is progresses in our hands and that means so is rigorous. it's up to us how significant of the beginning of the done and see the series of the great philosophers to our present and future. our series project in the item in some starts october 5th on d w. the water is essential to life. i wouldn't need to save god it's. it's also at the center of the climate crisis in the form of floods, droughts, and why fi is what it can also help us cope with climate change, if would say to youth wisely. i have chris ellen's e nigeria, and i am sandra. co home is the to be nobody right to in uganda. welcome to equal

off because the nice of nations, once flemish police to make his foot 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 droughts heat somebody else and look into the seats, get the precious drinking supplies. what to in wrenches our lives in so many ways in kenya about a fudge 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 that a popular spot for water recreation. it's also helping to generate electricity, this wilderness comp for a terrorist. for example, of had its own hydropower turbine 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 the is less us then things like i said, use the back. and 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 mountainous

mironda, counties get to there's plenty of water available to generate power with. the beauty with more on light is one of the reasons that is the last few of no frequent flaws. what the flows because of the river 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 community. hydro projects, 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, anybody, if you didn't do there was no and the connection over the file and did that. it was no sort of, uh, and also then 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. unlike 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 mcgee ro, and his team is supplying our 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. although they haven't been what's a del, mainly improve, easy to read you. it will event of the education because they could be up to now to lot of this today, good. we 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 to 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, eggs would be in or it could be under my head when the electricity went off, the chicks would die and we made a last look the quote 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 rise hydropower to avoid the recognize digits. central kenya is famous for its t, but processing that leaves its energy intensive. so reliable source of power is key . if we don't have the power,

it will almost about affect the quality of that too, but not with the state board power. we are able to pro deals in a very, it's done that the way the quality of the about is acceptable and globally, and also helps in improving also, the price of that translates to additional income ultimate leads to the, from the long periods of drought do need to less power when water levels and know it's headlines, harvey, very tight and sometimes get clunk, debris, to, to come to this problem. the wilderness come decided to add solar panels to its power mix. 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 the electricity flowing when water levels. i know this is not

like that the buy was the nice dodging of the when the need to the talk about 5, you told me that because of the adds up to the grid is the by that i have to now 99, processed in the village on the i connected, the increases joe mcgee really made his this simple turbine as 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 water nearby bottom in a roughly expanding cities, it can be a problem only about 15 percent of households in either of course, commercial capital hooked up to drainage on sundays. they should 50. that's right, sandra, and that's bad news. when having a room full comes, brings flooding, water,

bone, diseases, volunteers, and one parts of these young with determine to make up the friends. you can see how to do this in this week's doing your big a b. i le cro settlement and i've been john is a low lying district. sewage from high areas plugs 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 they're 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 built. the popular method 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 our lives and 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 la 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 end. how about you?

if you're also doing your bit, tell us about it, visit our website the past day, 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 by researches in switzerland or bridget trying to erupt good crops 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 good 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 the 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 more charity that for experimental reasons, like we having direct gated laws in newton. how scholastic, currently, fortunately, you observe is that's a fruit here, is not only small, it's not the best quality cutting t, the produce 0 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 to hopefully 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, a 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 and the branches go, it 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 volume, moved aside from so improves. there is another way to measure entries need for water. den durometer is a 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 overnight. 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 and irrigation system is faster and more precise and also more reliable to 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, i'll 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 put him on the phone, i would see them in lincoln and for a blanket and i got an extra moisture from their lo me, that i'm afraid he got them. they sucked it up to like a smart girl. su this moment, doing usual 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 when i my yeah, don't the near lack of the when push as far as the, into these financing the back door and like a tiny water drop the damage to the monroe into a bigger drugs in there. 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, the, the heat allow us, you know, the that is collected 90000 leaders of water over 2 years. water is scarce on grand canal aria, the reservoirs are running dry. the air, the conditions 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 locus a cause he said that's what he meant, that it's a vicious circle up,

a little guess here. the lack of water means there's less healthy for it along the way, the and everything this rice on 50 because here, cuz this is her in 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 for due to a lot of laurel forced to grow here. again, that will work like natural font capture was left on cnn latrice. take the water from the clouds and pass. it came to the ground, what a scene for internet. so that means 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 about 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 30 rain, so you're inside the scene 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, it was expensive then it was there within as an example. could yvon cabrera this our nation technician is visiting? so when do you know it targeted and what could be that level of what i felt like we have to filter out the solve nestled dissolved in the sea water of our little while come. i think it's a complex chemical process that uses a lot of energy. yeah. is in development that and why they got lying tennessee, the other one was he has an associate good large scale fields of funk catchers in the mountains. be a solution the

cell or leave a 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 amount of in the goal, 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, we could water our tree seedlings with it and everything was done. and a farmer could use the water was on the plantation when that was done to the, the i was a for 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. the that's a really interesting way to secure water supplies bottle. the climate 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 maintenance of people. now this report from somebody a how small securing a day supply of drinking water is high book into small your a, c, t on 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 do because of the opposite. and his neighbors come here most every day. they have no other choice but they're not allowed to. so it's exhausting to draw water from the deep wells and it's salty to die though. i cannot afford to buy clean water and i was going to read it back. in reason tia's, somalia has experience have

a role filtering the seasons. the loankey smile is playing out for residents. it's a disaster. busy to grazing gland lift and on the most dine of cost. the ground is still perched. it's hardly what from over 2000000. so many guns. i've already feeling the effects of climate change. a bundle, sand from somebody else, maybe stroke energy and water resources is worried about the future that other can slides. 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. all right, and i have the some of the wells have dried out in the rivers, have to live. and what is it? what were 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 has arrived in the form of a what has to be so you nation planned. it was built by so many business people wanted to improve the quality in the woods. so they found that the on from highlight level populate the one key. we establish the off the water supply company into smile in 2014 did us into a factor we saw there was no clean and drinkable water here to go onto the big or cancel the be mckayla when we dug deep. well, so i literally 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 that the government does not collect enough money through taxation towards investment on the final or a square box. i'm working with all some of the around next month. so there's no

public investment to be in building a dissemination plan. requires millions of dollars or something, or on, on a little done 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 plants used to be powered by a diesel engine every time it is expensive to operate and environmental the home for it. but to know the company is using green energy, big solar collectors and the other plants replace much of the need for fossil fuels somehow. so look, i'm look, i'm kind of nice and fun ahead of time. and we were using 15 barrels of diesel per day, which caused the loss of air pollution highly. well, how was he the engine light after we installed the solar system? we cut the diesel consumption by 80 percent. don't have this. i'm not a model. can we use diesel motors at night a month? and so when we have enough water at night we run the motors and gave me all our

water production has increased the limits 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 toilet energy has reduced the cost of clean thinking, what's up even poor russell. molly's cannot afford it. people look here to bite asset sales, 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 kill meters, 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 bring people will tell me right here, close to me. hun it's. and this is a total of a sudden it just costs when i got down the window is that live in june. and that's mid her life. much easier. because despite the assistant proud, she still has access to plenty of thinking what to do. if somebody is dog gets, was even sold, she will, will tell, will be in short supply. so the head of the water company is to build a plant that will be sending it so to talk 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 watts and one to 2 minutes. we hope it fully do us. good bye for me, sandra holmes, that we know you right here in complex uganda to and for me, chris alone. so late goes, if you find all stories rewarding, please make sure to check out the old environment content online. goodbye until

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