the leading cultures around the world, people learned to classify small handful of animals with edible and all the rest of the classify as disgusting. w series about our complex relationship with animals. the great debate, what you know, on youtube dw documentary, 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 down on the other boats making this, oh, sound. we humans come survive without to get we just keep them wasting at this point, knowing full well how disastrous, which is scarcity, can be c, r o. c. used to be the world's full largest lake, then the rivers that fed with tapped irrigate farmland and it shrank from optically housings. 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 kid was the last page, select the rest, send in dust, continued to east, away at people's livelihoods and loans. 74 year old ali, shutting off is one of the left, slipping boat captains here. cuz there's the older people have lots to see what happens 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. the pregnant? no. but now what's left of the r o c, as the once huge lake is cold, is far away. instead endless dust plains and sand. but didn't put ex 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, there's, 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 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 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 lead motor tova bought the property with the loan and turned it into simple accommodation. she then moved with a 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 alisha. i didn't know if this 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 see the voices of the fishes. when the boat went out on the other boats making this, oh sounder, 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 lake. it was once the size of the various delia quickly motor tova has accompanied us. each city of the 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 from one not to hear this, but it's really worth it to it of a what a landscaping guy?

well, you could make a blockbuster here. there's more about too much of the blood. was the arrow. see which struggles is bank is down and catholic stone is only about to 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, these 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 the style 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 roll top to homage sugar beads comes to check on his sex or plants will come the shell. let me explain it. remember, because the plant is now totally covered in dust. the company is because the dust settling. but when it rains, the sucks, old plan will turn totally green on. you can feel the wind. now, if we stand here like this for 10 minutes will be just as dusty caught up with him go to 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 menu. workers will start from local companies who come here to carry out tests and then take a snapshot as a souvenir. extremely high salt content, however, means there's 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 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 to you and that of you it's 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 in special. and yet when she's there in person the own from the past, everything meticulously of the role. she wants a visitors to feel at home. my name is on my nice one of 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 and we humans have destroyed our great. see, we're over the 4th largest link in the world. is like that should be less than 2 us . all. you say someone does, we need to save our water. we should plant trees. it is yes actually to is may come here, but the old man is be left without him to see the once a month or something that takes a day 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 at the surface of lake 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 nets 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 is most of you, somebody from what's to us for almost 3 years now. he's been driving for a local, been a vision that seems difficult. you know, the leak, they pulled out to bundle and fishing 8 or goes to minutes, which had been yours for the dave 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 that i heard. and i use my knife, which i'm always on the crate, the cut over there, you know, totally clean up the water. it also retrieved waste from the show that's covered in this petition. the main men to most of them 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 ridge like clean up see or for for yes, he's program. you can the junior ranges seems to be time the like. it's not just state the plastic and other what's the leg? victoria mainly comes from the canals. hope you're getting discovery to accomplish that is which should have been. many people come out. the team of the junior ranges lexia 3 times a week. so we try to ability students, you don't the community by, you mean what we're trying to do uh, through these community activities, clean up activities and whenever you'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 their neighborhoods. those leaving me as it kinda starting to realize that it's healthy and bit to for the environment. let's just to waste into the water. to solve the

for the site, which are me for the, for the free and convenient for free me on the, for fishy or the for all of activities that you will take. but in order to get people to plastic out of lake victoria would be a huge undertaking in lake he's almost as be goes to your in your full day as low as a guest, what to continuous cities. and it would vary 60, if it controls 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 pop up before they get 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. yes, i didn't find buttons with you find that i'm going to be there under the under the nice environmental act which within cut, which will discourage people for mutari. the government supports the organization

for them. the in the, or the only original source of income comes from sending plastics to recycling companies where they are converted to break. what simulate products, the money, the and from that helps cover the teams course improve. postal collaborates with 2 international visions. with the help you'll be able to buy to cover bikes and billboards. that's supposed to get these by jelly to run a few of the more then facilitates uh, they use the teams that we want to keep up with no major money that we gain from the stage on importantly one big sofa. and not enough people have to convince us to help protect make victoria greenwater 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 100 low 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 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 of stems, but just how sustainable all day. deep in west and in the allies, one of the largest and most controversial dams on a sub does settle but a mega project that was so important to the government. the integrated the world's tallest statute nearby to look over it for

a while. it was shrouded in control of the sea for decades. dams like sub that's that over the 3 gorges and it will produce hydro power that contribute far more renewable energy to the mix that all of those sources combined. and to do these mega struck, just like getting more mega plans for the well largest hydro electric project in congo that will be twice the size of the current global biggest. it's the largest such projects that india has ever commissioned. a lot is happening with hydro power, but with the younger and 6 here in yuba of holding the limelight. these old and boring structures don't get much attention behind the scenes though hydro down. so that's a really interesting story about our quest to energy global power dynamics over the last century. now with a modern twist and a big item in the, in the 10th, 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. so it has power drops 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 solar and wind saving us plays a big a really big grey zone. 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 hydro power comes from the dams that i've built across rivers. water is stored in it as a for and when we need energy related to on to, to by ends which the ends on generate those. of course not all of them generate hydro and not all the hydro come 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 as a large box that can come to the intermittency of sola. i'm going, which is really positive for hydro power. we've actually been thinking with a technology for over 2000000 in the us. 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 hydro. bio is really cheap. no one does. some countries relies really heavily on it . but as one major problem, the street flowing rivers around the world downs due to them, a fresh water 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 done by just dixon is but it's not only about 2. so it's also about other organisms that in the river 50 out of saw. so looks 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 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 building 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 those months. remember when i said hydro is when the 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 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 plants. this and also 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 quakes in the region. the other, the down until key has created

a huge block to the euphrates that has ended up causing severe water shortages down river in iraq. then in that you, molly, 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 that 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 put out under pressure and many other banks followed suit. 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 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 pushed for hydropower as a key. so also clean energy in that makes and 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 when 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 a livelihood and homes and not often even left without electricity themselves. this brings us to the iron, the entity hydro has had its boom of these entity. this decks 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 try up the productivity of all kinds of hydropower. big and small is dramatic. the dropping in we build all these large hydropower. damage that a 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 and 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 down for generation, 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 categories. we know from the ceiling and our data day, there is a bunch of them that are the smaller scale. so there may be, you know, a farmer he's got a small dam built in his property degree of bonds 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 a hello 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 and everything goes so like, so now 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, we can move towards

a truly green future the the,

the respects its own about walking waves and texting nature. that's right, sandra, respecting they just studying the new data. it's about being up to date with current ideas, technologies. i'm trying for the eco way of life, the environment magazine, the co africa in 30 minutes on the w. brandon is on

cocaine every day. brandon is consumed about full point. 5 cheetos does come in the upper classes. no one can manage without it. or the lawyers, parents, judges can, since lisa and officials. and this is the scene at all driver services. and while businesses booming from coke smugglers, others of paying the price drug dealing and smuggling in 75 minutes on d. w. hello guys. this is the 77 percent the platform for the issues page share idea you know, on this time i'm not afraid to pass and then he did talk to the young people clearly have the solution, the future of the 77 percent every weekend on dw a small step for

a robot vacuum. one giant leap for exploiting the ocean floor. cutting edge technology is i'm looking to potential of deep sea mining. and the vehicle's been designed to pick up nodules and leave as much sediment behind as possible. but this time, a research team will study the possible risk in order to minimize then we have an opportunity to to get it right before we even start, we have a whole new industry that will proceed only when regulation. so things are to replace the environmental activists of skeptical is this through nature conservation, and the green washing of the rules bill billions to be made out to pot documentary use deep sea greed stats, december 7th on d, w. the,

this is the w news live from berlin. israel's government votes in favor of a hostage deal with hom, us to deal. we'll see how much release 50 women and children hostages from the gaza strip during a ford, a truce in march. the 1st pause in the fighting after more than 6 weeks. both on the program, germany's defense minister makes an unexpected visit to keep in a show support for ukraine's.