hello and welcome to a brand new episode of eco india a sustainability magazine bevvy train the spotlight on solutions to the biggest environmental problems affecting us to date on some of that i'm coming to you from mumbai in india over the next 30 minutes why delis largest river use in the early days and what can be done to see if it could traditional wales be the uncertain bengal's water boards and how flamingos in spain are 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 nor bizarre doxygen in the river the biggest but i'm going to sustain life in a vertical 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 reste because who live on its back it's noticed this study. every day at the crack of dawn 20 year old money shot of mom raised to the inky young on a river not knowing what she might bump into. clothes human feces sewage you'll find just about everything on this water the young one is full of garbage people pack stuff and bags and just dump it in the river. is part of the assignment unassuming army of informal waste because who live on the

banks of the river and work towards cleaning it on officially. the you are born into legal every time we run out of plastic bags from the river when you feel proud that we're able to and are capable of claiming they are not it makes us feel good and in the process we also earn our livelihoods. as it respectfully called by millions of divinities is considered one of india's holiest rivers. the amount of the go to the waters of the yemen a jihad 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 down not going to call you are nice enough. if so how to lead such people forget that it's also the

country's most polluted river. the river today no longer ever it is just a dream. there is almost no fresh water 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 yard when i hear. what my tribe boards are great drinks what is a cunt in this system what we differ when we defile it somebody downstream is going to pay the price for it and this is going to got through this is not something we can differ the time of action is gone we have gone through so many 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 downstream from was in about in the north of the city. more than 70 percent of the total pollution is injected into this 30 kilometer stretch that fallen. to plant a tree in the 1400 kilometer long has been in place since 1993. but solid waste she reach and industrial effluents flow into the river unchecked even today. i've 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 stopped saying anything. in full waste pickers like shot.

help recycle about 20 to 25 percent of the solid waste delhi generates. i mean you get there i guess what i'm saying is don't litter and 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 yamana 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. people came in t. shirts with the word yamana written on them they picked up a few plastic bags then they left and 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 that's manually removed from the river every day the sift through toxic garbage to separate it into be saleable items such as

plastics and metal and sell it to waste mansions who found the recycling they earn less than $2.00 a day but continue to strive to clean not only river. young models of oh yeah. if the yemen is cleaned up we may lose our livelihood but that's ok. we'll find something else to tear. this is our duty as we treat this as our job . we feel good and happy that we're doing this work what. 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 because of the. 70 percent of delhi's water needs are met by the. yes government inaction and rampant dumping has created a vicious cycle of it's difficult to break one of the city. wait patiently for

mindsets to shift it's waste because like money sharma who are bringing about a small yet significant change every single day. now with constant exploitation water may well become the most expensive resource in the coming years as scientists predict another indian city is already experiencing this all the past 2 decades bangu has grown into a global it's india's silicon valley but its massive open sprawl has not come without problems and there are many who now feel that the city will soon run out before the 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 rama krishna 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 authority is wearing thin when the more expectation was definitely like no regular water supply and i'm not so what it's 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 vishwanath 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 id community these are the people with the longest war and sometimes the why is this distort the problem definition itself it goes to the resources when you go it's not so equally as the issue and i look at it is the issue which would come with infrastructure. like bees 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 is 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 over if we keep

using bore wells the city will run out of water. alongside water conservation as ramakrishna is now involved in a campaign to recharge the city's wells it would replenish shallow groundwater aquifers with rainwater the process is more environmentally friendly than jelling bore wells deep into the ground and the campaign aims to have a 1000000 functional open wells by the time it's done ramakrishnan the community he 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 flora and fauna 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 because. 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. the rebuilt wares and dams made their journey impossible. the project funded fish aims to return the stud into german rivers the 1st step is to breed fish on the controlled conditions. when they're released into reverse 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 dams. do you like them. if you are also doing your tell us about. visit our website or send us a tweet. tank doing your bit sharing your story. starting to get up to 60 and bob which is hardly the fictive by geography the next story in the both had our blog and 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

public about 55 decibels a lot. so it's not that he doesn't. know my official name the noisiest in the country into the sense that the the global economy is clearly one of the noisiest countries in the world. that various correlations between noise and hoping to hear us and to have blood pressure heart disease loss of productive it lack of sleep related ailments when there is also a very densely packed city so one person making noise can actually need to still hundreds 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 some made up tonight early today she's perhaps the biggest champion against noise pollution in the city.

it all began in 2002 with finding a public interest group to go in the bombay high court. a year later the 1st court order banning loud speakers inside and zones was passed marking the beginning of what has been a long but deeply revolting judie. people started calling me once the press reported it and published my number the people started calling me i'm the kind of emotion that. crying on the phone people will say 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 nice. because through so mad i was efforts in our own capacity as well as 2 of us foundations that noise pollution started getting the kind of attention you'd had

already. but it wasn't an easy job for an activist. the 1st thing that we realized was that but i realized was that there was no day or so there were noise rules with specified discipline levels which had to be maintained but nobody knew what the decibel levels actually were so good very close circle day in fact just said that noise should be kept the degree is not new and level because there was no one to find it so i realized that i have to genitive myself and i was lucky someone donated annoys me to. meet done i 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. mumbai girls are using this via people are now thinking using does the. readings on their forms. 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 this city a better place to begin. painstaking efforts over the past 2 decades perhaps finally 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 readings went on those who show. 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 but nothing cellphones so 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. of the spine being sucked. the 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 in the world closer to its rich marine biodiversity and of course there are of me. who would expect rich biodiversity off the coast of mumbai. the 1st became aware of it while doing his regular work teaching watersports 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 2 bomb.

the 50 a crab sunset shell and a blue button jellyfish. these are the only really big one. a month he also conducts shore walks during late chide helping raise awareness and sensitized 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 or die with marine life i don't wait very definitely not to. start respecting or should nobody know what i mean people think i'm in. an oil field it comes in we go. even though i mean we have to reach modern day with. the idea is that if people see that organ only they can understand this kind of life. i don't know that life has equal rights make us. but

conservation will happen at all medically. to beaches of mumbai or home to 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 all over the. years been very common. in some shells i mean what is very common these these things that are very common and we have you have seen. that jellyfish kind of pain washed ashore on the shore to be seen early or you can see you know. in some ways. 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 be. different if we come forward and do some more studies i don't do syria here's what can preserve mumbai speeches from fun the loss of biodiversity. long getting up close with nature is essential to understanding the value off its many parts and protect them even more even in speed is using flamingos which flock to its nature reserves each year to campaign for more sustainability and polish the party islands image but will this be detrimental let's take a look. carefully and quietly john approaches the flamingo watching from afar he doesn't want to stop the bird flu. his passion.

flamingos are all looking highly unusual birds 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 have beaches last salinas 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. in april when the breeding season begins most adult birds fly away to reproduce.

because in spring flocks of tourists to send on a beach which has become known as the mediterranean for number one party destination as visitor numbers so all 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. to a stop to snap pictures of the exotic birds some even straight into the nature reserve . one and only one i don't know that they want but while that's the only way to get to really see these birds i mean unfortunately that's how it is when you enter a nature reserve so that when all you enter to see the birds in their actual habitat to get is that i'm not and i can assume someone out there are going to say i thought. feels this kind of behavior has to stop at last salinas 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 were it not for the tourists. and most of them simply don't know how to act appropriately in nature 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 it islands environmental ministry hopes that way at before could become an eco tourism destination. so. those have come to stand for a clean environment and they're apparently pulling in visitors. for the birds are giving the party island a pizza a totally new image. but protecting these species is costly and limits mass tourism and 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 and 21 dead birds were found. several we don't know if the animals are examined to ascertain the cause of their death will need 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. a lamb thinks the problem is being swept under the rug he believes all the talk of sustainability is just an empty marketing ploy. it would also give them. again i don't think they'll be a changing course so yes maybe they're trying to attract other kinds of holiday makers but i think they're not taking action against mass tourism and definitely

maybe doing nothing to stop the party tourism. it's all about the money to the bringing to the island says. but perhaps a feeling goes we'll succeed in attracting more environmentally conscious tourists . i hope you have many take away it's from to be a chill 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. in

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