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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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In today’s episode we look at some ingenious solutions to water related problems.
We start our aquatic journey by going on a tour of one of Victorian England’s most important feats of engineering.
We discover a cheap and easy way to test for water quality, and learn about one of the biggest and most ambitious flood defence and general infrastructure projects in the world.
And we hear how a water and sanitation engineer in Nairobi, Kenya, is trying to prevent huge volumes of H2O being wasted in leaks.
(Image: The Octagon at Crossness Pumping Station, London. Credit: P. Scrimshaw)
Presented and produced by Elizabeth Hotson
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0:00.0 | I'm Elizabeth Hotson. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. On today's programme, I'll be looking at some ingenious solutions to some very pressing water-related problems. |
0:11.5 | From a Victorian feat of spectacular engineering. Building this sewer system must have saved the lives of tens of thousands of Londoners. |
0:20.2 | To a way of stopping water crime. |
0:23.0 | They know where some of the water pipes are, |
0:25.6 | so they're able to dig up and connect themselves to the system, |
0:29.4 | and now they get few water, which is basically stealing water. |
0:32.3 | And a quick and cheap test for water quality. |
0:35.3 | It's safe to drink just or no, and it takes like three minutes to get the results. |
0:39.7 | You can do a very large-scale monitoring with field tools like this. |
0:43.9 | That's all in Business Daily from the BBC. |
0:58.2 | What would you say is the most valuable commodity on the planet? |
1:02.1 | Gold, diamonds, how about water? |
1:09.0 | You can live without fancy jewellery, but life would literally be nothing without H2O. |
1:13.1 | It's quantity, whether you have too little or too much, |
1:16.6 | and how clean it is, a fundamental to human existence. |
1:21.8 | And if you follow the news, you'll have heard dozens of reports about water this year alone, |
1:25.6 | whether it's drought in southern Europe or hurricanes in North America? |
1:33.4 | We're keeping a close eye on Hurricane Milton, which is getting stronger as it heads toward landfall in Florida on Wednesday. Meanwhile, thousands in the southeast are still reeling |
1:38.4 | from Helene. Now the deadliest storm to hit the U.S. mainland since Hurricane Katrina. |
1:47.2 | The Catalan government in the northeast of Spain has declared a state of emergency |
1:51.9 | in response to a record-breaking drought. |
1:58.5 | While there's also flooding in Central Europe. |
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