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busy news the. busy news environment is essential for healthy. contaminated environment is adverse effect on people and plants. and even on animals, i love clean environment because it makes me have a sound made in everything that i keep is free. we will no good for sequin. our environment is clean. we should have a clean environment because once the place to look good, we launch a country to look good. people who care more about this kind of environment cuz it's good for how can environment mean post food for me in me being with having a clean environment help with the community. the ed is the only funded us the floor

plan and does it really fun if you have people should care about having a clean environment? because when you take care of nature and lead to it to take care of you. hello and welcome to africa. i am sandra to interview coming to from compiler, here in uganda. no. first, those are keeping everything clean and organized is good for us. so why not apply? is that principle to the environment? good question, sondra and in this addition will be meeting all sorts of people who do just that. they're wanting to improve the environment and protect the natural world. i am chris lambs in lagos, nigeria, and here's what we've got coming up. i learned in the indian ocean plan into phase of energy produced from 40 fields to young j and entrepreneurs, providing green alternatives to chemical cleaning agents and artists in ghana or

combining creativity and environmental activism, africa's mighty rivers, the lifeline in many parts of the continents. their waters are used for both domestic and agricultural purposes, making a lot of people reliant on the rivers for their livelihoods, but increased by grecian to urban areas is taking its toll. in john has berg, the end of the river is chronically polluted with devastating consequences for its biodiversity and communities living along its bank. now, local volunteers are working to limit the damage. ah, everyone is getting indirectly we are killing ourself as one. i don't think itself is over ground. now in case piles of rubbish washed up heavy rains. it's

a common sight in densely populated areas along the hen up. so if this spot is just a few meters from them, bees of township home to more than half a 1000000 people, our children play around here and buy food that is so just makes 2 very and then that food is contaminated, everyone is getting sick, which is not conducive environment for us now. it's not safe. representatives from the south african angel, fresh take stock of the devastation. their mission is to restore the hen ups river and its surrounding wetlands with the help of volunteers. just a few kilometers below the source of the regular, the theatre for fountain water to be crystal clear. but i think her to be to lucas . if we don't pick up the threat, no one's going to pick it up with effectively,

no waste collection system here in south africa's 2nd largest township. local simply dumped their garbage on the already existing piles. residency. the river has become a communal rubbish. been that the place does it is not cool is not good at all. no 3, you know. so yeah, i think we need does when he pulls gonna community they would like no and eggs. no . yeah. when you change it out to day, the team from fresh wants to inspect one of the little traps for have been installed on the rivers oper. course the engine has invented its own traps. they are constructed from thick wire cables woven through nets and filled with recycle polystyrene. the contraption is anchored on either side of the river, mostly curtis for firm in the floods, amid all sorts of sediment trip to am, to slow the water down. so sediments out

a lot of sandia and that sand also serves as a home for beneficial organisms. it prevents further erosion to the source of the hen ups river, a situated east of janice bird. after leaving the urban areas behind, it meanders through fields and valleys until it eventually joins the limpopo river system. it later ends up in the indian ocean. this intricate system of waterways supports millions of people in both south africa and 3 neighboring countries. this river is an important source of drinking water is also vital for agricultural crops . farmers like your hand steam berg are very concerned. sometimes the reverie was totally black because of the sewage is very bad for me. worried about the phosphor in the water. we're going through the ground though you were crotch and by

don't think yourself before the ground is also not dealt with for people. and that's not all large amounts of raw sewage, just spilling into the hiccups. water samples are tested for equal lay bacteria to assess fecal contamination near the river sauce. equally concentration has been measured at a 100000 times above the accepted limit. the root cause is down to an absence of proper wastewater treatment according to environmental scientist or ye shall lay her while we find determinants associated with waste, with the affluent or chemicals such as ammonia, which should result in the death of all aquatic organisms, including insects in fish, we also find phosphates which can lead to blue green bloom's algo blooms in reverse and we find a very high levels of eco lie, which will make you sick upon contact,

attempts to get the government to address the results of layers. tests have been discouraging, so far, so fresh is now pushing to get the river landscape officially declared a nature conservation area, as protected by diversity corridor meandering through the most urbanized areas on the continent. it will help to revitalize south africa's industrial heartland. and then also got quite a complicated geography flows through 3 differently civilities. it really needs decrease a vision of a provincial authority, but their main concern is that the rivers so polluted on earth day this year, a group from fresh set out to demonstrate to the authorities, the potential of a cleaner river system. the returns the little trap on a mission to remove 60 tons of wastes from this spot. in one day, 15 volunteers from the local community were paid 20 euros inch plus lunch for their

efforts. bit by bit, the waste was carried off to a collection point to be transported to a nearby landfill. it's beautiful. the river's grieving. i think the hallway plant is looking much better. i have to think we can, we can restore this place. it's i went lent area, so if it gets polluted and i knew indirectly or killing or self and swung because we this water won't be able to suspend lash and sustains. so we dependable to the sort of system reunion is a small island in the middle of the indian ocean lane for 19 seventies. most of its energy needs were met by dro pop by the population has doubled since then as have their energy needs. the islanders become increasingly dependent on diesel and cold . that is very right piece, but reunion values ease of reach by it, a varsity, and the status as an equal tourism destination. so now the island wants to clean up

its act on switch its entire energy production to renewables before the dickhead is up. now we'll went out to find out what progress has been met so far. reunion island is famed foot beautiful beaches and large green mountains. but it comes to carbon emissions. the islands record is less attractive. around 2 thirds of its energy needs are covered by fossil fuel. these heavy oil factory in the city of flu pool is run by french utility e d f. in future it's you to switch to largely couple neutral operation running on calls are in soil. just one step towards achieving an ambitious goal. switching to renewables, completely by 2020 it. this power plant owned by albumin runs partly on coal from south africa in partly on domestic bio mass. it will need to switch completely to

bio mass in future, the sugar refinery next door it his provides a convenient source of the quinn fuel. this had gone away, utilized as much of the sugar cane as possible. we pressed the liquid auto feet in descent and f court in the kent gets distributed on the surrounding fields as fit plaza. the model assumes go to the ram distilleries the albumin pastiche, and uses the plant fables to produce image that flows into the public grid from which we then draw our electricity is oh, by that him on the bottom of the albumin power plant accounts for around 11 percent of the islands overall energy output, the conversion to all bye, almost production is costing the company 200000000 euros. and that's just for this one plant. and i see, yeah, i don't very well it doesn't, did that is i went to new storage toms, they have a capacity of 9500 cubic meters each you have,

these are the kinds of units remain you use. they are like, we plenty sustainable by almost that ms. european union standard moment when you shall use would pellets from the united states, but to a later switch to suppliers closer to home, like in mozambique in south africa. oh, prepare for farm portrait. i known issue oil as it was on either. i think you should only 10 percent of the wood pallets will be sourced from the island. that means 900000 tons a you will need to be imported. the company says it will still cut the plant over carbon footprint by over 80 percent. but environmental activist, jean claude food, bizarre, says importing ward is not a sustainable solution. is for factor not of cause this factor is need to be converted. but we also need to build up our domestic production of bio mass that will be better for the environment in create more jobs for tarza build this house

if few years ago, it's creeped with solar panels in the solar boiler doc leisure. so i'm just making t, i'm hitting the water with solar power in the heb saffel my guidance. isaac a deep, it blocks on the cor, garage and korea there. how's his built in ventilation? so he doesn't need air conditioning. it uses only if he had of the energy that his old house required. so he has surplus electricity that he sells to the public grid . he says many more homes could be converted to solar power without great expense, nor collage of the matter for wildlife. its modem is all, i could show you plenty of houses go still do new solar power, all see. and if they all had solar panels into solar boilers that would already cover half of the islands in need, you needs to. we are mostly poorer, such as her with a couple holly liberals, one dish and seemed

a little sofa. the government is more interested in large scale solar farms, like lesser doors in 9 megawatt project in the south of the island. here fruit and vegetables are grown under the solar panels which provide the plants protection from the hot sun. and some to renew this is a small island. we have to make good use of space when you're building for farmland in power plant, sol. so here we are combining a solar power plant within organic from we also have a battery system that towards the electricity produced during the day to feed it into the greed, it peak times, the distorted in elgin panola lawfully more. the company plans to expand is more dull it multiply it solar output 6 volt. that would be another important tip towards achieving unions. goal of covering all its imaging needs with cupboard neutral renewables by 2028. here's

a quick question for you. do you feel better when everything around you ease a clean, untidy that so someone's thought about as you're going to meet next? certainly do. but they don't want it to be on the course of the environment. so find out how they sold the dilemma in these weeks, doing everything, blah, if we realised how many home full chemicals are in our cleaning products, we would use a lot less of them or not at all. at least that's what unit schmidt decided towards the end of her design studies. she focused on sustainability in everyday life. i believe in quotes, but i realized that many conventional cleaners in detergents contain lots of harmful substances but not good for me and not good for the environment. and all that packed in plastic, i parked. she remembered how her grandmother cleaned. so with her friend henrietta

cleveland, she developed a business consent with 6 simple substances. you can make 10 different household cleaners. besides baking soda and vinegar essence, you need citric acid code. so soda and certain other essences the boxes are assembled in the workshops of 2 german charity organizations in lifecycle. the start up sells everything online, either the individual product or the whole set. by vin, if we set out 4 years ago, our customer base is growing. now includes many retailers, we have many bring your own packaging stores for partly in, for the future they plan on developing even more sustainable products. and above all, they want to make their company itself completely sustainable. ah, and how about you?

if you are also doing your best, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweak hash tag doing your bid. we share your stories, throws history, people have attempted to put human, you're in to good use. the british researchers, once they've developed a process or what is into lexical energy, what does your household applications have also been explored? sanchez using it to kill watts or cones on people as hans on the feet. but more recently, we saw t as in sweden and at france have been conducting experiments on using the human by products in agriculture. could o own urine helps of the planet. instead of being flushed down the toilet. let's take a look at a large tank of what some are calling the new liquid gold. this abundant supply is destined for a wheat farm in

a leading agriculture region of france will come home to like, after filling up the tank, will use the spread of machine to spray the urine onto the field. and that urine is of human origin. lucy, bye home is in charge of a project that aims to revolutionize frances fertilizer market using nitrogen rich urine as a natural alternative to chemical options. it's already being deployed on these fields and sa clay just outside paris. emmanuel low hole was among the 1st local farmers to sign up for the trial, initially skeptical. he was concerned that the urine might contain pharmaceutical residues, but once those fears were allayed, he was very keen to get involved. a fake was your baldness, it'd be great to replace other fertilizers with urine, which likewise contain nitrogen hooked to otherwise it just ends up in a storage system much already evaporates. so his last of the atmosphere, we may as well re,

user to nourish our crops museum. so you should look to the preliminary results have been very encouraging. researches estimate that human urine could replace around one quarter of nitrogen and phosphorus based fertilizers worldwide. it does require collection and some processing buck, a supply of the raw material is infinite. in contrast, while synthetic fertilizers do increase crop yields, they're also a major pollutant and costly if without good as long as i, it's important to bear in mind that price is for chemical fertilizers have tripled in the space of 18 months or so course. so this new kind of fertilizer of all sorts from urban areas is of huge interest. except that in practice it's still a very short supply. while bulk of most of the urine supplied so far has come from mobile toilets at public festivals,

which are notorious for being unsanitary and smelly. but there are alternatives. one restaurant in paris is using a model that is a world away from the original urine diverting dry toilets from young candle c says the new mechanize, the units are just as hygienic as toilets, that use water heater went up to that. we've been getting some very positive feedback from people are initially a bit surprised, but i think that in daily use they'll see little difference compared to a traditional system. and there's even a bonus. factor is one. okay. then we save 22000 liters of water and just 3 weeks or more course, my good news in the face of increasing water shortages and of all toilets were liberated from the dependence on a water supply system. they could be put just about anywhere, collecting and using urine as fertilizer is not truly revolutionary. about the

practices currently gaining momentum with studies being conducted in countries all over the globe from sweden to south africa. how can african artists respond to the climate crisis endangering the planets? it ease an interesting question that you think. luckily it is one we have an answer to here on equal africa, right, chris? thus right. sondra created wides. ramos pros, obrigone, exploring the devastating consequences of the climate prices for via or whether the appliances shop jose gonzalez. this is the message of the a word has the ability to rich, many people would lead to office will also wants is why the bread again ends to do the bids for the environment. i think with for 10 years now,

musician david hubbard, c. wilson goes by the name took, the ghana has been trying to mobilize people to clean up a crowd. good breaking kid with global will listen to music that in and as tough in a day. a low voice would take a loaf own advice nor so is permission from music basically. and also i c t r, so so appealing to actually use for creating awareness for david qu morsey environmental activism is more than sitting in his small studio and sing every sunday he heads to one of the beaches in the capital, a cra, he works with a group of volunteers collecting the trash, cleaning up a single beach,

takes hours. the volunteers sort the trash into different kinds of waste. then they sell it to recycling companies. actually speak louder than words. i believe. as a leader, i suppose to set the pace for others to follow. i say, okay, i'm willing to do this and make sure my fonts and my really tooth and as no community are janet also see the example i'm trying to put us at my effort. at the counsel john asked mika. jamika said for a sophie banton is another artist who collects trash here at the beach. in the midst of all the plastic bottles to davy came across a broken flotation device from a fishing net which he'll be able to put to good use. well, i love this, i collect, crush from the environment, the streets, and the beaches. wherever i find,

i collect trash. and then i convert it into us visual ads. he lives in this, if even prior soup, about 100 kilometers from a crowd. he designs installations and collages the works, pick up on things from daily life in the country. this one includes part of the flotation device. my message also talks about how we have this dance our so from the environments quote from a far distance. you see my work a subpoena in wake of flats, with a very beautiful athletic but when you get close to with mrs. went when you realize that you see a whole lot of trash you bantam also teaches at a high school. gonna has recently incorporated environmental education into its regular curriculum is or not to be in his classes. or banton teaches kids painting and talks about environmental topics. they future generation is the people who are

willing to take good care of us and we are owned and then the other people who are going to really care what environment in the near future. so if we are not able to inculcate this type of idea in them, no grew up not to really understand and loved environment. absolutely, bunton sometimes takes the students on field trips to day, they're paying a visit to his gallery, where he presents his own works. some of them have suit very well now. yes, david chromarty and contrast can't make a living just from his music, but he has made a difference. thanks to him and other volunteers across beaches are a little bit cleaner now. oh god, not got none and none, but didn't you with that me not now. there was no good with them. if one of those individuals do isn't inspiring, then i don't know what is i am. chris alums from lagos, nigeria,

thanks for joining us. it's well, well for now, what we hope you to the next time for another episode of echo africa as thanks of course to sandra. it's all is a pleasure hosting the show with you. thank you, chris. it is a pleasure for me to fantastic teamwork. an incredible show and of course our attentive audience. so that's it for equal africa this week. goodbye for me here in com. paula. uganda. see you next week. a

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