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in the causes of climate change the effect all around you have a melting the temperatures are rising although you can feel it 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 a straight out back in the hot springs of iceland we'll be looking at the impact of these global issues at the local level. we'll be 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's the status of the us. less than three percent is fresh water and most of that is frozen in glasses and polar ice caps. its leaves less than zero point no one percent readily accessible over the planet's fresh water needs. but the supply despite resources on to france from pollution mismanagement rising to mount and climate change. in just over a decade it's estimated that world will and have sixty percent of the water it needs. and we were content to conserve it.

commercial be enough come to the dark 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 to that. view. millions of people were like 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 a 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 gracey 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 water is going in for the near the dead and that glacier is sitting at a very fast speed and everything every lady has a guest house and they're draining groundwater like anything if there is no rush or

water to reach are they gonna watch it in the polls there will be what it's like if you see people you know fighting over what are they to the it really 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 lawyer shooting of. you long. you collections and. there's that term i thought that she told you not have but i

don't come i found was not going to make an incident such as answer to she ten or nothing at the really counts of class which has in chief here. got to be met by a young treatment. when i come here she's asked what has been at the end of the procedure. here in the region of the population relies heavily on the indus river. but with the situation getting dramatically worse the local engineers 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. q chop your fork.

what i spoke for does is by using winter water storing it in the form of life and it melts exactly when there is this acute shortage 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 boils down and become. 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 to the we'll see a little demonstration of how it is. now that suppose in the mountain and that bucket there is say the stream from the lake or the stream water comes in the bible it is underground but here you can see. there is pressure in the pipe and then it comes like this so you can see small droplets which means water is exposed to the minus twenty minus thirty air lose its heat and freezing there's no moving part there is no electricity just gravity that's the beauty of it. good thing. that you. were heading up to the ice stupors further up in the mountains the first we have to make it works don't.

use these for the ice to push to help us form so this is going to break apart it's like the skeleton of this if you like. i'll go and give them a handwritten. thank you. my contribution. wow. never seen anything like that before.

this is. now i understand. you know. there's a bonkers idea which is quite. the design of the steeple 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 it would melt within days. after. their. claimed the top rate is crampons and i set and he's thrown down this role please do. it's 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 stones making it easy to crystallize in the cold weather. and when you see the size of a really understand how that could have

a significant impact. on what you reckon the volume of water is there two million liters going with. the bottom that really in the heart of the ice. is this large plate that's the one is channeling the mower down from gracie up on the mountain it's coming down to the base of the pipe because the head of pressure is forcing it if given twenty metres up into the air. to sprinkle. structure. for spooky. sometimes vision isn't just about handful of very stupid was in one moment village hundreds of protecting the entire himalayas and helping irrigate fields forests.

five thousand trees were planted in twenty fifteen and irrigated each spring with the water harvested from the ice steeple it is already one global recognition for this project what's the future for these guys where do you see is going in the next few years i see it going in two different directions lower and lower towards the people in the villages higher and higher towards the highest part of the valley where you can grow many of them genes of them so our hope is we could really hear 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 to the top of these two i stoop with and we'll get a sense to more morning. create these amazing structures.

the water in the pipe is released over night when temperatures reach 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 oil. the next morning a return to the stupid to see the changes in overnight. oh man. that is for the past to his. words i want to claim up but that's a good idea that's why i get stuck. i'm going to make quite a nice addition to this sculpture just thinking i'm going to come back tomorrow and

frame it. 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 games there almost for no fault of our. life would not have been possible at all in the desert had it not been for the blessing. because it had this delay is water from then love thousands of years ago being able to survive and if they're gone we'll 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 come to their own doorstep so we should be sensitive to see the first sign and mend our

ways. sources of fresh water. and drown to spread an 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 but in india boiled over in bangalore in two thousand and sixteen when the supreme court ruled to the state not to race hotel recovery and. has become a weapon of war in iraq and syria. two thousand and twenty two thirds of the world's population could be living. comfortably maybe closer.

jordan is one of the driest countries in the wild but that's what a couple to the west anywhere else on climate change population growth and politics but i'm already strained water supply under stress. with the country recently suffering from its was trapped and nine hundred years it is now estimated to only have enough water to recess support 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 mean the ex-pat look to riot and to being one of the well when people come to buy

more hotel. people come when they were on our boats out yes this is a man with the gone dog. so these guys are they going to sell the water to the people or if it's for that were they buying it now. we're. sure who might. have. this new there's fifteen families as to whom to bring the water all of them the same family as i did. what we did on the sixty meter 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. normal people. would. want to live why is the situation so bad with israel this year is.

it comes through. 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 have to distribute it to houses across the country is lost through illegal tapping and faulty pipes but a practical solution to these water issues 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 sign. by the needs of two point six million people i am reattaching into the tap and i'm going to make sure it's very secure ok that's tight enough ok good. for you how kind of. childish 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 fight. three thousand women around the country learning from this initiative is making a big difference. some

of the going to find white women have got a job fixing the plumbing. and i've been invited to join. the. broken into the time and nature of the water so they've got to make sure every drop of. the time. because. if the water. of the moss is just checking that everything's done. but. i think you'd know these ladies now. with the water tank on the roof signed off it's time to head inside to complete the job. so i basically lavish

a 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 to the last ones to. fail the first time i don't 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 science 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 will be in new it they have oh. ok let's see wow yeah i already know that you know no i mean i would 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 water wise women are doing even more important now considering the impact the in neighboring syria is having on jordan around two million refugees are being hosted in the country increasing the rate of groundwater depletion. just fifteen miles from the front is saturday refugee camp. this. is like a little sissy. as eighty thousand sign of fiji's living have just beginning credible strain on jordan's supply. getting water to the people living is a massive logistical operation carefully controlled 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 set.

we have. been reached. so it's like. very. ensuring the syrians manage their water russians. is one of the camps will to promote education refugees on 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 an adult there on the sea the fee and. this is women here. because they are of the let's say the course for the family

they are responsible for everything. and in the best way to manage their water ration is vital for these women and yes. it's great it's really good at doing have to kind of reinforce the message of how it is and how much we need to conserve. one refugee has been on the water wise women. i meet up with some who is now one of the initiatives by successful women she sets up her own business and employs five other female candidates. so the as you know when in my. opinion this was a. it's

a. moment. which is essential now the left. anything for you eat healthy. and i mean look at the way. it's clear that water shortages across the globe. to find creative and sustainable solutions. new designs such as this mesh like structure meets your pack converting pets to drinking and. other devices and looking to the power of the sun to help solve water in countries like i could. and.

to the mine causes are addressed to skies to continue to spread its innovations like these provide time between the ducks in the meantime. across the globe breathtaking efforts to clean up the planet sat 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 looks at new ways of preventing air pollution at this time and how does era a new television station in afghanistan is turning the focus on women it's on t.v. they are on camera in the guest chair and in the control room the founder of zone

t.v. says this project couldn't wait this team is for those mothers some voices that and those wife's living in afghanistan there's always talking about their rights but they didn't see anything in a nation where education was forbidden for girls as recently as two thousand and one and network just for women is a mark of progress there's also a very real element of danger of course we are threatened but be conscious that in the corner of our homes we have to go forward and develop ourselves and help bring peace and stability to our country. on counting the cost china to point out how president xi jinping wants to rebuild the economy with ai and robotics look at what i'd reckon all makes is causing tension along the river nile plus the u k c u divorce is breaks it failing counting the cost at this time.

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