a seat on the u.n. human rights council and the pressure is intensifying my guest this week is alexander downer the country s high commissioner how does he justify a policy so widely condemned around the world. next d.w. . the young entrepreneurs eager to tackle global challenges in our series founders valley. in this. one family fresh water supply is running low it s basic human right for. its people working on sustainable strategies as a sort of solution to tackle those truck. series founder s valley in sixty minutes d.w. . every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word would have been poor. in germany to. make it simple.
scott: the walls come in, the ceiling comes down, the flr comes up. anthony: requiring constant maintenance. what s supporting this roof? scott: compaction of the snow. anthony: scott smith runs the crews keeping these tunnels clear and pipes flowing. scott: we re in the process of taking the chainsaw depth off the walls and ceiling to make them into a more usable entry. a lot of work. anthony: pretty amazing feat of engineering here. the lowest recorded temperature at the south pole is 177 degrees below zero. scott: where roughly at minus 59 right now. anthony: minus 59. scott: it s fahrenheit. anthony: wow, it only feels like minus 20. i can tell you it scorches the lungs and creeps through your heavy outerwear. scott: 200 ft below the ground, we ve melted a giant enormous lake down there about 2 million gallons. this takes about 20 inches of snow to make an inch of water. pump that fresh water supply up to the station. it gets treated at the power plant. the re
time to hunker down. the worst is yet to come. psii seeing a lot of downed trees. we understand key west, waters are about two feet above normal there. our power went out overnight. no surprise, given all these trees coming down. they do have a generator in key west should they get cut off from the mainland. that s the biggest fear, that one of those bridges that connect the 43 habitable florida keys could go down and take not only their power lines to the mainland but their fresh water supply from the mainland. they have a desalination plant. it s not as they won t be completely without power and water. another thing to think about as the power goes out are sewage pumps and what happens if you can t pump that waste away.
sanders who is still on the ground with us in beaumont, texas, as the helicopters take off. you can see the blackhawk helicopter, the second one is taking off. the patients are being flown to jasper, texas. that s the texas air national guard who have done some amazing work here. also, you have the staff here at baptist hospital. now that we have some of the noise down, let s remind people why they started the evacuation in a very orderly fashion here at the hospital. as you can see, it is high and dry here, and so is the general area. it is because of a lack of fresh water and i think we have a doctor over here, droctor, come here for a second. i m kerry sanders from nbc news. explain to people, the hospital lost its fresh water supply from the city. you have 193 patients. what is it about the lack of fresh water that makes this so important to move them elsewhere? well, first and foremost the patients cannot be taken care of because of no water.
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