Honduras turns to cloud seeding as El Niño deepens drought crisis
Flights spraying silver iodide draw praise and scepticism in a country where half the population is under water alert
Drought-stricken Honduras has contracted Mexican firm Startup Renaissance to seed clouds with silver iodide from a small plane, an emergency $700,000 program launched as an intensifying El Niño threatens one of the most intense episodes on record. About 5.6 million Hondurans, practically half the population, live under some type of water alert, and the capital rationed supplies to every nine days, or every 14 when El País visited.