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come on what can really do. we still have time to work i'm doing. what service. could subscribe to the list like this. 19 is causing a spike in relationship breakdowns. with divorce rates soaring they would double the normal rate in during the 1st lockdown. in the us they've searched by a 3rd. the pandemic has shrunk out world into our homes. juggling childcare alongside work. being on top of each other $24.00 seventh's it's all proven too much for many couples. but some say it's actually made their bones

stronger. how can we make pressure cooker relationships work in these tough times. are we talking to a psychology researcher about that in a few minutes 1st crisis aside every 3rd married couple in germany gets divorced separation to be prevented by asking professionals for advice you've got to be open to it. when discontinuities doesn't stop at cast. podcast hosts with a difference. they've been married for 10 years and have 3 children together jamila and tino's show is all about their relationship during the pandemic the highs and lows. and it's really tight for everyone right now for the couples in the home life now

more than ever we're dependent on the communication as a couple in especially as parents to organize everything so we can work and get through this in good shape. he comes. coronavirus lockdowns have good pressure on couples working from home and home schooling have left partners with very little free time constantly living on top of each other can create conflict and even worse an existing relationship problems when couples are at their wit's end professionals can help. they can commercialize it strangely we tend to assume relationships are something we're simply able to do and if we can't then we say the other person is to blame and we separate or we're not a good fit i don't believe that relationships always have to be easy i believe that it's possible to get to the stage where you can have a clear relationship with each other and it's no longer difficult to talk about

problematic topics. for some couples going to a therapist is a big step a 1st aid kit for home life this box contains cards of questions for couples to ask each other developed by a professional therapist. many relationships suffer from a breakdown in communication this method offers a playful way for partners to get back into conversation with each other. have been part of couples come to therapy feeling under appreciated or a lack of recognition often they're fighting more and more getting stuck in repeated thought patterns so they come to discuss their everyday lives how they're bearing the burdens of life and equally and now during the coronavirus you also get boredom the lack of sexuality or simply that they are just getting on each other's nerves. demand for their beauty has grown but it's not exactly cheap a session can cost between $80.15 euros. there's no guarantee of

success. galavis movements and i think we choose our partners ourselves and this offers great growth potential with each other we grow when we overcome conflicts not when everything is easy. and the flood of. couples therapy can give both partners the support they need to get through the pandemic. psychology research of help peel joins us from australia now the reporter raquel said that we grow when we overcome conflicts not when everything's easy but for a lot of us the question is what to do in the 1st place when the challenge facing us is just too overwhelming you know that's right been for couples it can be a really difficult time spending a lot more time together and having to face issues that you have already in your relationship and now they face something that you have front

what happens though when those issues have become too big when there's been a communication breakdown obviously all the relationships gone toxic how can couples normalize the situation or reestablish some sort of link. absolutely she went back to the basics we have to remember why we are together in the 1st place so it could be little things like learning how to communicate learning that at times when there's conflict and you should be able to express yourself it's about how you are feeling as opposed to using your language which can put the other person at the fence of marriage what about something like sex how do you reassembly something as intimate as that when you're both fighting and basically hate each other at the end of the day. yes i know you're absolutely right sex is really important and we are intrinsically motivated to seek intimacy and sex is how we are intimate but what i would say is if you're at a conflict with your pal and you're not going to be able to go straight to sex is

special if that is it might be the reason why one conflicts in the 1st place so you might have to start was more just as suggested in together on the couch holding hands sitting closer turchin each other so you might have to again go back to basics and start with gentle touches to then be able to go all the way to sex again so it's the little things that counts and i guess a lot of patients. a lot of patients and learning to walk again in your relationship a also just like to add sexual health has a direct impact on our general health doesn't absolutely again because we are seeking to be intimate sex is how we do it so it does have a huge impact in how we understand ourselves and how we rate telesales worthy of our patmos so feeling sexy or feeling wanted is a huge part of our relationships and it is something that we actually have to talk

to our patents about so if for some reason you're not having sex in a relationship and it's making you feel down about you so it is something that you have to bring out because it is part of who we are it is terrible so staying. why is sex and private time with a partner or loved one so important in a pandemic but again in a pin demi becomes more obvious because he's spending a lot more time together so old his claim flicks all does little kinks in our relationships become part of us in we have to address it so if that is conflict and you're not able to have sex then it becomes obvious that you have to talk about it and i was actually find it difficult to address the issue it's how i want to talk about raquel tell me though how can we avoid getting into this situation in the 1st place within a relationship looking just goes back to communication and finking that even though we think we know our panel think we know how it is to be in

a relationship it doesn't hurt to stop and i don't know how we could do it better to communicate in take it step by step sometimes going back to the door important say how to do things differently and listen if you are going to your partner with a question how can i be better how can i do things differently what are you expecting to change is actually being able to listen as well very interesting stuff for a hell of a lot for me to definitely listen to and take on board thank you very much for joining us we'll tell people they're from ipswich in australia thank you for having me and then it's great solutions there from raquel now it's your chance to ask the questions keep sending them into our you tube channel and our science correspondent there williams will do his best to answer them. how likely you to catch david 1000 outside for example from someone running by. for me one of the most striking aspects of this pandemic is the amount of research that's gone into trying to

answer seemingly simple questions like this which turn out to actually be pretty incredibly complex i mean who would have guessed even a year ago that we have gotten so obsessed with the highly abstract world of aerosol distribution physics both in closed rooms and outside but to the question though we we now know that while it certainly might be possible to catch covert 19 outdoors it's much much less likely that it is indoors in poorly ventilated spaces where people spend extended periods of time that's because unlike outdoors aerosols accumulate in enclosed spaces and increase the chance that you might inhale enough of what an infected person has exhaled to catch the disease so though that's an amount i like to know by the way that we we still don't

know with any certainty and in general the consensus seems to be that in addition to the indoors outdoors aspect of the equation the other factors that play major roles in infection are how long exposure lasts how close an infected person comes to you and the amount of time that you're around them the w.h.o. only recommends masks and outdoor settings where physical distancing can't be maintained by crowds and not for people doing intense physical activity that's because pretty much all the indicator. point to the conclusion that the jogger panting by you in the park just doesn't really present that big of a wrist. derek williams there could

devise as well i would my going for job after work briefly in other corona related years though most countries this is spending their rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine following the example of norway and denmark on thursday denmark made the call after reports of severe blood clots some of the patients received the shot no definitive link between the japanese and the cloths have yet been proven the danish health and medicines authority says it's issuing a 2 week halt of precaution as it investigates. the european medicines agency has approved johnson and johnson's vaccine for use in the european union the single dose shot is the 4th to be licensed across the $27.00 e.u. nations authorities hope that a one dose vaccine will help speed up the stalled rollout of covert jabs here in europe. and fancy a texas t.v. after knocking off work that it's on must texas has lifted its mass mandate and

capacity restrictions on restaurants and other businesses that's despite experts warning a 100 percent relaxation of carbs will exacerbate the spread of wiring variants the pandemic has hit the united states the hottest infection rate has fallen dramatically since january remains high in absolute terms. thank you for watching stay safe and see you again so soon. are we about to run dry. no no not. water is very big business and it's getting worse gas. what do we have to do not to end up high and dry. do we have to rethink the water industry. made in germany. d w. to the point from the pinions to your position in the

international perspectives. u.s. president joe biden wants to reform america's immigration system to make it more compassionate m 2 main p.c. you applauds the sentiment but it's sticking to its own policy of fortress you are all keeping ignorance so who's right to the point. of being 16 years on t w. but 2050 more than half the world will be leaving with limited water resources we haven't had to think about our war or worry about oh. i think that era is over this is the crisis of our time it's a financial product like any other financial we live in

a competitive world is this cold it's cold it's blue cold water used to be free but the world is changing the most important commodity jumpers can be freezing. forms of water city or commodity starts march 22nd on d w. the world's most important resource a given for many regions but experts warn 2 thirds of the global population could face water shortages in the next 5 years like so often in life you only notice something when it starts becoming scarce. and by that time it's often too late it's

no longer as easy as turning on a tap for more and more people water our most precious resource welcome to made. there's a reason earth is known as the blue planet the majority of the globe is covered by water of course around 97 percent of it is so porta i mean to a hospice said is freshwater but much of that is locked away in ice soil and the atmosphere bloody war of it is highly polluted or too deep underground to be extracted at an affordable cost just how tough a percent of all water is readily accessible from lakes rivers and aquifers water scarcity it's one of the most serious risks we face and the problem is growing. new deserts are emerging forests are drying up and we're still wasting water. the regions marked here in dark red are places where water is extremely scarce and

sources are drying up pale red and orange indicate areas where water scarcity is only slightly less critical. in india the southern part of the city. water tankers supply poor neighborhoods but only come once a week. or so. that the line is like water is so scarce some mornings there are so many people you would think there's a fair on everyone is struggling to fill can see that there are arguments fights even accidents water is our biggest problems of the well we wish they would fix taps on all of our houses just like they've installed electricity on within the. delis main water supply is the moon a river but there hasn't been enough rainfall so it's water level is low. so what are your thoughts there problem in delhi today is the availability of clean water.

a lot of work has gone into cleaning efforts. or progress but there is an urgent need to address the issue of making more water available. is taking place rapidly and with it the demand for water is rising just as fast. in germany water is also becoming an issue. u.s. based electric car manufacturer tesla is planning to build its european factory in brandenburg outside berlin once it's operational it will consume millions of liters of water every day. water levels in this nearby lake have already sunk due to a series of hot dry summers the water at this point in the lake used to reach us moderns waste. he grew up here on lake strauss say. the prospect of the new test the factory where you see him. we have to assume that

climate change will continue and that there will be less rainfall and increased about peroration there's a vast amount of water consumption on top of that the water level will continue to fall as it has done in recent years it's likely to drop another few metres the theory will no longer run down no one will be able to swim in the leg and bird breeding grounds will be destroyed. in the state of north rhine-westphalia there's concern about the drinking water supply at the gills investor waterworks to thoughts on this that with understand the situation is fraught called for saying some of the lowest water levels since records began as a result of the past 3 dry summers. placed talking. there's a slight improvement underway but the rain from the past 2 months isn't enough and that's why there needs to be a lot more rain a little humidity in the fire. water is all part of the fun for tourists on the island of bali and as tourism grows so too does water consumption.

bali residents are getting worried about their drinking water supplies. it's all because there's a shortage of sweet water we need to keep that within our system we need to keep it on the island we need to retain it push it into the ground and use it here where we need it the most. villagers have to travel long distances to get fresh water the next clean water is an hour walk from where this woman lives around the world to 2000000000 people face huge problems when it comes to access to clean water leaving on a walk you know every morning i go out to fetch water. for drinking water at home i fill up a large container and. i always bring the does he come. the water and wash them every day it's like that you don't. have enough time to go to the water so several times

a day to fetch water back home. what would global solutions look like one key aspect is utilizing waste water it's rarely treated in india but recycling it could ease demands. the absolute water start up came up with an organic innovation filtering sewage water through plant matter and sand in their system break down any toxins in the water digesting them into harmless components and converting sewage into drinking water. the what's important thing is the operational cost which. we have the cheapest one. being. we are not subject to very heavy so therefore the cost is the lowest so all in all it's a full sustainable. system and it is. a big

rethink is already underway in germany as well where farmers are turning to crops which need little water researchers say climate change could make the long hot and very dry summers of recent years a permanent fixture that could lead to conflicting demands on water distribution the farmers association is already highlighting potential flashpoints. the. competition for water will increase for those relatively minor parts of the agricultural industry which use sprinklers meaning fruit and vegetable farms we need water for irrigation and obviously will have to weigh up the benefits of say watering garden washing machine usage showering. cooling water and washing up water and ask if we couldn't use it better to produce food for us the world needs investment in water pipes on bali aid organizations have stepped in to help

the villagers are also footing a share of the costs in projects like this where water will now if you come to uphill from the source to the village. when i went to new zeland in 969 everything was just so like heaven damn it got home was not a damn cold more beautiful and. everything was kind of all right so so i thought well why couldn't i improve the situation over here so i do that the state doesn't do much for infrastructure here it's the same as in many countries around the world. hot and cold running water a beautiful thing i never really thought about it though industrialized countries like germany nobody really does things very different in many other parts of the

world where people can line up for hours just to get a few leaders of the precious stuff industrialized nations play a role in that scarcity as well that's because we eat large amounts of products like beith which require a huge amount of water to produce even if it isn't immediately apparent here's a breakdown of what some things cost in terms of h 2 o. . what is virtual water. let's take jeans as an example it takes around 8000 liters of water to make one pair that's $53.00 bathtubs full how come growing the cotton uses most of the water it's a very thirsty plant if the rains fail cotton fields have to be irrigated. and if the cotton is to be spun into jeans it also needs coloring rinsing and bleaching that pollutes a lot of water. virtual water is the unseen water that goes into the manufacturing of our product. nearly 19000 liters per one kilo of coffee 184

liters for a kilo of tomatoes and about 15000 liters for one kilo of beef. in a country with adequate natural water resources high consumption isn't a problem unless of course a lot of it gets polluted but in many regions water is scarce or supplies have been depleted by producing certain goods the water level in the aral sea has dropped 18 meters because of irrigation and cotton fields it's turned parts of was back you start into a salty toxic waste land. tomatoes are cultivated in the parched reaches of southern spain using water piped into enormous greenhouses. and in brazil where there's a shortage of drinking water the country's huge coffee plantations are never short of a drop coffee is a major export for brazil. europeans import beans water guzzling goods and by extension all the virtual water needed to produce them seen from this

perspective someone living in germany uses 3900 liters of water a day slightly over the global average but cooking showering and laundry make up only a small part of that most water used here is a virtual water hidden in the products around us. so it takes 8000 liters of water to make a pair of jeans and they use so much more washing them over the years staggering numbers that pose some serious questions like what should water cost who should provide it is it morally acceptable for companies to profit from selling it to those who need it most of schmidt went to talk with a woman involved in a project that says issues like that she things to fix the problem you have to hit people where really hurts their pocketbooks.

sophia maria schmidt is a professional musician and a student of economics who thinks a lot about war. deprives most sean the price should go up until it hurts a bit sons to december scimitar. schmidt researches water related issues the united nations resolution says there is a human right to safe accessible and affordable water i'm probably invented to conquer the problem is that there is competition for the use of water if we want to introduce a basic right to water we have to consider which sectors which people are to enjoy that right we can identify 3 major players industry farming and private households which has priority who has more of a right to and who are less private individuals also depend on farming it's a very complex problem and we can't simply demand free water is a basic right i understood do you think that overall the world wide water is too

cheap. to believe is never to have compared the united states in general in the u.s. water consumption per person per day is almost 300 liters that's a huge amount in germany by contrast it's $122.00. and then compare the prices here water is twice as expensive as to i'm so if the price is too low then we waste water and that's exactly what's happening in the u.s. . meat is involved in a project to tell university in frankfurt that focuses on water and its sustainable management worldwide they hold events and have invited representatives of nestle to attend the swiss multinational faces a lot of criticism for bottling and selling groundwater and for generating vast amounts of plastic waste. and again you're for some teaching prison. sponsored by nurses is that a conflict of interest but there's

a feeling that there are many things to criticize but it's very important to engage with corporations it's all very well for academics to develop ideas but you can only achieve something if you work together with industry we should certainly view nestlé very critically but we also need to talk to it and find out what it can contribute. to most of us and that's kind of this little fountain has dried up schmidt sources of water around the world are going dry so they need to be maintained in a responsible fashion by the public and the private sector. if a company slaps on a 10 percent profit margin water gets more expensive but given that it's our most important source of sustenance is it right for it to be provided by private companies from vending marsha. as long as the profit margin is not too high relative at a per capita income so as long as people can afford it as long as they stick before

had a low enough price so that they can buy as much as they need there's no problem it's the same with everything food clothes so there's always a profit margin and that's ok as long as we can afford it. as an option. the only way to prevent a supply crisis is to raise the price of water so we come to value the resource for what it's really worth. water is used in different ways in different parts of the world in europe for example agriculture industry and household suck up and spit out pretty much equal amounts but in north and south america farming makes up a much more sizeable fraction of total use and agriculture in asia and africa swallow around 80 percent of it just 15 percent is used by industry and amiga 5 percent by private households in many mega-cities water is growing increasingly

scarce in the philippine capital things have reached a critical stage now the government plans to build a dam to supply manila with 600000000 liters of water a date but it will uproot entire villages my colleague milan went to talk to some of them. the cali war river has always run through the share of modern mountain range in northeastern philippines but a controversial down project is set to change its course forever so this might be one of my last boat rides here. up ahead is the plan construction site for the cali watch and all along the forest wall here a big tunnel will be built for the convenience of water. the water behind it could be up to 162 meters deep. that's more than enough to inundate communities like this one i visited the village of seato keeper rosoff which is closest to the dam site

here the indigenous to moderate people have lived alongside peasant farmers and fishers for generations many of them have put up signs opposing the down as they face displacement and the loss of their livelihoods i'm. i'm just wondering. when the flood comes how are we going to find. we can't swim or dive for fish. we wouldn't be able to do any of that. so what's going to become of us. for. the dam is designed to boost the water supply in manila the philippine capital and the country's economic and political center. we're actually just 40 kilometers south of the dam site but this urban jungle feels worlds away from their remote mountain communities. the authorities here say dwindling supply at manila's primary

water sources is leading to shortages in a city that won't stop expanding. the greater the measure of whether or not he's serious. about. growing the bounce from those. the government argues that displacing thousands and destroying hundreds of hector's of forest land is justified as it will secure water for more than 12000000 people and that it's worth the taxpayer burden in the form of a contentious loan from china of more than $200000000.00. residents whose properties are set to be washed away by the dams construction are going to be taken care of according to official promises. but many here tell me that they're skeptical. why down on one of our own we've heard a lot of offers but we're not accepting them because we don't want to give away

what's intended for the generations that come after us. we want them to live if really in our communities. what are they offering you a long period they say they'll give us money or they'll provide us with housing but we don't know where they will take us what if they relocate us to bonaire look for example how would we survive when we're not used to life there. and indeed communities here live in accordance with the rhythms of the river and protect the environment it's a way of life that could be lost if the government has its way. before you all. now you know well these are our ancestral lands if they build the dam will lose our identity. that's death for us not just of our physical bodies but our culture

politics and economics. even if they do find somewhere for us to resettle we won't be able to live in our traditional way dependent on nature. on the path of. the projects critics say they have history on their side the current initiative is a reincarnation of sorts of the even down a few kilometers away which was never completed that project was shut down by community opposition more than a decade ago only ruins stand in the water. though if the event project had been continued there be water all around us as high as the walls which you see behind me the fact that the project was halted is a memory for many of the resistance that was successful but the outcome of their present day struggle is far from certain. the desire to preserve the river as it is clashes with the urge to change and control it in

a standoff that pits local people against the powerful government in the capital few expect to give way. the poor often lose out the most when it comes to water rights at the other end of the spectrum by the wealthy who have turned water into a luxury good bottled water that can cost hundreds of times what it costs out of the tap. billions and of course there are experts who say that like fine wine. has many nuances that detectable to the discerning palate our reporter matthew went to talk with people trying to be what has all these. for gore may says what isn't just water. you know region and source give waters a distinctive character and. we're not talking about regular tap water but the kind that comes in bottles in germany that going up the price $100.00

times. these people are taking a course to become water. they're doing a taste test identify the water without seeing the label on the bottle. you know nothing for us you know sodium tastes salty calcium makes the mouth feel dry magnesium makes the water taste sweet and bitter and then there are a bubbles carbon dioxide. that's often a giveaway if you throw. the 9 day course costs over 2000 euros sommeliers have to register subtle differences and talk about them key if you want to sell lots of bottles. if some of the students work for mineral water companies usually in the marketing or sales department they have to be able to explain to customers what makes their water special. last year the global bottled

water market was worth $270000000000.00 euros average consumption 62 liters per person. colum lynch for my it is one of the students. he works for a mineral water company in tar austria. it has its own spring and has invested millions in a new bottling plant. we're standing right on top of our source the aquifer that been here beneath tile home for 25000 years waiting for us. you. am water contains a certain mix of minerals which is quantified it and the austrian law as a medicinal water in both austria and germany on a disc on the waters are actually considered drugs are regulated by the relevant authorities. you know we have what's known as

a sodium potassium sulfate asadullah spring with its positive feature is that it contains a lot of lithium which lifts the mood significantly in. the time home or higher the 3rd round was recently acquired by the billionaire mater shit family which made its money with the energy drink red bull and knows all about marketing beverages. back at the taste test some of the students fluxed. distinguishing waters is no easy matter. that was difficult. yes very such tiny differences. here are the answers the 1st was number 21 and singer sure looks rather not much

sodium a little magnesium and a lot of calcium. with mastery of barely perceptible difference is makes the. posh water is big business worldwide. news international trade is growing all the time the country with the 2nd largest number of somalia is this taiwan with more than 21. we need water to survive water can be very refreshing and for some it's a delicacy to be savored. i have to admit the only time i really save for water is after a long workout or work but then i'm a straight no one expects us to be connoisseurs of anything that's all for made today thanks for joining us and to drop us a line on twitter or facebook as you know we're always keen to get your thoughts a copy.

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