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00:26 - I have never, ever seen it this low.
00:30 I was talking to one of the fishermen today
00:32 and he reckons the surface temperature
00:33 at the moment is about 15 Celsius.
00:36 Now that's unheard of in July for Loch Ness.
00:39 I mean, that's almost Mediterranean for here.
00:43 I mean, it won't be very deep,
00:46 but the fact that the surface temperature is that high,
00:49 that's because there's very little water coming in.
00:52 See the speed of the river going down.
00:54 And we're getting a bed profile as well.
00:57 So the bed profile is, bed depth is about 0.8,
01:01 which is very slow here.
01:05 - Everybody thinks of Scotland as a wet country,
01:10 but the droughts are becoming more frequent in Scotland now
01:12 as a result of climate change.
01:14 We used to see drought very rarely,
01:15 about once in every 18 years.
01:17 And by 2050, we're predicting we'll have
01:19 very low water levels about every other year.
01:21 So Scotland's climate's changing
01:23 and we saw it and see the impacts of that change.
01:26 - Everybody's very concerned about water.
01:39 We had a fish kill in the river Ness two or three weeks ago
01:41 when all of a sudden the river dropped 100 mil,
01:43 four inches overnight.
01:45 And one of the small streams running down the side
01:47 dried up and there were lots of dead fish.
01:48 We had to go in and do a fish rescue.
01:50 So you're starting to see this sort of event
01:51 happening all the time, you know?
01:53 And I think there's real concern about the future of salmon
01:56 and a more challenging environment as we go ahead, I think.
01:59 - We can see that pretty much since March
02:20 with a tiny little exception,
02:21 it's been lower than normal.
02:22 The red section, that's record lows.
02:24 So it's never been that low since they've been measured.
02:27 - We're not gonna be seeing lochs drying up
02:28 across Scotland, but actually people who are managing this,
02:31 people who are using it for drinking water
02:33 and industrial uses, we're gonna have more periods
02:36 where we're gonna have to have more careful management
02:38 of our water and actually bring this into discussion
02:40 and thinking about how we can use water really responsibly.
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