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chris, lives with me is my charming colleague, income follow? hello chris, on a big hello to all of us there. thank you for joining us. i and number 3, nobody at is always or is how interesting all lined up for you to learn from. and also enjoy. so here is a quick look at what we have for you today. how a startup instant easy it is providing access to clean water. why a designer from the netherlands, pretty full of funny chip. and why people in the to, to are obsessed about and you down in the region shocking use but true. each year. floods effect nearly 50000 people in new gander. living many dead on the 1000, 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 the communities from flooding. the de seedlings will grow fast in a few months time. the bumble will be twice as tall, allowed to move, he made. he works for the world wide lafond us community facilitator. now he's supervising the planting of bumble along 5 kilometers of the river in one. but over 400000 siblings are already in the ground. it has a rude network that holds the soil together. secondly, ah, mum will lake any other water. ugh, rids lake we see. when we stronger one, it holds the stones buck,

and any other thing that they were told of curried. that means there would be only a small volume of water that will go through that bump which is controllable and may not cause a lot of harm thing. and one bar gets ether water from there is, will remain teens, 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 consisted district left over 1600 people homeless. they're still living in comes for displaced parcels. recommend o'malley is one of them. we can go back to him proudly was spin, delake, poor to flee as again the floods are back. i'll going to be in the same place where it is flooding every day. i can't go back in that form. i feel like we're from the stat annually. they ugandan government and they w, w,

f. i working together to protect the 22 villages along the river, that wifi tardies to lay the flat. a decision was made to plant bumble because it's fast growing. angel was on the near by civil river. the benefits already apparent. bumble was blunted here about 10 years ago. the river has not stopped loving. but the difference now is that whenever there are floods, the effects 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. i've paid the equivalent of around $40.00 a week. cutting a senior joined the project at the beginning of the year. it's enabled her to build

up her own consequence. lady ne, keep 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 8 would savings from the bumble project. so it's been a positive change from a 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 mossi 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 time. oh,

come up with so many advantages. bumble doesn't need a lot of water so it won't dry 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 resettle near the river. once again. let us switch it up to another topic now, the power of the sun. 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, or color for designs will open your eyes to the potential solar energy. it's amazing. oh, and her dutch designer, marianna,

fun elbow. the sun is her inspiration to all started with this. it's 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 looked 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 relations with his son. but it's also like that it the fact that it's powering objects and his light is super, super fascinating. murray and fun album works out of this studio in amsterdam. she

collaborates were 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 at it 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 plants. marian's designs 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 switches, the 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 plants. and you basically can grow your food everywhere on your rooftop. so you don't have to fly 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 and are in abundance, i think. yeah. then the worlds can be very beautiful place for my infant elbow, the future of solar technology certainly looks bright. ah, but africa and the needs in the country even struggling with the via water shortage . both in the rural and urban areas. but once starter pos for the solution to the water because the problem we basically making water out of screen air. it may seem unbelievable, but it is true. it is doing good eat this week. ah ah, fresh spring water for the winter in of 10 dba in north west into nicea, it's a godsend,

clean drinking water is becoming increasingly difficult to find here. tennessee is one of $25.00 countries worldwide, with the lowest availability of water per capita. and due to climate change and population growth, the country's drinking water needs are increasing by some 6 percent a year. so a french, tennessee, and 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 cumulus 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 startup built prototypes of the cumulus and its workshop in tunis. and i

thought you'd normally connect this machine to an electricity supply and i, but you can also operate it using solar power. when in photovoltaic panels are not on this one here, but you could fit 2 on the right and the laughter. and that would generate energy, then you could produce water from just solar power and air. so now the smart, what a generator 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 or tweet. hash tag doing your bit. we share your, ah, 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 to know you spoke to an expert from the u. n. global water operators partnership alliance. ah, ah, we're really having a water costume problem 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 cities it's, it's getting even worse explanation. so that, of course, so it's not a simple question. there is not one code, but we have a combination of both global warming and also the

growth. we're making cities even bigger. so we have less letter and more people to say that. so what 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. because well, what's a company's a government? i've not invested enough to not the need to extend the pipes that say, but also we also to maintain the pipes. so we have very old. so what's on network that's our 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 flood inundation that's also damaging the western. 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 said 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 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 up, but if it isn't it, if it is not safe for human consumption, then it's also a 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 want to 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 plans 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 in african sensation. we've a local communities also a no go would you say well, whole you 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 to it's meant 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 replenished by the reins. so you can print them and that's sometimes there is no, no what are 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 read. then susan, have

a reasonable use of water. it's not that they are wasting gallons and gallons of water on watering, venmo 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 is used for the industry much what you 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 accompany them instead of forcing

them to do differently. think this is really is very important to us in our project . thank you very much, dr. on tuesday for joining us on the show, and i hope from the experience on just your story, african countries can learn to work together on solving what is the problem. thank you, once again. thank you very much, sandra. did this interview gets you thinking? then you'll definitely be interested in the last report of the day, which shows are important. it is to consider the needs of local people and the environment in any water related project. beckett's, they go, for example, south africa. the government decided to build some new dorms to address the expected water shortage. that is very to crease. no 5 dams apply for the photo 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, says the south africa allies, that the tiny, landlocked country is paying a high price for it. we didn't anticipate that dams here in this or to re misery. that is bringing perhaps worn or i see nothing of the better life is that they promised us was that if it were up to me, i would decide against that building the damn the needful water i saw remains high vessels of such water remains that sort of adams would approach we have been able to divert water to south africa, but we are limited by the quality of our environment. phase 2 of the low soto highlands water project started 3 years ago. one of 5 dams is

being built here to supply water to a 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 glasses, 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 me, urbanized ations taking place and future development and expansion of business needs more water. and 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 phase 2 scheme to provide future demands. it's one of the largest infrastructure projects in africa and is 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 him 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, these customer lead vocal, many desert as ways that means ha, ha, ha, mitigating against the laws of land that the laws over there, grazing, earlier in perpetual mer to sea sick, we heard exactly the same promises 24 years ago when the cap saddam was built. all other dams feet that water into this reservoir from where its pipe to south africa

. sick we worked for the santa legal center. the project was conceived georgia by to an democratic governments of south africa, apathy regime and the military it there at the gym in miss auto. those governments did not have mandate from the people they did. did they say a need for the review of dysentery to 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 rivers. a sediment in many places only by rock remains totally to say, lay as a consultant for a national project. the aims to protect the so toes, 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 shrubs, but what 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 or letting 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. and it is also time for me to sign up from compiler,

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