(song) 2 00:00:02,17--> 00:00:04,21 I come from this generous kingdom, where the men who are born of its greens, continue limp, forgotten and, nonetheless, profoundly brotherly to powerful things. Permanent as the waters, the wind and hope Come learn the science of the whilrwinds, come listen to the night songs to the magic silence of the Igapó covered by emerald stars (song) I used to fly all over Brazil in the "Waters of Brazil" project collecting water samples from rivers, lakes and dams and noticed that suddenly, in the Amazon region, there was an amazing phenomenon we saw happen every
morning, which is this water vapor that leaves the Amazon, the forest 00:00:59,13 --> 00:01:03,26 I asked myself: but where does all this water vapor go? and when I discovered that it actually becomes an imaginary river a flying river, of water vapor The amount of water is huge, practically the same size as the world’s largest river, in terms of flow, which is the Amazon River Then I said: wow, this deserves to be known As amazing as it may seem, the main reason of the project, 00:01:23,12 --> 00:01:25,24 is to show there is this a flying river
moreover, to establish a relationship 00:01:29,08 --> 00:01:32,23 between Southeastern Brazil, which in fact receives, benefits ] from this flying river, and the Amazonian issues (song) The moment we know the flying river will happen in Mato Grosso, for example, we start getting the team readye I will prepare a flight plan, try to calculate where there will be 00:01:51,22 --> 00:01:54,04 fuel, where there won’t, how many hours we will have to fly, everyone gets together in Brasília and from Brasília we leave to these regions and spend, again, a week, ten days, making these collection campaigns until bringing
00:02:05,25 --> 00:02:09,17 all of these samples back, which will be analyzed at CENA (song) 00:02:26,13 --> 00:02:30,12 The project has identified these vapor currents very well, of water coming from the Amazon and several Brazilian regions These folks collect this water vapor along this route, and based on these analyses, will start to understand a little better how much of the water vapor comes from each place This issue has not been solved yet The possibility of working using, at the same time, isotopic nuclear technology, which we made here, and also aviation, collecting the samples appropriately and the
possibility of using satellite data to see it all, and analyze, are interesting tools And, also, analyze in more details how the changes, both global climate change and deforestation, may influence soil in Brazil and other regions in Latin America (song) In this project, we have the adventure of chasing the vapor hat is free in the atmosphere The sample collected in the tube, on the plane, and at a low temperature, condensates in a sealed tube when collection on the plane is completed This tube comes to the lab, where we transfer this water completely to an automatic sample
collection vial in the device, and then the device will show a small amount of this water where the laser beam is absorbed at different frequencies 00:03:53,09 --> 00:03:54,09 inside the device. 00:03:54,22 --> 00:03:56,07 In time, what we will have, 00:03:56,08 --> 00:04:00,19 is that after mapping the trajectory, where Gérard flew 00:04:00,20 --> 00:04:04,28 and seeing how the composition of these isotopes is changing in the water vapor 00:04:05,03 --> 00:04:08,25 This information is important for us to start modeling 00:04:08,29 --> 00:04:10,25 how much rain there may be in each region, 00:04:10,27 --> 00:04:12,21 information that is
extremely important 00:04:12,25 --> 00:04:16,03 both for society and for farmers who depend 00:04:16,04 --> 00:04:19,26 on this water to produce food 00:04:19,28 --> 00:04:24,16 (song) 00:04:24,19 --> 00:04:28,11 I love nature, and love being in contact with the 00:04:28,19 --> 00:04:34,14 atmosphere So, when it rains, I think it is great that the 00:04:34,20 --> 00:04:39,18 water falls and gets things wet here, and to imagine the story of this 00:04:34,20 --> 00:04:42,29 water molecule that is in this little droplet 00:04:43,02 --> 00:04:45,11 The issue we are very concerned with 00:04:45,21 --> 00:04:50,10 is what is going to
happen with the rain in Midwestern, 00:04:50,14 --> 00:04:54,21 Southern and Southeastern Brazil, if the 00:04:54,25 --> 00:04:58,03 Amazon plant coverage changes 00:04:58,05 --> 00:05:01,03 Nearly half of the rainfall in the Amazon 00:05:01,05 --> 00:05:05,01 comes from local evapoperspiration What impact will this have on the story the 00:05:05,04 --> 00:05:10,17 Whether it came off the ocean or from forest evaporation 00:05:10,21 --> 00:05:13,04 This process is fundamental, and it is how that 00:05:13,06 --> 00:05:16,14 water vapor that came from under the surface, 00:05:16,17 --> 00:05:20,29 got here in the cloud and was spat up there, at 1500,
2000, 3000 00:05:21,00 --> 00:05:22,11 5000 meters of altitude. 00:05:22,15 --> 00:05:28,13 (song) 00:05:28,17 --> 00:05:32,05 The example of this is the hot air balloon flights we have been making 00:05:32,10 --> 00:05:37,23 recently The need to get a water 00:05:37,26 --> 00:05:40,29 vapor sample with a more classic characteristic 00:05:41,15 --> 00:05:44,00 of the water evaporated from the forest was realized 00:05:44,03 --> 00:05:48,00 Feeling yourself hanging there, nearly in silence, above the 00:05:48,01 --> 00:05:50,05 treetop, is something few people have experienced 00:05:50,07 --> 00:05:53,03 Touching the trees, the branches while 00:05:53,04 --> 00:05:55,10 you fly is an
amazing feeling 00:05:55,12 --> 00:05:59,20 Seeing the critters, the birds flying by, this is great 00:05:59,22 --> 00:06:07,26 (song) 00:06:07,28 --> 00:06:13,14 The exciting thing about this project is exactly the educational part 00:06:13,16 --> 00:06:16,09 You spread this message to a whole bunch of students who had never given 00:06:16,10 --> 00:06:20,08 much thought to this issue before 00:06:20,09 --> 00:06:23,24 50 thousand kids in Brazil will have this content, 00:06:24,11 --> 00:06:29,26 they will be more aware of the important role the forest 00:06:30,00 --> 00:06:33,22 It is so nice to see the shine in their eyes, the
enthusiasm, 00:06:34,00 --> 00:06:36,07 the excitement People are always asking 00:06:36,10 --> 00:06:40,08 if we have an opening, if they can take part in this project 00:06:41,13 --> 00:06:39,15 Student mothers write saying: 00:06:43,22 --> 00:06:46,21 "Oh, I want my kids to learn this in school" 00:06:46,22 --> 00:06:49,25 "Could you send the kit to the teacher?" 00:06:50,10 --> 00:06:54,19 Rain is something special "Wow, it is raining" 00:06:55,08 --> 00:06:59,08 I never say that, "Wow, it is raining", it is wonderful 00:06:59,10 --> 00:07:01,17 I have often said I believe the planet should be called planet Water 00:07:01,18 -->
00:07:07,25 and not planet Earth 00:07:03,07 --> 00:07:09,03 70% of the planet is water, there is no life if 00:07:09,06 --> 00:07:13,06 there is no water, and nor would there be oxygen if there weren’t water 00:07:13,10 --> 00:07:17,10 the rest of the world treats a small glass of water with respect 00:07:17,12 --> 00:07:20,05 Because we know the amazing value of this water, 00:07:20,06 --> 00:07:22,29 which is becoming scarce in the world 00:07:23,00 --> 00:07:25,16 We have such an immense treasure in Brazil, 00:07:25,22 --> 00:07:27,12 such a privileged situation 00:07:27,13 --> 00:07:31,16 We have the world’s biggest
forest, the world’s biggest rivers, 00:07:31,23 --> 00:07:33,18 the most rain in the world 00:07:34,14 --> 00:07:37,26 The rain that supports our lives Where we are 00:07:38,02 --> 00:07:41,04 So it is important that we learn more about 00:07:41,08 --> 00:07:44,09 the story of this water molecule To know if 00:07:44,11 --> 00:07:48,05 we can survive in a given region of the world 00:07:48,25 --> 00:07:51,06 I have monitored the "Waters of Brazil" project from its onset 00:07:51,07 --> 00:07:53,26 And had, with Petrobras, this idea of our 00:07:53,28 --> 00:07:57,04 valuing water Every citizen has to know that this
water 00:07:57,05 --> 00:07:59,05 is very precious, that it comes from far away, 00:07:59,07 --> 00:08:01,03 it is expensive and will become scarce 00:08:01,06 --> 00:08:04,17 And by preserving nature, we are preserving ourselves 00:08:04,25 --> 00:08:20,17 (song)
