Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

slide by on track to your

there,

the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travels should feel and on our trains it does.

Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Hello everyone my name is Nate and this is Curiosity Daily from Discovery the best place to get smarter in just a few minutes.

Hey everybody, my name is Callie and we are so excited to have you here with us today.

Today you'll learn about the smart soil that gives plants a massive boost, even when they're

watered less, how our love of certain odors could be

more nurture than nature and a moss that could one day fill greenhouses on Mars.

Okay I'm a little confused about the odors one, so we got to find out.

As the world heats up and our climate systems experience complicated and hard to predict changes,

scientists have their eyes on our fresh water supply.

By some estimates, the increase in drought frequency and severity

will impact as many as 3.2 billion people by the year 2050.

Now we talk a lot about research geared towards providing clean, fresh drinking water to

populations that could face shortages.

There's a ton of promising ideas, everything from mist collectors to lightweight desalination plants.

Absolutely, but here's the thing. 70% of the world's fresh water is used for agriculture.

Oh, okay, that's huge.

So that means that a lack of water

will not just leave billions of people thirsty.

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