All About Drought
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All engine running. |
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| 0:05.0 | Absolutely genius. Get this. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the show where we bring science. |
| 0:09.0 | What that essentially means is |
| 0:10.0 | Discoveries, |
| 0:11.0 | the classes, research, technology, unbelievable. is discovery is the advances research technology unbelievable |
| 0:14.6 | without further ado this is the naked scientist |
| 0:18.0 | hello welcome to the naked scientist this is the show where we bring you the latest |
| 0:21.6 | breakthroughs in science, technology and |
| 0:24.1 | medicine. I'm Chris Smith and I'm Julia Ravi this week. And so this is |
| 0:28.8 | really a warning to us that the battle for water resources will quickly lead to political and |
| 0:36.0 | societal instability. We see how future droughts in the UK will be affected by |
| 0:41.2 | climate change, see how we could best capture our rainfall and look at |
| 0:45.4 | technology's potential at increasing the availability of our water. |
| 0:49.7 | The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. |
| 0:55.0 | The summer of 2022 has been one of a countrywide drought. |
| 1:08.1 | July was the Dryston over 20 years and now 10 of the Environment Agency's 14 regional divisions are officially in drought. |
| 1:15.5 | It's only Cumbria and Lancashire that are considered to have normal water resource status. |
| 1:21.0 | Everybody's affected. |
| 1:22.0 | Lawns and playing fields have gone brown trees are dead. |
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