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the next 30 minutes why delis largest robot is in the early days and what can be done to see that would traditionally whales be on the surface being noodles watchable woods and how flamingos in spain are driving change toward sustainable tourism. bot 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 dissolved oxygen in the river the biggest programa to sustain life in order to vote ecosystem for several years the government has i would not action plan in place but not much has changed in the prosperous the task of caring for the river has fallen upon a few unless you mean reste because who live on its banks go to this study.

every day at the crack of dawn 20 year old money shot of mom reduced to the inky young mono 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. 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 cheese is considered one of india's holiest rivers. the amount of 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 etching or any skin problems. not going to call you on. it so how really 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 fresh water there's no marine life in the river if you

don't wake up now i don't know when we'll wake up and maybe that one thought will make you wake up that this is the drinking water supply what we put in the army now here my truck drinks what my truck boards are going to drink so 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 god thought this is not something we can differ the time of action is gone we have gone through so many a 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. stream from was in about bear out in the north of the city. more than 70 percent of the yellowness total pollution is injected into this 30 kilometer stretch that follows.

the plan to clean the 1400 kilometer long yamana has been in place since 1993. but solid waste she which and industrial effluents flow into the river unchecked even today. well i've tried telling people not to letter but they don't listen i remember asking someone why they were dumping clastic 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. to the. informal waste pickers like show them our help recycle about 20 to 25 percent of the solid waste daily generate. i mean you'll get there again you're going to see years i 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. if people came in t. shirts with the word yamana written on it they picked up a few plastic bags then they left i must have gotten tired. of it cannot it. even though their work is only informal the waste pickers are responsible for tons of plastic and other solid waste to to manually remove from the river every day the sift through toxic garbage to separate it into re saleable items such as plastics and metal and sell it to waste merchants. the recycling they earn less than $2.00 a day but continue to strive to clean the honey river. young models of oh yeah. if the yama is cleaned up we may lose our livelihood but

that's ok. we'll find something else to tear out this is our duty as 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 because of this. 70 percent of delhi's water needs are met by the yamana yet 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 its 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 over the past 2 decades bangu has grown into a global pickup 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 to get to this new 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. to fight them says their patience with civic authorities is wearing them when. expectation was definitely. 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 there was this distort the problem

definition and said it goes 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 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 is 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 well people forgot about them but now they're becoming more aware and think we should use. the correct up if 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 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 floor and for now that live in it one of the or you just 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

study and population in germany died out. one of the reasons was river pollution so the fish need to migrate to feed and spawn. built wares and dams made their journey impossible. the project funded fish aims to return the studs into german rivers the 1st step is to breed fish under controlled conditions. then 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 downs.

you like that. if you are also doing your bit jealous around. visit our website or send us a tweet. doing your been sharing your story. something to get up to 60 and bob is hardly the fed by geography and next story is about made up a lot of coffee bombastic noise pollution in mumbai the city has a huge traffic problem and noise levels on it take a belief it live beyond the public about 55 decibels not. basically it's like. you know my official eat the noisiest in the country according to the sense that the global economy is clearly one of the noisiest countries in the world that has

also found that various correlations between noise and hoping the hearing loss meant to have blood pressure heart disease also productive it lack of sleep related ailments when money is also a very densely packed city so one person making noise can actually bestow hundreds of. people depending on the location. it started as volunteer work on noise pollution but over the last 2 decades it has turned into a crusade for so made up to not only today she's perhaps the biggest champion against noise pollution in the city. it all began in 2002 with the finding a public interest due to geisha in the bombay high court. a year later the fast court order banning loud speakers inside and zones was passed marking the beginning of what has been

a long but deep fear of boarding jodi. hernandez. 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 i think was being nice for the. papers through samantha's efforts in her own capacity as well as 2 of us foundations that noise pollution started getting the kind of attention you'd had already. wanted but it wasn't an easy job activist. the 1st thing that we realized was that i realized was that there was no day or so there were noise rules with specified discipline to be maintained but nobody knew what the decibel levels actually were until the very 1st

day in fact just said that noise should be kept to use no new level because there was no real point to find it so i realized that i had to get it put it on myself and i was lucky someone donated annoys me to the i think that's me 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. mumbaikar are using this. thing using dissolute. readings on their forms. of us foundations noise pollution campaigns have found overwhelming support from mumbai crowds 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 how painstaking efforts over the past 2 decades perhaps find in the paid off. i was

very what it because i've been here doing it myself. but i found that everybody stepped up. nothing suffered the noise beatings went on those who shone. and fact the government also did more mall than usual they did their readings 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. 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 and old closer to its rich marine biodiversity and of course their armies. 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 tube. the civil crab the sunset shell and a blue button jellyfish. these are the only really big one. a month he also conducts shore walks during late china helping raise awareness and sensitize people. more. popular

a thing i don't know 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 or should think nobody knows i mean people think i mean all beaches are dirty. and oil fields comes in we go. but even though i mean we have to reach modern day with you. the idea is that if people see that organ only they can understand this kind of life. i don't and that life has equal rights make us. so the 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.

abundant i mean you can see. all over the. years been very common now but is very common. i mean what is very common these these things that are really common and believe you have seen. that jellyfish kind of being washed ashore on the shore would be seen early or you can see in the. summer. and definitely see. a scorpion fish so that's that's. by documenting what he finds he's drawing attention to waste disposal and environmental violations. be a planning to document these things then definitely young scientists. approach explored be. different if you come forward and do some more studies i don't see

syria here's what can preserve mumbai's beaches from further loss of biodiversity. long getting up close with nature is essential to understanding the value of its many parts and protect them even more even in speed is using flamingos which flock to its nature is and 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. approaches the flamingo watching from afar he doesn't want to startle the bird fleming go. 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 all of a thought 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. tourist stop to snap pictures of the exotic birds some even straight into the nature reserve. when and only then when they don't know that they want 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 when all you enter to see the birds in the actual habitat you get is that you know 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 put flamingos to feed on it's an ideal breeding ground for the birds 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. have come to stand for a clean environment and they're apparently pulling in visitors. the birds are giving the party island 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 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. 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 what they've got to get 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 is. it's all about the money to restore bringing to the island says john carlos. but perhaps a few main goes will succeed in attracting more environmentally conscious tourists . i hope you have many take over years from to be

a short 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. and

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