How technology can help solve the water crisis in the West
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re bringing you an episode from the latest season of “How We Survive,” Marketplace’s climate solutions podcast. In the episode, host Amy Scott and the “How We Survive” crew explore how communities in the Southwest are using technology to reimagine how the region manages its drought-stricken water supply. It turns out that water is everywhere. And it can be sourced in unexpected ways.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Make Me Smart listeners. Amy Scott here. Make Me Smart is taking a break for the next couple of weeks. |
| 0:06.7 | So today we're bringing you something from Marketplace's Climate Solutions Podcast, How We Survive. |
| 0:13.5 | It's from a really fun episode that I think you're going to like. |
| 0:16.5 | You may have heard me and Kimberly and Kai tasting beer |
| 0:19.8 | made from recycled wastewater a few weeks back. Well in this special episode of how we survive I got to |
| 0:26.2 | sample drinking water pulled from the ocean, from the sewer and even out of thin air. It really is the future and it's how we're going to be able to |
| 0:36.7 | keep living in hotter, drier places. But before I share, as you know, Marketplace and all of our podcasts like Make Me Smart and How We Survive are supported in part by donations from listeners like you. |
| 0:51.5 | If you're able, please consider making a tax deductible year-end |
| 0:55.3 | donation to Marketplace. Your support keeps our nonprofit newsroom and our |
| 1:00.0 | podcast going and it helps us keep bringing you the journalism and stories that are part of your daily routine. |
| 1:07.0 | Contribute what you can today at marketplace.org |
| 1:11.0 | slash give Smart. |
| 1:13.3 | We really appreciate it. |
| 1:15.1 | All right, here's the episode. |
| 1:18.7 | It's time for trivia. |
| 1:22.1 | It's trivia night at Desert Monks Brewing in Gilbert, Arizona outside Phoenix. |
| 1:27.0 | Whoever wins first game wins a $10 gift certificate. The crowd is lively and the beer is flowing. |
| 1:37.0 | Oh yeah the rules don't internet cheat and while you're discussing the answers keep your voice within your team. |
| 1:45.0 | Trivia nights are popular here, but lately desert monks has been getting lots of |
| 1:50.4 | attention for its beer, one in particular. This is our town square |
| 1:55.3 | logger. That's Summer Decker, one of the brewery's owners. |
| 2:00.3 | First, town square logger. It's really refreshing. |
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