Rachel Carlson

Exactly.

Cape Town city officials knew they were in big trouble when it came to water.

So they'd started building temporary desalination plants as an emergency measure to have more fresh water for people to use for drinking.

But what actually let the city avoid day zero... What happened was that it started to rain.

Wow.

Filippo called it a messianic rain.

And I mentioned that to Erin and she agreed.

Oh, but that's not something you can count on in the future.

Right.

Especially not with climate change.

They were super lucky.

And Erin says a few years later during COVID-19,

All she could think about was how many times every single day people were washing their hands.

So you can kind of hear Gina, Erin's mindset around water has flipped since 2017.

And that's the kind of thing Kaveh says needs to happen for all of us.

Because people often assume water is abundant.

Or maybe at worst, they say there's a crisis.

At this point, Kaveh says maybe we're past the point of crisis.

Exactly.

And my conversations with people like Kaveh who study water and people like Aaron who understand how precious water is...