Water is privatised in Chile, resulting in high prices that leave thousands of people unable to afford it. But the country’s coastal communities have plentiful access to sunlight and sea water. Henry Glogau is harnessing these natural resources to provide people their basic needs. He has created a desalination skylight that uses solar energy to purify sea water. The design also uses residual brine to power an LED light, creating an all-in-one solution to the lack of water and electricity. Footage by Henry Glogau was used in the creation of this film.
Up Next in Season 2
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Jean Wiener
Haiti has long born the brunt of natural disasters. Now, climate change and rising sea levels place the country at further risk of flooding. While the region’s mangrove forests are a vital buffer to wind and waves, poverty-stricken residents cut them down to create charcoal for cooking. To conser...
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Barbara Zimmerman
For over four decades, Kayapó people have been fighting to safeguard their right to the Amazon. “Logging and gold mining not only deprives indigenous people of their way of life, but threatens the entire ecosystem,” Barbara Zimmerman says. The conservationist is the founder of the Kayapo Project,...
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Wes Jolley
Islands are hotbeds of biodiversity. But of all the extinctions that have taken place, 75% occurred on islands. “The greatest cause is human impact, and invasive species are a major piece of this,” says Wesley Jolley, a project manager at Island Conservation. Since 1994, the organisation has coll...
