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and why the solutions being proposed may not be enough. blas bringing water. hi ms . largely women's work in india. we'll take a look at an innovative network that's helping to save the scarce resource. ah, i'm jared raid. welcome to the show. thanks for your company. it's monsoon season in india after beginning in may and building up over june, ryans covered the entire country over the weekend. the monsoon is a lifeline to farmers who depend on these ryans to grow their crops like rice. but very dry areas in the north and west will be looking to the monsoon for relief as well. and intense hate live this year has bought drought to many parts of rochester state. here trains bringing 2000000 liters of water have become the only reliable source of it. ah, these 40 wagons, all of them filled with water,
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or a lifeline for the state of for justin. this does that region often see temperatures bryce to about 45 degrees celsius. but this year the heat wave arrived ervic. 3 months of trout has left thousands of inhabitants without water. if we look, i opened the top and there's no water. at the moment, we only get water once every 10 days. without water, we can't do anything. all i ask is for water to drink. twice a day, local authorities fill up the train with water from a lake nearby and transported over 60 calamities. as soon as the train arrives, precedence flop to get their buckets filled, even though the water is not yet drinkable, it should be filtered by a treatment plant before being distributed. yet together. yes,
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this waters not filtered, but what can we do about it? plastic bottles are too expensive, we can afford to buy them. this problem has never been so serious. look at what we're facing today. prolonged drought has worsened the situation here. one of the driest regents in india, artificial lakes have been emptied since last august, giving farmers a hard time to put up and see the little walls. the water used to rise up to you. every thing was submerged. it has always been heartier, but such a lack of water i have never seen before. this lake was full. all the families had wadell this year. we have a real problem, silva and other residents. the only solution to their problems. for now, at least, is to train we can speak now to dr. a. d team occur g, an expert on water issues, who curry the chapter on water. in this use report from the u. n's into
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governmental panel on climate change. she joins us from co cut in india. welcome to d, w. 's asia. we've just been seeing the effects of drought in india. people are hoping for relief. we've among soon ryan's which are happening now. how is the panning out the monsoons while they were supposed to be a moralist? normal they are, they are not being quite normal. there has been days in various parts, but it's still the very beginning of them on so. so there are standard expectations and predictions that them on soon over on will be normal or the continent as a whole. but even bit normal manzona, what happens is some regions gets maureen and some regions get nice. so overall. 5 it's been one month into the monsoon and overall there have been a deficiencies with the prediction that those will be caught up in the, in the remaining 2 months or so. okay, so some areas over on of break overall. how difficult. yeah,
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please go ahead. so overall, now overall, now really difficult talk to him on, so let me put it back to me. okay, so if you guys got to the expecting, difficult start to the monsoons as you say, some areas are expected to get normal rains, others less. india has also been experiencing torrential flooding. is this a case of sometimes either too little water or too much? yes, just now as is b, there has been absolutely taught in children orland and massive happening in the northeast of india. and there are, you're speaking of droughts in rogers on. so overall, yes, this is, this is happens, this has happened in the past. but obviously, as we know, the climate change is making these patterns of too much rain and to live in you know, much more regular. so what now we are having is, even though a monsoon,
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green fall can be no one over on by normal. i mean, total quantity of green can be similar, but then tyrene fall back on and become very different. so you may have a huge range or even for a single day, and in a long stretches of drive it. and that is being one of the ways in which climate changes in affecting monsoon will reinforce by changing the actual green fall even ok, so, so very different patterns of rainfall as a result of climate change. i. i'd like to talk to a little bout, a little bit about some of the solutions earlier this year. you wrote in the journal nature that limiting global warming. and i'm going to quote you here requires carbon, carbon emissions to plummet immediately, but too many carbon removal of if it's overlook demands on water. could you explain what you mean by that? yes, so while we know that this is the kid where we have to take huge amount of mitigation action, reduce carbon dioxide emissions from pretty much all i was just. we also know that
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if you don't plan those very when they would be negative impacts on water and land and food by this, i mean, i can give you our example off order station or 40 station when you're putting in new forest ingredients that are already water scares what it can do is those, those forest can actually use of young forest and use of too much water in that space. and the local water scarcity. the same applies for measures such as growing bio, who will crops you know, as, as a substitute for, since when and when you are devoting land to growing crops that are meant to be through and instead of food that can actually trigger things like and we increase cost of food and no decrease access of food, particularly to the poor. so that's what we meant by the very we need to look at the impacts of mitigation. very carefully. having said that we cation will remain center. we have to mitigate, we have to reduce c o 2 emissions, but we have to choose judiciously making sure that our,
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our mitigation does not. then you know, the 2 are the negative consequences in water, land or food. that was what i had meant in that article. you quoted ok. and if i understand you correctly you're, you're basically saying that water needs to be put at the heart of all the solutions going forward is water being ignored and if so, why that's a good question. i think in the climate community because of the way these treaties are framed, they will, the paris are be the glass go. the goal is carbon mitigation. so majority of the climate will all actually all the around are going to go a cargo or see what i think water is a why i would not say water is completely ignored, which is kind of invisible. it's not being as. d as visible as a, the need to reduce c o 2. and water is inherent in many things. as the example i
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was giving that reducing c o 2 also has water implication. so i think it's after the water community and the climate community to come together and tease out these water implications, both for mitigation, but also the way people are adapting the changing climate. so, so yes, maybe a there isn't. we don't talk water enough in our climate time with stations and you're talking about about various stakeholders coming together. what should be done in terms of better better management and policy making? i think for me, one of the important things would be to have space on the table and the time to go see table. both are the walk the community at large because walk the community in the private community historically have not always walked closely together. i think that needs to change for a successful climate change mitigation or adaptation, but also overall what needs to happen is that those who will be most affected by climate change and those communities are often the ones who may not have
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necessarily, and we did large amounts of carbon dioxide historically they also need a space and a voice in the deep will either for to indigenous communities or to low income countries. so i mean, that's already there for you. it's triple c processes, but it's just their voices needs to come out louder and have to be in more cognizance off in future discussions and actions. so 2 things. water needs to have a please. and the voices of those who have actually been deeply affected by climate change have to have a voice, a voice that matters. it's really great to get your insights today that was water expert, dr. dr. d t ma koji, we really thank you for your time. as we've been hearing india's water shortages are being worse and by climate change, but a dedicated group of women being cold. india's water friends are working to change that after years of back breaking work, they're starting to see some really promising results. ah,
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taking away the rubble one stone at a time. these women are building a dam to bring askance results back to their village. water. they hoped to finish the dam in time to catch some of the monsoon rains. the volunteers a part of an initiative called gel. so hailey, which translates as poor to friends that's valid. there's been a water problem for about a decade. we stand in mind and wait for hours to get water from the pump. there been fights over water. what fetching water has always been the responsibility of women in rural india, but in the drought had region of glendale. and that job has been getting harder and harder many wells in the area have completely run dry. unable to irrigate their fields, farmers have had to give up their land and find work in the city. decades ago water was a community manager resource. now it's administered by india as government shouts.
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a hayley is helping us volunteers, rediscover old water storage techniques. ha ha ha to lane. and every month we hold the meeting, we discussed the drought prone areas of the region and find where we should stop the water or the ha, so that monsoon water is not wasted, that's up. why do you make it a lot of other novel? and there, if it's a paying off, the work of the volunteers has transformed life in many villages. and through an information campaign, they're spreading the word to other communities. it's a good at all what 113 villages are water sufficient with efforts from chelsea. halley, now people get water throughout the year. they, they get water for drinking irrigation and for their animals. villages are prospering now that there's access to water again. that's the result of our work. and their work is far from done. roughly 600000000 indians facing acute water shortages daily. the water fence will carry on their efforts to make sure that
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water remains the resources available for all that seat for to day on t. w. news asia will levy now with some pictures of india's contrasting weather conditions. we'll see tomorrow. ah, imagine how many pushes turn out in the world. climate change very often stores. this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much wealth can really get we
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still have time to go. i'm going all with the thought they will grade. he will, we will be a turkey records. it's highest inflation in nearly 25 years. officially desperate say the real cost of living has ridden, risen much higher. so to normal, turks will hear from them shortly. also on the show staff shortages are dragging
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down what should be a summer of recovery for many restaurants and hotels in europe will visit madrid alone. walk into the show. i'm seeking beardsley in berlin. inflation and turkey has reached nearly 80 percent annually in june. that's according to official data provided by the turkish statistics institute. official being an important distinction here. economists and ordinary turks both say that costs have reduced, have risen much faster than the government reports. not a live chin. dick hab reagan is in turkey looking for doctors who'd be interested in working in their practice in munich. it's been, it's not, unquote. i flew to ankara from germany. we have a massive shortage of skilled workers. if we can find good staff from abroad, will hit a wall sonton them down the van from today. the neurologist and psychiatrist is meeting with osler or eula, a psychologist who hopes to leave.

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