Mr Heller please watch the below YouTube video. ————- Great Drought hits crops in Yangtze River valleys/To 145 meters: the 3 gorges dam isn’t working - YouTube video. ————— https://youtu.be/fst53LBZoSc. ————- When this video was published the Yangtze River had only experienced only a short but severe drought of 75 days by September 25, 2022. Yet the Yangtze River was at historic low levels not seen for hundreds of years. ————- ————— The Aral Sea today is nearly gone. What happened to the Aral Sea? Once the fourth largest inland body of water in the world, it's now nearly gone, leaving shipwrecks in the desert and multitudes of lives destroyed. ————- Until the 1960s, the Aral Sea covered an area of 26,000 square miles surrounded by arid steppes, which provided the USSR with tens of thousands of jobs and over 15 percent of its fish catch. This, however, was not enough for the Soviet government, which in the second half of the 20th century, decided to convert the dry region into one of the world’s largest cotton plantations. ————— The Aral Sea’s water was supplied by two of the major rivers in Central Asia, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya. The new plans to boost Soviet agriculture established that, rather than feeding the lake, the water sources should be diverted to form the irrigation system necessary to sustain the growing cotton industry. Under Khrushchev’s rule, engineers built 20,000 miles of canals, 45 dams, and more than 80 reservoirs to redirect the water to irrigate the fields. —————- The ground water, lakes and rivers on all the worlds major rivers and their tributaries are being pumped out at extreme non-sustainable levels for short term agricultural gains, for irrigating farm crops that require excessive water to grow i.e. corn, soybeans, cotton… ————— ————- The ground water, lakes and the Mississippi River within all it’s tributaries are being drained for irrigation purposes so quickly, that even quick sharp short droughts like this one of 2 to 3 months are bringing the Mississippi River to record low water levels. If this area actually sustained a year long or longer severe drought the economic effects would be massive for America. —————- —————- The western US is experiencing a similar situation with the drying up of the Lake Meade reservoir which supplies most of the southwest U.S. with fresh water. ————- Europe also is experiencing short severe droughts. I think the depletion of ground water pumped to lower levels in the past decades by hundreds of feet is the cause of the quick severity of these short droughts. ————- What are your thoughts on the issue?

Great work as usual. Your videos should be shown in schools.

Toto is doing a great job