Headlines coming up next its inside story. Aljazeera. And for you. Running out of water theyre calling it day zero cities like cape town and nairobi is soon to be dry and first two years of drought and bad planning so why havent governments done more to prevent this catastrophe is the golden age of water now over this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter davi Climate Change human action and a growing population are increasing the chances of a global water crisis thats what experts have long been warning about over a billion people lack access to clean Drinking Water and the un predicts a global forty percent water deficit by the year twenty thirty south africas cape town for example could become the worlds first major city to run out of water literally much of the city and the rest of the countrys water flows from neighboring lawsuit to and the next water crisis could be looming then south africa has been plagued by a prolonged drought for three years cape town is
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Time its turn at the podium. Im chris edwards. Editor of cato. Thanks for all you folks coming today. Infrastructure is certainly a priority issue for the new administration. President trump has repeatedly called for a trillion dollars infrastructure plan. We dont know exactly what that means. Does he mean a trillion dollars in new federal Government Spending or does he mean the plan put together by his advisors wilbur ross that called for a tax credit for new investment in infrastructure . Im not a fan of either of those approaches, so im hoping that the white house is open to different ideas on infrastructure reform such as the ideas that are panelists are going to be talking about today. Everyone agrees that America Needs to improve the efficiency of its infrastructure investment, trump has talked about deregulation as one way to reduce the cost of infrastructure. Hes talked about for example, reducing the cost of highway building so we would get more and better highways and so i th
Oppressive heat and humidity sticks with us right through the weekend. We have been seeing some popup showers and thunderstorms and one cluster has turned severe. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been posted for a large section of Chester County also southern montgomery and northern Delaware County until 5 30 tonight. I want to show you this line of storms because this line is really vicious. Its moving east at 35 Miles Per Hour and it stretches from 422 to the route 30 bypass p, 187 lightning strikes with this, so very heavy downpours making a mess of the evening commute and even the potential for small hail. So exton, grove, Frazier Valley forge malvern and paoli all in the path of the storm. You really want to get indoors immediately with all this lightening this is dangerous and unfortunately its not going to relieve the heat. An excessive heat warning has been extended across our entire viewing area saturday and sunday and the heat index actually could be worse than today tomorro