Cloud-seeding should definitely not be seen as a panacea to the water crisis in the West or anywhere else. But it's a pretty cheap method of increasing water supply, and there's not really another way to increase water supply. Happy Early Earth Day. Abhishei Artsy made it rain with the production on this episode.
The Colorado River is disappearing and the government is now spending millions on one wild idea to ease the pain: seeding clouds to make it rain.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswarem.
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