the world in progress pop calls to everyone who wants to know more about this topic . the 2nd son about this story is beyond the headline world in progress. the w talk caught the why do 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 out, on the other boats, making this o sound. we humans comp suffice without. and yet we just keep home wasting at this point, knowing full well how does all stress we'll discuss the t can be the arrow, see used to be the world's full philologist lake. then the rivers that fed it with tapped irrigate farmland and it shrank from magically. how of things now

the, the old man and the sea, except the sea, as old but furnished were in moines up in the far west of whose becky stone in central asia, the kids were the loss boats and left the rest sands in dust, continued to eat away at people's livelihoods and loans. 74 year old ali, shutting off is one of the last sleeping boat captains here because the older people have lots to see when we used to work on 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 the target. 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 in sound, but 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 at the not the reason they used to be a key here. a large harbor view of life was extremely busy children based here i thought was a latham. they were for holiday counters, law recreation zones, sanatorium and yes, you know, 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 kinds of fish, as well as being a tourist hot spot. the town used to be known for its fishing. there was

a fleet of boats and a large kind of rain which has long since closed 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 lea motor tova bought the property with the loan and turned it into a simple accommodation. she then moved with the family to monique, 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 in my hands. oh, we've been driving along to form a lake bed for hours of fruit. it's the only way to appreciate the full extent of the dried up salt water lake. it was once the size of the bay area delia quickly motor a total. but as a company does that each city and i comes here 3 or 4 times a month, sometimes with guess. but it's quite a distance and it's not that easy. you know, it's 3 or 4 hours for more not to hear this, but it's really worth it just of what a landscaping guy. well, you could make

a blockbuster here this morning about too much of the blood was the arrow. see which struggles is becky is down and catholic stone is only about 10 to bits for that size. a human induced environmental disaster which had its origins in the soviet union. the regime relied on one of the coaches, especially the water intensive cultivation of cotton. and so will, to began to be diverted from tributaries to the late and used to irrigate the cotton fields concert when the water receded already back in the seventy's and eighty's canyons formed. here, as you can see, such as this, they are naturally beautiful. though there isn't a single tree or greenery because it's an almost otherworldly beauties. but in reality this with a stall to the dishes 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 them over a large area. 68 low top to homage sugar beads comes to check on his sex or plants. oh goodness. let me explain. remember to the plant is now totally covered in dust. the company is because the dust settling. but when it rains, the sucks, all plan will turn totally green on. you can feel the wind. now, if we stand here like this for 10 minutes, we just as dusty pretends though, here where the c bed used to be the around come deserts, now stretches as far as the only can see sex. so plants in particular are extremely important here because they help contain the salt stones of the and then we find the see what remains of the around see

the arduous journey from boy next to almost 4 hours. only a few people find that way here to this wasteland most to make the long drive a manual workers will start from look who companies come here to carry out tests and then take a snapshot. as a souvenir, extremely high salt contents, however, means there's hardly any life in what's left of the lake delia quickly maria tova, who is a company, does this boss is pleased to bump into old friends again here. it goes for a spend 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 stares me. she didn't say when i used to work

as a teacher, i'd like to pass it on knowledge and drawing energy from is where your photo in that and now i talk about my own country. so yeah, my homeland of visitors here get to hear different stories about the canyons also and i drawing inspiration and energy from that. yeah, it's a full cha if i do you, and that of you, it's remote region of who is becca 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 entrepreneur for past everything meticulously of the role, she wants a visitors to feel at home. my name is on my notes on 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, wait really well, sure. we submitted like we humans have destroyed our great. see, we're over the 4th largest link in the world. is much it's that should be less than to us all you guys and with us we need to save our water. we should plant trees. is it? it is yes actually to is, may come here, but the old man is be left without him to see the once a month. how some people it takes a day to such a waste. so disability under which hayes know. yeah. and these critics don't tough to dave to deep plastic flux to us of the surface like victoria of because we get

fresh with a lake. is food of crush, don't they? oh and when they, they don't do the some plastics on this fishing. it's which i don't, no longer being used by the fish. i mean how something you are leaves and the you can then sure of like victoria. so he was most of you, somebody from what's to as for almost 3 years now, he's been driving for a logan a vision that seems to clean up the leak. they pull out a bundle and fish and eats or goes to minutes, which had been yours for the day as the project is a day when i enter the i don't and there was web me with a fishing net. yeah, that's the worst thing i heard. and i use my knife, which i'm always on the crate, the cut over, they say, you know, totally clean up the water. they also retrieve waste from the show that's covered in this, the condition. the 9 men to most of gets help from volume t as each month,

they get tons of plastic, and bring it to land. faisal mer to him, but started the initiative, has been organizing, originally, cleanups. here for, for yes, is program you can, the junior ranges seems to return the lake. it's not just state the plastic. in other words, the leg victoria, mainly comes from the canals, will be gun bestcopy 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 ability to achieve the community by you mean what you're trying to do uh, through these community activities, cleanup activities. and whenever you're going to commit to re engage with the community, do so try to get them involved and then uh it could them about the negative impact it has to the communities and the neighborhood. those leaving me as it kind of starting to realize that it's healthy and be to for the environment. let's just to waste into the water piece over there for the site. which are me for the,

for the free and convenient for free me on the for fishy or the for all i'd like to be to exactly what i was on how to get people to plastic out to of like, victoria would be huge. undertaking the lake, he's almost as be goes to your in your full day as low as a guest. what to contaminants sending, you're going to get a very fixed if the control so doesn't how this functioning wisdom management system see government is currently discussing is such a environment protection rule. that's what pinot lice pollute as a hopeful you couple 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 site and find buttons 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 will simulate products, the money the on from that helps cover the teams course into postal collaborates with $2.00 international economic decisions. with your health, you'll be able to buy to capital bytes and billboards. that's supposed to get these by jelly to write a few of the more then facilitates uh, they use the teams that who are free with no major money that we gain for release of age on the board into the one big sofa. and not enough people have to convince us to help protect lake victoria. clean water is critical for the survival. those are leave on the lake. i sent in your comes from me to fishes. and those 1st time, how important is these fees? i don't honey lo phone, daisy. but the way i knew i loved this,

you'll and just to up so that it got hurt. if i left it was the life gee and his group wants to continue the project. they will continue to do kitchen 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 dan. 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 of stems. but just how sustainable all day. deep and western in the allies, one of the largest and most controversial dams on a sub that settled, but a mega project that was so important to the government integrated the world's tallest stature nearby to look over it for

a ton of tea. while it was shrouded in control of the sea for decades, dams like said, that's that over the 3 gorges and it type will produce hydro power that contribute far more renewable energy to the mix. that all of those sources combined. and to do these make a strict just like getting more mega plans for the well largest hydro electric project in congo that would be twice the size of the current global, big a 6, the largest such project that india has ever commissioned a lot is happening with hydro power, but with the younger and 60 of the new above 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 for energy, global power dynamics over the last century. now with the modern twist and the big iron, the invitation to look at us september, october are supposed to be the lowest hydropower,

upward months in 6 years. china based on our drop 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 our energy future. somewhere between all the chapter about fossil fuels destroying the planet and renewables like sola and when saving us plays a big, a really big grey zone. this is altered by hydropower, which is great. and if resend 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 the dams that i built across the river. water is stored in it as a for and when we need energy related to on to, to by ends which the ends on generates us. of course, not all damage generate hydro and not all the hydro comes sometimes. sometimes still binds, also stuck into the diversion. less destruction,

but less control. the fluid kind is bumped the storage where the station is split into one physically higher. water is bumped up when there's enough energy and allowed to run down through it to bind when energy is needed. this one is supposed to be works really well. a lot that see that can come to the intermittency of sola . i'm wins, 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 this grandfather of renewables. it's reliable, predictable, unavailable, on demand. it integrates well into grids and over the long term electricity from hydro power is really cheap. no wonder 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 fresh water equal systems have declined faster than all others,

including forest affected by deforestation. and 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 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 effecting

on the types of organisms in the, in but done, the thing is bad in other ways to steal and cement, to use them in plan. so some of the most common intensive materials on of and as most 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 a sub 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, up river. it even changes the local weather being so huge. it's even cause of the quakes and the region. the other, the down until key has created

a huge block to the euphrates that has ended up causing civil water shortages down river in iraq. then in the emani, as with 550 projects underway, dams has made the impact of land slides was over the years. hydro 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 to protest in 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 swords. but now many of back we're seeing development banks and governments. i'm embracing large hydro. jocelyn mcdaniel is the deputy director of the international accountability project that looks into them. corruption and injustices links to internationally funded infrastructure. we started to get the 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 since compared to fossil fuels. hydro doesn't look so bad . i cooked 26 and 2021. many countries push for hydropower with key, salsa 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 global warming to 1.5 degrees bots. 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 asymmetries 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 the loan in 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, the entertain. hydro has had its boom of these entity, this dick that's meant to mitigate the climate crisis is becoming

a big victim of the crisis itself. as rivers and the flood don't dry up. the productivity of all kinds of hydropower, big and small is dramatically dropping in we build on these large hydropower. damage that our car into the plant, 52 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. ready there is a potential for a 9 percent increase in global hydropower at the top cities without building any new facilities. kayla get it. most of the hydro research lab in texas where they looked into 3 ways in which this could be done. the 1st category was done so that it was for anything other than on hydropower which i've already had an impact on

the environment. maybe put in generators turbine i think it's a transmission line. but on a scale of 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 generator units of software upgrades, and then upload category. we know from the ceiling and our data day, there is a bunch of them that are of the smaller scale. so there may be, you know, a farmer he's got a small dam built in his property to create a bond or small late for his farming operation. there's this many additional opportunities for high your par development of very small gales which in developing countries maybe a much more the a global,

equitable and quick integration where 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. we're going to 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 like so that's what, what time like winds and so on. ready this is already happening in some places one portugal giant. ok, but as before, closing 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,

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