people who don't know i do it but actually to me i mean i hate. the future. but because. just this week. a very warm welcome to take off your environment magazine piece or new paltz from africa and europe i am saundra to know via from uganda now one of our topics today is the ongoing drought in southern africa where we hear about these drought in southern africa on a daily basis let's take a look at some film footage from an initiative in boss one of the save wildlife

conservation fund how started a campaign to address the plight of the hippopotamuses in the country more than a 100 hippos are fighting for survival they are crowded together in the few remaining water holes on the hip prevents them from migrating and finding new ones food is cause so local people have been bringing chaos and water to the polluted water was to counter the damage from the drought crisis the normally aggressive on the most are still hungry the they will approach humans with all talking just to get something to eat. shocking isn't it prolonged drought in southern africa is also threatening 45000000 people with hunger due to most of harvests big cities may no longer have enough drinking water reservoirs dry up here comes up with some polling fox about the drought that has been revived in the region for more than 2 years.

a landscape devastated by drought. this elephant died of thirst near a watering hole in zimbabwe climate change is having a profound impact on southern africa. the average annual temperature in south africa's interior is 2 degrees celsius higher than 100 years ago. weather conditions in the region are growing ever more extreme. many crops have failed and food prices are soaring in zambia for example the price of corn rows by 80 percent between 20182019. many people in southern africa can no longer afford enough food and hunger is on the rise. seed banks provide one form of relief they can store the seeds of

a variety of drought resistant grains and legumes such as sorghum and chickpeas and make them available to farmers at low cost. wetlands can help to keep water in the ground only a 10th of the wetlands on the outskirts of them bob ways capital harare are still intact. these ecosystems contain $36.00 species of grass and an even greater variety of insects and birds. environmentalists are fighting to preserve the marshland that remains wetlands play a vital role in storing carbon dioxide which helps mitigate climate change. so pretty but what can be done to me to get the effects of the drop it off has

reported on that already in turns 18 in cape town things like washing your car didn't go swimming pool or even letting fountains run are still restricted in 2018 it even 1st days 0 when the city would have been forced to turn off the tops to prevent. kept out is not investing heavily in water management. at some played the construction wonks are in full swing the west water treatment facility on the outskirts of camp town is currently being upgraded financed through in on by the german development bank for some place the average is long over due the form on top of the wish to water is a clear sign that the plant is struggling currently the prawn designed to treat 72000000 liters of water a day. flow into the plant is about 90 min so you can see that the problem is

overloaded in terms of the amount of flow that's through the ceiling the neighboring suburb of a little share is growing rapidly as are most to major around kept town but this is not the only challenge for the metropolitan. flashback to 2018 due to a severe drought kept on dams had run dry residents queued to stock up on drinking water based 0 was looming through strict last minute water restrictions kept on escaped the catastrophe. for city councillors zafira limburg the water crisis was a learning experience. did learn very important lesson from the drought one of the key to this was the need for us to not be entirely dependent on surface water from brain damage because there's a risk on. of. rainfall patterns remaining very low and we have seen this in the

case lost by wind and so we do know that it is necessary and critical for the city to diversify its water supply and this is one mechanism in which we will waste water through the grid some fleets will be able to treat an additional 18000000 liters of west water the end product can be used for multiple purposes the different quality that will come out of the strong one we want to go but it will be to a scene that can be used for industrial purpose can be used for for your guys and purposes future droughts in a fast growing population are major challenges for the water supply in cap town and surrounds especially in informal settlements poor water infrastructure puts the health of residents a triscuit so no one song see is the community leader of the language settlement contaminated water that is running through the streets is a big problem here. his neighbor complains about the smell but worse than that

infections and the area caused by fecal bacteria in the water at the end of the day all this water you see it off should treat this storm water pipe storm water power shoot straight to believe our very since the dam where we get our drinking water you know so it means municipalities should do as much to clean the environment find a way a solution of their community not to get. sick you know. only a few kilometers down the hill scientists are trying to solve some of the issues. that's the water have brought such is a test natural processes to treat quantum we need to drown of from the informal settlement want to experts kevin the winter initiated the research site. we really not put enough resources into our wastewater treatment works into our water

provision and into our drainage because the drainage is where the vectors for disease are starting to move and so here's one example where we actually intercepting some of that water from what is effectively drainage somewhat further downstream and cleaning that water up and using that water safely then to irrigate gardens winter explains the treatment process to reprise entities of the city of kept town stones and couple in sources such as peach pipes actors bio filters and clean the water of bacteria nutrients and heavy metals these nature best solutions require space but present a useful addition to conventional treatment plants kept on has learned the hard way only by investing in its what infrastructure can the city be feed for the future the upward of some plate is should yield to be finished by 2023. cities across africa generate a huge amount of crush but only 2 thirds of that is collected and a lot of it doesn't get properly persist but ends up only good dams what it pollute

the air on the ground so what's disposal is a very serious environmental challenge probably one of the biggest that is why we often report on initiatives to talk of the problem for example in this week's doing a bit which takes us to ivory coast. but there's no official waste management system in the ivory coast garbage collection is handled informally that means trash piles up can sit around for days . and that in turn leads to clog drainage canals and groundwater pollution. a start up names once to clean up the city of song an hour's drive from the commercial capital. it runs an eco friendly waste collection service for households

hotels and restaurants. customers can use mobile payment ups to cover the pick up charge which is priced according to quantity. after the waste is collected it's biked back to the company's main base and placed in a large container later it will be sorted and some of it will be sold on to scrap recyclers when you sign up you get a brief introduction to the system then to. the 30 or so households have received an information pamphlet that illustrates how to selectively stored waste at home it explains for example that the orange colored waste sacks are for plastic packaging the green ones are for organic waste the gray colored bags are designated for all non-recyclable refuse that will go directly into the large containers and so on. we have 5 different colors and all. ready. people can also drop

off bags of waste themselves and customers are awarded points that can be redeemed for mobile data or snacks at a company kiosk. sparkplug hopes their bonus system will inspire more people to take better care of their city. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it. this is our website or send us a tweet. during your. we share your story. now for another story but the one up in the capital denmark house built. for you west energy power plant which is good news but to talk. that i did wrong on the real woods pierrot's down round the building there also hiking trails and

a climbing wall who would have thought that a public utility structure could also become a place to hang out and how fun. this is 450 metres of fun. koeppen hill is an artificial ski slope on the waterfront in denmark's capital copenhagen instead of snow it operates with plastic mats and grass for a flat country with no mountains this 85 metre high slope is pretty impressive. so maybe this is the new way of skiing in 2050. the ski slope was built on a waste to energy plant that's one of the cleanest in the world in the incinerator up to $400000.00 tonnes of non-recyclable waste can be burned each year the turbine

and generator produce electricity in the excess energy from the steam is used to provide heating profiles of homes the ash can be used for building roads. and thanks to an advanced system of filters that remove particles and pollutants the steam doesn't pose any health hazard. architect david siler was part of the team that brought the vision to life. as it is right now cleans out almost all of the smoke that comes out of the stack. more than a 3rd of the of the building is filled with cleaning facilities the one thing they do still about is true so right now they're doing a pilot program where they're trying to. carbon capture all the carbon that they produce and bind it into a material so that it can be imbedded in the soil and in the bedrock

the unusual design in the ski slope attract a lot of visitors skiers can rent the equipment they need at a shop at the base of the slope a conveyor belt and ski lift take them up. to skiers and snowboarders can show off their skills on the slalom course or in the fun park at the fox is the slope. and the surface feels like real snow. grass coming through. a rubber plastic surface and that surface has a little bit of silicone oil and then you glide and it's called me. and we tested a lot of different materials and this was the one skiing on snow the most. couldn't hagen is one of europe's most environmentally friendly cities many here get around by bike not car. now koeppen hill is improving the quality of life here even more

the architects idea of combining a waste to energy plant and a recreational facility won them a sustained ability award the project. is like opening a door. all to a world where you don't have to separate what's a sustainable life from what's a good life those 2 things goes hand in hand and we called it a mystic sustainability the idea that as if they know a future can actually be instead of it being that you can drive your favorite car you can have a long hot shower you can actually have a life that's more interesting it's not a life that's less interesting just coping hill half what it takes to be a new copenhagen landmark quite possibly what it certainly does is make denmark's capital even greener. it's a definitely important players you know if. we couldn't survive without them could be they pull in a month including food crops they're also part of a comic less food chain for farmers various pieces of music

a friend and helpers but the use of pesticides industrial farming appaloosa and climate change threatens them in moral there is a project to inform us over to the idea of cooperated with. these cari and their flowers attract a lot of insects researcher stephanie christman is delighted to see them after all they're essential for pollination here in morocco though many simply view insects as pests now a skin designed to educate farmers about the need to protect them has been introduced simply planting strips of wild flowers as is often done in germany isn't the best solution here. this right now as nice approach maybe for rich countries but it's not scalable to low and middle income countries so we decided to act and. middle income country was

a well developed agricultural sector like morocco and we develop a model of for sustainable and scalable pollinator protection here in morocco and then spend it all. country's. unlike other common insect protection plans the focus here is on enabling farmers to generate an income from everything they grow. farming with alternative pollinators or if up for short is the name of the plan it works like this 3 quarters of the land is used to grow the main crops like eggplant for example cultivated around it are plants that attract more insects because of their colors shapes and when they're in bloom the farmer can also sell them. as a control there are fields in which only the main crop grows that way the researchers can assess the effectiveness of the intervention. stephanie christman works at an institute in the moroccan capital rabat it was here that she developed

up she says the consequences of global insect disappearance could be dramatic such as loss of food crops soil erosion and even human migration. when my get into a world which is love peaceful anymore. in all areas because everybody will be affected and i think we have to start thinking on pollinator laws and on pollinated but that. also in terms of keeping global peace one problem is the growing tendency toward monoculture in morocco as the country modernize is culture. and government agencies cooperating with the fact . it says the insect protection model can easily be integrated into the country's agricultural planning. to pull up but i think

fuck all the inclusion of wild pollinators in our group culture fits in perfectly with the ministry's current strategy for all of these you're actually administer it involves making our culture more intelligent in the face of climate change and. might seek. agriculture in the face of climate change the agency now offers training based on the fact model farmers learn that plants that rely on pollinators usually consume less water than wheat for example that's useful to know because in the future water will be even scarce or. we cannot train the families know what to do in 2050 but we can educate them in a way that they are able to respond to the reality they will have and sustaining pollinate as well that are not increase the class climate change resilience of their livelihood and the more knowledge they get on pollinate the protection the

better. farmers as insect protectors based on the current data the model seems to be working. i guess and our income has increased and with it our lives have improved so should we benefit from it so we can sell more. than previously we only sold wheat vegetables and pulses have not offered in the terminal much of this should be an ongoing now i know that i can grow different products. chokri wants to use the method on a much bigger field in the future and if other countries adopt the fact model the impact on insect populations could be significant. so it looks like they so will reward you think give it what it needs sounds like a good deal let's look at another example change for the better the. goal in the indian ocean easing jeopardy are the result of climate change on the definition of

natural resources but that. forests is helping people they adopt planting trees changing the way they farm keeping be the result in process we visited the tiny island of quarter off the coast of ireland. nowadays it's difficult to make your way through the dense woodland in cocoa turn 10 years ago this land used to be barren activist and baruch mr o'mara and his angio have brought it back to life in. the organization encourages local communities to plant trees install solar panels build fuel efficient cooking states and harvest rainwater. as a result the times and the island has witnessed a turnaround. and i can about it all because

somebody who now the community is very well versed in the issue of tree planting and as i have been a know when they were. some years ago the people of cocoa to use slash and burn farming methods leading to massive deforestation. most rivers and the ground water brown and dry what was once fertile soil turned to dust and people had to import food now the vegetation has returned. local communities have switched to grey forestry and farm spices fruits and vegetables among the trees. well it's great that we can grow our own garlic because we no longer have to buy it from the shops. we also have cinema that we've started reaping the benefits we also grow vegetables that we and our selves and sell at the market.

the organization has planted over 680000 fruit trees and forest trees in cocoa. to make sure that the reforestation is successful local communities regulate felling. among the people benefiting beekeepers the trees provide bees with a well protected and shady twining place and a source of food when they're flowering. 2 years ago saloon cutscene had just to be hives now he has 75. because i managed to get what i can't do anything without a forest slug. when you hang behind it's like we've done here we get best quality honey it's clean and the bees can't be attacked by other insects. and we're going on a war. is now on the road to recovery. but the eyelet of

my job just a couple of kilometers away is still in dire straits. like in the past has no clean drinking water and the land is degraded. this tree planting event is designed to help the islanders understand the importance of trees. the young people let's say can charge him when. we encourage them and help them in planting as well then then when the rains come we work together with the communities when we visit them and plant trees in their areas for the purpose of ongoing conservation work with. the organizations activities are funded by the european union the aim is to enable communities to become self-sufficient by means of our great business. has already achieved some of his goals but he has bigger ambitions her brother got some of us i can't turn back

to what used to be you know because the population is much larger now than what we could have is a community forest in every village and i would be proud of that reason when i want to go about this war on the islands of inhabitants have managed to stave off disaster with most help. they've proved it's possible to revive ravaged environments hopefully the other islets in the archipelago will now follow their lead. with not come till the end of this week's episode of office featuring an inspiring mix of small initiatives big project on dedicated people we don't also want to thank you for joining us today and of course we'll be waiting on waiting to have your company once again next week i am stunned at you know view from compiler here in uganda and of course feel free to visit all social media platforms and sign those till then get bot. go.

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