in the 16th century, it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route. a race lead to military interests, a race linked to political and military proceed, but also linked to mental, financial and adventure full of hardships, dangers and death. my jillions journey around the world starts january 19th on dw, done a hello and the one welcome from nigeria. it's nice to have you with us in this new edition of echo africa then via remain to show, brought to you by

d w. germany. you've gotten this mtv and channel television right here in the area . i am 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. in sandra 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, how for you today, how a startup instant easy. it is providing access to clean water. why a designer from the netherlands, pretty full of furniture and why people in the city are obsessed about you down in the region. shocking youth, but through each year, floods effect nearly $50000.00 people. 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 go 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 community facilitator. now he's supervising the planting of bumble along 5 kilometers of the river in 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 that they were told of carried. that means there would be only a small volume of water that will go through the bomb which is controllable, and may not cause a lot of harm thing. and one bar gets ether water from the resort mountains, but the region has seen increased flooding in the past. decade, scientists say rising temperatures are met in glaciers on the mountain top. last year, flooding in the casa district, left over 1600 people homeless. they're still living in comes for displaced parcels . ramana molly is one of them. we can go back to him proudly would spend the bear lake port to free as again the floods are back our gong to be in the simplest way it is flooding every day. i can't go back in that form. i feel like we're from

start on your life. they ugandan government and they w, w. f are working together to protect their 22 villages along the river that were heat hardest by the floods. a decision was made to plant bumble because it's fast growing. angel was on the near by said wherever the benefits already apparent bumble was blunted. here about 10 years ago, the river has not stopped flooding. but the difference now is that whenever floods the effects of destruction is minimal. it has given us a clear picture that with nature, or 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 woody grass, a paid the equivalent of around $40.00 a week. cutting

a seizure joined the project at the beginning of the year. it's enabled her to build up her own business. larry ne g. good you. i only heard one sewing machine when he started blunting bumble to d. a on ta machines, i was able to pay for each with savings from the bumble project. so it's been a positive change, funky, or longer window fillmore. 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. alan, to mossi me, is now trying to popularized, 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 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. oh, started with this is something small and beautiful. 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 or you see the sun setting is magical moment. that's kind of like what i want to use in the lights. so under the sun goes down, just son that goes on. and that's like i have everyone has his personal relations with the son, 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 switches. battery environments and

they are completely circular. so their super light weights 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. her 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 is 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 we could live in balance with nature and use sources that are coming all the time in our, in abundance. i think, yeah, then the worlds can be very beautiful place for my infant elbow, the future of solar technology. certainly look bright ah. but 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 formed a solution to the water constant problem, we basically making water out of thin air. it may seem unbelievable, but it is true. it is our doing good eat this week. ah, yeah. ah, fresh spring water for the women 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 g. 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. okay, and i thought you'd normally connect this machine to an electricity supply, 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, envil 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 denobia, spoke to an expert from the u. n. global water operators partnership alliance. ah, ah, are we 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 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 the

growth we tell 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 because what the companies, a government i've not invested enough to not only to extend the sites that say that also we also to maintain the types. 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 other places,

meaning flood inundation that's also damaging the infrastructure. i know that encompasses you working closely with national sewage corporation and we just want to tap into what you exactly do. how are you helping them to actually provide us dunden. we've clean, safe, sustainable water supply. yes. actually, what we do have you and have you said, and we've, my program, we pieces are global alliance is that we have what operators to help one another. so we are counting with the expertise of the engineers, from what companies, from example, from come feller 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 water, but if it isn't, if it is not safe for human consumption, then it's also problem. because a lot of what's all done. this is,

it's still remain one of the major cause of this, of the children in africa. so would you say there what 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 batter 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 a local context. and especially if the local capacities of engineers, we will be in charge of operating those networks. it's not built also projects we have not included in african sensation. we've a local communities also and they'll 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 through about,

it's very tempting to tap into this result 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, but the ground lot so may not be really easily replenish by the rain. so you can pump them, and that's sometimes 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 we also keep hearing that 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 all we have reads. then citizens have

a reasonable use of the water. it's not that they are wasting gallons and gallons of water on watering, 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 is used for the industry much water is use for the agriculture. for example. there is a lot of what also wasted in unsustainable agricultural system. so it's, it's not only pointing at the citizens and especially the 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 very important to us in our project. thank you very much and talk to on blue sky for joining us on the sheila and i hope from the excuse 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. decades 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. a plant for the subtle partly to supply water to the neighboring south africa. but many of the people in the region are it too happy about it. so let's head there and find out why. water rich, la soto is keeping thirsty south africa alive. but the tiny, landlocked country as paying

a high price for it. we didn't anticipate that damn ca into so to wendy, the misery that he's bringing matawan will to the way i see nothing of the better life that they promised us would grab it. if it were up to me, i would decide against that building. madame that is needful water. i saw that she got grades high, and the souls 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 dms is being built here to supply water to neighboring south africa. the entire village

has been moved to another location. yes, ma'am. how the construction work hit us hard. they had promised us jobs and i wasn't our children are supposed to be earning something from this, but instead they're out of work for adults. while other people in south africans get the jobs we go hungry. one and they also took our fields till another by glass, in the cornfields 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, union 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. then 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. and the 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? hair, $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 what we, as the project helpful at number of programs, which had been there, these customer lead vocal many desert as ways and means of ha ha, mitigating against the laws of land that the laws over there, grazing alia, and perpetual lead me 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 its pike to south africa. sick we worked for the santa legal center. the project was conceived georgia by 2 undemocratic

governments of south africa, apathy to regime and the military. it is a jim in mistletoe. those governments did not have monday to form the people they did, they say a need for the review of disability. the project is also threatened by massive soil erosion, the construction of the thumbs along with over grazing and climate change. mean that more and more soil is being eroded by the rain and ends up in riff as a sediment. in many places, only by a rock remains told to say, lay as a consultant for a national project, the aims to protect the so toes, rivers, workers hair, rebuilding low wolves into the hillside to reduce the speed and force of rain war to run off and prevent erosion,

they also remove invasive shrubs that would otherwise wipe out endemic plants whose 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, here in uganda. but don't forget to share with us your thoughts and ideas on all social media platforms would love to hear from you until next time. bye bye and

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