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The Naked Scientists

For this special edition of The Naked Scientists, we'll be looking at the science behind the Glastonbury Festival.

We'll find out what it takes to turn a dairy farm into a thriving city for just a few days

and return it with as little impact as possible.

We'll also explore the scientific issues communicated at the festival and ask if a festival of performing arts is really the place for science.

I'm Ben Valzler and this is the naked scientist's science of Glastonbury.

Lifting the lab codes on the world's best science, the naked scientists.

The Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts is the largest Greenfield Music Festival in the world.

This year it celebrated its 40th anniversary and nearly 200,000 people shared it with them.

But turning a farm into a city is no easy feet, especially when it needs to be a working

farm again within just a few weeks. For the festival to run smoothly there must be adequate

water, sanitation sanitation road access and

electricity to all corners of the site. The infrastructure that keeps the

water flowing in and the waste flowing out is managed by Phil Miller. He explained the challenges of putting on the

festival. The biggest challenges is to make sure that you have all the facilities in

place for that volume of people, not only the people that have ticket holders, but the vast amount of staff that's

on site as well.

So you must make sure that sufficient water, adequate roads to get here, sufficient parking,

sufficient toilets, sufficient toilets,

sufficient showers, all the facilities.

There's a global problem for the side that we haven't got them in place.

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