a d, w. m. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah magic corner hotspot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel off we go 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 to the so

let's take a look at a few ideas to do just that. hello, welcome to eco india. i'm sorry 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, the end up in drivers as part of untreated or poorly treated waste water. what can be done to tackle is our team visited entrepreneurs in bangalore, who may have an answer ah, and the young not even in their throating like a joined bubble bump. images from november last, that made international news. untreated waste water from di factories and industrial donder into a chemical khaki. the 1300 kilometer long river is considered one of the dirtiest

in the book. many waterways in india are polluted with high levels of chemical boxes. the chemicals in not 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 our toilets or 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 to globally dangerous a fat, dissolving detergents and phosphates. they act as water softener is and keep removed bird from the settling on clothes. if sewage systems are inadequate, the substances on food and usually end up and rip with dramatic consequences. the 4th fits that continue to stay in the water, then give rise to the growth off again,

either microorganisms which then cause you to forget enough leaks. what really happens is that that is not much oxygen available in the leak lan. slide guard by fact 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 foam 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 incognito. instead, he makes his own suits with no chemical edited out of water, lemon juice, and chicago. a powder made from a jesse of pots when you, with any chemical product, it is you are putting in your screen for everything like an ottoman cleaning,

the who tensile cleaning out at noon on at lots you are using by hand. so you are using the chemical on with when you use this product, the sprayed wash, they annoyed or anything, nothing up already about it. so it is completely harmless because it is made up no natural thinks as a member of a local environmental group or show bonds has taught hundreds of people how to make natural cleaning products. but it is just a drop in the ocean. he says, after the u, as in china, india, as the world's 3rd largest market for detergents, nearly 4000000 u. s. dollars worth was sold here in 2019 the equivalent of more than $300000000.00 rupees. although a few manufacturers claimed to offer phosphate free versions, a lack of binding legislation leaves loopholes. wrong. monster not wants to come back. this is a small company bubble, not wash,

produces natural detergents from soap nuts in bangalore. it's and one mentally conscious customers come mainly from big cities. the company believes its consumer base, will grow the soap not having traditionally used in indian culture for a long, long time. so far 1st time consumers are visually remembered about how the grandmother's use of knots for washing bare and delicate silk. sorry, for example, ah, the company buys the soap knots 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 rupees, the equivalent of about 70 years, but years with soap knots from just one tree. mm hm. and i weighed, grows when we want to plant more of the site as well. man,

this tree only brings profit does. there are hardly any losses. i stay in the last . it will a still big dime for sustainable. the burden manufacturers like bubble, not wash to gain any significant market share, especially as their products are more expensive than standard detergents. but monist, none is optimistic at the moment green. it urges follow a small segment of the entire dudgin market in india. with bulk of the demand coming from larger cities, ah, however, the evasiveness along 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 the mean challenge with sd, these is mean demands,

the staff that mean dns them are over a period of time. so you need skill the manpower and of the placement of the sources, barts as required to make sure that as it is gonna be in your door run well. so i would say the main challenge with this teepees is mean after froman gulf the yamuna. last year, the daily pollution control committee bound the sale of certain sorts undertone, but that alone will not fight the fraud as long as the sewage systems remain in out . now the practice of cleaning and maintaining so was, 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 1st man. hold cleaning robot. can this help mitigate

the dangerous faced by sanitation workers in the country? let's find out the dive down using their hands to unclog sewers or drains of silt. sometimes the thing includes human feces and the job to unclog such a saw is known as manual. scavenging, it arose from a combination of an overwhelmed sewage 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 bandicoot is clearing out a clogged switch pipe in my saw city today in the back. 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 tech approach is very new, especially to k gopi,

who is assisting the robotic operation to be and previously worked as a manual scavenger for nearly 2 decades. i lean though, i don't know we would go down 15 meters in phases and i out. 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 then we were given one bucket, a rope, and a panel got what we would remove the sewage with the pan that would fill the bucket . and others up at street level would pull the bucket up, auto or the nun until without mila yolanda in the band. manuel scavenging in 1993, but the country's most recent survey shows at 58000 people still do this look. independent analysts say the numbers more than 10 times higher, a vast majority belong to lower costs or come from disadvantaged backgrounds. you know, you, well, i said because i want to know people would stigmatize us because we were working in underground sewers. will they then, 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. mozilla, then google mazda, and, oh, other plans, but still, i never got any, you know, this manuals. good, lee. i don't, george and 6 of his friends from engineering college co founder des start up in 2015. applying that mutual love for robotics to a social cause. i was and we understood that what are the problem they face in the end of it and what are additional automatic normally that they are using? what are their limitation as to that will be designed by the professor? we are on a mission to do on clearly latest models gallon demand. introducing this technology

to that end, 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 may not give 2nd thought to be only intended for with every day. yet it's important in order to live stolen use about 7 liters of water or flush, which is far too much considering the was the number of people around would, don't have access to safe water obesity. sanitation facilities are reported. try to

find sustainable alternatives or what and bustling toilet. the flush 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 road 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 at plane 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 for the sewers need a certain amount of water to flow through them to work. so if there is not as much water flowing through the system, the stores don't flow as quickly as they were designed to flow. the sewage starts to stagnate. there's more corrosion potentially a quick cycle. this also makes them vulnerable to defects of climate change, specifically to drop because you 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? we're cycling it this is our and talk to koski of i pick a clean tank which focuses on recycling water. all we do is put both re weigh bell, which redirect the water into our system one, so 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 toilet still end up here in large sewage treatment plans. i didn't hear that there. essential nutrients. our last people had one known that these are useful substances and we've forgotten about it here in 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 urine 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. so we can actually take everything in there and re purposes. our sewers make recycling very difficult because in them everything's 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 sewers? 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 tell 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 bolstered. i'm pretty confident that this is the bottle water where i 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 help him get over that yuk factor . you know, we understand that a lot of people are uncomfortable with this topic. i think that one of the,

one 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 someplace is 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 you could work together to create a stronger, more resilient overall system. and so me 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 me. 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 place in london shows. if only the air quality were better in london, rosamond cassie deborah's daughter might still be alive to day. anna was almost 7 when she suddenly became very ill. my late daughter is ella were better. and she had one of the worst cases of asthma ever recorded in this country . so it 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 effects medians. well, why do she felt 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 her 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 late 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 in southern london. parents have decided to take matters into their own hands. ella's death was one of the driving factors. it 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, did the lines need to develop, you know, i remember taking my son to school one day and got into the playground. the noise when this from the street was just deafening in the scars 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 still really busy road. so the house is a lot. but rosamond kizzie, deborah thinks that more is needed. laws are what really matter and children's

rights, definitely not 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, in germany, have found the way practical stopping, go morning traffic in the eastern german city of dresden. every braking maneuver wears away a vehicles brake pads and disk that produces harmful emissions of particulate

matter, the brakes of cars, buses, and trucks. generator 3rd of all particulate matter pollution in cities. it's a world wide problem that's remained unsolved. but now 2 german engineers have a remedy. they use a special laser coating process to make the brake desks extremely hard. that helps reduce wear and tear, and as a result, the amount of particulate matter emissions. the consumer 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 and these and for her. the inventors technique solves another problem. great desks 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 provide such a 95 percent of their brake power. deposit off,

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. i used the brakes enough to keep them clean bumps. that's no longer the case in an electric car than ish in the local phosphoric fava. the difference is clear, the abrasion proof coating on the dressed in break disks 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. niter, 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 and fail toy all of those little see and come. 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. a walking in sync with nature is the need of the hour. there are many among us, walburga, what already on the spot, it falls upon each one of us to make the choice to do so to, so that we can pass on a healthy and sustainable planet for 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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