." >> the caribbean and does s it stretches out across the third of south africa's land arerea. mountains separate the land in two different habitats harboring the religious diversity and the desert in the worlrld. hear, a world-class astronomy project anand a farming industry that exportsts food d around the world producing 3.4 m million sheep p year. 7 million people rely on this desert for their daily existence. most of the a area is extremely dry with about 7-10 inches of rain a year. despite a short summerr rainstorm, all of the water comes f from wells drilled into the groundnd and pumped up intno thee s surface parking back totn older, slower time. farmers, scientists, and to these are worried that without access to clean water like this, this vast area will be economically devastated. this is the name of the desert, but it is also the name of a shale deposit. this basin stretches almost across the country of south africa. look on as a curse for some and a blessing for otherers, locked into the basin might be asas muh as 400 trillllion feet of shale gas, the fifth largest

most of the arerea is extremely dry with about 7-10 inches of rain a year. despite a short summer rainstorm, all of the water comes frorom wells drilled into the ground a and pumped up intoo the sururface parking back to an older, s slower time. farmers, scientists, and to these are worried that without access to clean water like this, this vast area will be economically devastated. this is the name of the desert, but it is also the name of a shale deposit. this basin stretches almost across the country of south africa. look on as a curse for some and a blessing for others,s, locked into the basin might be as muchh as 400 trillioion feet of shale gas, the fifth largest d deposit in the w world. since the moratorium on natural gas exploration was lifted in 2012, companies like royal dutch shell and others are lining up about south africa's door, waiting for the green light for what the m moment -- for what te government hopes will be green enerergy, jobs, development. >> one of the issuues we have with thehe long-term costs of fracking is that the governments