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We need to track the world's water like we track the weather

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Sonaar Luthra |

TEDSummit 2019

• July 2019

We need a global weather service for water, says entrepreneur and TED Fellow Sonaar Luthra. In a talk about environmental accountability, Luthra shows how we could forecast water shortages and risks with a global data collection effort -- just like we monitor the movement of storms -- and better listen to what the earth is telling us.

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We need a global weather service for water, says entrepreneur and TED Fellow Sonaar Luthra. In a talk about environmental accountability, Luthra shows how we could forecast water shortages and risks with a global data collection effort -- just like we monitor the movement of storms -- and better listen to what the earth is telling us.

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Water risk forecaster

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TED Senior Fellow Sonaar Luthra is measuring climate-related water risk and implementing solutions for organizations and communities facing 21st-century water security challenges.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

Read our curation guidelines.

Learn more about how to conserve and protect water quality with a conservation easement.

Support The Human Utility, an organization helping families in Detroit, Baltimore and surrounding areas pay their water bill.

Sonaar Luthra: We need to track the world's water like we track the weather | TED Talk