Engineers of the New Millennium: The Global Water Challenge

Dive into our special report on the Global Water Challenge

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Water is such a basic human need that it takes real ingenuity to find new ways to control, retrieve, and share this critical resource. We meet some of the wizards of water—the engineers who are helping communities handle acute water challenges and plan for the future. Listen to the individual segments, which are now airing on public radio stations across the United States, and check this page frequently to see if and when a show will air on a public radio station in your area.

Go to the Global Water Challenge special report.

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