Tackling water shortages with the ‘Star Wars’ tech

When a extreme drought hit the Indian metropolis of Kozhikode, also called Calicut, in 2016, residents together with scholar Swapnil Shrivastav had entry to a restricted quantity of water every day.

“We had been rationed to 2 buckets of water a day, which we collected from water tanks,” he says.

Whereas he says it’s not unusual for water provide points to affect components of India, it was a tricky month for Mr Shrivastav and others within the area. “It was a really humid…