Solving Water Scarcity - Bermuda, My Perfect Country Boxset

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The solution is logical and simple. Bermuda's only source of natural water is rain and so every drop of rainwater is collected from roofs, where it drains into a tank and is then pumped towards taps when it's needed.

1.2 billion people live in areas where water is scarce and experience water shortages. Could Bermuda's harvesting system work elsewhere?

Find more innovative ideas from the first series go to www.bbcworldservice.com/perfectcountry

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome I'm Fee Glover and you're listening to My Perfect Country on the BBC World Service.
0:07.0	My Perfect Country.
0:09.0	My Perfect Country. In My Perfect Country.
0:12.0	No cities are built unless public transport is included.
0:16.0	Everyone can eat ice cream with cream.
0:20.0	Anyone in a position to generate, influence or impose public policy before taking up office
0:26.7	would have to spend a minimum of three months living at the lowest level of public assistance
0:31.6	on offer. Lack of food scarcity.
0:34.0	Education for all.
0:35.0	Our premise is a simple one.
0:39.0	We scour the globe for policies that appear to be working.
0:42.0	We dismantle them with the help of our big brain
0:44.8	team. We examine the parts, put them back together, and work out if they should go in our
0:49.1	imaginary perfect country. Professor Henrietta Moore heads up the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London
0:55.8	and she is one of our big brains.
0:57.4	Ah, we're all big brains in my perfect country.
0:59.8	That's how we know what's perfect.
1:01.4	Very kind to say that.
1:02.4	And here with us too is Martha Lane Fox.
1:06.0	You can take a look at our web pages, BBCWorld Service.com slash perfect country to find out
1:11.0	what's already on our statute books.
1:13.0	And in this series we might be adding Japanese gun control,
	...

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