the global $3000.00 talks would seem british researchers to take a more optimistic view. the world is not always a good place but it's much much better than it was and how. is the world really getting better. a global $3000.00 special reports. starts august 19th sunday to. the. whole welcome to a brand new episode of eco india a sustainability magazine vivi train the spotlight on solutions for the biggest environmental problems affecting us to be. coming to you from mumbai in india over

the next 30 minutes why delhi is largest river use in the early days and what can be done to see that good traditional wales give the on certain thing going to lose watchable is somehow flamingos and spin on driving change towards sustainable tourism. but 1st to a story that needs urgent attention then he's largest to avoid is in danger but he saw it shows that there is a nearly norm dissolved oxygen in the river the biggest but i'm going to sustain life in order to vote equal system for several years the government has i would not action plan in place but not much has changed at the crossroads the task of caring for the river has fallen upon a few unassuming least because who live on its back its go to this study.

every day at the crack of dawn 20 year old money shot reduced to the inky jamo now river not knowing what he might bump into. hard to clothes human feces sewage you'll find just about everything on this water the young one is full of garbage people pack stuff in bags and just dump it in the river. is part of assignment unassuming army of informal waste pickers who live on the banks of the river and work towards cleaning it on officially. every time we remove plastic bags from the river we feel proud that we're able to

and are capable of cleaning the yamana it makes us feel good and in the process we also earn our livelihoods. as it's respectfully called by millions of different keys is considered one of india's holiest rivers. the go to the waters of the yemen eiji can cure any disease and working in bathing in these waters for the last 2 years and i've never faced any edging or any skin problems. not going to call you on. it so how lethal people forget that it's also the country's most polluted river . the river today no longer a river it is just a dream. there is almost no freshwater there's no marine life in the river if you

don't break up now i don't know when we'll break up and maybe that one thought will make you wake up that this is the drinking water supply what we put in the i mean i hear my truck drinks what my truck. drinks per day what is a country n'est system what we do when we defile it somebody down team is going to pay the price for it and this is going to got through this is not something we can defer the time of action is gone we have gone through so many human action plans we have heard so much talk we need action right now and i think there is just no question about the urgency of the matter. the problem begins when the river flows down. from was in about bear out in the north of the city. more than 70 percent of the total pollution is injected into this 30 kilometer stretch that follows. the plan to

clean the 1400 kilometer danielle morna has been in place since 1993. but solid waste she which and industrial effluents flow into the river unchecked even today. well of them have tried telling people not to letter but they don't listen i remember asking someone why they were dumping plastic into the river and they turned around and said hey if the government doesn't stop us who are you to say anything so i stop saying anything. out of the. informal waste pickers like show them our help recycle about 20 to 25 percent of the solid waste daily generate. i mean you get there again what do you see years i don't litter and i have the. if you bring plastic keep it aside and we'll collect it you don't need to throw it into the water if we keep the clean it will only be

a good thing for the river so. the government only cleans the river during the floods. they still haven't been able to come up with a solution for the river. there was a cleanup effort some time back. if people came in t. shirts with the word yamana written on them they picked up a few plastic bags then they left i must have gotten tired of the army cannot it. even though their work is only informal the way speakers are responsible for tons of plastic and other solid waste so to manually remove from the river every day the sift through toxic garbage to separate it into resale oblige them such as plastics and metal and sell it to waste merchants who found their. recycling to earn less than $2.00 a day but continue to strive to clean the honey river. you know. if the yama is cleaned up we may lose our livelihood but

that's ok. we'll find something else to turn out this is our duty we treat this as our job. we feel good and happy that we're doing this work. we're happy that you're going to g. has given us this opportunity to clean it up we could do better jobs if we wanted but we're happy doing this already because of this. 70 percent of delhi's water needs are met by the yamana yes government inaction and rampant dumping have created a vicious cycle that's difficult to break while the city waits patiently for mindsets to shift its waste because like money sharma who are bringing about a small yet significant change every single day. now with constant exploitation what only will become the most expensive resource in

the coming years as scientists predict another indian city is already experiencing this all the past 2 decades bigloo has grown into a global because it's india's silicon valley but its massive open sprawl has not come good problems and there are many who now feel that the city will soon run out before to get traditional will begin techniques come to the rescue that's why. bangalore india silicon valley. a high flying i.t. hub for multinational corporations located on the city's outer edges. but bangalore is also home to severe water issues. polluted lakes that froth over with toxic foam made up of chemicals and raw sewage and unchecked tech driven urban growth that has left many of the city's water grid. among those affected is saddam krishnan he's a successful i.t. professional with his own company. but his apartment complex gets no piped water

it's a problem faced by many in bangalore's tech community in. the fight and says their patience with civic authorities is wearing them when. expectation was definitely like not regular water supply and connection. many in bangalore are now reliant on private tankers. which get their supply from bore wells as deep as 1500 feet the practice is depleting the local water reserves. leaving many worried the city could soon run out of the resource altogether. but conservation is vishwa knots or country or believes the situation is not so dire he's been studying bangalore's water for over 30 years and says the crisis has been blown out of proportion because of its effect on the i t community these are the people with the longest war he says and sometimes they have why is this distort the problem definition

itself it does to the resources when you go it's not so equally as the issue and i look asian is the issue which would come with infrastructure. like these are built and maintained by traditional well diggers like ramakrishna who lives in a village outside the city. ramakrishna is a 4th generation well digger and his community's local know how it's centuries old he believes it can be used to help tackle the city's modern day problems. earlier we used to get all our water from open wells people forgot about them but now they're becoming more aware and think we should use. the correct we keep using bore wells the city will run out of water. alongside water conservation is ramakrishna is now involved in a campaign to recharge the city's wealth it would replenish shallow groundwater aquifers with rainwater the process is more environmentally friendly than joining

bore wells deep into the ground and the campaign aims to have a 1000000 functional open wells by the time it's done and i'm a christian and the community belongs to represent a more sustainable approach to water conservation and if bangalore draws upon their traditional expertise it might just dam its water crisis before the taps run dry. 97 percent of the planet is covered by water and the telcos often measured by the floor and for now that live in it one of the oil best fish species in the world the storage and is critically endangered but project wonder fish is making sure they have a new lease on life. people in germany are bringing back a living fossil. the sturgeon is one of the oldest fish species in the world. it's existed for 200000000 years. but 40 years ago the

sturgeon population in germany died out. one of the reasons was river pollution also the fish need to migrate to feed and spawn. built wares and dams made their journey impossible. the project funded finch aims to return the study into german rivers the 1st step is to breed fish under controlled conditions. when they're released into rivers with the aid of schoolchildren. once they're released the sturgeon migrate to the sea. the hope is that the fish will return to reproduce in about 15 years. in the meantime fish ladders will be built to help the fish swim past winners and downs. like them.

who are also doing your bit jealous about. visit our website or send us a tweet. doing your been sharing your story. something to get up to 60 and bob which is hardly the fictive by geography the next story in the above made up a lot of coffee problematic noise pollution in mumbai the city has a huge traffic problem and noise level up if they could believe it live beyond the pale of the book 55 decibels not. it is stunning to me that. the noisiest be brought into the sense that the global. noisiest countries in the world has also found that various correlations between noise and

healthy. man who has blood pressure heart disease also productive it lack of sleep related ailments one was also very densely packed city so one person making noise can actually bestow hundreds of. thousands of people depending on the location. it started as a voluntary work on noise pollution but over the last 2 decades it has turned into a crusade for so made up the nightly today she's perhaps the biggest champion against noise pollution in the city. it all began in 2002 with finding a public interest due to geisha in the bombay high court. a year later the 1st court order banning loudspeakers inside and zones was passed marking the beginning of what has been

a long but deep fear avoiding judie. people started calling me once the press reported it and published my number of the people started calling me and the kind of emotion that i felt and her. crying on the phone . even if you can't help us just the fact that you're listening to us is enough for us that's what we think was being in my. papers through samantha's efforts in her own capacity as well as 2 of us foundation that noise pollution started getting the kind of attention you'd had already. but it wasn't an easy job for a known activist. the 1st thing that we realized was that i realized was that there was no day or so there will noise rules with specified discipline those would have to be maintained but nobody knew what the decibel levels actually were and so the

very 1st day in fact said that my should because the degree is not new and level because there was no real point to find it so i realized that i have to get it that it themselves and i was lucky someone donated annoys me to i think that's me done i just did it myself now with the advent of technology everybody every person can have a decibel meter on their phone it's a free app. mumbaikar is are using this for the. thinking using dissolute. readings on their form. of us foundation's noise pollution campaigns have found support from mumbai causes and are now in fact spreading to other cities in the country. as the foundation is an unfunded angel so mad. asks people to contribute their own resources to make their city a better place to be even. staking efforts over the past 2 decades perhaps finding

the paid off. i was very what it because i've been here doing it my so does but i found that everybody stepped up. nothing suffered the noise beatings went on those who showed up and fact the government also did more mall than usual they did their beatings the police did a good job there were numerous complaints from citizens and nothing so folks i'm really very happy because that means that it's no longer dependent on me as an individual it is actually a people's movement. love despite being sucked. a grief problem abdul ali is one of the handful of people who works on solving the problem of noise pollution let's look at the story of another citizen of mumbai who's made it his mission to take the city's young and old closer to its rich marine biodiversity and of course their armies. who would expect to reach

biodiversity off the coast of mumbai. he 1st became aware of it while doing his regular work teaching water sports nowadays he documents and helps conserve the richmond real life that thrives along the city's coastline. in recent years he's photographed more than $250.00 species including. the 5th a crab the sunset shell and a blue button jellyfish. these are really did what. they want he also conducts shore walks during late china helping raise awareness and sensitize people. here is lake popular

a thing i don't know but ok more people walk on the beach and if they see and if they find such or die with marine life i don't wait very definitely not to. start respecting ocean nobody knows i mean people think i mean beaches are dirty. and oil fields comes in to go. even though i mean we have reached my being there with. the idea is that if people see that organ only they can understand this kind of life. i don't know that life. but conservation will happen at all medically. to beaches of mumbai or how much are some of the most polluted waters in the world but despite the filth the 167 kilometers of coastline are also a treasure trove of marine life waiting to be explored. basically in.

abandoned i mean you can see. all over the. years then. some shells i mean what is very common through these these things that are really common and believe you have seen. that jellyfish kind of thing. would be scenario you can see in the. summer. and definitely. a scorpion fish so that's that's. by documenting what he finds he's drawing attention to waste disposal and environmental violations. we're planning to document these things then definitely young scientists. approach explored before. definitely come forward and do some more studies i don't the.

here's what can preserve mumbai's beaches from further loss of biodiversity. loss getting up close with nature is essential to understanding the value of its many parts and protect them even more even in spain is using flamingos which flock to its nature reserves each year to campaign for more sustainability and polish the party island's image but will this be detrimental let's take a look. carefully and quietly john carlos approaches the flamingo watching from afar he doesn't want to startle the bird. his passion. flamingos are all looking highly unusual bugs so it's easy to get people interested in them even those who don't care about environmental protection. and.

l.m. is happy to see the birds flock to a beat those last cell in a salt flats discounted hundreds of them already and their numbers have been on the rise in recent years that's good news for the spanish island but mass tourism is posing a danger to the birds. has become too busy for them to bring up their young. men april when the breeding season begins most adult birds fly away to reproduce. because in spring flocks of tourists descend on a veto which has become known as the mediterranean for number one party destination as visitor numbers saw the environment pays the price and most holidaymakers couldn't care less a road leads straight through the says salinas national park to

a highly popular beach which is teeming with visitors even in low season. tourists stop to snap pictures of the exotic birds some even straight into the nature reserve. one and only wanted to know that there was but well that's the only way to get to really see these birds. unfortunately that's how it is when you enter a nature reserve so that in all the winter to see the birds in their actual habitat to get is that not and i can assume someone out there are going to say i thought. feels this kind of behavior has to stop last silliness with the phoenicians began producing salt 2000 years ago has plenty of plankton and small crabs for flamingos to feed on it's an ideal breeding ground for the birds says pelham were it not for the tourists. and most of them simply don't know how to act appropriately in nature the park rangers could help but they don't exist here. there's just not enough

money even though the flamingos could help change the island's party image as the belaire island's environmental ministry hopes that way at the ther could become an eco tourism destination. have come to stand for a clean environment and they're apparently pulling in visitors. other birds are giving the party island pizza a totally new image. but protecting these species is costly and limits mass tourism and palermo says the government is unwilling to risk that which he says is inconsistent this year many dead flamingos have been discovered across the island in a single month 21 dead birds were found. several we don't know if the animals are examined to ascertain the cause of their death when there's all kinds of diseases not just conventional ones are being looked into

we have no information on this. i almost think the government isn't taking this problem seriously. a problem i know. thinks the problem is being swept under the rug he believes all the talk of sustainability is just an empty marketing ploy. they were also given what they've got to get i don't think they'll be a changing course or so years maybe they're trying to attract other kinds of holiday makers but i think they're not taking action against mass tourism and definitely doing nothing to stop the party tourism. it's all about the money to the bringing to the island says yuan carlos parlor but perhaps a few main goes will succeed in attracting more environmentally conscious tourists . i hope you have many takeaways from to be as sure we'll bring you many more

stories next week each one taking us one step closer to a sustainable future good bye and have a wonderful week. thank you. thank you. thank you little.

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