[Music]
if you try to drink water
from the ocean it will be salty
it will dehydrate you and eventually
kill you this is why
no one drinks ocean water but what
happens when you have nothing else left
to drink see i am now in one of the
driest countries
in the world the emirates it's a country
with very little water
it has zero rivers it rains
10 days a year it is surrounded by salty
ocean water
and 90 percent of its ground water
is also salty in other words 10
million people live in the desert with
not enough water
to drink not for humans or animals
this isn't just the emirates 99 of the
world's water
cannot be drunk it's just too salty or
too
frozen
but for the first time ever i want to
show you
the step-by-step process of how this
country
found water the first thing they did
is collect the only water they have
ocean
water then they built this
tens of these factories that specialize
in one thing
removing salt from water they take the
ocean water
pressure it and put it through a filter
that does not allow
salt to enter salty water goes in here
and fresh water exits from here
this is a crazy complicated process
every day
not thousands not millions billions of
liters of waters are cleaned
this way every day billions of liters of
ocean water
enter salty and leaves clean
now 90 of the entire country's water
comes from the ocean it is the highest
in the world
okay so we're here at a farm in the
middle of the desert and i have
this this water came straight
from the ocean and it was desalinated in
the process
and now you can use it to actually you
know feed the animals
feed the plants and it's very cool
it's very warm and it's very drinkable
that's magic the next thing they did is
even crazier
instead of cleaning water they created
new water and this is a true story
they sent planes all the way to the
clouds and released
salt in the air you know they have a lot
of it
because of the salt the clouds grow
bigger and bigger
and eventually they rain fresh water
into the country this is called
cloud seeding and in 2017 they did it
almost
every single day and when that water
falls to the ground they catch it all
the rain water
they collect here by building a huge dam
and this fresh water is what keeps the
people
alive i don't think people appreciate
this enough
but this water is fresh water it's rain
water
that was supposed to go to the ocean and
become salty
but they caught it before it went to the
ocean
in the middle of a dam and they made
this lake
but most importantly you can drink this
water from desalination to cloud seeding
to dam building to well building humans
are doing the impossible just to find
water
and the big idea here is simple
if we have to go and seed clouds
and do all this complicated stuff the
least we can do
is save water when we can and turn
off that water sink
you