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mumbai in india over the next 30 minutes why delis largest river is in the early days and what can be done to see that would traditionally whales be uncertain bending over whose watchable was and how flamingos in spain are driving change toward sustainable tourism. but 1st to a story that needs urgent attention then these largest river is in danger of these so it shows that there is a nearly north dissolved oxygen in the river the biggest gramatica 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 at the crossroads the cost of caring for the river has fallen upon a few assuming we stay because who live on its backs go to this study.

every day at the crack of dawn 20 year old money shot of mom raised to the inky young $1.00 out 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 in bags and just dump it in the river. is part of the assignment unassuming army of informal waste pickers who live on the banks of the river and work towards cleaning it on officially. the you are born into little every time we run out of 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 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 edgy 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 going down not going to you and i skinned it off. it somehow leads to people forget that it's also the country's most polluted river. the river today no longer ever it is just a dream. that is almost no freshwater there's no marine life in the river if you

don't wake up now i don't know grain will break up and maybe that one thought will make you wake up that this is the drinking water supply what we know here drinks what much up our great drinks what is a country. 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 a storm in the glance we have heard so much talk we need action right now and i think there is just nor question about the urgency of the matter. the problem begins when the river flows downstream from when seen about in the north of the city. more than 70 percent of the total pollution is injected into this 30 kilometer stretch that. the plan to

clean the 1400 kilometer long has been in place since 1993. but solid waste she which and industrial effluents flow into the river unchecked even today. i've tried telling people not to litter 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 china. help recycle about 20 to 25 percent of the sun and 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 oven a 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. what if people came in t. shirts with the word yamana written on that they picked up a few plastic bags then they left a must have gotten tired. of it cannot it. even though their work is only informal the waste pickers are responsible for tonnes of plastic and other assorted waste that's manually removed 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 mansions who found the recycling they earn less than $2.00 a day but continue to strive to clean not only river.

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 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 the. 70 percent of delhi's water needs are met by the. yes government inaction and rampant dumping have 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 over the past 2 decades benu 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 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 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. fight and says their patience with civic authority is wearing thin when the more expectation was definitely like no 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 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 i t community these are the people with the longest and sometimes there was

this distort the problem definition and sell it to the resources when you go it's not so equal to 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 over if we keep using bore wells the city will run out of water. alongside water conservationists 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 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 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 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. thought 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 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 dumbs.

you like them. if you are also doing your bit tell us about. visit our website or send us a tweet. doing your bit we share your story. starting to get up to 60 and bob which is hardly the fictive by geography the next story is about babylon and how few bad things noise pollution in mumbai the city has a huge traffic problem and noise levels unmistakable he can't live beyond the public about 55 decibels a lot. basically it's like a. little fishing need the noisiest. got into the sense that the global economy is clearly one of the noisiest countries in the world. that various correlations between noise and hoping the

hearing loss meant to have blood pressure heart disease loss of productive it lack of sleep related ailments mumbai 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 a voluntary work on noise pollution but over the last 2 decades it has turned into a crusade for so made up to. 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 loudspeakers inside and zones was passed marking the beginning of what has been

a long but deeply revolting judie. people started calling me one flea press reported it and published my number of the people started calling me and the kind of emotion that i felt that 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 nice. because through samantha's efforts in her own capacity as well as 2 of us foundation the noise pollution started getting the kind of attention you'd had already. wanted 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 data so there were noise rules with specified discipline the those would have to be maintained but nobody knew what the decibel levels actually were until

the very 1st hurdle day in fact that my should be kept i did use no new level because there was no one to find it so i realized that i have 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. mumbai girls are using this. thing using the salute. readings on their form. of us foundations noise pollution campaigns have found support from mumbai cause 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. 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 beatings went on those who showed. in fact the government also did more mall than usual they did their beatings the good news 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 you. 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 in the world 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 water sports nowadays he documents and helps conserve the rich marine 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 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 sensitized people. more t.v.

is like a popular raising my life i don't know but ok more people walk on the beach and if they see and if they find or die with marrying late i don't wait very definitely not to. start restricting abortion nobody knows i mean people think i'm in. an oil field comes in to go. but 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 end there. 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.

abandoned i mean you can see. all over the. years then very common very common 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. washed up on the shore so the scenario you can see in the. summer. and definitely if you supported a scorpion fish so that's that's. by jock human to find 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.

here's what can preserve mumbai's beaches from sun the 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 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. approaches the flamingo watching from afar he doesn't want to startle the bird. 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. men april when the breeding season begins most adult birds fly away to reproduce. because in spring flocks of tourists descend on a beach which is 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 this it is even in low season. tourists stop to snap pictures of the exotic birds some even straight into the nature reserve. one and let me go on i don't know that they would 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 not and i can assume someone out there are going to say i thought. feels this kind of behavior has to stop last salinas 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 says 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 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. 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 21 dead birds were found. several we don't know if the animals are examined to ascertain the cause of their death when they have 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. or probably one of. the lamb thinks the problem is being swept under the rug he believes all the talk of sustainability is just an empty marketing ploy. oh. you have also given what they've got going i don't think they'll be a changing course so you'll say maybe they're trying to attract other kinds of holiday makers but they're not taking action against mass tourism and definitely doing nothing to stop the party tourism. it's all about the money to bringing to the island says. but perhaps a few main guys will succeed in attracting more environmentally conscious tourists . i hope you have many takeaways from to be

a special 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. a

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