Water shortage threatens Malta - 17 Nov 08

[finajet]

i was in Malta. i did not feel welcome at all. what a desert shit hole.

[avgnisthebest3]

Qieghed nibza jien ghax jien nghix hawnhekk!!!

Nispera li din il-problema ma' tibqax!!!

[seamed100]

yes ggh hg

[seamed100]

yes ggh

[seamed100]

yes

[stpuredood]

VIVA MALTA U IL MALTIN!

[bobomilan4ever]

and yet we still waste rain water! apparently the EU have put pressure on Malta and other countries such as Spain, to start coming up with plans to keep rain water...its about time i believe, we're in 2010 for God's sake...

[munxar5]

ON YOUR BIKE??????????/

[MaltaWheels]

the goverment should let farmers especialy those fields by the road side to built underground big storage for water this will help out farmers and if there will be a lot of rain the farmer can sell water to the goverment.This will help the economy and even will help mother nataure :) good luck

[MrJgrima]

We have always known the value of water in Malta. And before the huge influx of tourists there was enough water for everyone. The problem now is that most of the rain water goes into the sea, instead of storage. JMG

[lennonpolo]

Let's stick to the matter of the video! I spend my time between the UK and Malta and I am half Maltese. For me, there should be no water shoertage unless I'm missing the point, after what I have experienced over the the last few years. Only yesterday on the way to the airport, there was so much water on the roads it was like a river every where! And this happens every year, so if the Maltese were able to keep this water there wouldn't be a problem.

[hodkovice]

Malta? That´s the little island that kills 5 million migrating birds every year. No sympathy with them.

[camtonyray666]

@hodkovice I have no sympathy with you, how dare you accuse us of such poppycock? we have had bird shooting removed 2 years ago, because we care a lot for our nature's beauty! now I suggest you stfu and go hate other countries, cause according to the laws of Malta, it doesn't say anything about hunting idiots outside of our country. (like yourself)

[SexVulture]

i never hear too much about this country. i really want to visit. is it similar to italy?

[18luck]

@SexVulture well most of us do speak fluent Italian... but no, we're not really anything like Italy. We're unique^^

[PixieLandCanine]

@18luck do you like americans?

[munxar5]

@18luck what the fa....k you are talking about UNIQUE????????????

[munxar5]

@SexVulture HAHAHAHA

[hempymc]

@tetolina im guessing you was hurt by a maltese person at some point, badly, maybe in an old relationship gone bad. im also guessing your whiter then white and are someone who is very strong and opinionated. i am one of these so called sand niggers as you so wrongly put it. all i can say is, thanks for telling the world maltese people have cocks like black dude, huge. ;)

[xiaolinmaster]

@tetolina Dude...I'm Maltese and we are NOT like that!

We have a rich history! Just because our ancestors hail from Sicily does not make us wannabe Europeans.

[siaisjack]

@tetolina Bulgaria is full of mafia, corruption and coward people who bow there heads and accept to live in fear & under coraption.As they accepted Russian dictatorship in the past, your decades behind Malta we are a first grade nation your barely a third. Jealous & envious Bulgarian

[futuramark]

everyone stealing water for their swimming pools..greedy ppl. no wonder

[lewisformosa1]

@futuramark lol

[sharapovafan295]

This is just great.. look where the Maltese people are going to end up: drinking sewage! It might be cleaned but it was still ... well it was still sewage!

[katkylekim]

The reversosmoses has been going for years and we Maltese have never had quality water that could be drunk from the tap.Shortadge of water? With all the bore holes for farming and in every hotel in Malta no wonder there`s a shortage ,mind you those who have a pool too are to blame when we are surounded by sea water!

[sharapovafan295]

Good point overall, but people who have pools might not like the sea.. and with these deadly jellyfish swimming around, the beach isn't so pleasant is it?

[AAgibsonAA]

the "deadly" jellyfish topic was GREATLY exxagerated!

Even so people who paid for pools will fight before they give up on a luxury they paid for. There are a LOT of swimming pools in malta

But I do not think that is the solution. The problem really is that the system need to come down on these people using water illegally, and it needs to come down hard! With heavy fines/repurcussions

They let the problem escalate too long for the carrot, so its time they resort to the stick

[ewsiscrap]

Been to Malta a few times, and stayed at The Paradise Bay Hotel.

Good food nice rooms aall in all a good spot for a holiday.

[anth0ny699]

malta is the best country in the universe

it is the centre of the universe

[NecronRon]

...... u must be describing some other country which shares the same name

[avgnisthebest3]

@anth0ny699 Grazzi.

[anth0ny699]

maltra malta malta

[anth0ny699]

maltaaaaa

[Frederickzilla]

its good .. if the turks dont attack it again!

[jdmifsud14]

Im from there!

[LilLoverlyJubblies]

hey im doin a project on malta and i found your video really helpful but what did u say at 00.36 aquafur :s

[MalteSer001]

i think he was referring to the word aqudot

[offyatree22]

you and shilgenvens are in urgent need of intense and sustained physcological help. Look at your language, as if it's written by a monkey

[jocal43]

Get a life....you need one

[MalteSer001]

lets all clap for the wanker who jerks off at using internet as an excuse for being tough!!

[Greenstain420Brazil]

buy it.

[annarboriter]

The island like so many in the world is surrounded and basks in sunlight and yet nobody has figured out how to connect these two resources in order to make potable water?

Cheap fossil fuels make us collectively stupid.

[MinixInt]

Actually solar requires large areas of land, and Malta, being so small, hasn't got that much land to spare.

[annarboriter]

Really? Don't you people have roofs yet?

[MinixInt]

We do, but roofs are flat and they're used for other things, mainly for hanging clothes on the line to dry, for heating up water with solar energy and as a substitute for a yard and garden. There isn't much room for photovoltaic solar panels. They could be installed on hotels, in fact they are already doing so, but it will merely meet one percent of the energy required on the island... We're soon going to have offshore wind farms though, and we should also experiment with wave energy.

[offyatree22]

You should talk...!! China: Thousands of coal powered power stations with hundreds more planned;Doomsday type pollution and dire water shortages.(1 in 3 in rural areas in China lacks safe drinking water)

[annarboriter]

Since you say I should, I did.

[imBrothersReport]

News that concerns Muslims!!!

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[anwar068]

Strong report concerning a beautiful island & people. I had no idea that the water situation was so dire

[umalim]

rather than going to space and trying to change urine to water, Scientists should do it here the world needs water.

[TomMarAlem1987]

Alhadulillahi Rabbil-Alamin(Praise be to God; master of creation):

Water that can be recycled, should be. In the US they take sewage water that can be cleaned and put it to the sea. If you recycle water, you don't take more water, giving enough for others. Thank God someone thought to do this.

[ragnar336]

this is why you make stupid people not allowed to reproduce for a few generations and you let the intelligent people make only a few babies

the result will be smarter people and enough water for them

[alfdepalm]

lol good one

[ShilgenVens]

Eugenics?

[ragnar336]

we would have to vote on it, but in a lesser way than if you were to a dog or a monkey.

nah now that i think of it that way it is pretty bad, but it would be beneficial, but unjust.

they should devote an island to volunteer eugenics and you have to pass a physical exam and intelligence test, but its all free only ig your good enough but they dont kill you or anything if you got bad genes, you simply get to live in america or somewhere they will have a loving adopting family.

[TECHKLEC]

Cyprus is having similar problem but the Greeks are handling it differently than the Turks.

[johntabbot]

malta looks like a rich man's world

[electrofunkednl]

I think I might prefer desalinated water to "desewaged" water. I wonder what types of nutrients or minerals are left in each of the 3 water sources illustrated in this story.

[purpur1311]

Hi, the last stage of the 'desewaging process' uses a low-energy RO (desalination process) which removes 99% of anything that's left in the water....so essentially what's left is high-purity water. Seawater desalination is a very energy-intensive process and is not unsustainable on a very large scale and in the medium- and long-term.

[ForgottenFriend88]

Hey Malta,welcome to Australia's world.