neu.mp3: Crossing the _____ Gulf, we come to the _______ and a nation a little larger than South Carolina. While the U.S. state gets more than 50 inches of rainfall each year, the UAE only gets between four and six. The vast majority of its land is desert. Yes, it borders the Gulf, but it has a massive _______ plant to remove the salt from the sea. But without a fresh water source, there are no lakes or rivers in the UAE, officials have the challenge of meeting the growing nation's needs for H20. There is a way to make it rain, or more specifically to make it rain more. It's risky, it's not cheap, and it requires flying a plane into the center of the storm. At a remote ______ outside Abu Dhabi, New Zealander pilot Mike Anstis is setting off to do something most would consider impossible in a desert. He's hoping to make it rain. Mike is cloud _____. OK, I'm going to fly. Let's do it. He does it by firing salt compounds into the air, to increase rainfall. On the wings of the aircraft, we've got flares, which we fire the flares, it burns and it ____a smoke. That smoke then attracts water vapor, creating bigger ______. The flares though are only effective if launch from inside certain thick clouds. If you don't like turbulence, this is definitely not the flight for you because if you're cloud seeding, kind of like Mike here, they don't avoid storms. They head right to the heart of them. Our plane is tossed around in the wind, side to side, and down. We're dropping. There is a calculated risk associated with this. We do have to know when it's time to bail out. How's the weather there? On the ground, scientists at the country's _______ center track the flight. They started cloud seeding 15 years ago, to help sustain a growing population in the UAE, one of the world's top consumers of water. Last year, they flew more than 150 flights. Each costs around $5,000. But they say it's cheaper and greener than operating desalination plants, UAE's main source of fresh water. Our material that we use is environmental salt. Very small, small amount that does not affected the environment. And it may be working. Rain is starting to come here... Back where Mike first fired flares, a heavy downpour pounded the plane. Did you just make this rain? It's a natural rain but we're trying to increase it. Scientists are still studying how much water cloud seeding makes, and the long term effects on mother nature. But in a region where annual rainfall is just around three inches, _____ like Mike say this may be the best way to sustain life in the desert. John Jensen, CNN, somewhere over the UAE. Now for three of the schools that requested a spot on our "Roll Call". We found them all in yesterday's transcript page at CNNStudentNews.com. We're starting in Juffair Bahrain. Hello to everyone watching at Bahrain Middle/High School. Great to see you. Moving to the capital of Indiana. Ben Davis High School is watching from Indianapolis. The Giants are towering over the Hoosier State. And in the Northeastern state of New Hampshire, the capital is Concord. And the Crimson Tide is at Concord High School.