The Global Water Challenge

By Todd Mundt

Published September 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM EDT

Saturday, October 3, 2009 9pmProducer: Spectrum RadioListen Again at PRXProviding clean water is a classic engineering challenge throughout recorded history. The ancient Romans, with their wide networks of aqueducts and plumbing, thought they had it pretty well figured out; today, engineers around the world are tackling the problem in ways the ancients couldn't have imagined.The Global Water Challenge explores how the hunt for water has sparked ingenious feats of engineering, and inspired technologies to help us live sustainably with the water we have. In this program we chronicle how the presence -- or absence -- of water has shaped our history, and how too little and too much of it is radically altering our present and our future.

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