barely this week over the next 30 minutes let's look at how a fishing community has found a way to work in the city's a dirty history of. green bike taxis would be an answer to. world wide and how female comedians are breaking the glass ceiling in india one performance at a time. but forced let's look at how an indigenous fishing community in mumbai you know waiting to protect its livelihood the meteor devo once the crown jewel in mumbai storm water drainage system used to be nothing more than a sewer its surface is proof that the river has high levels of pollutants from hazardous waste but the cordy community has found a simple yet ingenious solution to help bring even try.

the meaty river today for live deborah pollutants was once crystal clear. used to be very different if we flipped a few coins and we could see them clearly. come to our livelihood depends on this we make our money by selling fish from the river so the pollution is a real problem. for generation. coley and his family who are members of the coli ethnic group have lived and worked on the banks of the esther e. where the meteor. flows into the arabian sea.

but since the early eighty's the river has taken a turn for the worse. from . people throw all kinds of things into the miti river household appliances even biomedical wastes like used syringes and. they don't understand that we depend on this river for everything. i hope people stop doing those. plastic bags in iowa so much other garbage that we can't even row our boats through it at times. our path is blocked by large chunks of garbage floating around.

the 18 kilometer long river is the dividing line between the city of mumbai and its suburbs. 70 percent of its banks on both sides occupied by slums for whom the polluted river is the only source of water. the which lies south of the maci is known as one of the world's largest slums it's a hub for small scale industries like china and waste recycling. sewage industrial effluent and other solid waste get dumped into the river indiscriminately and end up flowing downstream to the estrie making it difficult.

members of the cali community like to fish nobody looks at me here as everyone descends i want to save the sense of belonging a sense of pride that it was if you go to the order of time or some even have photographs of paddy fields and the history of this you have us turning sadly nothing of that sort can be you know you it's very hard to see even as i'm going to fish also now because it's only in the harder when the fishes come in and they also really believe now there is no there is not the loss of fisheries in them it is truly is a study which has to be done you will find that you have lost almost all of it 99 percent of the work for sure is was being awarded to the fisheries value of this treaty has gone over. in view of the disastrous conditions the fishermen have taken things into their own hands using an age old practice the kohli's of dharavi have manually built their

own ponds forming naturally enclosed areas. here they can breed and catch their of fish. it's a simple yet ingenious strategy. to create the ponds the fishermen have to remove the silt by hand and down the sea water that flows into the estuary at high tide the mother could but it's or i was born in 1978. until there are families had worked and restricted and yes to ari. so when the city started urbanizing and more and more people moved here. land was reclaimed to accommodate them and there was no space for us to fish the 1st ponds in the community were built there and it must have the.

there are 34 ponds today in the estuary. unknown to most mumbai residents approachable only by boat and tucked away in the thick mangroves. the ponds have wire mesh is at each entrance which keep out the garbage flowing from upstream the mangroves to act like a natural barrier. the difference is stark between the innkeeper lack water of the rest of the river and the lighter color of the ponds where the fish are thriving. a long term solution however will be possible only once the miti is cleaned if you see them until the world cannot get any worse if we have hit rock bottom let's be

honest. there is a plan to get the military were back in nowhere which will allow me to become a recreation area an area for nature and nature tourism for this 30. allowing the fishermen who have their stadium at. the local government however has spent the last 13 years seeking to restore the after devastating floods back in 2005 ravaged everything on its banks but to no avail. its fishermen like vinayak kohli who are making a difference at the grassroots but often the 4th generation fisherman wonders how long this can continue. you can see all the garbage if nothing is done in the next 2 to 3 years we'll lose everything we've had for generations.

like the ones protecting local ecosystems is definitely the need of the hour in fact it could be quick to preempt problems of the future take for example food shortage changes in land use practices in climate could lead to the loss of fertility in soil around the world but an american company is conducting a unique experiment by moving farming underwater here's how it works. are those giant jellyfish know these balloon like biosphere is a part of the world's 1st underwater greenhouse project 10 meters below the sea the new most garden research project looks into forms of sustainable sub aquatic agriculture what's cultivated here usually only grows on land. diver journey from tiny as you regularly tends to the 40 different plants

cultivated here it looks to me. that the same time it's really hard for the scribe but by now working every day.