earth. for saving good life is tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions. to this series of global 3000 on g.w. and online. a very warm welcome to eco africa your environment magazine peter new reports from africa and europe i am sonder to novia 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 heap of what thomas says in the country more than $100.00 hippos are fighting for survival they are crowded together in the few remaining water holes on the here prevents them from migrating and finding new ones food is because so local people have been bringing chaos water to the polluted water was to counter the damage from the drought crisis the normally aggressive on the most are so hungry the they will approach humans without a 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 loss of harvests big cities may no longer have enough drinking water reservoirs drying up here comes up with some appalling fog about the drought the taz been revising 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 are failed and food prices are soaring in zambia for example the price of corn rose by 80 percent between 2018 and 29000. 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 going to 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 bad news what can be done to me to get the effects of the dropped it off

because has reported on that already in 2018 in cape town things like washing your car filling a swimming pool or even letting fountains run are still restricted in $28.00 if it even 1st day is 0 when the city would have been forced to turn off the tops to prevent now you kept on is not investing heavily in water management. at some played the construction works and to 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 upgrade is long over due the form on top of the worst water is a clear sign that the plant is struggling currently the plant is designed to treat 72000000 liters of water a day. flow into the plant is on average about 90 maybe so you can see that the

progress overloaded in terms of the amount of flow that's to receiving the neighboring suburb of a little share is growing rapidly as are most 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 daisy. through strictly 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 with 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 that it is necessary and critical for the city to diversify food supply and this is one mechanism in which we will waste water through the upgrade some plates will be able to treat an additional 18000000 liters of west water the end product can be used for multiple purposes we have from quality that will come out of the strong won't be possible but it will be to a single standard we can be used for industrial purposes 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 at risk 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 with. his neighbor i are complains about the smell but once than

that are 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 a storm water pipe storm water power shoot straight to behave are very vile since the dam where we get our drinking water you know so it means municipalities should do as much to clean the environment why and where a solution of their community not. get sick you know. only a few kilometers down the hill scientists are trying to solve some of these issues . as the water habra such as test natural processes to treat contaminated run of from the informal settlement what the experts kevin winter initiated the research site. we are 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 representative of the city of kept our own stones and couple of sources such as peach pipes actors bio filters and clean the water with 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 fit for the future of some plate is should yield to be finished by 2023. cities across africa generates 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

pollutes 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 debate which takes us to ivory coast. 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. start up names wants to clean up the city 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 sort 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 certain 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 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. visit our website or send us a tweet. hash tag doing your bit. we share your story. now for another story but one copenhagen the capital of denmark has built. for you west energy power plant which is good news but to. they are dead wrong on the real thing what's pierrot's done wrong the building they're 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 meters 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 graphs 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 use of home use 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 check carbon capture all the carbon that they produce and bind it into a material so that it can be bedded 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 to 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 part of the forces the slope. on 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 on it's called uneven plaster 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 energy plant and a recreational facility won them a sustained ability award. 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 a stain or a future connection. 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 does koeppen 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 definitely important players you know if. we couldn't survive without them could be they pull in a month including 1st groups 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 absolution and climate change that are sent in there is a project to wean farmers over to the idea of cooperating 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 askin 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 is true lies approach maybe for rich countries but it's not going to know in middle income countries so we decided to do next and. middle income country whereas

a well developed agricultural sector like mark will. develop a model of forces then double and scalable pollinator protection here in morocco and then spend it all. country. 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

flop 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 fecht it 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 morocco as the country modernize its culture. of 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 i think

fuck all the inclusion of wild pollinators and. fits in perfectly with the ministries current strategy for all of his york to administer it involves making our culture more intelligent in the face of climate change and. in my cheek. 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're 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 pollinator protection the

better. farmers as insect protectors based on the current data the model seems to be working. class and our income has increased and with it our lives have improved . we benefit from it so we can sell more. previously we only sold wheat vegetables and pulses warn of new talk 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 nature 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. go into also easing jeopardy are the result of climate change on the definition of natural

resources but the community forests is helping people they adopt planting trees changing the way they farm keeping beans and the results are impressive we visited the tiny island of quarter off the course of island. nowadays it's difficult to make your way through the dense woodland in cocoa time 10 years ago this land used to be barren activist 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. that can be about it all because

somebody who now the community is very well versed in the issue of tree planting and as i hear you 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. like 2 communities have switched to migrate 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 cinnamon that we've started reaping the benefits we also grow vegetables that we enter our selves and sell at the market. then.

the organization has planted over 680000 fruit trees and forest trees in cocoa. to make sure that the reforestation a 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 and 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 women are no more you know in a war. is now on the road to recovery. but the eyelets of new job

just a couple of kilometers away is still in dire straits. like kuta in the past has no clean drinking water and the land is degraded. this tree planting apprentice designed to help the islanders understand the importance of trees. the young people if they can charge him or. what 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 it was i can't turn back

to what used to be you know because the population is much larger now they're going to have what we could have is a community forest in every village and i would be proud of that vision when a particular about the. only islands of inhabitants have managed to stave off disaster with. help. they've proved it's possible to revive ravaged environments hopefully the other islets in the archipelago will now follow their lead. will come to the end of this week's episode of off work a 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 willing waiting to have your company once again next week i am stunned at you know via phone compiler here in uganda and of course feel free to visit all social media platforms and sign those till then get bot.

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