to define safety and disturbing to focus on us in 60 minutes on d w the, every way you're going in the i, you will find a construction site like this and mountains, a center. hello and welcome. i'm sorry, got the body annual watching equal india. and today i have a question for you. how much sand doesn't magic while? well, the answer is one k g f up less than 30 at least an oven in depth. and we are seeing a construction booming, and dan would extracting sand from andrea was fossil,

then it can be replenished. but what does that mean for us? let's find out into these episodes 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 at defiance on 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 results on air. ready with anyone who looks at our vast desert some thinks there's more than enough to go around with the wrong. ready desert sand is unsuitable for construction. the surface of beach green is too fine

and smooth. meaning that the greens 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 that's up there. next sons, the castle is pretty less the less auto loss who live in big high rises like these all funds 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 in golfing, the beach and the waves come knocking at your door? while this is the reality and carolines are 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 and cannot go state is quiet and pristine and it's a bad drug. he built

a dream house. yeah. my dad and move on to the i got married 26 years ago, and we've been to this house after 40 or somebody might have been was 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. he has the seaview, the dog bed. what do you get to locations such as this might seem wants to get my daughter mad at in this house. i don't want this. i know this dream came crashing down last to unfold. uh g. life has become somewhat of a nightmare or the body be to become the latest sunshine in the bathroom between c. m. land the sea with duck by feel small. soon when started to avoid the beach, then if not comes out you've used or vice versa. so a lot of people don'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 with bags to projects from the sea were washed away all along. the banks like the skeletal remains of homes, that once of button the beach but the body is just one of several places along india as close to a cedar ocean is intensified. and it's happening fast here. in just 5 years, the sea has tipped away nearly 100 meters of land or the length of a foot 4 feet. to understand why this was happening, we must go back, put the u as in the boston pendulum. it does not do a place where it all started. mangled report with 2 rivers meet, the see. the $200.00 of us bring him signed and settlement. the c bushes and back, and everything clogs up at the mazda of the port. the area becomes dangerous for

around 2000 boats. the boss to every day most kept saying, well, the common phenomenon, the 34 boards on fuel values today because of less than that. so to welcome to this problem are 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 sign from the most of the port. the ensure the channel stays deep and almost free of sand. fisheries boomed with the geography of the coast. 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 battle are to the short. so this is going to literally just where the waves striking 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 he 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 accumulation of $39.00, lots of data, coat, cups, and arrows and words this. what else did i go trust? in the case of mangled report, the big one was like an outcrop. it stopped the flow of sand, and just a matter of your sand was accumulating above the brake was creating new white beaches. in the benefit of fishermen of the port and those living north of the break watch, i thought it was a vein for the south. houses is rose and farm lands were washed away, ascend and land began receding aso trying multiple solutions, but failed. in 2018. the government in boston, i'm vicious $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 artificial leave. so construct a deep in the sea to break up waves and reduce its force reaching the show. but dialogue is that solutions like these, whether the sea walls or reeves only created new problems elsewhere. one single construct i say, well in one place the italy have a problem going to be shifted to be just interior further. of course not that so. so the, the what the, what used to be a cheap thing. the problem is, so instead of solving the problem, so that is what is happening in the case of construction, will save us like break. what does the see 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, uninstall gigi's house. the effort to save the neighboring beach has gum at the cost of this. this. the original 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 as reduced the flow of send him into the sea, 24 percent of india as coastline on nearly 2300 kilometers is equal wouldn't. billions of dollars would be needed to protect the shows. more erosion means most c 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 feeling like the animal life kicking his nature. see, i knew that doing gulf of save on what thought of being lot of basic but a lot of lake and i know i know growing casually now. odd bailed up, but it's gotta fit. so they did it, do they have in a different than a they are perfect and extreme and the, the way nobody is there could 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 rule for the green law is turned off at, but the body, it's an anxious wait until the next months and they said it going to get was more houses when go more themes will be it or did every one 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 are on site it of the invisible both north india as neither active as

valid. i'm to han was murdered in broad daylight in the year 2013 a hearty fine day. his son will never forget semester. so that's around between 11151130. and 3 people drove their bikes down this lane. they have a from a village. they stopped a bike here. my father, both resting in his room. the short him down. got back on the bike and fled the bison. mugging. 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 for school because it is ramping up. so it's a larger scale gate name,

but it's not to say you're gonna be up to basic level. the top authorities are involved in management, the orders that they operate when, when you get a they say i, when you decide to go to getting a job, a money was a big nic organization has only increased demand for they put it in signed used in all kinds of construction projects, some $50000000.00 tons of signed is extracted from legs, save 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. the sand from the little bed is especially valuable in construction, says doctor, for you as could side assigned just add the human eye. biodiversity, bach. this send literacy. it is. uh me more english literacy. does that send that very light to very light the venue see signed of to

see if they have they have capacity to absorb mode here with it. so therefore the very mix with is still it has scholarship for putting so these are called the differences in size and shape event. um, but he was saying that more angler and therefore being perfect even when license is that all seem to mind 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 contractor was issued, a license to mine, signed not far from orchestral hans land. who would i be to human mining and sticky place at the bed? vision of the quote in the, in the moment, if you count on, you can see if you 7 to 8 x covered the machines that on it, look the trucks that you see on the bottom of the bank of the it has already enrolled it loss. it cannot, i had

a big so naturally bank. so could have been indented to the natural flow but it, but it has to change these areas when you because of mining. what was that? as i mean, yeah. yeah. but the way i do, but it is much more than just the body of water that flows through a plane. it creates flat planes, red lines, grasslands, and dry page and forests, which together created heavy. they both zones for humans and animals alike. the presence of sand in this type, adrian's own, is essential for life to flourish, to renew the cold sand from somebody. you'll believe it to be, but a bit. and therefore, the less chang's. and when the 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, the listing size,

many farmers like that i'm going to han, who practice subsistence farming or lined me or the i'm gonna have also being feeling the impact of signed 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 of us only a 5 years. um i have also going some a z or some sort of up to about most of the day because of this does don't room and my glove a table fruit on just have that the sooner lose them on 2nd. there are only 22 foods on the 2 on it, but they move 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 around the i'm gonna be seeing has already seen ground water levels dropped by it on 50 percent of incentives like no, i don't have explored in the last few decades and in the process, environmental concentrations have taken a backseat. we cannot make factors,

we need to come up with some solution, read, ecology, and economy, maddie and that you said that is possible. as i told you, that the brings a lot of sense. but we need to a study that $3.00 to $80.00. i need to allow virginia not to allowed. what are the season read when you can allow and what are the see then when you do not. and so that the collision is required and probably you may get the answer for the human being. and when you get the answer for the well, i'm just associating biodiversity. different course across india have fost orders over the years, tutoring in san minding activities. the government do have set tools for sustainable sign mining practices. however, on the ground enforcement of these woods remain wanting as india's appetite for sine girls 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 lightning all of this? and that's because the cities are expanding on people need houses to live in. houses, need sands to be bent. would it be fair to expect someone to live in a patch? just because we've used up all the sad and what's left is either very expensive or the means it's probably not. then what's the solution? the solution is recycling existing building materials. i'm finding out alternate materials like upside concept. let's find out more about this. over the past 70 years in the us financial capital, one buy has gone from just under a 1000000 people. over 20000000. the city is always building to accommodate its ever 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? do a trick or it's something site engineer, solution with up real hit. must deal with often a lot of design have well, a lot of course on this the main component and the concrete we build with a lot of content. it's made of an aggregate assessment and some don't cool typing it up. so i'm just the binding agent that came to this together. so i'm 11, am, 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 the say be as i despite being by the see, the city is buffering shuttle sand for housing. it's growing population. recent estimates big the demand for staying in urban india at 60000000 tons for your primarily in the construction industry. some of the best sand for using construction is found under rivers. but this mining does long term damaged 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 a d. b, i need your she says some risk materials can be upset. good for a cheap and sustainable replacement to send my ash logistically there as a best product in the kind of my boss or any type of bonding that is a foldable name for the find those which tends to fly up so that you me popular is selected over there and that's my us can be used for manufacturing of this slide shows this upside can flash good 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, gold is also used us. if you're in many industries in the region. government

regulations have been forced money. it was a flash and constructions as a bind practice common across the world. spots this has not made a seed has been in and densities hunger for naturals. and in large construction projects they spent as the primary concern, flash aggregates have not yet seen widespread adoption by those who work with the materials every day. whether or not to attend have what do not, what we call natural sound has qualities that are difficult to find in the alternatives language reading since it's my made, there are always shortcomings the strengths we get from natural sound isn't possible from them. i made some say a policy they go home, it hadn't met and he didn't go. but the answer to them by sand and fly ash, problems might be on the horizon, possibly across the world near the deal. but in the dr. bus khan is overseeing a possible solution to the tough challenges currently faced by the construction

industry. so when i was struggling in india, i came across a new state. the construction was hosted in lay. and when i've been in details in the subjects, i realize that there is really a problem on 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 we haven't problems and the concrete at the same time get a sharp edge. and that's how that directly from flash, the st. 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, diverse that but it's made almost entirely from flash. so have to do,

we can do that in mind. he's a man physically properties go to properties. and the most important thing to the inside of mindset compatibility of life force. and after that, if all of these properties on for the 5th requirements or for the extent 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 boards can be used as a complete replacement for natural sent in everything from likely concrete to mason remote. yeah, now scaling up the lab process into a full scale production light. 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 additives. so today the,

these 2 at the tuition very, 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 poll is expected to city high in the coming decades in india. and so is the demand for bigger and better housing in expanding cities. this upside code division send me will be to be to satisfy india's evergreen appetite for send in construction with probable assigned mafias behind the illegals on mining jackets. standing up to them could also mean that despite this a young man is doing this. and with the help of the community, he is also rebuilding the lung patients and creating modules green. as far as the i can see that trees are growing again here near the velocity will in

the north of coming not do is largely tanks to streak on until a few years ago this land, the baton after the sand mafia plunder that route. lastly, i thought in 1983 before the screen department started to campaign to see if god, the solution slot is present at the time domain 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 distortion, photos felt degrees and sun stealing activities. begin the as a young man cheek on the left, his warm region and spent 10 years working in the film business in gen night. when he did go on home, the entire area had changed. nearly all the bins, literally, tickets that were there when i wasn't at school, had disappeared down and i was deeply saddened to see this. i made up my mind to keep on and blunting things in my home town,

to improve it and help my society and neighbours anything. in places where the sand mafia has at least the land shriek on laundry 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 the problem i value presenting nature is investment in boston. get down to the next generation and found that there's my greatest the pennies within i've heard of that chica and has now planted more than 7000 threes, including many food bedding that i tease. is it both these young activists like c con partisan c o. 2 to 3 days and the color g and ecosystem that give it to the 80 as a long the file as you well, we have identified 70 different disparities all but with yet 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 anybody see new to all the same perfect do with the is gone. and the fall 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 improve this community and the lives of other people. the sri gone still has a way to go to reach his goal. seems to blondes a small part of in every village in the area to give something back to nature. 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. uh would you like me to what did you like the most about today's episode and what would you like to see more of you can email us or write to me directly on my twitter. up until then have a great week. see you soon. take care that was gosh,

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