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nations no longer need and lightest textile waste gets stranded. fashion, watch now on youtube, the when i go to bed, i sometimes still have the sound in my ears, the sound of the sea, the voices of the fishes, when the boat went down, on the other boats, making this o sound. we humans comp suffice without it, and yet we just keep them wasting at this point. knowing full well how disastrous was escapes, the t can be the arrow see used to be the world's full largest lake. then the rivers that fed it with tapped irrigate farmland and it shrank from optically promising smith now

the, the old man and the sea except the sea as old but furnished were in moines. that in the far west of whose becky stone in central asia, the kids were the last spokes and left the rest, send in dusk, continued to eat away at people's livelihoods and loans. 74 year old ali, shutting off is one of the last slipping boat captains here, cuz the old people have lots to see what happens when we used to walk along the streets and the lakes that existed. yeah, there was always a wonderful breeze coming from it. it's crazy when we were young in 5th or 6th

grade, we always looked at the monthly total. it was very close to that. no. but now what's left of the r o c, as the ones you to make is called, is far away. instead, endless does planes and send that didn't put x teacher delia quickly more. i told her and her family of moving here, the 43 year old, his face and the future, and in tourism, in the region. you to the not that are, they used to be a key here, a large harbor you life was extremely busy. children based here, i thought of some items there were for holiday counters, law recreation zones, sanatorium and yes, at some point we decided to build a year and a half year through while i get the 1000000 that museum was also built to attract visitors it on is the good times with films, photographs and tons of fish, as well as being a tourist hotspot, the town used to be known for its fishing. there was a fleet of boats and

a large kind of rate, which has long since close down. many residents have moved away. we're on the way to the areas full in the hospital. it's now a guest house. delia could lead motor tova bought the property with a loan and turned it into a simple accommodation. she then moved with the family to my neck, the regional capital of the around 14000 people still live here, but many have long and other health problems. they suspect due to send storms. and the environmental talks in that remain from the lake at least shutting off as also stage and part of his large family, 10 children, i'm 36 grandchildren. his house used to both of the late directly when i go to bed,

i sometimes still have the sound in my ears, the sound of the sea. the voices of the fishes, when the boat went down on the other boats, making this o sound or it still rings you, my head is all we've been driving along to form a lake bed. such is especially the water intensive cultivation of cotton. and so water began to be diverted from tributaries to the late and used to irrigate the cotton fields process to reset when the water receded already back in the seventy's and eighty's. these canyons formed here, as you can see, because if they are naturally beautiful, did a though there isn't a single tree or greenery a custom gets an almost other worldly few nation. but in reality, this was the start of a vicious circle. the salty sediment eventually ended up back in the ground water,

just like the chemicals from the cotton fields. the often powerful winds hit whip up the salt dust and toxic chemicals, and scott to the move for a large area. 68 year old top to homage sugar beads comes to check on his sex, so implants will cover. so let me explain. remember because the plant is not totally covered in dust. the company is because the dust is settling, but when it rains, the sucks. all plan will turn totally read, so you can feel the wind. now, if we stand here like this for 10 minutes, well we just as dusty pretend was over here, where the c bed used to be the around come deserts, now stretches as far as the i can see. sex of plants in particular are extremely important here because they help contain the salt stones

and then we find the see what remains of the around see the arduous journey for moines. that took almost 4 hours. only a few people find the way here to this wasteland most to make the long drive a manual workers will start from local companies who come here to carry out tests and then take a snapshot of this even in the stream. the high salt content, however, means there is hardly any life in what's left of the lake. delia quickly maria tova, who is a company, does this fall? is pleased to bump into old friends again. here goes for a spin several times a month. she makes the long journey, because it's here in the middle of the deserts that she built yet come me, i need to provide nothing really. there's me, she to say,

when i used to work as a teacher, i'd like to pass the on knowledge and drawing energy from is where your photo in that and now i talked about my own country. so yeah, my homeland dogs who also visitors here get to hear different stories about the canyons also and i draw inspiration and energy from that. yeah, it's a full j if i to you and that of you is remote region of who is beckett. stone still doesn't get many tourists. those who do come tend to be people who are looking for something unusual and special. and yet when she's there in person the own from the proposed everything meticulously of the role. she wants a visitors to feel at home. and that is on my notes on that for my parents were here in the area in 1975 and told me back then that there was a link that was beginning to dry out. and over the years it was on my mind. and i really wanted to see it. and then i realized that i found driving where that water

used to be my lead cree pieces. i was like really, really well. sure. we submitted a letter we humans have destroyed our great. see, we're over the 4th largest link in the world. is likely that should be a lesson to us all of these items as we need to save our water. we should plan trees. it is yes actually to is may come here, but the old man is being left without him to see the once a month or something but takes it guy to such a waste. so disability endo with taste. no. yeah. and these critics don't, tough to dave to deep says plastic flux to us this office of like victoria because

we guess fresh with a lake is quite of crush. don't they? oh and when they, they don't do the some plastics on this fishing. it's which are no longer being used by the fish. i mean how something relieves and that you can't insure for like victoria. so he and most of you, some money from what's to us for almost 3 years now. he's been diving for a look organization that seems to clean up the lake, the poor, low to bundle and fish needs or goes to minutes, which had been yes for the day of as in the a project is a day when i don't. and there was web me with a fishing net. yeah, that's there was thing i and i use my knife which i'm always on the crate. the cut over, they pretty much only clean up the water. they also retrieve waste from the show that's covered in this the condition. the main men to most of gets help from volume t as each month. they get tons of plastic. i'm going to land

face over to him, but started the initiative. he's been organizing originally cleanups here for, for yes, he's program, you can, the junior ranges seems to return the lake. it's not just state the plastic and other what's the lake? victoria mainly comes from the canals. hope you're getting discovery to accomplish this, which should have been much of it will come out. the team of the junior ranges lexia 3 times a week. so we try to build a stewardship of the community by, you mean what we're trying to do uh, through these community activities, clean up activities and whenever we're going to commit to re engage with the community, do so try to get them involved. and then uh, educate them about the negative impact it has to their communities and the neighborhood those leaving the canal starting to realize that it's healthier and be to for the environment. let's just to waste thing to the war to,

to solve do for these sites. which are meant for that for the free and meaningful of streaming and the for fishing and the for all of activities that you will take. but in order to get to move the plastic out of lake victoria would be huge. undertaking the lake is almost as big as your and your and fully as low as i guess the what the contaminants should've begun that didn't very thank steve the control so doesn't have his functioning with the management system. see, government is currently discussing is such a environment protection rule that's what penalize pollute as a hopeful you before the good enough. and in most cases, people think that it's still good for me to, for you. and then governments and be able to do the clean up the efforts in fine. but in this with you find that i'm going to be there under the, under the nice environmental act which will then cut, which will discourage people for mutare. the government supports the organization

for them to increase. the only original source of income comes from sending plastics to recycling companies where they are converted to break what's similar products, the money the on from that hoops cover the teams course. they propose to collaborate with to international a given a solutions. with the help you'll be able to buy to cover bikes and billboards. that's supposed to get these by jelly to arrive a few of the more then facilitates uh, they use the teams the who are 3, but no major money that we gain for really sway gently poured into one big sofa. and not enough people have to convince us to help protect lake victoria, greenwater, east creek eco, for the survival. those are leave on the lake. i sent in your comes from if i mean to of fishes and those 1st time how important this ease. i don't have a lot from daisy, but the way i knew i loved this,

you'll and just to up so that i've heard of other people's life. and his group wants to continue the project that will continue to catch him. young people in the process which will allow the diving team to keep growing. the every 2nd river in the world is regulated by a down. this is done to irrigate agriculture generate power. unsecure, the drinking water supplies the us, china and india based. some of the world's knowledge is stems just how sustainable all day. deep and western in the our lives. one of the largest and most controversial dams on a sub does settle, but a mega project that was so important to the government. integrated the world's tallest stature nearby to look over it for its own entity. while it was shrouded in

control of the sea for decades, dams likes of that sort over the 3 gorges, and it will produce hydro power that contribute far more renewable energy to the mix. then all of those sources combined and to do these mega struck just like getting more mega plans for the well largest hydro electric projects in congress that would be twice the size of the current global biggest 6, the largest such projects that india has ever commissioned a lot is happening with hydropower, but with the younger and 60 of the new of, of holding the limelight, these old and boring structures don't get much attention behind the scenes those hydro down. so that's a really interesting story about our quest to energy global power dynamics over the last century. now with the modern twist and the big iron the invitation, if you look at the last uh september, october are supposed to be the lowest hydropower,

up with months and 6 years of china base or has power dropped by 30 percent. so let's look at what's actually going down with hydro and whether it can continue to play a role in the energy future. somewhere between all the chapter about fossil fuels destroying the planet and renewables like sola and when saving us lives. a big a really big grays on this is altered by hydropower, which is great in every sense. it's kind of sustainable, kind of green. and even on the kind of renewables, let's quickly go over how it all works before we get into it. this is the image most linked to hydro and rightfully so, most hydropower comes from dams that are built across rivers. water is stored in the form and when we need energy related to on to to binds, which then run generates us. of course not all of them generate hydro and not all the hydro come sometimes. sometimes still binds, also stuck into the diversion. less disruption,

but less control. the fluid kind is bumped the storage where the station is split into one physically higher. water is pumped up when there's enough energy and allowed to run down to it to bind when energy is needed. this one is supposed to be, looks really relatively large box feet that can counter the intermittency of sola. i'm going, which is really positive for hydro power. we've actually been tinkering with the technology for over to midland. yes, we have a lot of experience and comfort with his grandfather of renewables. it's reliable, predictable, unavailable, on demand. it integrates well into grids and over the long term electricity from hydropower is really cheap. no one does. some countries relies really heavily on it, but that's one major problem. the free flowing rivers around the world, dams due to them. a freshwater equal systems have declined faster than all others,

including forest affected by deforestation. and dom construction is the number one reason for this dies of course with the poster child of this tragedy. and many projects have come up with ways to get fish boss done some work and some of done by just dixon is but it's not only about 2. so it's also about other organisms that in the river tuesday. and it's also looked at the many ways hydropower disrupts and dial lots of systems layers within the rest of the reservoir. and so in some of the lowest later is the coldest one. and so if you and let's say at the hydropower them from time to time to bulk them up and the big gates for the water to produce a electricity. and then it usually has a very strong and cold pink of water. so that's also

a 2nd thing on the types of organism in but done this thing is bad in other ways to steal and cement, to use them in a plan. so some of the most common intensive materials on of and as well, remember when i said hydro is any kind of green and sustainable? one big reason that's true is because greenhouse gas emissions from aggressive was in the tropics, have proved to be the dictators as much trees degrade much fossil. the normal they release meet the and end up making. hydro projects was for the climate, then comparable coal plots. this national graphic shows the more immediate impacts, the 3 gorges dam flooded, 13 cities a 140 downs, and over 1300 villages. approve of it even changes the local weather being so huge . it's even cause of the quakes and the region. the other, the down and talkie has created

a huge block to the euphrates that has ended up causing severe water shortages down river in iraq. then in the a molly, as with 550 projects underway, dams has made the impact of land slides was over the years. hydra dams have also displeased at least 18000000 people from the homes. you might be thinking a lot of this is pulling news and you're right. it is in the case of the sort of a local people are protesting the environmental effects and social costs already back in the 1980s. eventually the world bank, one of the largest funders pulled out under pressure, and many other banks followed sort. but now many of back we're seeing development banks and government embracing large hydro. jocelyn mcdaniel is the deputy director of the international accountability project that looks into corruption and injustices links to internationally funded infrastructure. we started to get

feedback and concerns about specific projects, and many of them were hydro power. and this does not surprise me at all a, with the climate crisis. there's a push for renewable energy. that's like the big push for hydro today is coming from the time of movement seems compared to fossil fuels. hydro doesn't look so bad . i cooked 26 and 2021. many countries pushed for hydropower as a key. so also clean energy and that makes it only 2023. the international renewable energy agency declared that we need hydropower capacity to do that by 2050. the limits will be wanting to 1.5 degree, but the thing is not much has changed in terms of social environmental impacts since hydro is days with a bad reputation. either old problem the and that exist, that underscore any of these development projects. and it's, you know, it's because they're very deep seated. a symmetry is and power between communities

and project components, right? the government for development banks, the company is investors and that hasn't changed. that hasn't changed at all. the estimate trees locked here when you look at where most mega projects, i've turned africa, south america, eastern europe, and selves and southeast asia. and most of these are funded by us, european and chinese bax, bax. i, b and other organizations have found that these projects leave a lot of schools for corruption. often ballooning countries, banks, intermediaries and even local governments take most of the profit, especially to infrastructure contracts, and by providing technical expertise. most of the button is blown by the local environment and communities who can lose their livelihood and homes and not often even left without electricity themselves. this brings us to the iron in the 2. hydro has had its blue murphy's. i'm today this day that's meant to mitigate the

time of crisis is becoming a big victim of the crisis itself. as rivers i the flood don't dry up. the productivity of all kinds of hydropower, big and small is dramatic. the dropping in we build all these latch, i don't know what damage that car into the 1052 percent of the remaining, the free flowing river, the big loss in the tropics. they wouldn't be fragmented. so we need hydro, but do we still need them there? is a potential for a 9 percent increase in global hydropower top city without building any new facilities. kayla get a month for the hydro research lab in texas when they looked into 3 ways in which this could be done. the 1st category was dams that i use for anything, audits and hydropower, which i've already had an impact on the environment. maybe put in generators

turbine and i guess the transmission line or the scale of an entirely new hydropower development to retrofitting and existing not on power dam presenter ration there is a lot of on top potential there. the 2nd category was plants that need upgrading, including generally 2 units of software operates and then up to a category we know from the ceiling and our data day. there is a bunch of them that are the smaller scale. so that may be, you know, a farmer, he's not a small damn built in his property. the crate of the funds are small, late for his farming operations. there's this many additional opportunities for high your power development at very small gales, which in developing countries maybe a much more hello global,

equitable and quick integration for hydropower projects. sometimes might still need to be built, but these can be used for more than just hydro. in general, and this is kind of a key when you have to think in a whole system. and this is also true for thinking in terms of renewables. it's important to think about how to combine their renewables so nice. so that's what, what time like winds and so on. ready this is already happening in some places one portugal giants ok but as for floating solar panels, feed soul plus energy directly into the dams hydropower system. projects like these have a lot of potential to use existing hydro as diet batteries to store renewable energy . energy from hydro needs to be a part of the future, but not of the cost of so much else. when this is considered, we can move towards

a truly green future, the the,

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