Crisis episode: cause → system → human impact → levers

A 5-beat faceless video outline for “Crisis episode: cause → system → human impact → levers” in the City explainers niche, derived from caption timing of 2 reference videos.

Angles

• Open on something taken for granted (turn on the faucet)
• History line: cities that managed the system thrived
• Name the levers at the end (pricing, reuse, design)

Beat-by-beat structure

1. Hook (0:00–0:30): water rushes out of a tap — 'easy to forget'.
2. Cause (0:30–2:00): why supply is strained (one sourced stat).
3. System (2:00–4:00): how the city moves, prices and wastes it.
4. Human impact (4:00–5:00): one neighbourhood vignette.
5. Levers + recap. Original narration only.

Method

yt-dlp VTT captions (uploader-provided, not auto/ASR) → timed beat heuristics → editorial topic synthesis. Structure only; write original narration.