The increasing scarcity of drinking water is beginning to capture the world’s attention – but surprisingly, an innovative solution might just be found in one of the Earth’s driest places.
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Future of Water

Producers: María Villaseñor and Erik German
Associate Producer: Charu Raman
Editor: Jeff Bernier
In the newest installment in our What Happens Next series, we travel to Windhoek, Namibia, a city near the world’s oldest desert, where they’ve tapped a radical, and unlikely, source of water to set their community up for a more sustainable future.
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What Happens Next

What Happens Next

What Happens Next, produced in collaboration by Retro Report and Quartz, is a series of deeply reported short documentaries that examine radical transformations coming to central aspects of life in the near future, through the experience of people already living them out.

 

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