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what can we do today to mitigate the domino effect of such a pro labs in central and south asia, water supply systems. that's what we talk about today. hello, welcome to eco india. i'm some of that. let's start in bangalore. in india, south, over the last decade, the city has worked aggressively to build systems to treat all the fluids in generate falling. a government directive, larger apartment complexes now have to set up food treatment plans to treat and reuse their waste water. the visitor to such plans to find out if this approach is easing bengals water wars the ah, a jeep bonnie good overseas. the sewage treatment plant at his apartment complex. the software engineer lives in banga, lew india, the fastest growing city that struggling to meet its water needs,

its the country's 1st to port residence in charge of the waste water. a novel approach that explored seeking water pollution mc fresh water traditionally. so achievement happens in centralized treatment plans, but what daniel has done because the city has sort of leapfrogged in its development. the utilities haven't been able to keep pace with his ever growing demand for sewage treatment in 2016. they introduce a mandate requiring people to treat their own sewage in decentralized. so she plans located and apartments apartments in complexes like the one a g binding calls whom it installed a conventional sewage treatment plant to comply with the rules. it's one of more than 2 and a half 1000 small scale sanitation systems. now operating in bengal, lou, collectively this d centralized network treats about 20 percent of the cities c ridge households use this recycle water to flush toilets and water gardens. in 2013, we had a lake,

we were, our water source was more will and don't run to whenever depleted, totally. and we started buying water for months or not, no longer necessity times to the complex on sites which treat planned. but many bengal lou residence complain about the high acquisition and running costs. we are selling order on the $60000.00 vis, letterman for average, for and also end of the year. every year we need to order only the be open to working in 3 different shapes and forms in monitoring is that every day 2 times he used to want to and i want it to be water quality and melissa level, in addition to the operating costs and the labor required to run them. such plans also take up lots of space. who are maintenance can lead to unpleasant orders? an disturbing noise. a local start up sought to address these issues with

a small scale treatment plant that is cheaper any easier to operate. when a start to finish and how do you feed this is lisa, look at nature. how did need to far from richmond and it's in the most because what happens when i miss smith or adding back to the office, one of a is not sustainable. so how did need to solve for the phone and of the big bacteria is the one from one organic. some it's less not a big on the water. send them back to the phone super time. you've got them exactly where you're going to mix and, and also the phone calls them up is a very good and i think back to your mission, so to speak. it can, but i don't want to be mimicking a cows digestive system. this plan to eat seavent with bacteria in underground chambers. gravity moves the sea ridge from chamber to chamber. the farther it goes, the more the solid will settle down and the water gets cleared out until it is finally safe to use for non portable purposes. ah,

with the plan stuart of the underground residential buildings have more room for community spaces like playgrounds, at $22.00 lac cookies or $27000.00 euros. these plans are somewhat more expensive to install it. but in the long run the company sees they're far more efficient center. martin that raj and lived in an enclave. that recently switched to this model. he's happy with the result. the quality of the people, right. if you see that and it looks constantly or so during the final, how would you get to clear water? and we lay this water for regarding the grown water the same but 6 years after the city mandated guy, which, which treatment recycle water still only accounts for 10 percent of bangles. daily water consumption, more than half of the water treated on private premises, remains unused. and is funneled into leaks in and around. banga. lulu. this water is written new trains that are good for gardening,

but harmful to lake ecosystems. here they contribute to toxic form floating on the water surface. we find ourselves at a very interesting point in the sewage treatment starting because if the government actually find alternate uses for this water, it will not only incentivize residents to maintain their systems better and have better quality fluids. but it can also help with the water scarce the problem, the city as a whole, because it's a bring down the water that's needed for things like construction industrial greening box. and as well as even thinking about aquifer the charge if it's done well. so the possibly these are endless, but it just, you need a quiet planning that's a whole full outlook for other cities across india. that fees are fast approaching what prices where innovations in least water management, could make a clear difference on the east from being the noodle. the self

contained community of auto will in summer, is aiming to set the standards for the net energy positive habitat. it's causing project. human scapes isn't think we need to. the community, for example, collect rain water in a unique manner. let's see how have you ever stopped? and notice how was it is a develop a buildings and there are roads. this is contractor local, and he is famous for building green building, our liberal quality greenhouse of buildings are present with plants increase. but we don't feel that we're since we've been doing only data. sustainability is very simple, just think twice the kindly part, every hour we really need this. it can be even for a pain which you buy or the square foot of building. you build me as an architect. she and her being worked on that was me, an architect and urban planet. to build an album, habit asian project in order will put cheating. they called it humans, gifts and with humans, gifts they had one goal. if we can build differently with different kinds of

technology and planning, and actually of young people live in it, you actually influence a generation that is more human scapes, us about how to make changes for building more sustainable india. so you want to build a sustainable building. what do you do? the 1st thing is never most of the land natural landscape. when a drop of water falls here, where does it go and where does it end up? you know, this is over a long geological period that water has carved the landscape. and when you disturb it, what happens is what happens in general, every munson water goes and stand in some people's houses and other people don't even drinking water. so the best way to avoid this kind of open flooding, oven drugs is to manage a water. most of the water that falls on our head is what we should work with.

so either when they're putting not rainwater hot, this is early in water harvesting tank. we have channels in water from the roof in different areas below. dan connected to chains stains. we can see that gene systemic all tradition houses. the rainwater goes on to these chains and it flows with outs, village. if he allow the water to hit the ground with the same force, it leads to high soil erosion. so we reduce the speed by laying pebbles on the ground and the speed on the quarter. mm hm. in the main or at the bottom border in the main area, brakes have been placed in between the c meant blocks for the rainwater to penetrate and flow. in the center, we have a board available, even if there is accessory in foil, the water will drain slowly. this is how we harvest green water here, so you put it on the rainwater owner. harvest wonder. now that you understand how to build according to the topography you need to focus on the climate zone you're

going to build in humans. kids for example, is built in a hot humans on where the main problem is heat and humidity. when these 2 come together, a person living here tends to switch a lot more than those. another agent, this directly increases wants dependency on fans and air conditioners. and indirectly, the dependent on electricity to that eustace, the architects focused on crossway installation in each house. so on the, please let me check for the direction of the breeze. it's in the north south direction. that's by all the openings in the buildings faced the static shade of on the face money, the other car. next problem is heat heat. so we look at all the sun moves, what time of the day the sun hits, which part of the building, and what do you put inside the building in those places where the sun is hitting it? when the bill in this building, the walls are 24 centimeters, take them and are built with natural red soil. yeah. the clear type wall doesn't allow the heat to penetrate through it. by the time it penetrates 4 to 5

centimeters to the wall, the sun has set, and so the house doesn't warm up at all here, right? so it's between the sun and the wind and the angle of the building. you're actually woke up how to put various functions inside the building, and then you have comfort. it's as simple as that. if you were to apply just these 2 concepts to developing of in cities, you're barely scratching the surface of sustainability while constructing buildings and cities. we need to remember that the building industry is one of the major contributors of energy in this world. in 2020 the sector accounting for 36 percent of global final energy consumption and 37 percent of all energy related carbon dioxide emissions. a huge contributor to the change is the building materials. usually we want to have building materials which have a little carbon footprint. so we look at what is it that we want to avoid, or at least reduce. for instance,

of the ceiling. they use the woodstock instead of depending on the reinforced concrete on the cancer phases and the surface is formed as breaks at age to between 2 beams. in normal fire breaks that is no steel, cement, or plaster needed or plastering needed apart from reducing steel interment. very cycle 3 important ways medieval in the building industry. steadwood of other ways ended up in lun since 1st construction, which was crushed and used in the other world. then to cut don't heat, they use discarded. 3rd quality weights that make does for the rules and baselines . don't pieces for the ones, not only do these 2 materials helping the governing the building, but they're also cost efficient material. but the, belinda, the important thing is that there is no material cost in the construction as we use beast and scrap material every 2 weeks. we collected traps in small quantities from local shops in the week. we did this process as these materials are not found that easily. there's only 4 ones that you can influence with design, so forced occupancy. how do you actually influence a sustainable lifestyle?

so that's what we'll aim that they said we aim at a huge housing program that single couples and even small families to live together in a way that the share and what the share, the share space. i think it was very comfortable for me here. i moved here in february and i haven't felt lonely since then because that enough people to talk to here on days, i haven't prepared dinner. they make dinner for me too, but i enjoyed that sharing a lot on the shouting. you've been a good mobile the call me go and chris people to share in the useless office a utility block with an area set aside for vacation and common washing machines is included normally turning on instead of buying a washing machine and spending more on electricity. water, we have common months here. i don't come when i go to bed and along with the new interface, but most of us he won't waste water. jamie, what is the cycle and reuse for the garden? i didn't plan to can, did you?

you can't keep talking about electricity consumption when you thinking of a sustainable building for the indian subcontinent, particularly terminal. one of the most reliable sources of renewable energy. domestic scale is rooftop solar panels, combined with an efficient building design. so how can you say it's making a significant difference in electricity consumption among the residents? what is actually the average energy consumed person for emergency housing, which is middle income group housing that's looking at addressing, not addressing a low income group, housing it. we will try for $45.00 kilowatts with about 30 percent less and more the standards and we are changing it. can someone replicate from another place? sure, it can be done, but it can be copied as design works out only in this context. we have read out appear to be of use, the order technology. what materials are available locally?

how does it reflect in that climate? we have got to consider all this and so that's me. and for being that this model of humans, gifts with a focus on co sharing could be adopted by college campuses in the future. and that's just the beginning. sustainable buildings could help develop cities that aren't just as indian to climate change, but also contribute less to it. this isn't the only solution, but it's definitely much needed start. ah, the fruits, vegetables and greens, we require a lot of water to be grown well in 2021, 22. india was the 2nd largest consumer of rice in the world, just behind china. it takes nearly 5000 liters of water to produce one k g o 3 and a special technique helps minimize this. let's see how anyone who has driven through the state of one job is familiar with this field of body. the rice crop.

historically rice has been grown here just like this. the method is called paddling where crops are submerged in water for weeks. this is one of the most water intensive ways to cultivate body and the results are in punjab is now facing and increasingly severe water crisis. farmers and having to figure out ways around it. like go pretty thing who was experimenting with a technique that is making inroads in north india? bonnie vacuum gayona's already every year the water level of falling by 5 to 10 feet or up to 3 meters in orlando give or only be adopted the died at sewing of rice. dick need good because it requires less water level of thought. again, you started to understand how the direct sewing technique works. no, we're going to look at the old method 1st. traditionally, saplings of rice are grown in

a nursery for weeks and transplanted into the field which are flooded. but rice is not actually an aquatic crop. it just has a great ability to tolerate being submerged. the what is mean role is to repel pests and works as a natural we decide. in an on 5 month, the crops can be harvested and done into rice in the form. we know. but this method uses up to 5000 liters of water per kilogram of rice and has been jobs. water tables shrinks, it is predicted that rice may not groovy on a few decades. direct sewing or the dsr technique is the alternative where seeds are so indirectly by hand or machines. more seeds may be needed for the same area, but yields remain largely on par with the traditional method. machine to save labor unrelated cost, an advantage in punjab, whether it is a labor shortage or nidia democracy with deicide. i have saved almost 20 percent of

my water bill and you can see her here. this has not affected the quality of my paddy at all. i do not get i got the punjab state government is now offering farmers compensation for bees 1500 around 18 euros a season to switch to the new method to conserve water landscape. mrs. fears is did not at all for the restroom. dr. gur, they've seen kush as an independent agronomist from the region who says that dsr is of the way forward. this is very on board to inter. i totally know another country is you, nor did they also do the dsr. oh, was, did your job or it won't unite to spears. so you say, in order not any big convention, it's debra miner's houston or the loses. so it shouldn't be used in north to near. but they have to adapt it or that does to the local with my local

conditions. he means that i do mean obstacles him farmer than punjab. generally don't own land large enough to justify the cost of machines on their own and paying for labor to plant rice by hand, especially during the labor shortage is costly. the 2nd reason is that it did a lot of read wrong. if there is no water weeds compete with plants and best attack freshly, so and seeds. this incidentally is why more seeds are needed for the same yield. controlling weeds and pests also requires more labor and we decides and pesticides . these can be expensive and also bad for the soil in the long run. it's a tough choice between saving water and protecting soil. but there are other reasons. testing has shown that d s. our crops need to be irrigated exactly 3 weeks after sewing to create the best results employee. the main issue is that i need to

pump the water at a particular time. and what do i do? electricity supply feels like it often does. i crops dry and die. ship shamble belongs to the majority of small farmers who have not switched over yet. tv, okay, you convince me to adopt dsl. i agree that it will save water badly about anybody, but my father and grandfather had been practicing badly every day. how can i let go of our traditional practice? the state needs to find a way to conserve water, but equally the concerns of farmers need to be addressed from the affordability of machines to the right li decides, and electricity issues before there can be a large scale adoption, the emphasis on dice in the direction you do is growing rather prince road in the board. so my personal lindy's direct in so so most every farmer prince switch not here. so the 1st steps have already been taken and

supporting farmers and making the switch will take the state and of goals of water conservation. a long way who done is touted for its gross national happiness and its positive carbon balance sheet. but this hasn't shielded it from the drastic effects of climate change. the country is struggling with a water crisis. it's residents also leap between having too much water or too little water. how are they tackling this? let's find out for the people happy tom glaciers, mountains are sacred. like these 7000 meter peaks at the border to the back. then the glaciers days appeared to be numbered. the ice is melting. g to climate change, as shown on this animation by the w w. f and the you. the glacial lakes have become a major flood threat. nearly 20 mountain lakes are currently at rest. in the south of the town, the monsoon season is normally in july, but in recent years,

the heavy rains have come to sit on tight earlier in the month of may. the seed sown by local farmers were washed from the fields and the rain water vanishes almost as suddenly as it appeared. springs of running dry and mountain streams have slowed to a trickle. according to the un, or than 60 percent of returns, population has no access to clean drinking water. we had out to see the source of the villages water supply some 16 kilometers away. village liter, none that al carol wants to show an environmental expert, the situation. they're facing here with less frequent disputes with the neighboring villages. the rules for access to spring water, a strict nam gay who works, but returns tarianna foundation hopes to improve water management. her, the project received support from the international climate initiative is what this

water belongs to. another group of we've already spoken many years ago that we can share the water for cultivation everything. but she wrung to you. also. they also have $400.00 households and a population of $4.00 to $5000.00 go onto the like. so they're dipping into this water. yeah. yeah. have you been in this, at least they share the drinking water with us, but it's not a solution with the drinking, but the young students who attend setting tase central school are also affected by the water shortage. the 860 students have just one source of water for bathing and laundry. you don't have enough water to wash your body and that they have for water to wash their cold. and because of that only give to all sorts of skin diseases and 31 big challenge. the narrow valley in the south would return near the border to india has

a sub tropical climate. at the valley's edge lies the village of dutch and pal ray . the water supply is a problem here to the monsoon has become irregular, and when it does rain, the torrential downpours often wreak havoc render impulse for all the further coming down and all like alone floated williams fernando and destroying dog waterhope. 3 fibro. do you want to do that or properly more than the read laundry him? i'm here. the village belt a water tank to irrigate that feels the water comes from the mountains 3 plastic pipes that are often damaged and landslides. and then as the elephant it was didn't what own way they come into the village almost every night your small groups of young elephants are usually they tear off clusters of bananas or bamboo plants. 5 minutes later they leave what we try to scare them off with noise enter flashlights, utopia gillum. you will get an electric fence as being dealt to keep the elephants

out. that way the hurts will stay in their natural habitat where they have an important role to play with the elephant is an architect of to, for us. he decides what the forest is going to look like. and if there is a tick pushes, he just going to trample it and he opens up for the regeneration of the town forests are important to the countries water supply. they also play a vital role in maintaining bio diversity and protecting the climate. tiny baton is doing its best to adapt to climate change. the residents of the mountainous kingdom have little of the choice. some scientists predict that the walls of the future will be fought over water. many in our generation already living with the inaccessibility to portable water. the smallest individual action could help to fix

that beaky. tap done off the running water while brushing your teeth have shorter showers. i leave you with that and see you again next week. good bye. and thanks for watching a ah, ah, with

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