Thursday, August 7 at 7 pm:
Hosted by Hari Sreenivasan
California, Africa and South Asia are all facing severe water issues. As a result many are turning to groundwater as a solution, thus depleting this last dependable source of clean water. On this edition of America Abroad, we’ll hear how a village in sub-Saharan Africa has figured out how to regulate groundwater, how California farmers are pumping billions of gallons of groundwater to combat their drought, and how despite plenty of rain in the Punjab region of India groundwater is being squandered.