i don't be afraid to make mistakes. nothing can stop me that you are right. i am actually to say, you know and found her. so probably take the job. yeah. this mean? her women in asia. these into starts july 6th. ah, a hello and welcome from nigeria. it's nice to have you with us in this new edition of echo africa, the environmental show brought to you by d w. germany. you've gotten this mtv and china cell vision right here in the area.

i have chris lives with me is my charming colleague, income follow? hello chris, on the a. be hello to all of us there. thank you for joining us. i in center 3, no video. and as always, always interesting. good. all lined up for you to learn from on to also enjoy. so here is a quick look at what we have for you today. how a start of indonesia is providing access to clean water y, a designer from the netherlands, pretty full of furniture. and why people in the city are obsessed about and down in the region. shocking youth. but through each year, floods effect nearly $50000.00 people in uganda. living many dead on to thousands displaced the flood water course, the country over $60000000.00 us dollars

a year. according to the was bank. so what can be done to help? we paid a visit to western uganda where people are planting bamboo to help protect themselves on their communities from flooding. the de seedlings will go fast in a few months. the bumble will be twice as tall, allowed to move, he made. he works for the world wide live font as community facilitator. now, he's supervising the planting of bumble along 5 kilometers of the river, one but over 400000 siblings. already in the ground. it has a rude network that holds the soil together. secondly, ah, mum will lake any other water. ah, riddle lake we see mumble is stronger. one,

it holds the stones, buck and any other thing the door told of carried. that means there would be only a small volume of water that will go through that bond, which is controllable, and may not cause a lot of harm thing. a mamba gets ether water from the resort mountains, but the region has seen increased flooding in the past decade. scientists say raising temperatures are met in glaciers on the mountain top. last year, flooding in the casa said, district left over 1600 people homeless. they're still living in comes for displaced parcels. recommend o'malley, is one of them. we come go back temporarily with spend bear lake poor to free as again the floods are back. are going to be in the same place, waiters flooding every day. i can't go back in that form. i feel like we're

from stat annual life. they ugandan government and they w, w, f are working together to protect the $22.00 villages along the river that y it hardest to buy, the floors. a decision was made to plant bumble because it's fast growing and robust. on the near by said will leave up. the benefits already apparent. bumble was planted here about 10 years ago. the river has not stopped flooding. but the difference now is that whenever variable floods, the difference of destruction is minimal. it has given us a clear picture, that with nature, we can still use nature to protect nature. as long as no trees are cut down to make way for it, planting bumble along rivers is an environmentally friendly solution. people will help plant the wooded grass, a paid the equivalent of around $40.00 week. catherine, as injured,

joined the project at the beginning of the year. it's enabled her to build up her own consequence lady nay. g. going to him, i only had one sewing machine when he started planting bumble. today a on ta machines, i was able to pay for it would savings from the bumble project. so it's been a positive change from gay or lemuel williams. film. the plant is also a source of food for animals like golden monkeys and mountain gorillas. in eastern uganda, bumble shirts are also traditional delicacy, atlanta, to mercy me, is now trying to popularize, mumble in this region to we are going to take it up as well, to introduce that to the communities so that it increases the value for bumble within casa, in the new cause i think of people will take up bumble planting and growing

which would of with tame oh, come up with so many advantages. bumbled doesn't need a lot of water so it won't grey out the ground for ireland to mercy me. it offers an excellent solution. he's glad that the project will continue until the end of the year, and that in time, people will be able to reset of the other river. once again. let us switch it up to another topic now the power of the sand. sure, it can be functional and an eco friendly way to generate energy. but who ever imagined solar power could be beautiful? yes, it's true. a designer from the netherlands has caused a different light on solar power. our color for designs will open your eyes to the potential solar energy. it's amazing. oh, good. her dutch designer, marianne,

fun elbow. the sun is her inspiration. so started with this is something, it's a small and beautiful as this is harvest energy. solar cells take center stage and her designs like in these illuminated window decorations these solar window panels look like stained glass, but they also have a function and their solar powered hanging lamp called santa is designed to mimic sunset. the sun is like this beautiful thing. we're like all know very well and i mean is this moment when you're on the, on the beach and you see the sun setting is magical moment. that's kind of like what i want to use in the lights. so when the sun goes down, just son that goes on. and that's like i have, everyone has his personal relation with the sun, but it's also like that it the fact that it's powering object and his light is

super, super fascinating. murray and fun album works out of this studio in amsterdam. she collaborates with scientists to create objects with a double function. they promote energy efficiency, such as this table, which is also a docking station. it captures daylight and it's you can plug your phone or light or you can charge your devices from this. one of her bigger projects was for the dubai expo 2020. she created the colorful solar panels for the dutch pavilion. the solar roof provided power for the pavilion and also allowed in enough sunlight for the plant. marian's design show how diverse solar panels can be. these are organic photovoltaics, which is like a printed on pets, and they don't use any like very heavy at all,

which is battery environments and they are completely circular. so their super light waves has kind of like a new generation of solar technology. my infant elbow has also come up with a solution for food production in a self powering greenhouse for creation enables the production of food in places where there's a lack of electricity for farming space. this is my creation of the future of farming and it's called power plant. and you basically can grow your food everywhere on your rooftop. so you don't as a flight in from the other side of the world, but you can really grow it within your own home. so it's uses vertical farming, and this is all powered by solar glass. even though she's a designer by trade, scientific developments are important to marian's work. solar cell has evolved so much since the last dikes and their invention. and i think it's time that we start looking up in the sky where we got all the potential instead of

digging down into grounds. i mean, if you could live in balance with nature and use sources that are coming all the time in our, in abundance. i think the worlds can be very beautiful place for my infant elbow, the future of solar technology certainly looked bright ah, but to africa and the needs in the country even struggling with this via water shortage. both in the rural and urban areas. but once starter has found a solution to the water, caustic problem, we basically making water out of clean air. it may seem unbelievable, but it is true. it is doing good eat this week. ah, ah fresh spring water for the women of 10 dba in north western to

nicea, it's a godsend, clean drinking water is becoming increasingly difficult to find here. june is it is one of $25.00 countries worldwide, with the lowest availability of water per capita. and due to climate change on population growth, the countries drinking more to needs are increasing by some 6 percent a year. so a french canadian start up came up with an idea, a way to derive water out of thin air using what he calls an atmospheric water generator or cumulus. this is how it works. the humanist sucks in warm, humid air, and cools it off. the result is condensation, rather like morning gene, the water is then filtered, mineralized and stored in a tank. a single humanist device can produce between 20 and 30 liters of drinking water a day. the start up built prototypes of the cumulus,

and it's workshop in tunis. day and i thought you'd normally connect this machine to an electricity supply, but you can also operate it using solar power. one in photovoltaic panels are not on this one here, but you could fit to on the right nv laughter. and that would generate energy only . then you could produce water from just solar power and air. so now the smart or to generate it is being tested in practice with funding from sponsors. the company has installed the cumulus into schools based in remote areas. ah, and how about you? if you are also doing your bit, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweak hash tag doing your bit. we share your stories. what a scarcity in africa is predicted to reach dangerous levels by 2025. according to

the u. n. global water consumption has increased 6 vote in the last 100 years. so what are the reasons behind this lumen shortage? and how can countries and communities in africa ensure that everyone has access to water? my co host, sandra denobia, spoke to an expert from the you and global water operators partnership alliance. ah, ah, are we really having a water costume from the, on the continent? and if it is so why? actually yes, we do have a, what's a crisis. we talk about what the gas city it's, it's getting even worse valve civil explanation. so that of course, it's not a simple question. there is not one code, but we have a combination of both global warming and also via l. then

growth. we're making cities even bigger, so we have less letter and more people to say, well, water is a natural resource. so how did we get to this point of saying, even with our legs and water bodies, and you know, the rain's the heavy rains. how bad is it at the moment? there is a backlog of infrastructure development over the years. what's a company's a government? i've not invested enough to not the need to extend the pipes that say that also we also to maintain the pipes. so we have very old, so what's on network that's leaking? and at the same time, there is also less water. we do to the global warming less water in some places too much water in over places, meaning flooding. and that's are also damaging the infrastructure. i know that

encompasses you working closely with national sewage corporation and we just want to top into what you exactly do. how are you helping them to actually provide us gardens? we've clean, safe, sustainable water supply. yes. actually what we do at you and have you thought that was my program, which is a global alliance, is that we have what the appraisal to help one another. so we are counting with the expertise of the engineers, from what companies, from example, from cam fella to heads, peers in over cities to do a better job. as mentioned in the system. also the what the qualities important. it's not only the quantity that we all know now, but if you have what's out, but if it isn't, if it is not safe for human consumption, then it's also problem. because a lot of what i've done this is it's still remain one of the major goals

of this, of the children in africa. so would you say there was projects that you do not support or no goals for you because they do more harm than good? yes. from our perspective as to what bad global alliance the know go project would be the big infrastructure project that big. what's our treatment plan? all new to its connection, but not adapted to the local context. and especially if the local capacities of engineers, we will be in charge of operating those networks is not built. also, projects we have not included an african sensation. we've a local communities also a no go would you say well, whole use is the way to go for people in the countryside. in uganda. i would say let's be very cautious with the use of groundwater. it's true that it's very

tempting to tap into this resource because there is less treatment involved, for example, because it's so it's was so deep that it's not supposed to be contaminated, that the ground water may not be really easily replenish by the rain. so you can pump, and that's some point there is no water left that has already happened. it's also very dangerous to leave it unregulated, so that people are doing their own, the holes to complement all, to avoid, to have to be connected with the city council in the cities. now it also keeps hearing that's a great opportunity and having a great supply or consistent supply of water is to simply use it efficient. what would that really mean for africa? let's face it like people in the slow. now we have red cities and have

a reasonable use of water. it's not that they are wasting. gallons and gallons of water on lettering val moe and all feeding of the swimming pool. so it's, it's more important to look at the global use of water like how much, what i use for the industry much, what i use for the agriculture, for example, there is a lot of what also wasted in and sustainable agricultural system. so it's, it's not only pointing at the citizens and especially of a poor one, but we need to have a holistic approach on that front. okay, and finally, from many projects, what are some of the lessons that we can draw from from them? let's trusts the local capacity to change the way they are doing things. let's companion them instead of forcing

them to do differently. think this is really very important to us in our project. thank you very much, dr. underscore for joining us on the sheila and i hope from the experience on day just your story. african countries can love to walk together unsolved wortus, gusty problem. thank you. once again. thank you very much, sandra. did this interview gets you thinking? then you definitely be interested in the last report of the day we shows are important. it is to consider the needs of local people and the environment in any water related projects. tickets they go, for example, south africa's government decided to build some new dams to address the expected water shortage. that is very to crease. no 5 dams apply for the subtle partly to supply water to the neighboring south africa. but many of the people in the region

aren't too happy about it. so let's head there and find out why water richly soto is keeping thirsty south africa alive. but the tiny, landlocked country is paying high price for it. we didn't anticipate that damn ca into so to wendy, the misery that is bringing perhaps worn will put away. i see nothing of the better life that they promised us would. rather if it were up to me, i would decide against that building. madame that is needful water. i saw that she got waives high and the soles of such water remains the little islands were to project. we have been able to divert water and twas how africa, but we are limited by the quality of our environment. phase

2 of the la soto highlands water project started 3 years ago. one of 5 domains is being built here to supply water to neighboring south africa. the entire village has been moved to another location warmer. the construction work hit us hard. they had promised us jobs. our children are supposed to be earning something from this, but instead they're out of work for about a while. other people in south africans get the jobs we go hungry. one and they also took our fields till another by gas in the corn fields and grazing land. now, how's construction workers? far from leading to greater prosperity, the dam has brought misery for residence. driving 8000 people from their homes. the water will flow to south africa's financial hub, johannesburg, 400 kilometers away. for the 16000000 people in the city and surrounding province,

la, so toes dams a vital and already provide 60 percent of their water. since the project is financed with south african taxpayers money, eula, kline hans has been monitoring it for a long time. he works for the organisation outer, which seeks to expose corruption and mismanagement urbanized ations taking place and future development and expansion of business needs more water. the problem is we are only very limited to the water that we have in south africa, and we don't have innovative technologies and circulated infrastructure yet to recycle water. and currently, we highly rely on the las jar lens face to scheme to provide future demands. it's one of the largest infrastructure projects in africa and it's supposed to benefit both sides. south africa, paisley soto, nearly $70000000.00 euros

a year for the water. under soto uses the dams to generate electricity for its population of the local project manager from the list. so to highlands authority tells us that in 5 years time, the dumb wool will stand right here. $5000.00 hectares of land will them be flooded? as we are all away, this kind of projects would have social impacts and environmental impacts. and are we as the project purple at number of programs, which had been there, is customer lead vocal, many desert as ways that means ha, ha, ha, mitigating against the laws of land. that the laws over there like crazy. we have an perpetual mer to sea sick. we heard exactly the same promises 24 years ago when the cat saddam was built. all other dams feet that water into this

reservoir, from where it's piped to south africa. sick we worked for the santa legal center, the project was conceived georgia by 2 undemocratic governments of south africa, a perfect regime. and the military, it is at the gym in this auto. those governments did not have mandate from the people. they did it and they said need for the review of the project is also threatened by massive soil erosion. the construction of the dams, along with overgrazing and climate change mean more and more soil is being eroded by the rain and ends up in rip as a settlement. in many places, only by a rock remains totally to say, lay as a consultant for

a national project. the aims to protect the photos, rivers, work as hair rebuilding low walls into the hillside to reduce the speed and force of rain water run off and prevent erosion. they also remove invasive shrub, but otherwise whitehouse endemic ponds. he's roots help to keep the soil in place with the current erosion. the life off site stems would be fairly compromised the lifetime because in no time there will be more full of sediment done water. so this would be lost investment, in my opinion, a ring of saving this bar, letting it a we've come to the end of this week's program. thanks for watching. and we look forward to seeing you all again next week for now is good bye. from lagos, nigeria,

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