{
  "id": 16477617,
  "title": "What a Namib Desert beetle taught Shaakira Jassat about catching rain",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/what-a-namib-desert-beetle-taught-shaakira-jassat-about-catching-rain",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-25T13:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/news/environment/2026-10-25-what-a-namib-desert-beetle-taught-shaakira-jassat-about-catching-rain/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "South African designer Shaakira Jassat has developed a water-harvesting system inspired by one of the Namib Desert’s smallest and most resourceful survivors. After successful pilots in South Africa and the Netherlands, the technology is moving from design experiments towards commercial production.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}