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effects all around the buffy of a melting the temperatures are rising although you can fear is about forty five percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere just now and that was when human civilization first developed. climate change is just one of the ways in which our presence on earth is profoundly altering the planet. and this new series of us rice will be exploring how to counter some of the greatest threats to survival including pollution loss of habitat drought and over consumption. from the mountains of the himalayas to the astray outback in the hot springs of iceland will be looking at the impact of these global issues at the local level. we're bringing you stories of adaptation innovation and action from the people who are rising to the environmental challenges that we face today this is a thrice. wouldn't

cut his teeth that the sectors of the us. less than three percent is fresh water and ice of that is frozen in glass in part ice caps. this leaves less than zero point no one percent readily accessible over the planet's fresh water needs. but the supply despite resources on the threats from pollution mismanagement rising to mines and climate change. in just over a decade it's estimated that the world will and have sixty percent of the water it needs. and we were content to conserve it. commercial be enough come to the dock in northern india with some engineers have

come up with some innovative solutions to alleviate water stress in mountain communities and i might even enjoy what we're going to take in the water crisis and that. millions of people relied directly on glass will melt water survival due to climate change these reservoirs in the sky disappearing at an alarming rate some scientists are protected by the end of the frenchie much the himalayas could be practically ice free. here in the dark which experiences only fifty millimeters of annual rainfall glasses have been the light source for centuries but due to climate change over fourteen percent of the local area has been lost in the last fifty years i'm

here to visit an engineer who's come up with a beautiful and extraordinary way of preserving the glacier water. made of ice. in the town of late say one don't need a local environmental scientist understand the next bit about climate change and the effects on mountain communities can you give us a sense of some of the challenges that they're facing here in lay the main crisis is that you have. is that we can see that kind of leisure and that's where it was and of the weather is going to be for the nearer the dead and that glacier is receding at a very fast rate and everything every lady has a guest house and they're draining groundwater like anything if there is no rush or water sewerage are they gonna watch it in the polls there will be what they'd like

to. see people you know fighting over what are they to the literally the situation is getting worse by the. almost a billion people are affected by shrinking glass years throughout the himalayas a nearby village few young farmers are on the front line. and phone shook and shook have been working here for more than forty years. thank you so much. ok so cheers have you noticed any changes perhaps with the seasons or with the levels of water or even the law in the shooting of. your long. collections of the past as the term of art to treat each other in not have but i don't come about and was not going to make an incident such as answer to she ten or

nothing at the really counts of class which has been chief here. and going to be met by young treatment. when i come here has asked what has been but it should be a trend of the opposition. here in the region of the population relies heavily on the indus river. but with the situation getting dramatically worse a local engineer so numb one chook stepped up to the challenge of helping the villagers adapt to these changes. in general february nobody needs water so the streams flow and going to the indus and into the ocean whereas in april or may everybody all the plants all humans are all dying for water. and then there is. cute shop is your forte. but i still does it

by using winter water storing it in the form of life and it melts exactly when there's this if you would chop it that spring problem is solved using winter water into ice that melts in spring and then set. the environment to mountain school he founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight tsunami has been refining and teaching his eye stupid concept for the last two years in the bible brings water and it falls down and becomes. you know next forty fifty years the people who will be running this world are now in schools and colleges i want to engage them in these you know it is to be sensitive towards the environment in the mountains so then the earth could be in safe hands. and before we go i thought we would see demonstration of

how it is. that suppose if the mountain and that bucket there is say the stream from the water down the in the bible it is underground but here you can see and there is pressure in the pipe and then it gums like this so you can feel smaller droplets which means watery very exposed to the minus three and the minus thirty air heat and freezes there's no moving part there is no electricity there's gravity that's the beauty of it good. thank you. heading out to the ice stupors further up in the mountains the first we have to make it looks don't. go into here. uses for the ice to put up the ice

formed. so this is a kind of way of parts like the skeleton of this if you like. i'll go and give them a hand rate. going on. my contribution. wow. i never seen anything like that before. this is. now i understand. you know it's quite

a. hope is a bonkers idea is what it is creepers and. the design of the stupor is critical for success you must have a minimal surface area to provide the maximum protection from the sun this enables it to last long into spring sometimes up to four months if the same volume of ice was a flat place here it would melt within days. after. the earth. claimed the top it is crampons an ice axe and is thrown down this rope is just pulling them up piece by piece and just adding them to the pile the prickly buckthorn is added all the way to the top of the stupor the water catches on to the thorns meet in easy to crystallize in the cold weather. and when you see the size of it you really understand how that could have a significant impact or against the words you reckon the volume of water is there

are two million liters going into. the bottom that really the heart of the ice. is this large plate that's the one is channeling the melt down from gracie up on the mountain it's coming down to the base of that pipe because that head of pressures forcing it if you know twenty meters up into the air and. to sprinkle it because you have a structure. for spooky. sometimes vision isn't just about a handful of ice stupids in one moment village hundreds of protecting the entire himalayas and helping irrigate fields and forests. five thousand trees were planted in twenty fifteen and irrigated each spring with

the water harvested from the ice to put he's already won blue. recognition for this project what's the future for these guys where do you see this going in the next few years i see it going in two different directions. are the people in the villages higher and higher the highest parts of the valley where you can grow many of them genes of them so our hope is really what we have lost to buy time and adapt to changing climate so we've just lost the sun over the hill it's getting cold very quickly but we've got a plan because danson and thomas here and they've brought some prayer flags to tie up on the top of these two i stoop with and we'll get a sense to morrow morning. is amazing structure. the water in the plate is released over night when temperatures which minus twenty minus thirty degrees. slowly building up these structures until they reach heights

of sixty or seventy feet. it's like all right thank you struck. the next morning a return to the stoop to see the changes in the overnight you're. asked to his and. i want to climb up it that's a good idea let's. get stuck. nice addition to the scopes just thinking they're going to come back to mournfully.

bearing in mind the whole reason that they're doing this is to try and conserve winter. is like a kind of water battery charger in the winter. in the spring. we are losing our game there almost for no fourth of our. life would not have been possible at all in the desert had it not been for the pleasure. because it had this delay is water from then love thousands of years ago being able to survive and if they're gone will be gone and it will be a real desert with no life people in big cities if they live simply then people in the mountains would simply live and sooner or later it could come to their own doorstep so we should be sensitive to see the first sign and mend our

ways. sources of fresh water. and drought is spreading the investment bank goldman sachs to. the next century yet it's already tension. on the indus river system. by india seen by rival pakistan as a threat to national security. and the boiled over in bangalore in two thousand and sixteen when the supreme court of the state. race hotel the recovery in town. has become a weapon of war in iraq and syria. two thousand and twenty two thirds of the world's population could be. taken to be closer.

to a jordan is one of the drives countries in the wild west what a couple to the west anyone else on climate change population growth and politics but i'm already strained water supply under stress. but the country recently suffering from its was trapped and nine hundred years it is now estimates it's on have enough water with us two million people it has a population of six men. with faulty pipes and plumbing contributing to the crisis i'm here to visit a scheme which is putting women at the heart of efforts to combat this growing. i me to expand look to riot and to being one of the well. people come to buy more.

people come when they were yes this is a man when we're gone. so these guys they get to sell the water to people always before they buying and now. we're. sure who might. have. this new there's fifteen families asked for him to bring the water for them fifteen families i did. what we did on the sixty. which is. an average of somebody else in the world this is well below the threshold defining water stress and it's due to trucks coming in. with. the right why is the situation so bad with israel this year is.

it comes to. i think personally the coming war in the region will be about what according to one study the kingdom supply of fresh water is on track to be. twenty six to make matters worse around fifty percent of the water distributed to houses across the country is lost through illegal tapping and faulty pipes but a practical solution. has been developed in collaboration with the jordanian government it's known as the water wise women's initiative. this course teaches women water saving techniques and plumbing skills and is supervised by x. magic. dragon lady the main top what happened the faulty make up all the parts of the top need to come out in order so that they can go back in order so the farmer can check them one by one. stone is the total loss to

leakage and is at least seventy six billion liters enough to see. by the needs of two point six million people i am reattaching into the topic and i'm going to make sure it's very secure ok it's enough ok good. for your kind of. childish if it was that. women are specifically being trained because in traditional middle eastern culture the husband must be present for a male plan they can visit. to fix the problem themselves saves them both time and find. three thousand women around the country learning from this initiative is making a big difference. some

of the qualified twice women got a job fixing the plumbing. and i've been invited to join. the. broken into the time and make the water so they've got to make sure every drop. of the time. because. if the water. a man of the moss is just checking that everything's down. but. i don't think you'd know he's made he's not. with the water tank on the roof signed off it's time to head inside to complete the job. so i basically like abolition room where people come and perform make they wash before they pray and the nails are going to show me

how to attach these at the top and they don't waste as much water helps conserve water because it's small it's hard to yeah. you have to. go on to. say over the past had to have that's fine barry thing when you go to people's houses sometimes you find many some men who kind of don't like that there's a female come to their home what do you say they say trials and see if we can do it or just give us a chance this year we are. so confidence with this they look at us like oh my god we knew it. ok let's say wow i already know that you know nice maybe i will die out is leaking from the top so yeah i was not ok so i think i need to stop now and let us take over. the walk the walk to wise women

on tuning is even more important now considering the impact the war in neighboring syria is having on jordan around two million refugees are being hosted in the country increasing the rate of groundwater depletion the censoring of fiji setting have just taken a credible strain on jordan's supply. getting water to the people living is a massive logistical operation caffie control with no pipe now fifty eight trucks like this one distribute water daily to twelve thousand tanks. or scouting for when the water runs out that's it. from me got a point of view we have a county here that is not being retired effectively so it's like you know we dream every day but do we believe it invariably. ensuring the syrians manage their water russians is vital. is one of the camps will to promote education refugees and

how best to conserve their water the water here it's. so small they need like an awareness session for them to improve the use it for the water these awareness sessions to help refugees cope with limited supplies ahead. and i. have been i mean does. that see the fear. and. if you had that let those. just women here. because they are of the let's say the course of the family they are responsible for everything. i mean the best way to manage their water ration is vital for these women and yes. it's great it's really good what they're doing have to kind of reinforce the message of how it is

and how much we need to conserve that's. one refugee has been on the water wise women. i meet up with. who is now one of the initiatives by successful women she sets up her own business and employs five other female comments. so the as you know when in my. opinion this was. sort of. the soft education is essential. kathy.

and. it's clear that want to show churches across the globe. to find creative and sustainable solutions. new designs such as this mesh like structure meets european converting pets to drinking to. other devices and looking to the power of the sun to help. in countries like ecuador. and go. to the mine causes are addressed to skies to continue to spread its innovations like these provide time to tweak and adapt in the meantime. across the globe breathtaking efforts to clean up the planet say around the way in

milan companies are turning to a radical solution biodynamic cement toxic pollution so this really is a living building that's constantly interacting with its environment earthrise trees it's the from two years of the battle for the environment trying to steer in ice and a pioneering a new technique to reduce emissions earthrise look for new ways of preventing air pollution at this time and. al-jazeera is there when our story breaks but also that to see what happens next. month. wired where model. seven that maybe here the movie is now is all about change people have gone to your area the mission of the national army is to search the entire complex and i'm just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. a family business handed down from generation to

generation but when this funeral director retires will his son continue the tradition but i don't think he was actually built for just like i don't feel like i was that you don't for a difficult choice for an al-jazeera producer caught between two worlds well it's really by tending to the dead to the living get better an intimate portrait of an industry most and counter only fleetingly al-jazeera correspondent death in the family at this time. the un human rights chief says those responsible for crimes committed against the revenge a must be punished. and welcome to al-jazeera life or my headquarters and made of a problem also.