people we don't know if we're back in time you. see. the future so they seek refuge abroad but become. displaced this week. a very warm welcome to take off because your environment magazine peter in new paltz from africa and europe i am sondra 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 botswana the save wildlife

conservation fund house started a complaint 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 hill prevents them from migrating and finding new ones food is cause so the local people have been bringing pay on water to the polluted water was to counter the damage from the drought crisis the number the aggressive on the most are still hungry the bay 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 most of harvests big cities may no longer have enough drinking water reservoirs drying up here comes up with some appalling fox about the drought to the tas 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 while 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 to 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 zimbabwe's 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 badly what's going to be done to me. to get the effects of the drops it

off rekha was reported on but already in 2018 and kept things like washing your car didn't go swimming pool even letting fall into its run on still restricted in 28 in it even 1st days when the city would have been forced to turn of the tops to prevent now you kept on is not investing heavily in water management. at some flips the construction works and full swing the west water treatment facility on the outskirts of kept 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 west to water is a clear sign that the plant is struggling currently the plant is those aren't the 372000000 liters of water. flowing into the plant every is about 90 maybe

you can see that the prong is overloaded in terms of the amount of flow that's to see. the neighboring suburb of clay let's 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 streets last minute water restrictions kept town escaped the catastrophe. for city councillors zafira limburg the water crisis was a learning experience the city did learn very important lessons from the drought one of the key with this the need for us to not be entirely also you dependent on surface water from brain damage because there's a risk of. rainfall patterns remaining very low and we have seen this being the

case lost by winters and so we do know that it is necessary and critical for the sitting to diversify pool to supply and this is one mechanism in which we will do so wastewater through the average sun fleet will be able to treat an additional 18000000 liters of water the end product can be used for multiple purposes. they approve quality that will come out of the strong won't be possible but it will be to a single standard which 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 cape town and surrounds especially in informal settlements poor water infrastructure puts the health of residents at risk so no one song c is the community leader of the language settlement contaminated water that is running through the streets is a big problem here. his neighbor and i are complains about the smell but once than

that our infections and the area caused by fecal bacteria in the water at the end of the day all this k. water you see it off should treat a storm water pipe storm or a power shoot straight to believe are very vast 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. get sick you know. only a few kilometers down the hill scientists are trying to solve some of these issues . that's the water habra such as test natural processes to treat quantum we need to draw on of from the informal settlement what the experts kevin winter initiated the research site we're not putting enough resources into our wastewater treatment

works into our water provision and into our drainage because the drainage is where the vectors for disease all started to move and so here's one example where we actually intercepting some of that water from what is effectively drainage somewhat for the downstream and cleaning that water and using that water safely then to irrigate gardens winter explains the treatment process to representative of the city of kept town stones and couple in 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 feed for the future of some plea deal to be finished by 2023. cities across africa generate a huge amount of brush but only 2 thirds of that is collected and a lot of it doesn't get properly persist but ends up only good dumps 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. there's no official waste management system in the ivory coast garbage collection is handled informally that means trash piles up and can sit around for days. and that in turn leads to clogged drainage canals and groundwater pollution. a start up names once to clean up the city have gone bust on an hour's drive from abidjan 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 to get a brief introduction to the system. 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 adenike waste the gray colored bag 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 that 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 class. sorry but opulent copenhagen the capital of denmark has built. a friendly west energy power plant which is good news needs of but to top it off i did wrong on the roof what's 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 $450.00 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 2000 and used to. 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. a turbine

and generator produce electricity and the excess energy from the steam is used to provide heating for fountains 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 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 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 and it's called an even plastic and we tested a lot of different materials and this was the one that resemblance skiing on snow the most. in 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. project. is like opening a door. 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 mystic sustainability the idea that as if they know the 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 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 a definitely important you know if. we couldn't survive without them could be they put in a plan including food crops they're also part of a comic less food chain for farmers when it's pieces of music

a friend and helpers but they use office decides industrial farming air pollution and climate change threatens them in moral there is a project to inform us over to the idea of cooperative 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 scheme 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 scalable to low and middle income countries so we decided to sue neck and. middle income country which is

a well developed agricultural sector like morocco and we develop a model of forces then double and scalable pollinate the 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

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 protection. also in terms of keeping global peace one problem is the growing tendency toward monoculture 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 culture fits in perfectly with the ministry's current strategy for all of his you actually administer it involves making aquaculture more intelligent in the face of climate change and. a mighty. agriculture in the face of climate change the agency now offers training based on the fab 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 that. 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. 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 yes it has and our income has increased and with it our lives have improved so should we benefit from it so we can sell more. previously we only sold wheat vegetables and pulses. in the terminal much of this you being on call little now i know that i can grow different products. cree 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. goal in the indian ocean is in jeopardy and the result of climate change on the depletion of

natural resources but the community of forests is helping people they adopt planting trees changing the way they farm keeping bees and the results are impressive we visited the tiny island of off the coast of. nowadays it's difficult to make your way through the dense woodland in cocoa turn 10 years ago this slums used to be barren activist and baruch most aroma 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 tums in the island has witnessed a turnaround. not going to bother with

everybody who now the community is very well versed in the issue of tree planting and as i hear a new one now where they were. some years ago the people of cocoa to use slash and burn farming methods leading to massive deforestation. most rivers and the groundwater dry what was once fertile soil turned to dust and people had to import food now the vegetation has returned to local communities have switched to micro 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.

then to move. 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 seleucus seem have just to be hives now he has 75. years i've managed to get what i can't do anything with a forest slug. when you hang behind it's like we've done here week at best quality honey it's clean and the bees can't be attacked by other insects and i miss. going on a war. is now on the road to recovery. but the eyelets of

my 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. by this tree planting event is designed to help the islanders understand the importance of trees. the young people let's say can charge them. when courage them and help them in planting as well then what 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 i really want to know about those on the 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. with an outcome to the end of this week's episode of off featuring an easy pie in mix of small initiatives big project and dedicated people we don't also want to thank you for joining us today and of course will be willing and waiting to have your company once again next week i am stunned at you know from compiler here in uganda and of course feel free to visit all social media platforms and so on those will then get .

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