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  • Can water ATMs solve India's water crisis?

    Fred de Sam Lazaro Judy Woodruff

    April 13, 2016 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: India, Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi

    In many rural communities in India, access to clean drinking water is still scarce. The cost of bottled water is prohibitive, city pipes are in poor condition, and the municipal tanker trucks that supply some water are haphazard. But a social business called Sarvajal is busy scaling up a solution: a water ATM. These machines allow people to scan a pre-paid card and withdraw purified water from a stable, convenient source within their community when needed.

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  • Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

    Hari Sreenivasan Judy Woodruff

    April 10, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    With human injustices affecting people on the streets around the world, camera phones have become important tools to document crimes. However, the video may not adequately capture the crime to be persuasive in court. The global organization WITNESS has formed as Video As Evidence Program to instruct citizens how to best document crimes with their cameras so that the evidence will stand in court.

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