oh to some pretty wacky places. ah, curiosity is required to borrow to day in 60 minutes on d. w. ah, what secrets lie behind these walls? discover new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d w world heritage 360. get the app now. ah, the himalayan glace, he is in pakistan, a melting away faster than ever. by the turn of the century, one 3rd of their ice sheet could have disappeared. the accumulated water will burst

through like a soon ami the ongoing battle for watering kashmir potentially a major flash point between india and pakistan is affecting the water needs of more than 2000000000 people in south asia. meanwhile, an increasing number of heat waves in mega cities, a driving up water consumption and coping with dwindling supplies has become a real struggle for them in here and for a bigger theft here or. and the government is a part of this. of course, i don't see many bucks on is not about it is can a giant tree planting action helped to save the melting glasses? we want that we want to restore and being hacked is in pakistan with nearly 20000000 inhabitants in its metropolitan area. karachi is pakistan's

largest city and the country's economic center but in july 2015, the busy port city in the south was almost brought to a standstill as an extreme heat wave reeked havoc in its neighborhoods. with temperatures reaching 45 degrees celsius. more than a 1000 people died of dehydration and heat stroke. in karachi alone, hospitals were poorly equipped to handle the surge of heat stroke victims. the more get a busty shaheed hospital quickly of a field leading to bodies being buried in mass graves. the nightmare from 2015 still haunts karachi. locals

2019 the subcontinent again experienced an extreme heat wave. this time with average daily temperatures reaching 50 degrees celsius. the provincial government was forced to declare a state of emergency. but this time around the heat stroke would at a bussey shaheed hospital. so no debts among it's patients though all of and and i the low room mentally thought confirming stuff and the about the previous hate wave came suddenly paper were not mentally prepared or ivy . the orders max friday being up. good, good luck. the google and that was the most important element. and the reason why the number of patients was so high and why too many people lost their lives sign

mother was making their nest program awareness at noon with me. in the years since we have had several heat waves in karachi. but because there was greater awareness about how to combat heat stroke, there weren't as many debts as reported in 2015, only among one number of fish. and the biggest benefit was 4. by today, the karachi administration is better equipped to deal with the problem font particularly hot days. mobile units with water sprinklers provide much needed cooling and play a vital role in averting fatalities. despite heats reaching 50 degrees. this seems to be the new normal and international climate report. places pockets

done among the 10 countries most affected by the climate crisis. me in big cities like karachi, a lack of trees paved roads and toll buildings increase the heat further. in addition, the population is growing immensely in unplanned and densely populated neighborhoods . can i g the, the track of example, the population explosion. small, you, closer to 50 with the gamma capital city and it is now the largest. so population, you have more people, you need more water, you are more shops and factories you need while also miss management garage. you did not manage to prevent that swarm of courses with rising

temperatures, the population of karachi is consuming more and more water. the city would need several 1000000000 late as every day to cover the needs of its residence. but the local authorities can only provide about half of what is needed a. ready so what does the karachi water board think about this problem? ready michigan, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, i could, i, it's a distribution problem, but karachi is daily water need is nearly 5000000000 leaders square can be the distribution process is affected by evaporation will you? but also by leakage and theft will come will be this reduces our output to only $1800000000.00 leaders a day use from dick is going to one. so we're left with only one 3rd of the available amount of one. but the karachi water and sewage board is doing all it can

to maintain the supply, which is good because water is scarce and difficult to access the black market flourishes. according to the cities authorities, 35 percent of water is lost before reaching the consumers. where does it go? may be koran cheese water thieves can provide some answers to that question. one of them has been persuaded to lead us to the scene of an ongoing criminal operation. the water thief takes us to a crowded slum and we film the encounter with a hidden camera. while filming the kingpin arrives and agrees to explain how the scheme behind the war says works. with him he divert the stolen water into an industrial area. bonnie: where does it come from?

we drilled a well here. he bought away as a boy, you're distributing well watering. go voting up on you figure. yes, the water is channeled through underground tunnels to a canal and there we have water storage tank it from there. the water wholesalers distribute the water to the industrial sector. i'll get him on the bigger that's normal. did a little over the normal over and over of you, the low low to yes, we are also stealing the water from this neighborhood. the water supplied by the government to this neighborhood is being stolen and sold to the industry. but my daughter exactly. will the water from the well is mixed with stolen government water and sold to the industries. hopefully you can reach me by good is good in it . don't the neighborhood have water bunny her? oh, the by not as much as it should know that he gonna do though him good because you're stealing it again. yes, every time i think i'm here. that's the deal. amanda figures already attorney like 70 percent of water is diverted and 30 percent. i also thought of me said wanna

order was stable. the officials of the water board are complicit with money to be when the water is sold to the industry. they make money as have been that simple as that simple, the water mafia makes a lot of money. ah, we're not easy. or do you collect rent for this connection? yes, it is. go how much amanda? between a $1150.00, vermont her with her mom, helen or his mom and the local governments. part of this, of course, it done with a little. how else would we be able to do this? we pay off the police and officials involved as that. so who gets a cut? water board elise, and who else? every department, including the chairman of the wood aboard in we're going to so he takes us to the place where he steals the water, which he then re sells that exorbitant prices while paying kickbacks to government

officials are the only ones jumping demanded. mr. blake, in the forgot the hit to where ever there's a gap between supply and demand, sugar, these things occur ishmael, whether it's wheat of common sugar, rice or other commodities. odds can it will only stop when we have enough water in karachi ticket, but i won't deny that there are corrupt people in every departmental yaeger kind of global. he, her department gl theft corruption and decay limit access to water for millions of people. the losses to public funds run into the millions the stolen water is diverted from the pool to the rich who can pay more for the scanner resource. a 2018 un report predicts that by 2050 some 5000000000 people will live in regions at risk of water scarcity. the u.

n. projects that water shortages will displace hundreds of millions of people as early as 2030 temperatures in south asia, arising because of an increase in global greenhouse gas emissions. the heat is melting the himalayas ice cap, because this area supplies water to large parts of the sub continent. it's also known as south asia's water tower. the glass c as in northern pakistan's disputed kashmir region, a part of the largest ice sheet existing anywhere in the world outside the 2 polls . but these glaciers retreating at previously unknown speeds in gormet, a village in northern pakistan, the effects are already showing. and according to a 2019 study, 36 percent of the regions glaciers could have melted away by the end of this century. clay c, ologist cetera, puffin researches the sheets of ice surrounding the himalayas. this was once the

idea we cared plenty of water from these glacier because the glacier was much higher and you went up to their lower loft, this marines. you can see here this moraine, it shows that they are the lower was much higher. so that was, it was, are that he charging these are either geisha genders, the glaciers that were the sensitive to climate, the ex, according to the template, yet, and the precipitation. when it's the heart, it melts a lot. since 1988, the snow line in northern pakistan has receded by 1 point, one kilometers. a decline that scientists had expected to play out over a 1000 year period has taken less than 30 years. and if global emissions remain at current levels, all of south asia ice could disappear. these glaciers are also

important for these farmers, while living here would defend on these agricultural for their livelihoods. because you can see this, sir, that this is witty and malicious, yet a deficit area. less than one in these plane areas live at this glacier that people practice negative as yet. so it's not possible without the watches from these glitches ah, villages like this one. nestled far up on the hill side of the kara core, a mountains are at high risk lakes. that form in the glaciers often breach the ice causing flash floods that sweep away everything in their palm. i shall cut ali is a community leader and local guide at gould keen glazier. he tells us that pollution calls a suit to gather on the white clay c as which then leads to the speeding up of the

melting process. what he a black go? what a g began. the book come up with blake glaciers. there are only a few black glaciers and gill get walton. we got most are white lake, michigan agree and there are just 6 or 7 black glaciers. whose me one of them to shoot is the go cannot, dickie was goes to the snow is completely covered with mud or escape. when the glacier moves just there goes, it brings mud and debris to the surface. what polygamy has got a are you up up on a vera? yea, i am biased it buddha eyes j. we see here that all the ice around it melts and flows into this holes which is connected to the river further down. it will get that he up or down when boulders block its way at austin. the collected water comes

rushing down like a title when you look younger, showed up on the hill excitedly comes in june 2019 a glacial lake foamed in the neighboring. she's peg leisha. the government hastily constructed a concrete wool to prevent the water from overflowing the banks, but there was no stopping the surge of water that eventually came rushing towards the village. however, in the years time this region is expected to face mass water shortages when its glassy is become too small to provide the water needed 5 major rivers flow through pakistan. the induce jalen, shtaw ravi and saint luke all run across the plains of punjab. the rivers are formed by snow melt and run off water from the glaciers in the himalayas, and the kara corum,

one of these glazier lies between india and pakistan in the southeast and kara, cora mountains. the sea urchin, the territory of the glazier, is claimed by both countries. ah, these gigantic i see mass has been disputed territory since the partition of the 2 countries in 1947. since the conflict cannot be settled diplomatically, both countries have truths on the glacier pakistan and india have already spent billions of euros on this the highest militarized zone in the world. at some 6700 meters. the conflict continues down stream where the waters that flow from india to

pakistan are a source of discord following the partition. india and pakistan were not able to agree on the use of water, but he, 960 narrow, then indian prime minister and pakistani president con, signed the induced water treaty in karachi. the treaty broken by the world bank allows both countries to use the water of the into the river system the to got reason because i thought a problem. and i'm also the animals trinity could never agree on joint management. all it was considered a 2nd partition should take place focused on retains the exclusive usage rights for the 3 west and rivers induced jail, him, and chin up. while india holds the right to the 3 eastern rivers ravi bes and sat

luge. the ongoing conflict between the 2 nuclear powers over kashmir is yet another challenge to upholding the water treaty. since coming to power, the indian prime minister modi's hindu nationalist policy, b j. p, has further escalated the situation. moody wants to build dams that would block the flow of water into pockets done once more the into the river has become a flash point with the threat of nuclear war as a worst case scenario. because of pakistan's dry climate, about 90 percent of its agricultural relies on irrigation you're going to have are defined receiving lift water. so when you receive less wardrobe, lambda supplier. so there is a potential source of conflicts and the 2nd redundant and is that are born,

but you invented re germany married specifically from india and pakistan and said that climate change is likely to put pressure on the end of the water dripping, which i have solved the 2 countries when fall almost fierce the sofa, india and pakistan had refrained from settling that dispute over water allocation through military means. but now the situation in the disputed region is once again on the verge of boiling, over most of pocket stones rivers flowed through the indian. administered part of kashmir in august of 2019 india took advantage of that fact by releasing enormous amounts of water from its dams into pockets donnie territory. this resulted in flooding in

pakistan's punch province submerging hundreds of acres of agricultural land. the pakistani government reacted with anger, seeing the discharge of water into the salute river, which flows from india into pakistan as a clear violation of the induced water treaty. i was a few years earlier form a cricket star and former prime minister iran con, made headlines across the world with a novel idea. in 2014, his party launched the 1000000000 tree synonymy initiative as a counter measure to the consequences of the climate crisis in south asia. focused on is one of the countries with the lowest tree cover in the region. the aim was to plant 1000000000 trees in the 1st 4 year period, and the government has promised to plant as many as 10000000000 by 20. 23

in the hope is to increase the country's forested areas, which in turn will help in retaining rain water and reduce the rise in temperature . so far focused on has recovered some 350000 hectares of forests and greenery. another of pakistan's, short term goals, is improving its water management with traditional farming methods. a high proportion of irrigation water is lost due to poor distribution that has farmers like a sheik bungle taking the initiative in his lum abad. he's been introducing drip irrigation to pakistan's traditional agriculture to save the dime. and oh, want that to save time and water and to give water to the plants up to the standard

requirements, i regret not less, not excessive. not that's the basic philosophy oscar. if you use open field irrigation, you are bound to use excessive water. bonnie order for the life that he had done with the water and fertilizer are too vital components. and those who are able to understand they use will be successful. gum dia toby knox on pakistan is among the countries that will be hardest hit by global warming, making protection of resources, a big priority which led thus tallahassee, florida medical gotten married name, but our facility in the past 10 years. the government has supported pharmacy on how to jot that if they have expenses of $65000.00 a year. the government covers 80 percent of it. i pretty that includes all drip irrigation i solar panels and greenhouses east lot. the farmer has to pay the remaining 20 percent this way. farmers can save

a lot of money and the country can save a lot of water laterally that away he will bowl the other day. by 2025 pakistan could become a country that can no longer meet its water needs. the storage capacity of the reservoirs is not sufficient for the growing population and the flow of the rivers has decreased. better water use is therefore key in bringing economic, social and environmental benefits to the country. reforms are intended to make water use more efficient, improve delivery, and raise awareness among the population

in law, whole people are also rising to the challenge. they want to pressure politicians and policy makers across the country to do more people don't understand how bad it is that are just this year. they were floods unexpected drains and punjab that wiped out a substantial portion of the wheat crop that affected people's livelihoods. and for a country where a quarter of the population is, are too near the poverty line, a single event like that one dream is the difference between getting of a square mean a day or not. oh, a mad rough a alum brings the whole family alone to the climate demonstrations. 20. he wants to raise awareness about the problem among the younger generation. the ok, ah pakistan's youth a worried about their future and the effects of climate change. august on

the be i'm if you got the and it's we're beginning to march in this country now and that's great. dog isn't more than 45 cities and pakistan are participating. we want to show the world that the climate crisis concerns every day from here. ah, head around the world, thousands of actions that taking place. the climate strike of september 2019 was the largest global call to action. and pakistani responded loudly

although pakistan accounts for less than one percent of global c o 2 emissions. it's one of the country's most affected by the climate crisis. one step in the right direction will be to strengthen its foreign policy and effectively negotiate climate issues with its neighbors. focused on march to solve its climate problems, has begun with

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