narrator: on this episode of "earth focus," the most basic human need is also its most precious commodity. in california's central valley, home to 19% of the food prodtion inthe word, many li withoutlean driing war whileat the ee of morocco's sahara region, harvesting waterrom fog s the pontial toeeply imct culture amera focus ring clicking] [shutter clicking]

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it thrived because they knew how to make it thrive. start with what yohave. ma somethi with iand nevebe satised. that's a quation by gege washiton carv-- dese kada: boor t. hunterno. geor washingn caver. bucolonel aensworthade thatappen herbecae th was os. is was r histor this wa our town.e did itand when saywe," i'm speing of blacks. kadara:ulare la used toe the lgest frewater la west ofhe missiippi, and ba in the890s. and farmingecame more prevant in t area, the wer startedeing divted for th. and iteally hahad significt impact on the cmunity. e communy was tiving, b no commity

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where wtested. theactuallyave two lls. the wls are o they're not ry highroducingells, bu ey bothave leve of arsec in em that,n genera ceeds t maximumontamina vel th the sta sets as afe drinng waterthere's great dal of sence out there cumentinthe ill fects ofrsenic o hum health.rsenic i definite a cancecausing agent. it's very important that they have influence on what the ultimate project turns out to be cause it has to be something th they're happyith, tha thy'reomfortle with,hat they're coident inand that they caafford trun. n christsen: t hisry of wer in e san jouin vaey really e history of wer in lifornia and in e americ west. you ow, agrilture do ussomeing lik80% of theater in liforniaand it

isade, younow, a mtibilliodollar iustry possib. it's one the gre paradox of calornia d of th centralalley anof the sanoaquin vley, in particur, that the mid of so muchichnesthat's created by water--by growing these very valuable crops--there are people who don't have ean drinking wate aman monaco:anare is small town ofbout 600olks, locad abou30 minut dow41 from esno.

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stay or here androp in e water fill thisbecause en they ll is, it's moreasy to dp righhere. dream, the ameran dream. [ctinues ispanish] tha's bause i me overere. [contins in spash] monaco: e communy was rely

not invved in t process ofthe cotructionf the aenic trement pnt. so,eally,hat th saw appeningas a lotf construcon was gng on,nd then theirills skyrocked. th arseni treatmt plant s inalled in010, abo midway throu the yea and the6 nths lar, it washut dow causet was tocostly t operate. [solorio speaking spanish]

yoram con: the cllenge insmall counities that th'rnot able to acally runheir own systems.ou know,hey can't afrd, you ow, to he an orator th would bthere. this one of r laboraries. and this is where we do various types ofests omobile uts for war treatmt and desanation, ter qualy analys, and son. and ts is imarilyn preparion for alays larg scale dign of systs that a then fid eployabl this isater, no ampagne. wel we' lookingt the conol inteace r the ant at is ruing at poche.

ris linnan: we're in the poche draage dirict off of rsell avee here, los bano at o of the lot treaent est sites for eating suurface din wat. this partular proct house a prect forhe univsity ofcaliforn, los anles. and th're tting seval procses inlving rever osmosisif youad a seriewhere inn area le this,n the ntral lley, wheryou haveots ofmall mmunitiethat are sead out er a lar area anyou uld put a sma plant le thi a packa plant--ere' a pottial the for cost vings-t would potentially be game chger. coh: there aeconomi of scaleere. the re systs that y have, t lor the co is. youan think abo all tho communies as esstially bng a virtu wer distrt. here ey are coected viintern and

trefore he that befit of beingart of aistrict,ven thougheographilly the're not nnected. sder: i tnk it sods very prosing. an in fact i thk if sma communies re gonnaave to g treatmt, it's gonna ve toe a mol like tt. kaara: rig now, weant to me sure e have eugh water f the peoe to liv here anfor us tgrow. and rit now, we arat capacy becaus our sysm is old, and weeed to irove tha [solio speakg spanis narrato access clean drinki water irural califrnia isomplicat, but inemote viages thalie

within rocco's souhwest ountainegion, t oppositis true. re, nontditional solutis are beg embrac and ging he to cmunities in ed. [khadijghouate eaking native lguage] mila baach: herthe verty s beentaggerin

iterms ofater. ople wer livingn perpetuly endle anxiety d ma of the men were telling us how they would go thity and ge watefirst to the childre to the derly, and to t animals [donkey brays] [gruntig] [zna tazrte speakng native nguage]

bargh: the wer shorte and th irregulity of rnfall have me liveliod here ry difficu for theousehold [vehicle horn honks] [momed zabo speakin nate langua]

[aia derhem saking ench] bargach: the impact of climate change just within the 12 years at we, as an organization, haveeen acti in e region is real staggerg. there has en a gnifica increa in the at and ithe summs. the sara is rightn

he otheride of t mountai and is ving towds this gion ve steadi. ounirbbar speing french] barga: fog tas away a youvisuals.hen itomes ry, verslowly and gciously i run is organation th tod has theargest futioning g collecon project in the world.

barga: the fogoes thrgh t net, anthen themall moleculeof waterhat are insihe fog are caht in thhoneycom sort f netng. anthen wi avity, ey desce into a tter, anthen gather em. [abbarpeaking ench]

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07/122 07/18/22 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> what was his response about khashoggi? pres. biden: he basically said he was not personally responsible for it. i indicated he was. he said he was not personal responsible for and he took action against those who were responsible. amy: president biden