UNTIL WE BEGIN TO ACT WITH CONSCIOUS AWARENESS REGARDING OUR POLICIES AND INTERACTIONS WITH WORLD GOVERNMENTS AND GOALS TOWARDS CO-EXISTING WITH SUSTAINABILITY FOR ALL LIFE AND COUNTRIES THEN OUR WORLD VILLAGE OF HUMANITY WILL FAIL AND WE WILL ALL VANISH TOGETHER UNTIL MOTHER EARTH REGAINS HER EQUILIBRIUM ONCE AGAIN. IT HAS TAKEN EARTH MILLIONS OF YEARS OF DIVINE EVOLUTION TO REACH THE LEVEL OF UNPARALLELED BEAUTY AND PARADISE ON EARTH WHICH WE CAN WITNESS HERE TODAY. THE ECOSYSTEM WHICH SUSTAINS LIFE ON EARTH IS QUICKLY VANISHING AS HUNDREDS OF SPECIES DISAPPEAR DAILY. WILL WE ENGAGE UNANIMOUSLY TO STOP THE CRISIS BY HUMAN MODIFICATION OF OUR LIFESTYLES AND PROTECTION OF EARTH FROM FURTHER RECKLESS EXPLOITATION BY CORPORATE GRAVE DIGGERS OR WILL WE LET EARTH AND LIFE BE DESTROYED ALONG WITH THE FUTURE OF ALL LIFE ON PARADISE EARTH…?
In places around the world, supplies of groundwater are rapidly vanishing. As aquifers decline and wells begin to go dry, people are being forced to confront a growing crisis. Much of the planet relies on groundwater. And in places around the world – from the United States to Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America – so much water is pumped from the ground that aquifers are being rapidly depleted and wells are going dry. Groundwater is disappearing beneath cornfields in Kansas, rice paddies in India, asparagus farms in Peru and orange groves in Morocco. As these critical water reserves are pumped beyond their limits, the threats are mounting for people who depend on aquifers to supply agriculture, sustain economies and provide drinking water. In some areas, fields have already turned to dust and farmers are struggling. Climate change is projected to increase the stresses on water supplies, and heated disputes are erupting in places where those with deep wells can keep pumping and leave others with dry wells. Even as satellite measurements have revealed the problem’s severity on a global scale, many regions have failed to adequately address the problem. Aquifers largely remain unmanaged and unregulated, and water that seeped underground over tens of thousands of years is being gradually used up. In this documentary, USA TODAY and The Desert Sun investigate the consequences of this emerging crisis in several of the world’s hotspots of groundwater depletion. These are stories about people on four continents confronting questions of how to safeguard their aquifers for the future – and in some cases, how to cope as the water runs out.
