i will take good care of myself just one thing for took hold on the west coast of scotland in 2007, and the stars made big promises like years later, reality looks very different. let's choose drinking water shortage. i was dreaming of black gold starts december 4th on d, w. this melting glacier, maybe thousands of kilometers away from you, but it could have a significant impact on your life. rises in say levels, rising sea levels,

rising sea levels, sea level is rising. take home by, for example, these 2 red area shows the parts of the city that could be underwater by 2050. and that applies to coastal cities all over the world. sea levels could rise by several meters, but there are still ways to prevent this scenario. indigenous fishermen in mumbai are trying to save the natural bastions that a key to protecting the city. autism, fisherman coming, is keeping up the tradition of the mumbai is 1st inhabited. they have lived off the seas, bounty for generations. schools to sparky, covered by mongrel forest, which used to protect the city's inhabitants today. the bigger issue of these mangroves bores is

a threat to the coolies likelihood coastal erosion would both leading to cvo flooding. come lock up about is, but about the future of the place. he calls home his status steadily decreasing. a clear sign that the mangroves are not doing that. just so good. the edges and the mongrels get good down indiscriminately. you see garbage everywhere. even industrial plants really using chemicals here. a boat getting oil one sank and polluted the water. so many fish have died and the ones that remain gone breed fast enough to bring oil there. situated between the ocean and the landmass, mangroves reduce the intensity of crashing waves by acting as a buffer. they also act as ponchos by soaking up excess water to prevent inland flooding and by releasing tiny droplets into the air to regulate the city's

temperature. to prevent further to get dition, some fishermen have taken action. bar started a grassroots movement with neighborhood fisherman. they want to save and protect more than $1000.00, hectares of lush mangrove cover surrounding his village pond, or in mumbai's northeastern corner. the one in our action on our own. we stop any kind of in goodman thank fisherman from the community organizations out and clean the incessant flow of solid beast on a daily basis. they know that their livelihood is in jeopardy. many fish species of a lable in abundance in the past have disappeared from these waters. local fishermen keep constant vigil and allowed the organization if they notice illegal

encroachments. often, members of the village community are part of the problem. give us the also organize of their mysteries ing initiatives in the local community to help families understand the importance of mangroves to realize many are not aware that pollution is destroying mumbai's, mangroves about 40 percent have invited doubt over the last few decades. and that's not all say, and by mentalists in legal constructions which happen, people repair their houses, the demolished wall structures, the reconstruction, the breezes come in and bomb. the mangroves being in the garment themselves. one of the biggest threats to mangle because they have set up your mongols dumping grounds in the greeks of inside the mangroves inside dens. mangroves and the leadership from there is going into the mangoes and degrading the system. if you refuse to be

a please, or where you could come for fresh. now you can barely stand there because of the littered with just coming out of these dumping grounds into the more than 100 cases of mangrove destruction were reported in mumbai in 2018, both on government and private land. the mangroves number and his community project are part of the ecosystem that occupies only 0 point one percent of the earth's surface. and that's how scouse they are. the state of my russia, which mumbai is a part of, is the only state in india to have what's called a man groups dedicated to their conservation. the cell relies on participate re projects like the n.g.o.s she read. i petition to save the city's mangrove. the contribution of bondo fishing village mysie minuscule today. but it's thanks to the initiator of our fishing communities like this one, that the rest of the city may now stand

a chance against rising sea levels in years to come. water is not only a threat, it is also an essential element in our lives. for centuries, cities have been built close to water sources to ensure citizens have access to enough. but vast growth in obama's ition is having an unforeseen effect on the foundations of the cities themselves. where will you be when your city sinks? and what does that have to do with drinking a glass of water? mexico city, calcutta, miami, hundreds of millions of people live in drowning 50 some of which could be wiped off the map in a lifetime. people are fighting harder than ever to stay afloat right now. how those people the carbon

dioxide, where everything is in the last 25 years, all the thermal energy heating the oceans as up to as much as 3600000000, atom bombs. and that's melted ice raids, sea levels, and made it 3, weather, even more extreme in just a few decades. storms and floods but used one of the century, many coastal cities, everything. but climate change. it's only half the story. 'd 'd 'd in spurling megacities from jakarta to lagos, the bigger problem is that the land itself, literally sinking from a building, landed from fighting 10 times after the tsunami. the right thing by the level rice may was on the internet. and you see, if we are not careful,

i will be where this is because we're very directed rivers and built cities on soft soils. the ground isn't just solid. there's also water and happening to your feet. but people across the world have dug deep wells and pumped up the groundwater and less water means less pressure pushing up on the land above it. so the soils get squashed and the cities think this is how much for major asian cities are falling by each year. it may not look like a lot, but it quickly adds up. over the last century, bangkok has sunk by more than one point. shanghai by more than 2 meters, by more than 3 meters and eastern tokyo by more than 4 meters. parts of california have dropped by the height of a house. in the indonesian capital jakarta house at the west imagine a baby born today. by the time

a child and the higher coastal area of the city will be under water. why is dakota thinking so? well, indonesia's groundwater problems are worse than most like the car in bangladesh. jakarta's river, the full of plastic and whites. well, government can only produce 60 percent of what that are. you know, what we've got banking. so 58 percent of people still rely undergird. what i add to that, the fact that you cannot assert some swampland is home to 13 rivets and is among the most densely populated cities in the world. but to cotter's intellect, calcutta is also sinking, even if it's just a few millimeters each year. the cause massive extraction of groundwater in parts of the city, almost a quarter of the water used by calcutta residents comes from the ground

the way the large groundwater act. i think, you know, i do it. i met nick thought, oh, yeah. yeah, he get it. we cannot stop the inviting what you, what the consequences are already visible in some parts of the city. there's still tiny fishes. but scientists believe that if allowed to develop, the result could be devastating. the process is in full swing, just a few months ago. the ground gave way violently during construction work on a metric. you cannot go that day and it's a day begin not being badly, etc. as to the lever that was in going to be as big as the vice a bit. how much worse can it really get? honestly, along the major study last year from the scientists have wildly underestimate the

number of people exposed to flooding. climate central find to estimate 3 times as many people at risk of crystal flooding than we thought. many live on the same river deltas that are rapidly subsiding. now, the study didn't account for coastal defensive, like sea walls or levies. so it's not like the city, the duped, but it shows there's less room for them to for all this catastrophe, particularly for citizens who can't afford to move as the water presses in some cities that dropped meters last century have pretty much stopped. sinkers, tokyo and shanghai restricted how much ground water citizens could extract and recharge water supply that would run dry. with a simple that they really thought, just one. in fact, we kind of monitor. but in cities like to cotter residents don't have easy access

to other sources of drinking water. the government would 1st have to spend years cleaning up rivets before it could pipe water across the country. instead, the cost of building a giant war. but experts say this just delayed the problem and isn't even the best way to spend the money. if we do it look at management, it's only convenient if we do this because it's future infill. very much in our scientists say we can limit sea level rise to less than half the meat of this century by rapidly cutting our mission. even half a meter for some cities could already be too much estimates put the sea level rise around venice in italy at more than 20 centimeters higher than

a century ago to that high tides. and you have shops and the cathedral in italy. is lagoon city facing a deluge more often than before? now, flood gates are being tested to protect the city, but many inhabitants remain skeptical. money camber seanie doesn't have an easy job. she has to persuade the public that venice is on the brink of salvation. she says spokeswoman for the huge, most say flood protection project, it's pasties, significant tests. but it's taken me in a decade to complete. people have lost faith after so many years. they can't see an end to it all. and nov 29th. much of the city was flooded and damaged in october, the most a flood gates were tested. they prevented high waters from reaching the city, but the system is still in its test fades. monica amber seanie took us to the lido,

where the venetian lagoon connects with the adriatic sea. our jenny ended at the new key wall. the security guard told us we were not allowed to come any closer for safety reasons. it's still in the test phase after all. so we had to make do observing this mammoth construction from a distance. this project poses a real engineering challenge to begin with 40 foundation pillars, 60 meters long will lowered into the water and connected by an underwater lock system. then $78.00 movable chambers, each weighing over $300.00 tons were placed above them. was it on the seat? these enormous floating gates had to be positioned right alongside each other. there was a 5 millimeter margins, and maybe it was an extremely precise remote controlled underwater operation. that complacently was in makati to this area between the lagoon in the sea

has been a construction site for 17 years. there have been various interruptions and a series of corruption scandals leading to arrests. this is also why most say still has a poor reputation among many venetian us. andrea bury me as one of the most vocal critics of the project, which he says lacks transparency. which wastes of public money like we've never seen before. he thinks that there are other ways of protecting this cissie together with a fellow campaigner from his association. he showed us the damage caused by the storms and floods. last november. many walls were destroyed, but the jew deca island served as a bowl walk and prevented similar damage in other parts of the city of eden on one to the how much of the most

a funds could we have used for effective flood protection systems in the whole city because of climate change, there are going to be more and more storms and floods in the future, and they'll be more intense in a month ago. skeptics believe in the long run these mobile locks in the aging attic sea won't protect venice. and jay, every knows among them. he's also angry that the most a money wasn't used to maintain the city's historic buildings. if the floods are a problem. but the ships and the cruisers or worse, because they're causing the foundations of the city to road. and they're in danger in the structures that the future bellyful knowing what it would make sense to drain the canals on a regular basis and renovate the foundations. but this maintenance work hasn't been done for decades following the successful tests in october,

monaco amber seanie is more optimistic about most say and that it will be able to go into full operation in the coming year then and how the 17 year construction period and all the stress surrounding it made all finally be worth it. what if we didn't need protection from rising water in the future? because we lived on the water with islands and cities threatened with drowning architects are looking at how to rebuild them on the ocean surface. 'd some countries are already taking their 1st battle in the netherlands, for example, living on water in the city center. one day more than 100 people live on this side of the down market. schmidt and his wife yvonne fans out

there among the 1st residents to the slim's conclusion. it's a different way of life here. the water sparkles and reflects everywhere. yes, you experience it much, much more. the house is one of 30 buildings that are part of the project and each building has its own design. but they all have one thing in common. they float on special concrete rafts fastened on 2 pillars. the swimming foundation needs to be able to carry several 100 tons. a misstep will be balanced precisely. here it is one of the project architects because you have to, every thing that you put on the boat, how heavy it will be. because if you put in too much weight, it will be too low. and then the water starts to come. in 20 different architects

were involved in the project. the houses were built on land and then brought to the dock by boat. sustainable and eco friendly materials were used for the house. this the facade of peda reich's home, his native cool. you had loads of discussions with a whole group, and we had help from different pfizer's on materials. so we ended up with a listing green orange less than a red list. reckless was a no go, orange was ok if you really have to because of cost reasons or technical reasons, but prefer to use only materials from the greenest on the green list. and we like this very much, or that was arch our students are living on water, has a long tradition and houseboats can be seen on almost every canal. one of the 1st floating districts was built a couple of years ago in the district of eyeball 50 houses. on artificial islands.

now the trend is spreading to other european cities in london, for example, where british architects back it up planning floating homes in the royal docks. copenhagen has responded to the lack of affordable student housing with the so-called. 12 floating houses designed by star architect. he doesn't shy away from even greater visions of floating city for 10000. people in regions threatened by climate change. we think we in the future, we will need more housing on the water for several reasons because the city is very full. but also because of sea level rising, for instance. so we will need this kind of projects and we want to be a showcase in that sense for yvonne van sarka marcus schmidt. this vision has become a reality 115 square meters. 2 flaws on a roof garden. it's almost like

a house in the countryside. but this one difference, their entire home sways to squeak. i haven't felt sick yet, but i did have a day where i thought i need to set foot on solid ground. but it's a small price to pay for their dream of living on water. around 31000000, people want to fix it by floods across the world. lost lives were lost, possessions in a single year. flooding caused almost 70000000000 euros in economic losses. for weavers in kerala, it meant losing their livelihoods. but with the dawn, they found hope for the future.

this miniature dog has become a symbol of hope and resilience for the people of gaza, who survived a devastating bellew's that had destroyed in 2018. and each one is made by hand from hand that were drenched beyond repair in the flood waters. when they looked the fabric just chlorinated and cleaned, it still had stains and so on. and i could see that it does a true reflection of every miley those days because they had a way you go, you could see stains. i mean, they really had this a thought in august 2018, catastrophic flooding that cost more than 400 people, their lives and 5000000 their homes and livelihoods the veevers of the traditional honeymoon capital of gender, among them suffered damages that were a submitted to be around $150000000.00 rupees. a close to $1700000.00 euros. it

left me all the equipment was destroyed. they were broken to the point to be felt there was no way we could salvage them. i was the one who would i have posted. i saw the die a condition. i did member thinking i weaving days are over we would have to start from scratch and that was unlike the looting of the good that i love, the kurdish will hire looms or use 500 authors who for generations have been reading with a fine art. of course, that is hardly found in india today. soon after the floods in base design and shalini james corden dodge with the veevers, supported by her network of designer friends. she dry cleaned some of the fabric and also managed to raise funds for the community to accept. part indeed for the

society was that most of their confidence gave the rebirth. you know, some light of hope that you know, there are people out there people they've never seen or heard of before. we're interested in keeping the problem they face was that a large quantity of their fabric had been damaged beyond repair and had become but this luxury menin is one of 2 designers who came up with the project to make dollars from the fabric that could be saved in cottage people not only to buy the dog, but also to participate in making them a different guy. the dog that does actually made in 9 countries by i don't have 2000 volunteers, they expression the creation. everything is different in it's actually that makes it all the more, you know, beautiful people are very keen to be part of it because they feel that if they've

make one chick with a dog, they also have one fat brick. in rebuilding, one of the $500.00 societies that contribute to that had lost fabric was over 2000000 rupees or around 23000 euros in the floods. but the sale of dogs brought in almost 3400000 rupees, or almost 39000 euro's for the viewers in just 4 months. they're not big bright in their new identity. 5 people knew if i work as the weavers and join the mongol, i'm but now because of she could be more people are interested in finding out more about us and what we do. and then i didn't even ask out a lot, prepare the school climate change induced floods again next year. perhaps the represent a dying testament to the state resilient spirit. thank you for

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