ah, bravo has to smile lie from 500 to 600 euro currently more people than ever on the move worldwide in search of a better life. and all, this is a very difficult journey. and 13 on the cortisol is very hard to be, to day or living on your store. hello, in the world work home from nigeria, it's nice to have you with us. in this new edition of i co africa, the environmental show brought to you by d. w. germany, uganda's, mtv and channel cell vision. right here in nigeria, i have crystal omes. i with me is my charming colleague, income paula. hello. chris aren't a big hello to all of you as there. thank you for joining us. i am sandra. we know

video, and as always we always have entrusting reports 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 up intern easier is providing access to clean water. why a designer from the netherlands create solar furniture. and why people in the city are upset about the new dance in the region. shocking news, but true each year. floods effect nearly 50000 people in uganda. living many dead and thousands displaced. the flood water costs 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 onto the communities from flooding.

ah these seedlings will go fast in a few months time, the bumble will be twice as tall as ireland to most he may. he works for the wild o y blake font as community facilitator. now he's supervising the planting of bumble along 5 kilometers of the river in your mama, over 400000 siblings are already in the ground. it has a root network that holds the soil together. secondly, ah, mum will lake any other water ah, ridge lake, we see mum was 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 would go through that bump which is controllable,

and may not cause a lot of harm. thing in one bar gets ether water from there is, will remove things, but the region has seen increased flooding in the past decade. scientists say raising temperatures are met in glaciers on the mountain. last year, flooding in the casa said, 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 temporarily with spend the bear lake pool for free as again the floods are back. are going to be in the simplest way to 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 villages along the river that were hit hardest by the floods. a decision was made to plant bumble because it's fast

growing. angel was on the near by silver the bell, if it's 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 difference of destruction is minimal. it, i've 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 who help plant the woody grass, a paid the equivalent of around $40.00 a week. katherine as injured, joined the project at the beginning of the year. it's enabled her to build up her own distance. from adding a near, she's going to you. i only heard one sewing machine when it started planting bumble

to d a on ta machines, i was able to pay for it would savings from the bumble project. so it's been a positive change funny or longer with yourself. the plant is also a source of food for animals like golden monkeys and mountain gorillas in east 10, uganda bumble shoots 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 dry out the ground for ireland to morsey 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 san 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, 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 in

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, it 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 switches. battery environments and they are completely circular. so they're super light weights as 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 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 is a designer by trade, scientific developments are important to marian's work. solar cell has evolved so much since the last stikes 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 looks bright. ah. but africa and the knees in the country is struggling with this via water shortage. both in the rural and urban areas. but once daughter 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, 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. june is, is one of $25.00 countries worldwide, with the lowest availability of water per capita. and due to climate change and

population growth, the countries drinking more to 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 cumulus 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. hey, another, 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 and the laughter and that would generate energy. then you could produce water from just solar power and air. so now the smart want 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 bill, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us or tweet 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 tube, you spoke to an expert from the u. n. global water operators partnership alliance. ah, ah, are we really having a water costume 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 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 via l. then 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'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 a network that's leaking and at the same time varies also less water we've due to a global warming less water in some places too much water in over places, meaning flooding. nation, that's also damaging b. and i know that encompasses you, working closely with national through age 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 at you and have you thought that was my program, which 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 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, if it is not safe for human consumption, then it's also a problem. because there are a lot of what i've done this is it's still remain one of the major cause 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 of g one battle global alliance. the no 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 is 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 true that 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 that the

ground what may not be really easily replenish by the rain. so you can transfer me 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 halls, 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 sla now we have average citizens have a reasonable use of 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, what is used 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 to on tuesday for joining us on the show. and i hope from the experience on just your story. african countries can love to work together and solve the water, gusty 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 we shows are important. it is to consider the needs of local people and the environment in any water related project . tickets they go, for example, south africa's government decided to build some new dumps to address the expected water shortage. that is very true crease. no 5 dams apply for these sort of paddling 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 would you, richly soto is keeping 1st the south africa alive. but the tiny,

landlocked country is paying a high price for it. we didn't anticipate that dams here in this or to anybody, the misery that is bringing perhaps worn to the i see nothing of the better life is that they promised us with that. if it were up to me, i would decide against the building, the damn the need for water mains high. the souls of special water remains the little too high and what a project. we have been able to divert water to south 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 dams is being built here to supply water to neighboring south africa. the entire village

has been moved to another location where i'm out of 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 adults. while other people in south africans get the jobs, we go hungry food one and they also took our fields till another by gas 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. we don't have innovative technologies and circulated infrastructure yet to recycle water. and currently we highly rely on the las joslyn's face to 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 a soto uses the dams to generate electricity for its population of the local project manager from the list. so time highlands authority tells us,

let 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 what we, as the project template number of fi programs, which had been there, discussed in mac, lead vocal amenities are as ways that means ha, ha ha, mitigating against the laws of land. that the laws over her my crazy earlier friend were patched. but to see 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 se and only legal center. the project was conceived georgia by 2

undemocratic governments of south africa, apathy to regime and the military. it is jim in this auto. those governments did not have mandate from the people they did. they said need for the review or basically 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. settlement in many places, only by rock remains totally to say, lay as a consultant for a national project. the aims to protect los altos, rivers, workers, hair, rebuilding low balls into the hillside to reduce the speed and force of rain more 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 of such dems 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 already ring of save in this or letting it i will come to the end of this week's program. thanks for watching and we'll 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 our social media platforms would love to hear from you until next time. bye bye and

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