easily soak into the ground.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our life source literally slips away from us back into the ocean through sewers and rivers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,draining the land of its moisture and life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Extreme weather, a world of hurricanes and violent storms over the ocean while the interior land receives less and less rain, or violent harsh storms that simply erode the land more.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deforestation is a major contributor to soil erosion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tree roots absorb water and, thus, hold the watershed in place.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they leave the land, so does the water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the forests that hold the water have all been logged, there is no place where the water can be stored.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rain still comes and runs away as instant surface runoff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,