[From The Vault 🔐] MrBeast & The Global Water Crisis
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[From The Vault 🔐] MrBeast & The Global Water Crisis

B2Upper-intermediateFebruary 20, 202624 min

From The Vault 🔐 — normally a member-only episode, unlocked this month for everyone. -- Is there a global water crisis, and what happens when the world’s most popular YouTuber, MrBeast, builds 100 wells across Africa? In this episode, we explore some of the reasons why billions of people around the world still don't have access to clean water, and look at what happens when a Western influencer becomes involved. MrBeast's viral video builds 100 wells in AfricaWells provide water for half a million peopleHighlights of the global...

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Hi there, Alastair here. This is a special From the Vault episode. It was one of our member-only ones but this month it is unlocked and available to everyone. You can follow along with the interactive transcript and PDF study pack for free. There is a link in the show notes that will take you right there. And remember, if you'd like to unlock hundreds more member-only episodes and all

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the learning resources that go with them, you can do that at leonardoenglish.com. Hello, hello, hello and welcome to English Learning for Curious Minds by Leonardo English, the show where you can listen to fascinating stories and learn weird and wonderful things about the world at the same time as improving your English. I'm Alastair Budge and today

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we are going to be talking about water and more specifically we'll be talking about the most popular YouTuber in the world, MrBeast and what has been called the Global Water Crisis. It's a story of celebrity, politics, geography, poverty, mismanagement, technology and the liquid that every human needs to survive.

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