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The Unexplained With Howard Hughes

Edition 329 - Water Crisis & Space Update

The Unexplained With Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

News

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

World-famous Harvard Space Professor Avi Loeb. Also news of a water crisis in one of earth'sbiggest cities...

Transcript

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Across the UK, across continental North America,

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and around the world on the internet, by webcast and by podcast,

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my name is Howard Hughes, and this is the return of the unexplained.

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And you join me here in London with the sun shining.

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We have a day that is a lot like springtime here,

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which is a little bizarre because it is January, but very welcome.

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I have to say, you know that I don't do winter.

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A few days ago we had torrential unending rain here,

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and then a couple of weeks ago we had a bit of a freeze, but really wacky weather.

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And this is all the more ironic, the fact that we've had so much rain here.

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If I look out of my window, there are still puddles of rain from two days ago.

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It is ironic because there is a city on this planet

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that is facing the unthinkable, a modern sophisticated city

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that many people have visited and many people know, including me,

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that is facing running out of water by April this year.

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And it is a story that hasn't really been covered too well.

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I don't think by the northern hemisphere mainstream media,

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the city is Cape Town, a beautiful city that I've been to a number of times.

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And because of a combination of circumstances,

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political incompetence, a little bit of corruption and climate change as well,

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that city has a real and serious issue that it is facing now.

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And unless there is some kind of miracle,

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