HOT CITIES - MELTDOWN
Rockhopper TV for BBC World News
45 mins x 1 of 8
2009
If average global temperatures rise by only a few degrees most of the world’s glaciers will all but disappear, leading to floods and severe water shortages for millions of people. Meltdown looks at the repercussions of this global threat by following a team of glaciologists at work 5400 metres above sea level in the Peruvian Andes and seeing how the inhabitants of Lima are coping as their city dries out. In Adelaide, Australia it may already be too late to win the battle against dehydration.