These are little wells.

Dig wells for five years?

I heard that there were alligators in the sewers.

Valves control fluid flow and regulate pressure.

I've fracked over 3,000 wells in my life.

The first offshore wells were called whales.

In fact, he seems rather careful about cliffs and wells.

For all the activities like shaving, showering, grooming etc.

Poços is also the home of one of the largest bauxite mines in the world belonging to Alcoa.

Often what jams us up is sewage.

Another common complaint relates to the sewage smell inside their houses.

And we keep getting wells that are farther away from the ground.

Michael Pritchard Okay. We've got some runoff from a sewage plant farm.

It becomes more and more and more expensive to dig them out.

The sewage is still thrown in the bay with virtually no treatment.

So different cities around the world treat their waste water differently. Some cities process it.

One exposes the problem of sewage spill on São Conrado Beach.

And inside these wells, then microbial communities begin to form.

There had to have been 800,000 wells fracked in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas in that aquifer.

I said, I want to live and dig wells for five years.

You know, people say how half of all water well projects, a year later, are failed.

You had water, sewer networks that allowed for this kind of unchecked expansion.

As of November 2010, less than 50 of the city's sewage receives proper treatment.

Albertina is a city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.

Botelhos is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil.

Poços de Caldas is a municipality in south western Minas Gerais state, Brazil, in the microregion of the same name.

Theoretically, the platform would then have been isolated from the flow of oil and gas and the fire contained.

This is an early on photograph you can see, we had these gushers.

In fact, there are artesian wells where water springs right into the air.

The foundation of this curve is that we keep losing the wells that are close to the ground.

Many are domes, some are pits and some are smooth, dark spots.

According to the Bible, the wells were dug by Abraham and Isaac when they arrived there.

It was surrounded by wells with fresh water, where vegetables were grown.

Well, the reason we're doing this offshore is because if you look at our coastal cities, there isn't a choice, because we're going to use waste water, as I suggested, and if you look at where most of the waste water treatment plants are, they're embedded in the cities.

We can't tell where are the watering holes like we can on an African plain.

Over 2.5 billion people in the world today do not have proper access to water and sanitation.

But there are still major problems in local infrastructure, such as paving roads, sewage and water supply.

It is a little bit like having a waste treatment plant right next to an amusement park ...

Lithium salts are extracted from the water in mineral springs, brine pools and brine deposits.

Andradas is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais.

Monte Sião is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil.

Jacutinga is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil.

If it weren t for the problem with the sewers, we would already have built the house.

We wouldn't tolerate our parks being swamped by human sewage, but beaches are closed a lot in our country.

It will cause rising seas. It will cause saline deposited into wells and into lands.