Video: 'The Forgotten Cycle' and Opining on Groundwater Aquifers, Political Will, Underground Aquifers, and Past History

I got this video by Sahana Singh from Peter Gleick's Facebook page. It's a cute little clip.

I would argue that we do manage the water cycle - just not very well.

But the video is spot-on about the lack of political will. There is no reason why 1.1B people do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.4B lack access to even basic sanitary facilities.

 

Curmudgeon alert: Let's please lose the terms 'underground aquifer' (used in this video) and its ugly friend 'groundwater aquifer'. These terms are bad enough when used in the popular media, but they occasionally appear in the scientific literature as well.

Let's dispense wth past history and previous experience and start anew.

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” -- Unknown

Comments

[Sahana Singh]

Enjoyed reading your review of my film.

You are so right about the word 'underground aquifer'. When I wrote the text, it was aquifer, but the animator changed it to underground aquifer thinking it would make more sense to the laypersons, and I did not protest. You'll be surprised to know that there are many who do not know what aquifers are - the adding of underground before the word makes it intelligible to them.