i see despite my job to confront well to leaders on policies and development to put the spotlight on issues that matter most to hunger food security oppression martian isolation. or not has been achieved but so much more needs to be job and i feel people have to be at the heart of solutions my name is i'm a touchy about and i work at g.w. . we have a. constant change has defined mankind's journey you're a lot we've moved from an agricultural society to an industrial society and today the technology powered society technology has pushed us to become empowered and

find solutions beyond what we thought was possible what does this change mean for the planet that's what we'll dig deeper into today hello welcome to eco india. coming to you from mumbai. is one of the largest slums in the world often highlighted boiled over for its poor living conditions and made popular by the oscar winning film slumdog millionaire but the look i look at is a hub of small scale industrious with an annual turnover of close to $1000000000.00 an e-commerce startup is attempting to increase their access to the marketplace by creating an online platform to sell their goods is beyond the graffiti. of. the hobby is a means of finding. its 2nd largest. putting 2 square kilometers and is situated

only a few minutes from mumbai is a financial district it is also mumbai is largest manufacturing center that every is a hive of activity here porters with roots in the state of gujarat who work and live alongside the zuhdi embroiders from whatever the government makers and plastic recyclers crossed paths with metalsmiths happen to makers and banners in all there are more than 10000 skilled craftsmen here. it was this energy that drew entrepreneur make a good dad to dharavi 80 years ago this is a please very closely and if you give them a cause the ability and access to grow the whole country will grow. up does idea was to raise the heart of the market out of relative obscurity by setting up an online marketplace where the artisans can advertise their workshops on products now they can reach clients far beyond the potential is huge part of these

workshops sell goods worth over $60000000000.00 rupees or about $800000000.00 euros each year. every little need is like a mini factory where you have. different workshops producing different things and it's source self-sufficient. because they're not educated the oysters are not heard i believe by peeking by launching a website for them and. putting their products and their will on line for the larger markets to see i am sort of giving them a wise. khans workshop meets leather goods and specializes in wallets before starting to send its products on the market dot com it had sales of about 230000 euros a year but meager gupta hard to walk shop could do better especially if it switched

from animal hides to plant. agreed and now this company only uses artificial leather made from recycled paper it doesn't care is easy to work with and it's washable. we hope to be this eco friendly material to various trade fairs so that corporates can order in bulk and the whole idea is again to move toward sustainability. each product is photographed and uploaded to the website at the beginning make just 5 artisans on the harley market dot com now which will guesses more than $300.00 bookshops ads between 10 and 25 percent of the craftsman's prices depending on what you buy this see it is worth it and that their incomes have increased by 20 to 40 percent thanks to direct access to a much broader market. when muhammad go financially it 1st came to the

harvey he had to leave that family behind and father would be hard. by living my family used to live in the village but now they live here with me the kids go to school i can now afford the fees and the rent earlier i couldn't order. is keen to promote sustainability she's now cooperating with textile companies here the idea is to turn the scraps of fabric that accumulated in the heart of every day into new products. the brand is called with stands for 0 waste and it's spelled with. its pears they're all sort of included the word he to win it because we believe our fast when i hear all of them they can create anything out of. they can create anything out of. a lot of the small walk shops in the heart of we have signed up to make our border

it's of unmined deal that has a much larger him to enhance the held unsustainable development of the entire community. in a wish until technology is key in modern society to be we can work towards improving living conditions and conserving natural resources with technology water for example according to the united nations the demand for water which is the basic ingredient of life will exceed supply. by 40 percent by 2030 in the netherlands companies are coming up with interesting solutions to conserve and views water. for these children who water is a basic right that here in the netherlands comes easily from the top. yes. as it does for children even to wash their hands.

even so this family knows just how valuable it is. that water is really important with no water you can't drink and you die. washing the family clothes is done with recycled. the washing machine is fed with the household waste water which has been purified by a machine called the hydro loop and tells them skin and when that's enough for cycle to water to use. the only thing is that we. used to get. our life so as much. for saving water with a machine and the average family of 4 in the netherlands uses up to 191000 liters of water per year hydro loupe says its clients use around 45 percent less.

when we came to live here and us having kids we were you thinking about ok how can we make this world better also for our king oh for the next 2 to inherit the earth after us and this is when we thought ok we have to be smart and think head. what does seems to be abundant in the netherlands around 60 percent of domestic water here comes from the ground the rest is surface water once used in homes wastewater is treated and then returned to the rivers and oceans but treatment takes a lot of energy and water is also lost along the way. after folkies are designed the hydra loop at the centralized water recycling system that means part of the process is done in your own home the system doesn't use filters instead using 6 steps to treating clean the waste water to international standards. we

collect the water from the shower and actually also from the washing machine and then we treat it or remove all soap and hair and sentencing plaque that we disinfected so it's safe and then you can reuse it again for your washing machine to 1st the toilets and for your garden. the water can only be recycled once and it can't be used for drinking. the only delight shows now that the reason after recycled water to flush the toilet . so when i 1st a toilet it takes now recycled water from the lower tank and if this light turns blue this means oh you ran out of recycled water you're now using mains water hi julie prices started to around $3300.00 euros it's already selling in countries across europe as well as south africa and the united states it can be retrofitted

into older buildings or built directly into new systems for keys or aims to take the business further. the next stage is that we want to develop cooperation with companies in countries like india bangladesh with local production company so that we can start producing our products together with them in those countries where it's. has less cost to produce it so it can also be introduced in these markets at a lower price globally water is becoming ever more skaf recycling waste water is $1.00 potential answer yet the un says a. scent of it is released into the environment without adequate treatment the living water compass springs companies like hydro loop universities and research institutes together hired modeling camp is one of the directors what we do here and what a compass is is in fact helping companies celebrate their developments go to the

market and that is from one side market demand but also what is the ideas within the companies themselves and at the end of the day they should bring their product to the market and work at the water compass is funded in part by the companies developing the products along with the regional government and european commission among all those companies find the expertise to test and develop their ideas and products international concern for the startup it's a process that could normally take decades but here so help to speed that up the general picture is more for how can we help being more tech campus bringing new sustainable technologies to the market with help society. with solving the big issues in the world like how do we produce more food do we make sure that senate ation is done healthy and that is there's big issues out there which of course we

cannot solve alone that it's only possible when you set up operations. for the scone and children water for now has slipped from their minds but that could easily change in the future. if we don't lower our footprints it's an ending story anyway so at some point environment will come back at us we will have drought and probably shortage of food or water and then we get wars that's not what we want to have so don't you need to act. knowing now how to save water could be the key to making sure children like if and her siblings also have a future to look forward to. now merely 700000000 people around the world lack access to see if clean water off and resulting indices hardship and many a time. there was around the world

a major source of potable water and getting more and more polluted. a german innovator has developed a unique device that can turn water from madrid work on a stream directly into drinking water. water directly from the elbe or one of germany's biggest rivers ready for drinking . the secret the water was purified by this little box known as a wave or. the wave as water wheel scoops up the water and cyrix it into a series of filters clean water can then be pumped to a holding tank on land it's intended for use in small communities that have no power supply for research stations in remote areas or in disaster zones the engineers at inflow tech took that into account in their design.

we made a conscious decision to use only standard parts that are available all over the world with standard sizes if say a pipe is damaged or missing you'll be able to get a replacement wherever you are we designed the whole system that way. one unit can produce up to 2000 liters of safe drinking water a day the system is powered by the river's current. treating river water service suitable for drinking is an unusual step and requires different technology. many companies use water from wells to purify for drinking purposes that's already been cleaned partly by the sediment but we use the unclean surface water which is more difficult to purify and requires the relevant expertise . you 1st have to analyze the water then assemble the filters according to the results of that analysis in order to produce drinking water. the

company is convinced that the waiver can be used anywhere in the world as it operates autonomously. the waiver uses only the forces of nature we installed a water wheel which harnesses the energy from the river current to power the pump and we use the pressure created by the public to power the system that's it. that's what makes the whole thing different we're not using electricity to power endless filters or valves. the waiver currently costs around $15000.00 euros. but the company hopes to make it a lot cheaper once it goes into mass production. technology has the power to bring the remotest of regions of the world to the helping build reliable infrastructure

in the mountains of example. is fuelling the electricity demands of the people in. the bark of the daphne shrub also known as locked up has to be washed and then boiled in order to make paper from it. one of the tricity came to this area. was finally able to purchase a boiler intruder today years 10 employees that collect and wash the lock to bark the heavy workers done by machines. used to have to boil the locked up bock using firewood. and stamp on it without feet to soften it. the electricity comes from a small hydroelectric power plant the government has been promoting them in this mountain region for years and giving loans to entrepreneurs and farmers so they can buy machines. to the power plant was installed and we got electricity i

was in a better position economically. i had lower labor costs so i was able to make a profit. and i could even save some money. the un appoint a mountain range in the himalayas overlooks the village of gun truck which lies at an elevation of 2000 meters this is where poor new groom lives. the area has a lot of water. so it makes sense to install hydroelectric power plants which are relatively easy to build and are. mentally friendly. government support for the hydro power projects is granted only to villages that agreed to pitch in. 10 years ago b d a bishop well karma helped to build this power plant today she's the deputy manager

. of. the village meanwhile has 9 of these power plants. each with a management board and a manager. they handle the finances themselves. need a man with a head inside guy at the moment the plant is self-sustaining. and the fee we get from our customers helps us to pay our staff to do so in a was and it's enough to maintain the plant as well be able to plug into his and that has it also got an inside. the electricity from the hydro power plant was also a blessing for shanta my a guru who runs a bakery there the mother of 2 can now provide the entire village with bread. so they say nick i was the 1st person to open a bakery here. just for the past 5 years she's been baking bread here her brother works by her side. she's already managed to pay off the mixer in the oven but if

something breaks it can get expensive. tend to move up it can be difficult if one of the machine stops working then we have to go all the way to poke at us to have it fixed. fortunately she also earns money from her small kiosk which is right next to the bakery local people are her main customers but tourists who come here to go climbing in the on a point of mountains sometimes shop here to. the village of guns work is home to about 5200 people. the power plants have changed their lives they now cook with electricity and there are 2 telecommunications masts in the village health care has also improved. recently i had dental treatment which was only possible because the medical station has electricity now. without

electricity and none of this would exist everyone is making the most of it. nonetheless about 40 percent of the people in the villages here still don't have electricity. naipaul has been working to renu and expand the electricity grid after a devastating earthquake destroyed much of it 4 years ago hydroelectric power is the linchpin of the government's plan. a lot has changed for paper make a porno gurung he's even been able to open a shop and poke around the 2nd largest city in a power. this is where he sells his untreated paper as well as products such as diaries and notebooks cards and lampshades. this income made it possible for the widow or to raise his 2 children and send them to school his daughter now lives in pokhara and also works in the shop. corner girl room stops by

at least once a week he's planning to expand his business. everything. had been locked up and the himalayan metal could be processed in the same facility so i'm thinking of expanding and processing metals to make fabric a lot of money that. room has big plans for the future. but he doesn't want to move to the city full time the mountains are his home. what if innovation through technology could be taught to children in school could our next generation be better equipped to solve to unique problems that. the founders of standard 3 schools on the outskirts of mumbai definitely think so. determined in the sleepy coastal town of about

a 110 kilometers from mumbai nothing will strike you as ordinary. damage or even initiative that is working with the marginalised tribal communities in the high low who have historically been denied their right to have education you know where decent living to access to their forests and this is a community that is at the bottom rung of the society for various reasons the school is are not just a school it's an experiment it's a radical or dorner gave to say that education must be about social justice and together along with this group of people we are experimenting with how open source open source technologies can really bring about change into education. the termagant preschool only uses online educational resources that are accessible for free the school computers use open source software that can be obtained free of charge the idea is that high quality educational material and technology should be

available to all the approach here is quite a departure from the style of most indian schools. the lessons are supposed to be fun in an atmosphere that encourages interaction and gives the children plenty of scope to explore subjects by themselves. young students are learning to chord their learning to. program probably has a go order them learning to make small video animation games they're learning to produce things that through the internet the other very important principle and i'm entries work is that as we said earlier we are part of the open source movement so every thing on our campus is open. it was about 15 years ago that mumbai the residents michelle job law and human babu moved to the home. since then they have worked closely with the local community in building the school determined not

to turn this into a charitable institute the school charges the parents fees ensuring that they stay invested. in the way it's easier for us because 1st generation learning so the parents of the students really just have faith they just have trust that ok what do with these guys are doing they must be doing it right because they didn't have an idea. having said that i must say that there are a lot of other parents who have been exposed to let's say the conventional way of let's say computing or technology they are exposed to that and they do ask is that. what happens to my child when he grows up learning opensource and when the he or she will go out in the world. how will she

be able to cope and we reassure them that look. it's not a big you know ultimately the tools are the bones what we are teaching is that once it was. my dad been plenty of challenges along during the demo than 3 journey has been deeply to voting for the team their years of determined effort have won them recognition the world over. was. for my generation of the eighty's of the ninety's technology has brought about an age that could change in society right in front of our very eyes a lot of this change has moved to mn civilization in the right direction many more people have clean drinking water many more people have a roof over their heads and many more people have enough to eat when compared to the last 3 decades if you have any thoughts on how technology can be used for good

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