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Water, water is life. Without
it nothing can live.

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This is a story about water

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and the river and the city
at the end of that river.

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The river begins high up
in the rocky mountains

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thousands of kilometers away.

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Lots and lots of people use the
water as much as wastes out.

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The river is called the (inaudible)

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and the city is (inaudible) Mehico.

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It\'s the last place before the river
empties into the gulf of Mehico.

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Almost half a million people in the city
get out their water from this one river

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and right now it\'s pretty full.
But a few years ago

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it dried up and there was no water
for anyone. This was a crisis.

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So here\'s the problem, \"How
could this city get everyone

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especially the grownups to think
about water in a new way?\"

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In other words, to create a
whole new culture of water.

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Something they did have was children.

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Children who could teach
adults and that\'s how the idea

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of the \"water detectives\" was born.

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As a water detective, I\'ve learnt many things.
But mostly about how to take care of water.

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I\'ve also learned a new appreciation
of water. As a water detective,

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I\'ve struggled a little because there are some adults who
don\'t want to understand the serious situation here.

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But I know that when we children grow up, we won\'t have this
problem because we are a part of a whole new culture of water.

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Good afternoon,

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why you\'re washing your car with a hose?
Well, because I paid for the water.

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But the water isn\'t yours. It belongs to
all of us. I paid for it, so it\'s mine.

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What you\'re charged for is bringing it
to your home. Not the water itself.

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Okay, who are you anyway?
I am Adiana Domingus(ph).

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I\'m a water detective. This is my city.
On the north is the United States

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and here is Mexico. This is our river.
It starts in Colorado

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and passes through three of the US states and
five Mexican states. We\'re the last city

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to use the water from this river. We saw
the river go dry once on July 4th, 2000

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and we don\'t want to see that happen again.

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My name is (inaudible).

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I\'m 9 years old, I\'m in the Fourth grade
and I study at (inaudible) College.

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I\'m his brother. My name is (inaudible). I\'m in
second year of high school at (inaudible) College.

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We live in (inaudible).
This is our neighborhood.

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This is our little family store.
And we are water detectives.

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[music]

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This is where we pick up the water.

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And through the pumping station
it goes to the reservoir.

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[music]

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[sil.]

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This is one of four reservoirs in our city. It\'s
where the water pump from the (inaudible) comes.

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[non-English narration]

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Because of the growth in population and industry, there
is an increased demand for access to clean water.

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You can see here that apparently
there is lots of water,

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but no. It\'s actually a small amount

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that would only will last about three days.

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[music]

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Meet the super heroes. Super (inaudible),

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the water drop who conserves
water, DK, his side kick

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and the bad guy, (inaudible)

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who goes around wasting water.

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[sil.]

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Luckily, (inaudible) are
there when we need them.

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Ready to set a good example.

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The water detectives and super heroes are part
of a big campaign. There are superhero murals

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all over town, along with plays,
contests and presentations at schools.

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[non-English narration]

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What we do is promote the
detectives in our community

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and give presentations about how to take care of
water. So all the children can join the group.

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[music]

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Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

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I\'m (inaudible) and I\'m part
of the water detectives.

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I\'m here to make a suggestion.

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Hello, good afternoon. Good afternoon. I\'m
Adiana Domingus and I\'m a water detective.

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Pleased to meet you. Listen, you
shouldn\'t be wasting water like this

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because we can only use
1% of the Earth\'s water.

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[music]

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If we are walking by on the street,

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and we see a water leak, we have to
report it otherwise water is being lost.

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Being a water detective,

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doesn\'t just mean carrying your
Id and saying, \"I\'m a detective.\"

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We have make sure that at home you\'re
not wasting water or your parents,

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neighbors or friends. And don\'t play with water
because it\'s vital and it\'s running out.

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It developed the children an awareness

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of the importance of taking care of water.

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They learned from an early age and in turn,
teach us. When they see us wasting water,

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they tell us, \"Dad, don\'t waste water.\"

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If there\'s a leak they\'d say,

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\"Dad, you better fix that leak because water is being wasted.
And we cannot do that.\" So we do learn a lot from them.

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[sil.]

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I just found the leak at this water meter.

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This is one of the most modern that we have. And
it can tell us how much water we\'re consuming.

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It\'s very easy to read. You can
see that it shows 28 cubic meters

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that have been consumed so far.
It helps us to pay our fair price

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and take care of the water.

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Almost half of the city\'s water was
wasted because of leaks and carelessness.

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The city is gradually
changing the old leaky pipes.

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But changing pipes is easier than changing
attitudes. The most important change

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is believing in a new culture of water.
Unless this happens

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the people here might
run out of water again.

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Right now, the river is
maintaining its same flow.

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Although the people who
are monitoring the river

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say that little by little every year the
river is diminishing more and more.

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The plant that is at the
river to extract water

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currently takes 600 to a 1000
litres of water per second.

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So you can imagine how much water
we\'re taking out of the river.

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If there was a drought, we\'d be the first ones to suffer.
None of you wants to see the (inaudible) dry out, right?

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For me, it\'s important.

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Because like all children and youth in my community,
we all want to live in a world with water.

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[music]

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[sil.]