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well, the answer is one k g pop us and body at least enough in india. and we are single construction booming and dan would extracting sign from andrea was false, so then it can be replenished. but what does that mean for us? let's find out in today's episode of the, even the smallest among those know that you can do wonderful things with sun. but here's what the kids might not know. the sun begins in the mountains, changes in temperature from frosty to warm, eventually caused rocks to break off the cliff face. the rock has been swept away by mountain rivers. the water infection with other stones on its way to the sea, turns it over several 1000 years and to find the sun. sand is important for the building. industry can find it in every house. every office block on every street after air and water, sand is the most needed not to resort on airs. ready with anyone who looks at our

vast desert some thinks there's more than enough to go around with the wrong. ready doesn't sound as unsuitable for construction. the surface, the beach green is too fine and smooth. meaning that the green's don't bind instead, sand is becoming an increasingly scapes commodity. son to mafia have long minded, legally, even from beaches. but the kids aren't aware of this yet. the only worry is that their next son's the castle is pretty less the less auto loss who live in big high rises like these often dream of living in a lovely house on the beach as close to the sea as possible. but what happens when one day the sea is engulfing the beach and the waves come knocking at your door? while this is the reality and caroline, because not you got another question is, how do we save our beaches and the ending cost line? i'm can they be saved now?

but the body beach in canada. augusta date is quiet and pristine and it's a bad drug. he built a dream house. yeah. my dad didn't move on to the i got married 26 years ago, and we built this house after 40 or somebody might have been worked as a handful earning just these 500 a d to build this house. but as he has died now, we used to be so happy in this house. and i can see at the see view the dog bed. what do you get to locations such as this might seem wants to get my doctor matter than this house. i don't want this. i know this dream came crashing down last to unfold. i. g, b life has become somewhat of a nightmare. but the body be to become the latest sunshine in the bathroom between sea. i'm land, the sea whipped off by fear small. soon when started to enjoy the beach,

then if no. com dodge you've used, or vice versa. so a lot of that we wouldn't get the because of that sound loss. still the village administration evicted us from here. i had said i would not be because they would, i go in 2020 to see those and claim the public road chunks of the road that had been reinforced bags to projects from the sea were washed away all along. the banks, like the skeletal remains of homes that once of back to the beach. but the body is just one of several places along india as close to se erosion is intensified. and it's happening fast here. in just 5 years, the sea has stripped away nearly 100 meters of land or the length of a football season. to understand why this was happening, we must go back to the u as in the boston. thank you, i'm. it does not to a place where it all started. mangled report went to rivers meet the see the to

reverse bringing signed and settlement the c bushes and back, and everything clogged up by the miles of the boat. the area becomes dangerous for around 2000 boats. the boss to every day may have the most capsulated thing while the common phenomenon, the 34 boards on fuels. if i use today because of less than that. so to overcome this problem of the very core dice, i'm very thin, 9. the 9 these these break water is what a break to for the fishing community here. yeah, essentially just fires of rocks and bags that act like gates that block signed from the most of the port the ensure the channel stays deep and almost free of sand. fisheries boomed for the geography of the course. changed that sort of thing. i mean, i mean they've made leaves of it to lead to long short cuts and the long short

colors mean. so the water last mole batler can be short. so this is going to literally just where the waves tracking the show creates a current that moves along it in this region. the current and with its sign from the beach is moved from not just out so that what it will have an awful cut outs on the shore line, which act as badly as for the moment i'll say to me before it is the combination of $39.00, lots of data, coat, cups and dental and doors. this all with the code costs in the case of lung little port. the big one was like an outcrop. it stopped the flow of sand in just a matter of jo sign was accumulating above the break was creating new wide beaches in the benefit of fishermen of the port and those living north of the break watch i bought it was a bean for the south house is roads and farm lands washed away, ascend and land began receding aso trying multiple solutions,

but failed in 2018. the government in boston, i'm dishes $100000000.00 project to project the beach is south of the break. what the cost was strengthened would see was this project of the show to some extent, all deficiencies for constructing deep in the sea to break up waves and reduce its force reaching the show. but dialogue is that solutions like these, whether it's sea walls or reeves only created new problems elsewhere. one single construct i say, well in one place, the problem going to be shifted to be i just sent a further course, not that so. so the, the, what they do is to be actually, i think the problem is, so instead of finding the problem, so that is what is happening in the case of construction will save us like 3 quarters the c was and really, it's gonna end up redirecting the waves to us areas, but i'm not protected. and this is what is happening, knowing about the body and john g. these house,

the effort to save the neighboring beat has comma the cost of this. this, the origin problem is not good to go away so many more new boats are being planned in india. this means more break watches and see was even without bullets but other activities do that will increase in motion. more damage being constructed, undergoes that reduce the flow of sediment to the sea. 24 percent of india as coastline on nearly 2300 kilometers is equal wouldn't. billions of dollars would be needed to protect these shows. more erosion means most fee was in multi wells means the cycle continues. india can't keep affording, to shift the problem. what do you say is, what the technology, what the, you know, the, the, not the end of life kicking this nature. see, i know that don't go above save on what fod agreeing. lot of basic, but a lot of lake and i, you know, growing casually now on the bus. gotta fit. so they, they, they do,

they have in a different than a deal to certain extent. and they may, nobody is there can be, but they base their settlement and the very top out of them is that goes up to a certain extent. so we use a roof of a green law instead of the one i bought the body, it's an anxious wait until the next month, so it's a pretty get was more houses when go. more themes will be to date. everyone is scared of residing here. despite a lot of attempts, big and small, the search for an equitable solution must continue on, insatiable need for sand is forcing us to dig deep into the reverse. yamuna is a major source of watch out for the city of delhi, and the river is slowly dying because of sun lightning. and it's not just the river

that design an entire equal system around it is also being killed. and the people who live alone cited of the invisible both north india as noise that active is solid onto han was murdered in broad daylight in the year 2013 a hearty fine day. his son will never forget. some of them so that the round between 11151133 people drove their bikes down this lane. they were from a village by this, the bike here. my father, both resting in his room. the short him down. got back on the bike and fled the bikes. mother bollet, i'm to han had been fighting the sand, mining mafia annoyed guy who has been operating unchecked for years. something that hasn't changed much to this. the practice that i've heard the livelihoods and the delicate ecology internet on the i'm one of our guys to han has continued his father's fight. in spite of the up in nature of the, by the local authorities or joy gone. just define or

describe the connection between local authorities and mining contractors, afterschool because it is ramping. so it's a larger scale gate name. but instead of say, you're gonna be up to the basic level, the top a told her deeds audit involved doing manage with the orders that they operate when, when the guy they say i, when you decide to go to get a job on monday, what's the big mix organization has only increased demand for they put it in signed used in all kinds of construction projects. some 50000000 tons of signed is extracted from leaks. they have a beds, cost lines, and dental as every year. this massive removal of sand cannot be replenished easily and takes thousands of years to recover. as sam, somebody will bed is especially valuable in construction, says dr. for you as could side assign. just add the when i biodiversity box. this

send me to see it is uh me more english literacy does that send that very light to really light the venue see signed of to see if they have they have capacity to absorb motor here with that. so therefore, be very mixed with a student. it test courtesy for putting so these are called the differences in size and shape of it. um, but he was saying that more angler and therefore being verified even when license is out of the theme to mine signed the law does not allow mining with hey we machines like excavators, nor does it allow for building impedances in that it was flowed in 2020 a contract and was issued a license to mine, signed not far from orchestra, hans land. who would i be to? you'll be minding the sticky place at the back of the quote in the, in the,

at the moment. if you count on, you can see if the 728 x covered the machines that daunted work, the drugs that you see on the bottom of the bag of the that has already eroded last . it cannot, i had a big so naturally bang. so it could have been indented to the natural flow, but it, but it has to change these areas. and when you, because of mining, what was that? as a media, you go down the way i do, but it is much more than just a body of water that flows through a plane. it creates flat planes, red lines, grasslands, and dry bathing forests, which together created habitable zones for humans and animals alike. the presence of sand in this very payden's own is essential for life to flourish, to renew the cold sand from some bad. you'll believe it to be, but a bit and therefore directions. and when we've got to things, it becomes kind of pull over the period of time and send please very important role

because it is not only purifying water, but it is home for many invertebrates, many, many invertebrates and these inventories, of course, you and 40, but they are missing, and this thing for those thing size, many farmers like that, i'm going to draw hon, who practice subsistence farming on land near the i'm gonna have also being feeling the impact of sand mining in spite of being so close to the river. the sword has become incapable of supporting crops like potatoes, gloves, and mangles, which used to grow easily some years earlier. i've years um, i have also going some a z or some sort of up to about most of the day. because of this does the cheese don't room and my glove a table fruit on just have that be seen or lose them on 2nd, there are only $22.00 foods on the 2 out in the name of the dire situation. drove them be too big, matters to quote you and as mining continues not far from his farm in the last 4 decades. this area on the i'm and i be seen has already seen ground water levels

drop by it on 50 percent ovens. and just like, no, i don't have exploded in the last few decades. and in the process, environmental considerations have taken a backseat. we can all make factors. we need to come up with some solution, read, ecology and economy. matty. and that is that, that is possible. as i told you, that the brings a lot of sense, but we need to study that which area i need to allow you to do and not without. what are the season read when you can allow and what are the see then when you do not go out and, and so that's the goal isn't, is required. and probably you may get the answer for human being. and when you get the answer for eva, and just associated by the divers, different course across india have passed orders over the years, tutoring in san minding activities. the government who has set tools for sustainable signed mining practices. however,

on the ground enforcement of these woods remain wanting as india of appetite for signed rules for those like our guys who live in the shadow of unchecked sun mining the air force to stem its damage. continue. but why all the mining all of this, and that's because the cities are expanding on people need houses to live in houses, need sands to be built. would it be fair to expect someone to live in a patch to just because we've used up all the sad and what's left is either very expensive or you need it? probably not. then what's the solution? the solution is recycling existing building materials and finding out alternate materials. like upside consent. let's find out more about this. over the past 70 years. india's financial capital one buy has gone from just under a 1000000 people. over 20000000. the city is always building to accommodate. it's

a little growing population, but hemmed in by the seat on 3 sides. the city has only one, be left a girl, and that's up. so why do some construction sites sometimes find themselves shut down or slow? it looked at the it's something site engineer, solution with up real hit, must deal with often to come out of the sand. have well, a lot of course on this the main component and the concrete we build with a model concept. it's made of an aggregate cement and some i don't cool typing it up. so i'm just the binding agent that keeps this together. so i'm 11. am how i'm out of the model. sounds we need isn't available in the region. so it's important from other states like good jerome, you say the at the despite being by the see, the city is buffering showed of sand for housing. it's growing population. recent estimates big the demand for sand in urban india at $60000000.00 tons per year. primarily in the construction industry some of the best sand

for using construction is found under rivers. but this mining does long term damage to legal systems and local livelihoods. often the indian governments attempt at controlling san mining have only set the business underground and mining has continued unbridled environmental engineering and research of the new jersey says, some of these materials can be upset, good for a cheap and sustainable replacement to stand by ash. logistically, there are the best products in the kind of my calls or any type of bonding, whatever that is a foldable name for the find those which tends to fly up so that you, me top level is collected over there. and that's my us can be used for manufacturing of this flash. this upside can fly ash could solve the problems for the city at the same time. one by produces millions of tons of flash. since tell it about plants account for over 90 percent of mobilized by one needs,

the goal is also used us fuel. in many industries in the region. government regulations have enforced more. it was a fly action constructions as a bind practice common across the world spots. this has not made a seed has been in and densities hunger for natural sand in large construction projects. wristbands is the primary concern, slash aggregates have not yet seen widespread adoption by those who work with them a deal every day within that total and have for doing that's what we call not true, sound has qualities but to difficult to find in the alternatives language reading since it's my made the wrong way shortcomings, the strengths we get from natural sound isn't possible from them. i made some opponent, do they go home and handmade and hearing that? but the answer to them by send and fly as problems might be on the horizon.

possibly across the world near the city of been in the doctor, bus con is all the seeing a possible solution to the tough challenges currently faced by the construction industry. so when i was struggling in india, i came across the news that the construction was halted. and by and when i'm in in details in the subject, i realize that that is really a problem not send. and at that time i had also experience working with the flyers, and that was the idea came up. okay. we have a sense of flyers, which are you having problems in the concrete, at the same time, via the chart page. and that's how the executive from flash defense he came to germany from india to pursue cutting edge research in green technologies. and founded a start up with support from europe and union innovation program. after years of

research, his dean made a break to and created the material they call life force. it lends as much strength to concrete as natural and they're both set. but it's made almost entirely from flash. so have to do, we can do that in mind. he's a man, physically properties, gimme killer properties, and the most important thing to the inside of mindset compatibility of light force and stuff to that. if all of these properties on for to fit the requirements of the extend that then we can see that our life force is visible for the production of different building materials. as we do here, there process tons this into this this light bars can be used as a complete replacement for natural sent in everything from likely concrete to mason remote. the anal scaling of the lab process into a full scale production like the light bars eventually becomes slabs of sustainable

concrete such as these. and they're constantly improving the efficiency of the process we want to use and you know, less and less amount of chemical entities. so today the, these 2 at the tuition where we can make 95 percent 97 percent off life force can be made from the base of sense. so that means all most negligible, like using natural resources, use of cold is expected to see high in the coming decades in india. and so is the demand for bigger and better housing in expanding cities. this upside goes de, she'll send me, will be to be to satisfy india's evergreen appetite for sand. in construction with bob, a full signed mafia is behind the illegal sign mining jacket. standing up to them could also mean that despite this, all young man is doing this on with the help of the community. he is also

rebuilding plantations and creating modules green as far as the i can see that trees are growing again here near the lottery. well, in the north of them and i do is largely tanks to speak on and in a few years ago, this line, the battery and after the sign mafia blended route. lastly, i thought in 1983 before the screen department started to campaign to see if god the source installed is present at the time the main object absorbed to stop defense dealing activities. next it belongs to an increase the size of the small, dense, wooded areas and green spaces. people had gradually taken over the stores, she photos felt decrees and sun stealing activities, begin the as a young man, she comp left his own region and spent 10 years working in the film business in gen night. when he did go on home, the entire area had changed

a nearly all the deadlines, literally tickets that were there when i wasn't at school, had disappeared down and i was deeply saddened. deceit is i made up my mind to keep blunting things in my hometown to improve it and help my society and neighbors. anything in places where the sand mafia had valleys, the land shriek on klondike trees under the stringent controls of the authorities. and initially mistrustful eyes of his neighbors, you're gonna go on the, i have all of this place, the higher value on purpose. i mean, then on money gold, what are the riches and brought by value preserving nature is investment in boston . get down to the next generation and feeling that is my greatest well, the peninsula center kind of that chica and has now planted more than 7000 trees, including many food bedding. but i tease as it goes to young activists like c con partisan c o. 2 destination of the color g and ecosystem that get it in the 80 s a long that allows you, well, we have identified 70 different disparities all but with the the people who live

along very well benefit to mine. and when i have a lot of land here 5 years ago, the area wasn't able to see it. new to all the same perfect do with the is and the find out a little slow need to do anything by doing the, by planting lot of threes and projecting b solution for the stadium. seek on testing if it can be improve this community and the lives of other people. the sri gone still has a way to go to reach his goal. seems to blonde a small artist in every village in the area to give something back to me to we need more such people who are committed to the idea of preserving our environment. and we also need more ideas to build sustainability because we cannot disclose, stop building more houses, roads and bridges. but we also need our equal systems, in fact, at all costs. but you let me know what did you like most about today's episode,

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