Majority of Filipinos saw/expected a happy Christmas celebration this year

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00:00A Merry Christmas and laid-back Thursday evening to all yours truly.

00:08Patrick DeSus here still soaking in the Yuletide spirit here and pleased to bring you PTV News Now.

00:15Talks on our news leaderboard tonight.

00:18Despite nasty weather over the last four months, stubborn inflation and the biggest corruption scandal in government

00:25that has consumed the nation, most Filipinos see this year's Christmas celebration through a lens of joy and mirth.

00:32Results of a major pollster survey held from November 24 to November 30 show nearly 7 of 10 Filipinos or 68 percent

00:41had huge or moderate expectations of a happy or joyful Christmas celebration this year

00:47while a misly 7 percent of those poll believed otherwise.

00:51And a quarter or 25 percent said neither nor.

00:56The 68 percent mark for the positive-minded or optimist is 3 percentage points higher than last year's score.

01:03Surprisingly enough, the deep in this year's mark for the gloomsters or cynics of 7 percent

01:09is 3 percentage points less than last year's score of 10 percent.

01:15In addition, the record low for high hopes and happiness for Christmas celebrations was in 2020.

01:20When the COVID-19 was on a tear across the country and entire planet.

01:26Conversely, the all-time high for sad and solemn Christmas celebration was also in 2020

01:31during the country's first Christmas in the pandemic period.

01:36We live in a thirsty world where individuals and industries compete for a much supply they can get for their needs.

01:46And in the major rivers all over the planet, this fierce competition is made even more combative

01:51with the ravages of climate change.

01:54Our BOA Logan feature dwells on river water managers using computer simulation to help them make critical decisions.

02:01A series of dams, reservoirs, and legal agreements has turned the Colorado River into a highly complex water system

02:11supporting over 40 million people in the American Southwest.

02:15Seven U.S. states, two Mexican states, and 30 tribal nations all have rights to the river's waters.

02:22The system depends on precisely timed releases from the two largest reservoirs in the United States,

02:28Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

02:31Now the extremes of climate change are making river management even more challenging.

02:36Edith Zagona leads the University of Colorado team that developed RiverWare,

02:41a program that models how the river will function under different scenarios.

02:45We've zoomed in and we can see the very important Lake Powell and it contains the physical processes

02:55and then also all of the data associated with Lake Powell.

03:00Climate predictions, evaporation rates, power generation, and all the other factors that impact the river on its journey

03:07are included in the model.

03:08The federal agency managing the river uses RiverWare to run scenarios,

03:13such as how the river will perform in a bad drought year.

03:17What is the reliability of Lake Powell being able to release its water

03:21to those very needy water users downstream?

03:27Getting all the water users to agree on how to share can be difficult.

03:31Most stakeholders now use RiverWare, and the Common Platform has helped ease some negotiations.

03:37If we can at least agree to the facts, and that's what happened when we started working with Mexico.

03:42They had their system, we had ours.

03:44We started getting together, putting models together.

03:47It's important.

03:48The software is also helping decision makers on other rivers,

03:52from the Columbia to the Nile.

03:54Matt Dibble, VOA News, Boulder, Colorado.

04:00So we have come to the end of tonight's show.

04:04Join us anew tomorrow evening for a recap of the week just passed in the Global Roundup.

04:10And always remember to stay connected by catching the news right here.

04:14This is Patrick De Azuz, wishing you all and everyone you love a Merry Christmas.

04:18And thank you for watching BTV News Now.

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