00:00Switzerland's glaciers have lost more than 5% of their ice this year,
00:05in one of the worst years on record for glacier loss.
00:09The Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network, or GLAMOS,
00:12says a lack of snow during winter and record summer temperatures drove enormous melting.
00:20Glaciers have now lost almost one-fifth of their ice over the past five years,
00:25highlighting the rapid pace of melting.
00:28GLAMOS Director Matthias Hoos said extreme years are now happening almost every year,
00:33calling the trend a worrying situation.
00:36Especially the last five years were very extreme.
00:40If we just look at the last five years, there's never been any five-year period since the measurement started.
00:47A hundred years ago, there was only half as much ice volume loss as this year.
00:52So it is really a doubling of the previous loss in just the last five years.
00:59In total, Swiss glaciers lost an estimated 2.2 trillion litres of water between July and September.
01:05That is more than four times the annual drinking water consumption of Swiss households.
01:10It is clearly a catastrophic year, I would say this.
01:15We don't have any other words for it.
01:17However, already 22 was catastrophic,
01:20and I'm sure more catastrophic years are up in the next decades.
01:25The melting does provide one short-term benefit,
01:28helping ease water shortages during the summer.
01:30the ends of the last one in the next few hours.
01:30And,
01:30I think that's a good one.
01:31you can see the results in the next few hours.
01:31If we can see the results of the next few hours,
01:31I will look to the results that we haven't shown up,
01:31However,
