Main content

Fighting the megadrought

How Chile has found ingenious ways of finding and using water.

Chile is in the midst of a 鈥渕egadrought鈥� 鈥� year after year of low rainfall which has turned farmland to desert and left communities struggling to survive.

But in the midst of the crisis, people in Chile have found ingenious ways of collecting, saving and cleaning water.

We visit the hillside fog nets, AI powered irrigation system and a high-tech desalination plant that are helping people survive and thrive when the rains don鈥檛 come.

Presenter: Myra Anubi
Reporter/Producer: Jane Chambers
Series producer: Tom Colls
Sound Mix: Gareth Jones
Editor: Penny Murphy

Email: peoplefixingtheworld@bbc.co.uk

Image: Daniel Rojas and his fog nets

Available now

23 minutes

Last on

Tue 3 Jan 2023 23:06GMT
麻豆社 World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa

More episodes

Previous

Micro-homes and sobercoins

Next

Bringing dead languages back to life

See all episodes from People Fixing The World

Broadcasts

  • Tue 3 Jan 2023 08:06GMT
    麻豆社 World Service
  • Tue 3 Jan 2023 15:06GMT
    麻豆社 World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
  • Tue 3 Jan 2023 18:06GMT
    麻豆社 World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
  • Tue 3 Jan 2023 23:06GMT
    麻豆社 World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa

People fixing the world on YouTube

Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel