the means me and now the water is essential to life. i would need to save god it's. it's also of the center of the climate crisis in the form of floods, droughts, and wi fi as well. it can also help us cope with climate change. if would search it wisely? i've crystal lens, e nigeria,

and i am sandra co homes that we know of the right to end. you're going to welcome to equal off because the knights of nations, once flemish police and mixes with water out of the heart of the plans. we've put water at the heart of the show about sustainable what's in management. let's take a look. the below and she is in ivory coast, getting the homes dotsie to protect the neighborhood from flooding. y once furnished, islands, east hunting, to folk, just sole. it's what the problem and how draw cheap. so my hands and look into the seats, get the precious drinking supplies. what to in wrenches our lives in so many ways. in kenya, both sides of households don't have any electricity which holds both businesses and flemings in the daily task. bonds in some areas, the res of parcels, the east,

closer, most sustainable and more affordable than you might expect. this is the gardner river in central kenya is the main shrewd retreat of the country's long history, the populace, folks, the water recreation, it's also helping to generate electricity. this world in this comp for terrorist, for example, it's own hydropower turbines. for more than 10 years, rid of water is type 30 to power the water wheel when the time i've seen it, does it have a 50 now? yes. when the high water, i'm 20 slow. what size? the yes, it's source through that is less us then. then what i said is that when the, what the label is a high, you're able to use it and freeze as freeze incense show as, and the lighting energy studies thing to the generating electricity locally using hydro power with cars. huge potential,

especially in remote areas that are difficult to electrify, like the mountain is mironda county. here too, there's plenty of older available to generate power with. the beauty with more on light is one of the most of the reasons that is the last year of no frequent flaws . what the flows because of the filled up was dropped because the condition, the experience has a lot of rain c amount can. yeah. so these, these a lot of favorable conditions that really supports the community in those areas to be able to identify it, to, to be investing such many types of products. a key figure in bringing hydro power to the region is joe mcgee, right. he started out building small turbines to provide power to his community event. and up with a belgian businessman to find a company in scaling the technology. so mcgee was, it's a dream country. he grew up with idols, electricity, in why fee to do there was no and the connection over the file and did that there

was no sor, uh, and also the nothing a bit. so they may try to do what was the thing that i was do my sunday, i could not mainly get access to the file. i was easy that time using that, but i think i'm like hydro electric dams. these clones don't decline, knowledge mess applies, or the re sacrament of entire villages. part of the river is simply re directed down this loose way. it speeds fast enough to rotate turbines. before being channeled back to the river. the electricity is fed into a network of lines across the region with this relatively simple system, like a rolling, his team is supplying power to 9500 households and 35 schools and businesses. we are also improve them in because a here over the funding, because right now they can use the same activities to pump the what the to the, to the whole or the other thing, what's a del, mainly improve elizabeth region. it prevents of the education because they could be up to now to lot of this today. good. they need to be able to do it on our end

because they have the power just of a 75 percent of people in kenya currently have access to electricity. but even those connected to the national grid can't always be show that power will be available when they need it. as pharmacy, you know, all too well. oh no. yeah. we were connected to the national grid power, but it would often fail when they would cut out to the side and i put on the hatch . x would be in or it could be under my head when the electricity went off because the chicks would die. and we made a loss for the day. i know that's why we decided to get connected to mcgill's grid . is it? it doesn't have cuts deal my, you know, hi, forte. this t factory has also signed up for joe mcgee rose hydropower. to avoid the wrecking that al digits, central tenure is famous for its t. but processing that leaves is energy intensive. so

a reliable source of power is key. if we don't have the power to almost abrupt and affect the quality of the t, but not with the state more power, we are able to produce enough. but it's done that way. the quality of the back is acceptable. the globally and also helps in the improving also the price of the and translates to additional income ultimate leads to the from the long periods of drought do lead to less power when water levels and know it's headlines. how do you rotate and sometimes get clunk, debris to, to come to this problem, the wilderness come decided to add solar panels to its polemics. the hydrox team, i will say, pursuing the same principle, but on a much larger scale, the hydro electric power plant is covet, insightful tank panels,

which helped to keep you and that just the slowing when water levels. i know this is not like that's i was up, i was a nice dodging of the member. i need to the talk about 5, if you don't me that because of the, the grid is the by that i have to know 99 processed and visited during the i connected. the jo mcgee roommate is this simple turbine is a child using hawks from his brother's bicycle since then he's never lost his loss of hydro power. now is one time hobby is benefiting the entire region. it's great to have an abundance supply of what's in here by bonds in a roughly expanding cities. it can be a problem. only about 15 percent of households in ivory coast commercial capital hooked up to drainage on. sonya tay should 50. that's right, sandra,

and that's bad news. when haven't room full comes and brings flooding water bone diseases, volunteers in one parts of abuse, young grid determined to make a difference. you can see how the did this in this weeks doing you all think the a b. i le cro settlement and i've been john is a now low lying district. sewage from high areas fluids into the neighborhood. a big problem, especially during the rainy season. i la cro doesn't have a functioning drainage and sanitation system, but it does have its own sanitation brigade, which has built a run off canal. because when we had the idea of building the canals, we have the water come in this way and go out that way. the sanitation brigade really gets no sleep when it rains because you put it in there always ready. cuz when something's blocking, you have to unblock it quickly to avoid any real damage that they go. the

volunteers don't just have to work when it rains. the drainage canal has to be cleared regularly since it was built that has been fall few floods here. but the last section of the canal still needs to be billed. the popular people had to put their hands in their pockets so that we could build this. now the idea is to extend it to really avoid flooding from all isn't on the sale. the volunteers have off $700.00 local households to contribute a monthly fee. they even remove the trash in the area. dedication that people hear . welcome. okay, so they keep the neighborhood clean. all. that's why we support them. sandra is that the sanitation brigade and le crew didn't want to wait until the all star seeds took action to help the neighborhood. they sold the problem themselves and that has improved the lives of those around

the land. how about you? if you're also doing your bit, tell us about it, visit our website. hash tag doing your bit. we share your story. of course, what a shortage is becoming more and more frequent in many places in the world including europe. it could become such a precious result. the researches in switzerland or bridget trying to erupt good crowds without wasting a single drop. filippo ne is research or at the switch center of excellence for agricultural research or agro scope. he has been ideas about how to preserve water is your 1st on the important goal is finding the right amount of

water adapt so we can use as little of it as possible for irrigation plus to achieving the best possible while it was able to pull out the mayo objective cutting that monique is working on a drip irrigation system. for orchards. each tree needs a little more than 12 leaders per day, and using the right amount in the right places helps conserve water. your thoughts reminds me of an australian publication which demonstrated that drip irrigation can reduce water us by 50 percent to discuss cycle and for someone do. other studies may be less optimistic, but all of them come to the same conclusion. drip irrigation is an efficient method of distributing water to fruit trees, especially when used in combination with ground sensors to separate sensors at different depths and the ground measure its moisture. when the song gets to dry,

the sensors send out a signal indicating that the tree needs water. the signal triggers the watering system up to 3 times a day. monet has conducted trials on 30 different fields, and he's developed a fully automatic irrigation system. it prevents waste and guarantees high yields. just call the we are in a part of the orchard a that for experimental reasons like we having direct gated. oh, is it due to how scholastic, currently, fortunately, observe, is that the fruit here is not only small, it's not the best quality guntee a producer in terms of 1st choice that would cost to grow or tens of thousands of francs per hector in the income moskowitz at that deal, doors were new port of the product of the drought is noticeable between the trees the dry summer has caused major problems with these trees have died. if they hadn't

been irrigated i'll provide the cold. yeah. the, to show you how long a treatment survive without the water. in fact, the tree has some mechanisms that allow it to survive without water. excuse me, but i'm a dispute of assorted without water. they stop growing and can't drive quasi the prison difficulty. the growth of the shoots in the branches will be completely stopping as well. the growth of the fruit, a copay tool, a that costs of the if we so it's the yields the quality of the production that is affected by the lack of water. he fixed the bottle of bottle, moved to aside from so improves. there is another way to measure entries need for water. den draw matters or research project by monet's colleagues measures the diameter of the tree trunk. during the course of a day, the trunk expands or contracts. when the sun shines, the tree loses water and becomes dinner. when watered in the evening,

it expands again over night. if a tree doesn't get enough water and cap regenerate and experience is what's known as water stress that has a negative effect on yields. the researchers irrigation system is faster and more precise and also more reliable. so when the irrigation is well adjusted, it ensures that human errors won't occur. it's soften valves that people forget to close, that lead to water waste and we bundled these, oh, that's cool. no, be, as water becomes a scarce commodity around the world. water saving technologies like these are more vital than ever from canada to hawaii to greece, the destructive power of wealth fires has been frightfully evidence this year. the island of brun canaria was also the victim of quotes in places a few years ago. it is hoping to avoid and of repeats by using

a very special message of water harvest. the early morning clouds are gathering in the mountains of ram, canarios and strange structures will capture their water. the sol or leave is an environmental technician with a life me a blessed project. he's showing a trainee the principal, based on nature his model. the way i just come when i full house examines linking it, but i have blanket and i got an extra moisture from the air, lo me that i'm afraid he got them. they sucked it up to like a smuggling su, this for the unusual structures. take advantage of a common phenomenon on the north side of spain's canary islands. cloud to move in from the atlantic and stall on the mountain sides. the salo,

levi and his colleagues have set up 5 collectors cloud catchers. on monday, they soak up valuable water in the same way that light can do the name of my yeah. don't the near lack of the when push as far as the, into these financing, the, the, the by the back door and like a tiny water drop the damage to the grow into a bigger draw obviously, and that, but i had it, i don't know what that is which then fall into the collect the flow into the tank. so let's do the some of the roller they heat allow us, you know, the basic it is collected, 90000 liters of water over 2 years. water is scarce on grand canal area. the reservoirs are running dry, the air conditioners are making wild fires more frequent. in 2019, the island was hit by a devastating fire. $10000.00 hector is a forest burned down. 9000 people had to be evacuated. that we'll see the low. okay

. i see it because he said it is what he meant, that it's a vicious circle up a little bit here. the lack of water means there's less healthy for it goes on to the way the and everything this dry sun 50 because here, cuz it says her and mainly the, our fuel 50 for the fire. the funny little bucket full was full. so they reforest planting trees. species that should make the forest more resilient, and they also use water from the cloud catchers like the good and the floral forest to grow here again that will work like a natural fog catcher was left on cnn latrice. take the water from the clouds and pass it came to the ground. will it seem for internet so that it could be the future of the island? and i see for now though, the present is dominated by agriculture. economically, the canaries depend on banana crops, but each tree needs 20 leaders of water a day of the of the

one i'm on. so. so what's the plantation in the north of van, canaria he's worried about water because of rain is becoming ever more scarce. like you have to take rain so you're inside of us every 78 years without much in between. and i want this reserves from a big rainfall only last for one or 2 years. so for the rest of the time, we have to find another way to get the the, the sea water is one option, the treating is expensive. then what do we think? as an example of kiddos yvonne cabrera this our nation technician is visiting. and i think when i talked to them, what could be that like what i felt like we have to filter out the solve, that's what dissolved in the see water of our little while come. i think it's a complex chemical process that uses a lot of energy. yeah. isn't that i meant that and why they got lying? didn't see that either. let me see, i guess, and associates good large scale fields of thought catchers in the mountains

be a solution. the sounds a leave of trust and the research on this project is working on new ways of capturing moisture from the clouds. the expect this metal grid to be much more efficient than the plastic mesh they've been using. what uh the model in the how does that go so not too badly using a sustainable and natural resources like fog could be a good solution to figure out if it is. yeah, but uh and the weight, good water, gar, tree ceilings with it and everything was done and a farmer could use the water was on the plantation when they go down to the, the, the so that to work so proud to have to continue to gather here on the mountain sides, if weather patterns change, cloud captures might also fall victim to climate change. that's a really interesting way to secure water supplies. both the plan with crisis means

that it can only be part of the solution if it could use water from the ocean for the daily news. it would also really change for millions of people. now this report from somebody a how small securing a day supply of drinking water is high book into small u. a. c t t own somalia is cost the wells are up to 200 meters deep and holding up the water, connie's does is tween yes. since rain for discuss fresh water east to sol towards the, from the nearby ocean in food fits and contaminants. the woods stu, i've been cut off from it and his neighbors come here most every day. they have no other choice but it's still not so little. so it's exhausting to draw water from the deep wells and we just kind of salt the 2 guys out of the issue. but i cannot afford to buy clean water. like i said,

the reason she has some money has experience have a role field during the seasons. the loan, the loankey smiled, is trying out for residence. it's a disaster. busy to grazing land left and on the most dying of cost. the ground is still patched. it's hardly what from over 2000000. so many guns i've already feeling the effects of climate change leave and we'll send from somebody else, maybe strip energy and water resources is worried about the future that other can supply. you know what the drop is adversely affected people and their live stock in kids mile and the surrounding areas about also so i mean there is a severe water shortage into the mile away and i know how the some of the wells have dried up and the rivers have to and what is it, what we're not expecting rains in the coming months, ios,

but the drought will end when a law sends us rain much, even without any rain, health hazard right? in the form of a want to be so the nation planned. it was built by so many business people wanted to improve the quality in the woods. so they found that they own from highlight level one key. we establish the off the water supply company interest miles in 2014 . i think it was after we saw there was no clean and drinkable water here to go onto the big or cancel the be mckayla when we dug deep wells by law the what we noticed that the water was salty. so we bought machine was to decide when they know the water, maybe i combine this or the not really, this would be the government's responsibility. but so maria has been politically timeline for the kids the policy. i'm sure the government does not collect enough money through taxation or is investment on the bottom of it. all

some of them were on next month, so there's no public investment to be in building a the sell a nation plant requires millions of dollars or something on, on a log on at the last climate change conference. so money asked industrialized nations for funds to cover such costs as it produces just a fraction of the waltz couple of emissions baby. so the nation lunch used to be powered by a diesel engine every time it is expensive to operate and environmental the home for much. now the company is using green energy, big solar collectors, and the other plan to play as much of the need for fossil fuels. system we also look, i'm look, i'm kind of nice and so on the head and when i saw a man and we were using 15 barrels of diesel per day, which caused the loss of air pollution. finally, how was he thinking that after we installed the solar system, we cut the diesel consumption by 80 percent. don't have this. i'm

a model cuz we use diesel motors at night a month. and so when we have enough water at night, we run the motors and they, me or our water production has increased and we've lowered its costs. it's like 60 percent. so sort of keep behind it. well, walk on a baby. so the nation plant has been a blessing for people here supplying fresh water to around 5000 households. and because solar energy has reduced the cost of clean thinking, what's up? even poor russel, molly's cannot afford it. people look here to bite us, it sail the total fraction of the former price. now for the him of how much come see a regular to she sees by good motel for her. so, and he'll send me the, the late i used to work to kilometers to get to, to get on with this. and then it was not good to drink because the water was

so sort of team that all went x. i'm all for, you know, off you brings clean and thinkable hotels right here close to me hun, it's so nice. it's a total of a sentence just cause then i got dynamo is applied in july and that's mid her life . much easier because despite the assistant route, she still has access to plenty of thinking. what's up though if somebody is delta gets was even sold, she will vote, will be in short supply. so they kind of the water company is to build a plan that will be sending it so to tax straight from the ocean instead of the so to vote from the clean water from clean energy, a win win solution. that was a look at sustainable. what's in one to 2 minutes? we hope it fully do us. good bye for me, sandra holmes, that we know do right yet in complex uganda. and for me, chris alone, the lake us. if you find all stories rewarding,

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