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Towing an iceberg: one captain’s plan to bring drinking water to 4 million people

25 mins | Jun 13, 2019
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Unsung heroes: the man whose harebrained scheme could save Cape Town from drought. With as many as 2.1 billion people globally lacking a freshwater supply, and rising sea levels threatening to devastate coastal communities, one man has a solution. Caroline Winter, from Bloomberg Businessweek, meets Nicholas Sloane.

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