Ancient water, modern solutions
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In a week of headlines about water shortages slowing ships in the Panama Canal and drought in India's Silicon Valley, we look at unexpected ways to manage the world’s water.
Presenter Marnie Chesterton and panellists Chhavi Sachdev in Mumbai, India, and Meral Jamal in Nunavut, Canada, tell stories of innovative ideas being tried in their parts of the world.
Marnie meets water detective Barbara Sherwood Lollar, professor in earth sciences at the University of Toronto, to hear how ancient water can help us plan for the future. Plus, how submersible speakers can help corals, and stories of living underground.
Producer: Dan Welsh with Tom Bonnett, Harrison Lewis, Jack Lee, Katie Tompsett and Emily Preston.
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| 1:04.4 | I left my city home and ended up driving along winding British roads that cut into rolling English hills. |
| 1:12.0 | I was surrounded by trees and fields and I couldn't help but wonder what life was like here a hundred years ago, before cars stamped their web of roads over the land. I passed through tiny rural villages and |
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| 1:39.3 | I'm Marnie Chasterton from the BBC World Service. |
| 1:42.2 | This is unexpected elements. |
| 1:57.0 | And representing our current age of global connectivity are this week's panel. |
| 2:03.0 | In Nunavut in Northern Canada, journalist Moral Jamal joins us. Welcome Moral. Hi, Marini. |
| 2:09.5 | And in Mumbai, India, broadcaster Chavi Satchdev. Hello there. Hello, Sukharmano. |
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