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Over 1,000 drums of water fell on every hectare of that land that day.
Where had that water gone?
Some of it ran off as flooding, but most of the water that soaked into the soil simply evaporated out again, exactly as it does in your garden if you leave the soil uncovered.
Now, because the fate of water and carbon are tied to soil organic matter, when we damage soils, you give off carbon.
Maybe you've got a swimmer and a rowboat and a sailboat and a tugboat and you set them off on their way, and the rains come and the lightning flashes, and oh my gosh, there are sharks in the water and the swimmer gets into trouble, and, uh oh, the swimmer drowned and the sailboat capsized, and that tugboat, well, it hit the rocks, and maybe if you're lucky, somebody gets across.
[But tell me, burnt earth, is there no water?]
So this is a cinder block, uncoated, and you can see that it's porous, it absorbs water.
Superhydrophobic is how we measure a drop of water on a surface.
A freshly waxed car, the water molecules slump to about 90 degrees.
And it's not just water that this works with.
Moving onto the next demonstration, we've taken a pane of glass and we've coated the outside of it, we've framed it with the nanotechnology coating, and we're going to pour this green-tinted water inside the middle, and you're going to see, it's going to spread out on glass like you'd normally think it would, except when it hits the coating, it stops, and I can't even coax it to leave.
It's that afraid of the water.
It's an umbrella of air all across it, and that layer of air is what the water hits, the mud hits, the concrete hits, and it glides right off.
So if I put this inside this water here, you can see a silver reflective coating around it, and that silver reflective coating is the layer of air that's protecting the water from touching the paddle, and it's dry.
It could be anything that's anti-icing, because if you don't have water, you don't have ice.
No water, no corrosion.
Without water, the bacteria won't survive.
In water pipes, we have fixed-capacity water pipes that have fixed flow rates, except for expensive pumps and valves.
A single strand dipped in water that completely self-folds on its own into the letters M I T. I'm biased.
Imagine if water pipes could expand or contract to change capacity or change flow rate, or maybe even undulate like peristaltics to move the water themselves.
It's shocking to realize that only 28 percent of American adults have even a very basic level of science literacy, and this was tested by asking simple questions like, "Did humans and dinosaurs inhabit the Earth at the same time?" and "What proportion of the Earth is covered in water?"
But it had a lockable door, it had privacy, it had water, it had soap so I could wash my hands, and I did because I'm a woman, and we do that.
He'll run back into his house, and he will contaminate his drinking water and his food and his environment with whatever diseases he may be carrying by fecal particles that are on his fingers and feet.
We know how to solve diarrhea and sanitation, but if you look at the budgets of countries, developing and developed, you'll think there's something wrong with the math, because you'll expect absurdities like Pakistan spending 47 times more on its military than it does on water and sanitation, even though 150,000 children die of diarrhea in Pakistan every year.
But then you look at that already minuscule water and sanitation budget, and 75 to 90 percent of it will go on clean water supply, which is great; we all need water.
No one's going to refuse clean water.
But the humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
That little boy who's running back into his house, he may have a nice, clean fresh water supply, but he's got dirty hands that he's going to contaminate his water supply with.
(Water sound) (Music) (Music ends) (Applause) (Music) (Music ends) (Applause) (Applause ends) (Music) (Applause) One of the things I want to establish right from the start is that not all neurosurgeons wear cowboy boots.
All the water for cooking, cleaning and bathing had to be carried in buckets and pails in from the outside.
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