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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 for farmers who depend on these rains 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. an intense heat wife this year has brought drought to many parts of raja john state. here trains bringing 2000000 liters of water have become the only reliable source of it. oh, these 40 wagons, all of them filled with water,

or a lifeline for the state of for justin. this does at region often see temperatures bryce to about 45 degrees celsius. but this year the heat wave arrived ervic 3 months of drought has left thousands of inhabitants without water. if we look, i opened the dap and there is no water. at the moment we only get water once every 10 days. without water, we can 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 kilometers. 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 the gaga?

yes, this water is not filtered, but what can we do about it? plastered 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 regions in india, artificial lakes have been emptied since last august, giving farmers a hard time to put up and see the little little royce, the water used to rise up to you. everything 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 for papa and other residents. the only solution to their problems. for now, at least, is the train we can speak now to dr. a. d team occur g, an expert on water issues who co wrote the chapter on water in this year's report from the u. n's into governmental panel on climate change. she joins us from

calcutta in india. welcome to d, w. news asia. we've just been seeing the effects of drought in india that people are hoping for relief with the monsoon rains which are happening now. how is that panning out the monsoons while they were supposed to be more or less normal? they are, they are not being quite normal. there has been days in various parts, but just in the very beginning of the month phone. so there are still patients and predictions that them on soon overall will be normal for the continent as a whole. but even bit normal manzona, what happens is some regions gets maureen and some regions get less. so over on. 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. ok, so some areas overall reg, overall, how difficult. yeah, please go ahead. so overall,

overall no, really difficult talk to him on so let me put it back to me. ok to it's difficult start to the monsoons as you say, some areas are expected to get normal rains. others list india has also been experiencing torrential flooding. is this a case of sometimes either too little water or too much? yes just now as we speak, there has been absolutely told in children all and mass it was happening in the northeast of india and there are you're speaking of droughts in roger. so overall, yes, this is a, this 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 let the rain you know, much more regular. so what now we are having is even though i'm on,

so green fall can be no money over on my normal i mean total quantity of green and dissimilar. but then tyrene fall back on and become very different. so you may have a huge range or even for a single day, and then, and all as of right. and that has been one of the ways in which climate changes in affecting long so moving forward by changing the actual range for 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 efforts overlooked demands on water. could you explain what you mean by that? yes, so while we know that this is the decade where we have to take a huge amount of mitigation action, reduce carbon dioxide emissions from pretty much all our sectors. we also know that

if you don't plan those very went there, could be negative impacts on water. and landon food by this, i mean, i can give you our example off order station or 40 station. when you're quoting in new forest ingredients that us already walk to scares, what you can do is those, those forest can actually use up young forest and use of too much water in that speed and create local water scarcity. the same applies for measures such as growing bio, who will crops you know, as, as, as a substitute or forced into it. and when you are devoting land to growing crops that are meant to be few and instead of food that can actually trigger things like increase cost of food and no decrease access of foods, 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, the emissions. but we have to choose judiciously making sure that our,

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 okay, and if i understand you correctly, you're, you're basically saying that water needs to be put at the heart of, of 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, maybe the barriers are be the glass go, the goal is carbon mitigation. so majority of the time it will all actually, all the around are going to go or see what i think water is what i would not say what it is, completely ignored, but just kind of invisible. it's not being as, as visible as, say, the need to reduce the or do, and water is inherent in many things. as the example i 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 on mitigation, but also the way people are adapting to changing climate. so, so yes, maybe a there isn't. we don't talk water enough in our 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 for the water community at large because water community and the climate community historically have not always worked closely together. i think that needs to change as 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 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 and 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 gene 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 backbreaking work, they're starting to see some really promising results. ah,

taking away the rubble one stone at a time. these women are building a dam to bring a scarce resource back to their village. water. they hope 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 water friends. that's valid. there's been a water problem for about a decade. we stand in line and wait for hours to get water from the pump. there been fights over water was fetching water has always been the responsibility of women in rural india, but in the drought had region of glendale. and their 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.

a hayley is helping us volunteers, rediscover old water storage techniques. ha ha ha to lane. and every month we hold a 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. one have a good lot of other novel and their efforts a paying off. the work of the volunteers has transformed life in many villages. and through an inflammation campaign, they're spreading the word to other communities. it's listed as 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 worth is far from done is roughly 600000000 indians facing acute water shortages daily. the water friends will carry on their efforts to make sure that

water remains a resource available for all that seat for to day on t. w. news. asia will leave you now with some pictures of india's contrasting weather conditions. we'll see tomorrow about 3 conductors tennis d, w. what's truly important in take a look at his and future meets the artist.

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