don't stand, you must, right. you will send this to the womb. deterioration equals must the end of a superpower. the collapse of the soviet union rushes more in ukraine. one year stand, vision. we can we take a look back and into the future. in the new millennium slogan, in february on d, w. ah, we can't live without water on a planet. it plays a crucial role in our daily lives. we drink it, grow crops, generate energy,

and produce its importance extends beyond human consumption, with every pig from wild animals who the smallest flowers in our gardens needing water to survive. unfortunately, our ground water deserves a depleting, and the world is getting dryer by the d. so what can we do to address this growing problem? that's what we talk about today. hello and welcome to eco india. i'm son of that a. now, despite being a planet made up of 97 percent water, only 3 percent of this is portable. conserving this water and finding ways of reusing and he's cycling it is the need of the hour. a promising initiative in bangor noodle is already working on this. let's take a look. oh bang lou is a large city in and india where not all residents receive running water. it's

mostly only the more affluent section that does. but experts say that the problem isn't a lack of water supply to the city. the calculation of the quadrant, if a metropolitan city is using certain standards, which i think are outdated. so for example, we now calculate at $200.00 leaders but tablet upper date. but most european city is not in 400 leaders, but tablet upper. if you take duck figure bank has sufficient water, it gets 1000 for 50000000 liters from the cavity for 40000000 population. and it gets a supplement of between $5.00 to $600000000.00 dieters per day from ground water. so there's actually no scarcity of water sources. it's a question off getting some water for all and making sure that water distribution systems are moving with a balloon jack. ready some citizens are working to save water to father. this cause shannon probably lives in an apartment complex and not thank. he and his residents

association are looking for a way forward. we should not reach to that stage where the water is not bad at all for consumption. so we have to start considering the water now, which since our basic concentration was on water consideration, we found that the water, which is used in apartment, into drill apartment is big west. it was his group of residents, fitted taps with air. does that reduce the flow of water by 80 percent? then they set up a rain water harvesting system to meet their needs for one month. they also recycle their sewage and used it in toilets and for gardening and all the savings added up. it comes from a one, broadly drop water. so this much water we could do you know what apartment,

that means when broadly drove water we, stopper, extracting from the boardman wife, 10000000 liters of water saved in a year is significant. the group wanted to do more, so they set up each recharge wells under the apartment to help replenish the water table. they did all this with the help of citizens action forum world of water. it's founder has walked in this area since the late 19 eighties, trying to bring more people into the fold. one of the idea to bring in lay people, housewives, physicians charging counters. anybody who is concerned about his daughter huseby. and who wants to see if he or she can make some change happen? while they all understand that there is a crisis of water ah, through bi weekly meetings,

the forum has reached 50000 people. it estimates that these conversations have saved 50000000000 liters of water by jo in bangalore. they've used methods similar to those implied by solace. apartments like sewage treatment plans. rainwater harvesting smart meter installations and airy tre fitting. it's about sensitizing. it's about constantly bringing more people into the afford and having existing people tell more stories of the work that they're doing in a way that such success stories can me hopefully emulated by others another bang glory and taking it beyond residential complex's is god with douglas hottie when she was a teenager, she read that 14000000 leaders of water ever are wasted in glasses that customers

don't finish in restaurants. the revelation resulted in the youth lead campaign called glass off, and the goal was to try to understand what is that solution that would work redford oliver's, and that's when we came up with. the idea of last half was the campaign now has the support of the national restaurants association of india, which helps spread its message with their support. the campaign has managed to change the policies of around a 1000 restaurants. but they also work with volunteers, like the female members of the rotary club, who pay regular visits to restaurants, schools and housing societies, to raise awareness among more citizens in this it up. what it is not expected of sports. it's a participate in sports citizen should become available to vegas with that they can impact water positively tell me, engagement,

community action and cleaning up or late sort of us bonds and streams. all these possibilities for citizens can be harvest rainwater. can we get our children can be why it's about what you campaign of hope more citizen cooperation can generate a higher amount of water that will reach all residents of bengal. access to clean drinking water is becoming scarce. the region around the world due to heat and drought. in many of these areas with limited sources of water nearby, like rivers leaks or wealth communities struggles to find a solution. but fog harvesting in areas where the fog is common could provide much needed relief to them. let's find out how. mm. mm. the humidity they bring is a treasure. clouds of fog shroud, the mountains of spain scan on canadian at

a time of increasing drought and water scarcity. every drop of water in them is a blessing. here as many as possible of these drops are being captured in nets. monitoring the process is the job off, sour only back of it 8 us. even when there is no fork, the environmental technician has work to do with the lawyer. little go. now i'm checking if the filters here are in tags. good. so let me tell you, and if there is rubbish out, shooter, what do you mean by rubbish and you like making it dirty from sand or lambs? sometimes there are tiny dead animals to 15 collect as when stole tier 2 years ago . it's a fairly simple system which requires a fog location and a bit of wind. when folk moisture raindrops accumulate on the mesh, the water drips down into the tank and then flows directly into storage units at

different locations downhill by a multitude of houses. a what ogle? i got the other gothic with the collectors that we have here. we could catch $300000.00 leaders of water per year and according to the manufacturer to date, we have captured 45000 meters. what they seen. we are of course attendant on the weather which are locally my. there are years when i can catch much more healed and others when it will be led north through. our goal is to reach $250000.00 leaders per year, a line to achieve that you're young. we can't rely solely on this traditional model a little. but we'll also use newer designs that may be able to harvest even more water at a more overboard in my, your deficient or leave accommodate us in the team of environmental experts. he works with need more water loading for 20000 mew trees. only a few minutes drive from the fall, collect as they are restoring an area that was ravaged by flames in 2019 them of them. it was the worst wildfire on the island of gran canada. in recent history,

the blaze devoured 10000 act as the scars it left while still visible to day or different restoration projects are in full swing across the area, including on this hill side with 35 picked us up, being revived to tackle desertification rising global temperatures make spain's cannery islands increasingly vulnerable to drought and fires. still fragile new tree seedlings abetted in a by degradable cocoon. it insures that the water that was harvested from the collect as won't evaporate too quickly and boosts the trees. survival, right? natalia marital avi lot leads the team here to her. this project is more than just a job. open carry warner. and when you sepia. yeah. i live close by 11 and then i will. i saw the face cloud of smoke from the wildfire pilot and kept my suit cases in the car waiting to be evacuated, said about what?

no middle in the end, it wasn't necessary for them nothing. what about but at least now i have the opportunity to restore the affected area where the island is part of me better, but this place in particular, i mean it similar ha, whatever the team have already planted half of the trees for the life near black project which has received millions of euros in financing from the local government and you the deposits of a fork water currently emptied manually. but research as are trialing, a storage system that releases the water autonomously into areas where it is needed . they have observed that the system has already improved soil moisture in areas where they planted new trees. it's giving the team here hope that their job will bear fruit some days soon. for a while your thermal hand, this is a small pocket of laurel trees and it's a living example of what we want to achieve in the patio area and feeling. it's all

thanks to falk created by the coastal climate and clouds ascending to the cooler mountain region. a similar project has also been set up in portugal and both locations experts are examining where the fuck catching could be an effective way to protect against drought and fires. in other eric climates across the mediterranean and beyond. similar systems in chile and morocco, supply water to small villages for pharma, ferman cardona, the fork hetcher's could be a game changer. his land is in walking distance of a collect us. he lost up to 10 hector as of pair apple and not trees in the 2019 fi of gram cannady. fast growing ferns have now taken over what was once an orchard, a sort of fire burned everything to the ground for them,

nothing was left yet and i'm only child to soil. this year though, he planted again, apple trees. and during the hot, dry months, his neighbors from life near blessed supplied water. in the past, harriman cardona was dependent on rainfalls, gallano every year, the summer's get longer and it rains like a minute. it rains less in winter to on it's more difficult to maintain everything . you're welcome. are diffuse because without water, if nothing work them. okay. so that's why the fog water is genius. it's lisa lucia lu neale avenue. cuz here we don't have any way of watering. illustrious jumper has no irrigation smell on, there are no, well, you know, the lady, there's no water. so i know there's only ranger there, shall fall couches look or thought. are there any in preparation for the hot summer's he wants to install his own for collectors to make the most of a resource that is right within reach. in the face of the deepening climate crisis,

it is not clear how reliable folk events will be. but once the new trees are bigger, they will at least stabilized the local climate and protect somewhat against heat and decertification. allah go blah. so she lock up though in the long run we will remove the collectors because the reforest at area will at some point take on the work of harvesting humidity. what i thought our currency in little public. that's how forest work, awful, chicago blood work. they capture the humidity and stork in the soil. laudable, she done it well enough for soul ali recovered it, us in the team. every tree matters grand canada is counting on its fork. collectors to help heal the wounds of the devastating wildfire and safeguard the island against a future disaster. drinking water is very unevenly distributed around the world with horton added regions in latin america,

asia and africa facing severe shortages when dams are billed. miskin was on the water crisis when near by regions and communities like we've seen in and around china and ethiopia. exporting drinking water can also have serious impacts. let's take a look at how mrs. playing out in la, so to water, richly soto is keeping thirsty south africa alive. but the tiny, landlocked country is paying a high price for it. we didn't anticipate that the dams here in the so to really the misery that is bringing that a wall will to the wall. i see nothing of the better life that they promised us that if it were up to me, i would decide against that building. madame that is needful water. i saw that she got grades high, that the souls of such water remains the little islands were to project. we have

been able to divert water add to a sub 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 domains is being built here to supply water to neighboring south africa. the entire village has been moved to another location where the construction work hit us hard. they had promised us jobs are not our children are supposed to be earning something from this, but instead they're out of work for about whose while other people in south africans get the jobs we go hungry. one and they also took our fields till another about got to do the corn fields and grazing land. now how's construction workers far from leading to greater prosperity,

the dom has brought misery for residence. driving 8000 people from the highlands. the water will flow to south africa's financial hub, johanna's back, 400 kilometers away for the 16000000 people in the city and surrounding province. the soto dams a vital and already provide 60 percent of that water, russian, and mismanagement me, urbanized ations taking place and future development and expansion of business needs more water. 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 face to scheme to provide future demands. it's one of the largest infrastructure projects in africa and it's 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 by the local project manager from the list. so to highlands authority tells us that in 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, is customer lead with the community. so as ways and means of ha, ha, mitigating against the laws of land that the laws over there, grazing earlier and 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 it's quite 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, the regime, and the military. it, there at the gym in the soto. those governments did not have mandate from the people they did that 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 the climate change mean more and more soil is being eroded by the rain and ends up in rivers sediment. in many places, only by rock remains totally to say, lay as a consultant for

a national project. the aims to protect the photos, rivers. workers hair rebuilding low balls 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 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, a ring of saving this or letting it, or now japanese researchers recently published the results of the large study on how much water humans need every day. according to

this research in bio individuality, please a big crew which means water intake needs to read it from boston to puzzle. based on their habits. i post has been monetized by the beverage industry, which is dominated by large corporations for decades. small local producers get avoiding even though they're often more sustainable when it comes to water use. let's take a look at an example of this in tummy 9. pull up the bottles, put them in place cabinet and chill in a nutshell, that's how golly so does mate. ah 65 year old sobre money. he has been making the sovereign in the city of her old and dom a lot over more than 50 years using salt water, fruit juice, and flowers. and i did that occasion was the least of my interest since i was 10 years old, iowa. so i got into the business of making cub when he to drinks early. it took 17

long years to learn the nuances of the business. had this experience, give me the confidence to stock up my own club when he did drink business. well, i began out of the beverage has been popular in india's and it's the 19th century and my monthly friendly from the get go to so dies all natural and the bottles of washed and re used super money, some phase. it's a lot of, but the effort base off in taste boom number put it, but the non product have a today shall flight because their chemical freely are signature pin. your soda are most unique flavor tastes like pure rose and it's very popular. any wrote, we offer a total of 4 flavors, ginger or inch cola in our signature penny, or soda, boredom. sobre money used to sell to local businesses, but he stopped with advancing age. now he has his own shop. every day he sells up to 200 gully sodas and as many as 600 on beacons in the distinctive dented bottles

. there are other gaudy sort of makers in her own who have their own online presence. use machine production and offer brought to paulette flavors. but super money is in the front of the competition. he's committed to doing things by hand. what is a small beverage factory, superman? he also supports the local businesses fence. all of his ingredients are locally sold. he doesn't use preservatives, unlike most of the international sovereign, produces that golly, sought as competing against money, small sort of manufacturers fear big names will squeeze them out of the market and distress. the regional water supply those concerns of fuel political activism, including protest in 2017 the origin of griggs was a ban on traditional bull damon, a decision that outraged many people here. but another issue emerged. goldsboro,

protection of local markets from international douglas produces delicate fella, but can on the order, not every one demonstrated against foreign carbonated drinks as well. during the jalap cartoon protests, i'll only get a gun with the allowed amount traitors. we supported that because we never stowed the foreign beverages, but we still see how a lot of people prefer it. go on them and no, no, really low. if our shop didn't offer foreign beverages people which is go to other shots and be creased to get them in out there today to do, i didn't learn typically by the in the back lead for madison. mr. of pessimism. the recipe that for vanden and his father believe will help them in the future. goalie sorta has always been about recycling and selling locally desired traits. today, after all, avoiding waste and reliance on diskin supply chains is becoming more important in the ear of climate change. and then i low on the local out, i'm a bit of fella engelman bundling model. i come again. yeah,

i want to make sure that out of our so the products are available in all the local shots and diligence either on the england either on the body, anita colonel, michael allowed them to get a canal putting off on the tomato, m e n a that but i am confident that my son bill when did equal with the family business and run it successfully headed. goalie sort us proved that sustainability doesn't necessarily to quite a revolution. sometimes you only need to uphold everyday traditions. it's up to the younger generation to recognize those traditions and maintain them. we exist because water does. i hope this has been your takeaway from today's episode. consulting water is imperative for the survival of our species and other living organisms on it. i leave you with that thought and see, we'll get next week. good bye. and thanks for watching.

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