Why don’t we get our drinking water from the ocean? - Manish Kumar
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Humans have been transforming seawater into potable freshwater for millennia. Today, billions of people can’t access clean drinking water, and 87 different countries are projected to be “water-scarce” by 2050. So, how can we use seawater desalination to combat water scarcity? And can we do it without further harming the environment? Manish Kumar digs into how scientists are creating freshwater.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Manish Kumar
- Director
- Vitalii Nebelskyi, and action creative agency
- Narrator
- Addison Anderson
- Storyboard Artist
- Julia Shvyriova
- Animator
- Julia Shvyriova
