of those to meat they're just a drop in the bucket one kilogram or about NUMBER_TOKEN pounds of common cattle feed like alfalfa takes about NUMBER_TOKEN liters or NUMBER_TOKEN gallons to grow and whenever you eat a quarter pound hamburger you're technically flushing it down with around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN liters or about NUMBER_TOKEN gallons of water so what's the result of all this water consumption for lake mead it's a lower energy production with the hoover dam energy efficiency dropping by NUMBER_TOKEN percent after reaching its lowest water capacity and of course there's less water available for people in the southwest to use last august the us government officially declared the first ever water shortage for lake mead this will cause cuts in water supply with some farmers who may be forced to give up on cultivating their land arizona will lose the biggest slice of the colorado pie which amounts for about eight percent of its national water usage for agriculture and human consumption that's why the state is considering the construction of a desalination plant on the sea of cortez in mexico now based on the un world bank drought could drive NUMBER_TOKEN million people out of their homes by NUMBER_TOKEN. such a massive climate migration could brew up political instability across the globe it's already happened the pacific institute put together a log of NUMBER_TOKEN water conflicts since the babylonian civilization they concluded that most of the wars were agriculture related and research showed water-based conflicts increased around five times over the last NUMBER_TOKEN years so what can we do to get out of this this is where technology comes in but before i get to that i'd like to thank surfshark for sponsoring today's video i always recommend using a vpn when using public wi-fi but vpns can be very useful even when you're at home a lot of online services use some pretty sophisticated commercial targeting and tracking and a vpn can protect you from that surfshark's cleanweb does a great job blocking ads trackers and malicious websites making it safer to use the internet even at home and you can even make it look like your ip address is coming from a completely different country this can come in handy if you want to stream a video that's only available from a specific location one of the best parts of surf shark is that it's easy to set up on all your devices whether that's iphone or android mac or pc search is the only vpn to offer one account to use with an unlimited number of devices use my code to get NUMBER_TOKEN off plus four extra months for free search offers a NUMBER_TOKEN day money back guarantees there's no risk to try it out for yourself link in the description below and thanks to surf shark and to all of you for supporting the channel now back to how some of these new technologies may be able to help with the fresh water crisis with surface fresh water running out and underground pools being expensive to get to everyone is diving into seawater which makes sense being NUMBER_TOKEN of the earth's water resources desalination plants have increased exponentially over the last NUMBER_TOKEN years however the conventional technique called reverse osmosis has some limitations i've already talked about the way this works in another video which i'll link to in the description but let me give you a quick refresher basically you push seawater through a semi-permeable membrane that traps the salts while letting the pure water go through it it's simple right yes but it's
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