as well then progress as tough calls to everyone who wants to know more about the topics that concern us about the stories beyond the headlines world in progress. the w cuts cost 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 out, on the other boats, making this o sound. most we humans comp suffice with bounces, and yet we just keep them wasting at this point. knowing full well how disastrous was, is scheduled to come. b, c, r o c used to be the world's full largest lake. then the rivers that fed it with tapped irrigate farmland and it shrank from optically how of things now

the, the old man and the sea except the sea as old but furnished the were in moines, that in the far west of whose becky stone in central asia the kids were the last folks and left the rest, sending 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 the old people have lots to see 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 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 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 some items there were for holiday counters, recreation zones, sanatorium and yes, at some point we decided to build a year and a half year youth will, while i get the 1000000 that museum was also built to attract visitors it on us 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 rain which has long since closed down. many residents have moved away. we're on the way to the air is full in the hospital. it's now a guest house. delia could lea 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 ali, shutting off his also stage and part of his large family, 10 children. i'm 36 grandchildren. his house used to both of the late, directly to 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 or it still rings you, my head is all 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 a toga 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, good. almost, it's 3 or 4 hours from one, not to here. this, but it's really worth it to it of a what a landscaping guy?

well, you could make a blockbuster here. this was about 2 months of the blood was the arrow see which struggles is bank is down. and catholic stone is only about a 10th of its fullness 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 begin to be diverted from tributaries to the late and used to irrigate the cotton fields concerts, 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 of 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 here will pump 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, woocommerce. uh, let me explain. the plant is now totally covered in dust. the company is because the dust is settling, but when it rains, the sucks. old plan will turn totally green on. you can feel the wind. now, if we started here like this for 10 minutes, well we just as dusty pretends though, here where the sea bed used to be the around come deserts, now stretches as far as the only can see sec. 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 for moines that took almost 4 hours only a few people find that way here to this wasteland most to make the long drive a manual work is, 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 bar is pleased to bump into old friends again. here it 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 you,

but nothing really scares me. what would you say when i used to work as a teacher, i'd like to talk to you on knowledge and drawing energy from is where your photo in that, you know, i talked about my own country. so yeah, my homeland of visitors here get to hear different stories about the canyons of also and i draw inspiration and energy from that. yeah, it's a full cha if i do you and that of you it's remote region of was 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 entrepreneur for past everything meticulously of the role, she wants a visitors to feel at home. and that is on my notice 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. um, we submit it unless we humans have destroyed our great see, we're over the 4th largest link in the world is like it's that should be less than to us. all you say someone does. 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 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 of

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 local, been a vision that seems to clean up the lake. they pull low to bundle and fish needs or goes to minutes, which had been yes for the dave as the project is a day when 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 retrieve waste from the show that's covered in this the condition. 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 c o 4. yes. he's program you've gotten 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 going to copy 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 build a stewardship of the community by, you mean what we're trying to do uh, through these community activities clean up activities and when they are 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 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 mixed with that for the free and convenient for see me on the for fishy or the for all of activities that you were thinking was already getting 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 water contaminants city vendor given very fixed if the control so doesn't how this functioning with the management system. so given me discussions like discussing is such a environment protection rule that to penalize 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 effect in finding 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 mutari. the government supports the organization.

on the info, we are the only original source of income comes from sending plastics to recycling companies where they are converted to break most similar products. the money, the and from that hoops cover the teams course. they propose to collaborate with to international a, given a stations with the help you'll be able to buy 2 kilobytes, and the about the support we get these by jelly to arrive a few of the more then facilitates, uh, they use the teams the who are free with no major money that we gain from the stage on the board into one 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 fish as and those 1st time. how important is these fees? i don't 100 load phone 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. 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 is stems, but just how sustainable, how they deepen weston in their lives. one of the largest and most controversial dams on of sub does settle, but a mega project that was so important to the government. the 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 world's largest hydro electric project in congo, 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 6 year, a new book 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. so it has a 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 grey zone. this is located by hydropower which is great in every sense . it's kind of sustainable, kind of green and even only 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 bala comes from dams that are built across rivers. water is stored in it as a 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 3rd 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 works really relevant lodge that actually that can come to the image and see 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 integrateds and over the long term electricity from hydro power 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, dams due to them, a freshwater equal systems have decline faster than all others,

including far as affected by deforestation. and construction is the number one reason for this. data of course, is the poster child of this tragedy, and many projects have come up with ways to get fish boss done some work and some are done by just dixon, is that 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 water systems layers within the rest of the reservoir. and so, and some of the lowest later is the closest one. and so if you and let's say at the hydropower them from time to time, people come 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 damn, the thing is bad in other ways to steal and cement. he used a bit of plans, 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 plants. 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, in 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 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 swords. 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 with key salsa clean energy in that mix 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 opponents, right? the government for development bank. so companies, 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 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, the entertain. hydro has had its boom of these entity this day that's meant to

mitigate the climate crisis is becoming a big victim of the crisis itself. as rivers i the fly don't dry up. the productivity of all kinds of hydropower, big and small, is dramatically dropping in we build on these latch. i don't know what damage that car into the plant, 52 percent of the remaining the free flowing river. the big loss in the tropics. they would 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 top city without building any new facilities. kayla get a month for 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 or the scale of an entirely new hydropower development to retrofitting an existing not on power dam 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 category. we know from the ceiling in our day to day, but there is a fund of dams that are the smaller scale. so there may be, you know, a farmer he's got a small dam 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 how will global equitable and quick

integration where hydropower projects sometimes might still need to be better, 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 like, so now for the whole time like winds and so on. ready this is already happening in some places one portugal giants ok. but as before, closing solar panels feed solve less 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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