The man who finds water in the desert

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Alain Gachet quit a lucrative career in oil to search for water underground. Colleagues told him he was a 'crazy donkey', but he eventually developed an algorithm that allowed him to 'peel the earth like an onion' and detect water beneath the surface. Soon, he was asked to train his talents to help pinpoint areas of life-saving reserves of water for desperate refugees escaping the conflict in Darfur.

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan. It's honestly one of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for
0:21.6	Lucan. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex von
0:26.6	Tundselman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. It took me two years.
0:39.4	Failures, failures, failures.
0:41.2	It was not working.
0:42.2	I had no success.
0:46.0	And I had a dream in January 2004.
0:48.4	I found a way.
0:58.8	And suddenly I could see a kind of underground galaxy of new, a new sky, a new sky underground.
1:00.9	You dreamt.
1:02.4	And I found it.
1:03.0	Wow.
1:05.5	I found it after two years of failures.
1:06.9	I found it.
1:08.6	Just a magic trick.
1:10.3	So simple.
1:12.8	Genius things are very simple.
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