ah, an eternity time it can be measured precisely, and yet each person experiences it differently as if there are different forms of time, time, the phenomena, a dimension and illusion. about time starts april 14th on d w. d. ah, ah. in the name of comfort and convenience, a lot of what we do in our everyday life homes, me to be a transport fashion of our choices are leading us to be more and more out of sync with our ecosystem and our planet. how can be course correct on today's show?

let's take a look at a few ideas to do just that. hello and welcome to eco, india. i'm some of that. india's polluted rivers have made headlines around the world. the scene of fraud overpowering the surface of these rivers is jarring, even to people accustomed to the site. detergents are one of the things that causes this form. they end up and revise as part of untreated or poorly treated wastewater . what can be done to tackle is our team visited entrepreneurs in bangalore, who may have an answer ah, and the young are not even in dirty. throating like a giant bubble bump. images from november lost that made international news. untreated waste water from di factories and industrial standard into a chemical khaki. the 1300 kilometer long rivers is considered one of the dirtiest

underwood. many waterways in india or polluted with high levels of chemical boxes. the chemicals in odd water bodies, very from my due diligence that we are using to wash our clothes dishes. i'd cleaning agents in toilets, kitchens, as well as a lot of medical ways that we flush down or go a little. we consume and discharge. ah, so laundry detergent certainly have elijah all to plead, not just from domestic uses, but from industrial uses as well. but the globally dangerous effect, dissolving detergents and phosphate. they act as water softener is and keep remove bird from the settling on clothes. if sewage systems are inadequate, the substances aren't filled and usually end up and rip with dramatic consequences . the 4th 5th, that continued to stay in the water then give rise to the good old off again,

either microorganisms which then cause you to a vacation of leaks. what really happens is that that is not much oxygen available in the leak landslide guard by 5 take over. hyacinth takes over and then there's not a whole lot of bio davis been on the lake in bangalore is also polluted. the form on its surface has burst into flames multiple times, like here in 2017 id specialist. a shoot bond has lived nearby for more than 20 years. out of a sense of personal responsibility. he stopped buying supermarket god instead, he makes his own soups with no chemical edited out of water, lemon juice, and chicago, a powder made from a jesse of bots. when you, if any chemical product it is you are putting in your screen for everything like an

ottoman cleaning the who dental cleaning out at noon on i thought you are using by hand. so you are using the chemical on this when you use this product, the sprayed water, your nose or anything, nothing up already about it. so it is completely harness because it is made up no natural things. as a member of a local environmental group, or show bonded has thought, hundreds of people how to make natural cleaning products. but it is just a drop in the ocean. he says after the u. s. in china, india, as the world's 3rd largest market for detergents. nearly 4000000 u. s. dollars worth was sold here in 2019. the acre will end of more than 300000000 rupees. i'll do a few manufacturers claim to offer phosphate free versions. a lack of binding legislation leaves loopholes wrong. modest nanda wants to come back. this is a small company bubble,

not walsh produces natural detergents from soap, not in bang alluded. it's environmentally conscious customers come mainly from big cities. the company believes its consumer base will grow the soap not having to actually use an indian culture for a long, long time. so far, 1st time consumers are vaguely remembered about how their grandmothers used off not rushing their and delicate silk. sorry, for example, ah, the company buys the, so not from local farming communities, often in remote areas. this new market gives them the chance to darren awe. jenoma has been one of bubble, not washes regular suppliers for 4 years. she earns up to $6000.00 rupees the equivalent of about 70 years, but year would soap not from just one tree that it grows when we

want to plant more of this type as well on this tree only brings profit does. there are hardly any losses. i stay in the law, it will a still big dime for sustainable the durden manufacturers like, bubble not was to gain any significant market share, especially as their products are more expensive than standard detergents. but manas none is optimistic at the moment, gwinnett urgent follow a small segment of the entire dudgeon market in india with bulk of the demand coming from larger cities. ah, however, the vagueness at on dinner diligence has increased independently over the last 2 to 4 years, which is why the market has grown considerably over the past. this by itself won't be enough to end water pollution. india does have sewage treatment plans as t piece. like in this residential area in bangalore. but the problem here is a different one. often times that mean challenge with f teepees is maintenance the

staff that maintains them over a period of time. so unique skill, the manpower and of the placement of the sources bites as required to make sure that as to discontinue, to run well. so i would say the mean challenge with this teepees is mean after foreman gulf the yamuna. last year, the deli pollution control committee banned the sale of certain soaps and detergents. but that alone will not fight the fraud as long as to its systems to remain in that i. now the practice of cleaning and maintaining sewage is particularly risky and complex. in india, sanitation workers have to climb down without protective equipment, even though manual scavenging has been illegal since 2013. a karen lobbyist company has developed a working prototype of india's forced man horn cleaning. val bought candice help mitigate the dangerous faced by sanity from workers in the country. let's find out

the dave down using their hands to unclog sewers are drains of silt. sometimes the fill includes human feces and the job to unclog such a saw is known as manual. scavenging, it arose from a combination of an overwhelmed sword system, a lack of the right machinery and the low cost of labor. this robot could help put an end to the practice named after an indian rach species . the mechanic dandy could is clearing out a clogged sewage pipe in my saw city to day that the location a little more hold it. a metal hand clears plastic sanitary pads and greasy mounds of cells that have clogged up this drain. but this high dick approach is very new, especially to k,

go be who is assisting the robotic operation to me and previously worked as a manual scavenger for nearly 2 decades. a loon though, i don't know, we would go down 15 meters in phases and i r. then i thought there would be 10 of us and we'd go down one by one and remove the accumulated silt on this new list. and we were given one bucket a robot, and a panel got what we would remove the sewage with the pan douglasville, the bucket, and others up at street level would be the bucket up. all are the none without miller. you're wondering in the band, daniel scavenging in 1993, but the country's most recent survey shows at 58000 people still do this work. independent analysts say the numbers more than 10 times higher, a vast majority belong to lower costs or come from disadvantaged backgrounds. a letter in the can, someone along people would stigmatize us because we were working in underground sewers related them with a better. no, no,

they called us bathroom workers. apart from the stigma, reports suggest the job also comes with extreme health hazards. these stories inspired the creation of the bandicoot, which doubts itself as india's 1st sewage cleaning robot. brandy. busier than good mazda and or other, other plans, but still, i never got any, you know, this man pulls good li. i don't george and 6 of his friends from engineering college co founded there start up in 2015, applying that mutual love for robotics to a social cause. i was gonna visit and we understood that what are the problem they face in the end of it. and what are additional and ignored the that they are, you see what are their limitation as to that? and we heard his eyes by the professor. we are on a mission to do on clearly latest models gallon demand. introducing this technology

to that. and they've trained dozens of scavengers to use the robot providing access to a new and better job. since 2017 george's company has sold a 100 bandicoot robots wanting to waste management operators across india. each cost the steep 4000000 rupees on nearly 50000 euros. as long as manual scavenging still exists, this is an innovation that can help get men out of man holes to ensure that sanitation workers have access to dignified job opportunities and stay safely above ground. a toilet is something many of us mean on give 2nd porch to be only intended for with every day. yet it's important in order to live stolen use about 7 liters of water will flush, which is far too, considering the last number of people around the world don't have access to safe water obesity, sanitation facilities. i'd have bought or tried to find sustainable alternatives.

who are, what am bustling toilet? the flush the toilet was a medical milestone that saved millions of lives. at long last it helped stop the spread of infectious diseases like polio and cholera. but just one flush consume 6 liters of clean, drinkable water. every day, the average toilet guzzles over a 140 liters of water, nearly 6 times the daily water consumption in africa. and the flush toilet hasn't changed much over time. so is there a less wistful way to do away with always? we have a suggestion, vacuum toilets, if you get on an airplane or maybe an some trains you'll encounter a vacuum toilet and not a toilet that goes. chelsea world is the also of a new book called pipe dreams. the urgent global quest to transform the toilet.

the waste out, instead of flushing it down with, with water, this seems on intuitive solution. put those airplane toilets in our homes. and what a delight, problem solved, right? quite because even after it vanishes from sight, human excrement doesn't just disappear. this is what's considered the gold standard sanitation, which is the flush toilet attached to a store attached to a treatment plan. and sewers need a certain amount of water to flow through them to work. so if there's not as much water flowing through the system, the sewers don't flow as quickly as they were designed to flow. the sewage starts to stagnate. there's more corrosion potentially, a quick cycle. these also makes them vulnerable to defects of climate change, specifically to drop because you p have a sewer without water and to floats because they produce affluent, a cleaner water discharge, and that tends to be discharged into

a local water body. and that makes some vulnerable to sea level rise and flooding. so if we can't use much less water, what about with cycling it? this is our intel to kosky of epic clean tank which focuses on recycling water. all we do is put little 3 way about which redirect the water into our system. step one, solve that to treat the water. step 3, send the water back up and building for things like showering and cooking. you're still going to have a connection to the city for potable water, but you're going to use, you know, anywhere from 50 to 90 percent less the contents of our toilets still end up here in large sewage treatment plants and it's here that their essential nutrients are lost people have long known that these are useful substances and we've forgotten about it. urine has been used for cleaning irrigation skin,

softening tanning leather, and i kid you not even for long and as a tooth paste. when aged you're in, breaks down it releases, ammonia, which is a cleaning agent. human excrement is also rich in nitrogen and phosphorus. we don't believe that there is any way in waste water. we can actually take everything in there and re purposes our so as mic recycling very difficult, because in them everything is mixed together. you can think about recycling, how when you recycle, you separate all of the items that you want to recycle the plastic from the paper. it's sort of the same principle. once you mix everything together, it becomes much less efficient to get everything separated back out again. so what about toilets without so as nearly half of the world's population lacks us, we're system in india,

indonesia and sub saharan africa septic tanks and bid latrines are still very common. but a treatment plant that is expensive and washer intensive in water starved countries with booming populations and you have a big pile of problems. the good news is that scientists and engineers have found solutions to cope skis. company recycles water and create soil for city buildings. then there are toilets that generate electricity by burning experiments, others tend the offending matter into the clean water. here's a clip of bill gates drinking water generated by authorities fulford. i'm pretty confident that this is the bottle water. where it was rig was all, all put water. the bad news is that people, the low income countries can't afford them yet and made in high income countries. the one thing we just have to get people sort of to help them get over that young factor. you know, we understand that a lot of people are uncomfortable with this topic. i think that one of the wives of

our current system is that we have one gold standard. but when we actually need is lots of different things because the world isn't really uniform. some places do you have a substantial amount of water? some places have very little water. some places need animal feed, some places need nutrients for agriculture. there's no one size fits all solution. we can have decentralized loses, like us and centralized homes like the water and working together to create a stronger, more resilient overall system. and so need toilet that can serve all of those different needs so that the communities around the world can choose systems that are the best for that. but we also have to talk more openly about toilets instead of rubbing the topic, houses site now

air pollution is one of the biggest environmental problems to be in many lot cities in particular, traffic and industrial fuse are making life unlivable. although technological advances are attempting to minimize these emissions, evolution has failures, even deadly health consequences for as humans, as one piece in london shows. if only the air quality were better in london, rosamond cassie deborah's daughter might still be alive today. anna was almost 7 when she suddenly became very ill. my late daughter is ella roberto and she had one of the worst cases of asthma ever recorded in this country . so he started in october, you know, signs of a cold, a cough that sounded like whooping cough. and her 1st had mission or her 1st

coma or seizure was in december, a was linked to appellation. and through my research, i found out the air pollution. it affects medians. well, why do she fell ill? ella was a completely healthy child and very sporty. she loved swimming and football, and also played several instruments. the asthma changed everything. my life was rushing to work and then always having my phone near me in case high school rang to say had lungs had collapsed ah, ever suffered for 2 years before dying of an asthma attack. her mother became an activist with the help of doctors and lawyers. she was able to prove that her daughter's asthma was particularly bad on days when the pollution was extremely high. i wanted the officially recognized i saw for

all she suffered. she deserved that 28 months of her suffocating in her mucous, basically, she deserved to have that moment. i don't want our children in this country to go through. ah, what my lay daughter went through. london has a problem. most of the city exceeds the world health organization's air pollution limits. many of the famous black cabs run on diesel, which is particularly bad for air quality. hundreds of londoners end up in the emergency room each year because of toxic air st. mary's school is on one of the worst painted rules, and certain parents decided to take matters into their own hands. ella's death was one of the driving factors. each sort of confirmed our fears. you know, we, we knew everybody knows, you know, everybody knows it's bad. and everybody knows it's bad for children, you know, to growing up, their da da lines needs to develop you know,

i remember taking my son to school one day and got into the playground. and the noise when this from the street was just deafening in a re discard, going by a 100000 cars every day. the parents crowd funded almost 100000 pounds to buy air purifiers for the classrooms as well as 12000 plants for the schoolyard to act as natural air filters before the children weren't allowed to pay outside for more than 15 minutes, i think is a good thing because it might actually stop the air pollution coming into this school. they smell nice. i. i that they give us. oh. because our school is right now, so really busy road. so that helps us a lot. but rosamond kizzy, deborah thinks that more is needed. laws are what really matter and children's rights,

definitely much matter. and it is their rights to breathe clear. and all godly should make that i don't care how hard it is by the way. i really don't care how hard it is. they can achieve that. ah rosamond cassie deborah knows that air pollution can be deadly. she will continue to fight the name of her daughter so long as her other children whose lives are at risk because of poor air quality. particulate matter is one of the mean causes of air pollution in cities. it's present in vehicle exhaust and generated by brick and tile where it's a problem that so far hasn't been sol by e cause. but engineers ingest and germany have found the way to tackled stopping go morning traffic in the eastern germans city of dresden. every breaking maneuver wears away a vehicles brake pads and disk that produces harmful emissions of particulate

matter. the brakes of cars, buses and trucks generate a 3rd of all particulate matter pollution in cities. it's a world wide problem that's remained unsolved, but now to german engineers have a remedy. they use a special laser coating process to make the break desks extremely hard. that helps reduce wear and tear, and as a result, the amount of particulate matter emissions reconcile technology can prevent 2 thirds of the particulate matter pollution that's caused by the brake disk before it even happens. that's a huge advantage for in a cities are these and for her, the inventors technique solves another problem. great disks are made of grey iron and rust unless they're consistently polished by brake pads. the brakes in electric vehicles are prone to erosion because they operate electrically rather than mechanically, the engine provides up to 95 percent of their brake power top us a little. so that means i've only got 5 percent of breaking application for them to

rub the disks cream in the wall and a normal car which doesn't have that kind of electron breaking or used the brakes enough to keep them clean bumps. that's no longer the case in an electric car than fish in the local hot. so father, the difference is clear, the abrasion proof coating on the dresden break. discs consists of an aluminum alloy which prevents rust. it's hardly surprising that a string of big name automakers aligning up to buy automotive suppliers also want to get ahold of the technology, the fits vinto. i and foundry makes 20000000 brake desks a year and supplies major manufacturers. by 2025 companies will have to comply with the new european emission standards on particular matter pollution. and because the new disks are more resilient, they can also be made thinner and several kilos lighter. that in turn,

lois consumption. the gates o leaders come over, it's about squeezing every possible gram of weight out of things. one done where you can then improve handling for instance, and also lower c o 2 emissions in feel toy allah's falls a little see uncommon, official approval and production development of the dressed in. great disks will take time. but if all goes to plan, millions of these new disks should hit the road within 3 years to help ensure cleaner air, on streets, worldwide. working in sync with nature is the need of the hour. there are many among oswald brewer who are already on the spot. it falls upon each one of us to make the choice to move so, so that we can pass on a hill the and so sphere planet while future generations. i'll leave you with that and see you again next week from all of us in india and germany. good bye. and

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