Two water researchers at South Africa’s Rhodes University, Rebecca Powell and Sukhmani Powell say storytelling can be a powerful way to share scientific research with non-expert audiences- and in their case, it has proven to be a powerful tool to share water related research content with the ordinary man on the ground.

They trained ten early career researchers from six African countries – Senegal, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa – about digital storytelling. All the participants study some aspect of water, such as pollution, allocation and access. The results they say were positive.

We spoke to Postdoctoral Researcher in Water Science at Rhodes University, Dr. Rebecca Powell.