the next on d w. well, the in progress pop costs for everyone who wants to know more about the topics that concern us about this story is beyond the headline world in progress, dw, 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 home, wasting it. disappoint, knowing full well how disastrous was discussed, that he can be the 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 dramatically. tell us 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 spoke to the 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 there's a whole bunch of people have lots to see when we used to work on the streets and the lakes that exist if you happen to is 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 called, is far away. instead, endless does 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 that isn't that they used to be a key here. a large harbor view of life was extremely busy children based here. i thought so latham, they 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 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 kinda re 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 alisha, i didn't know if is also state 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 out on the other boats, making this, o sounder, it still rings in my hands. all the 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. so want to make it was once the size of the various delia quickly moderate tova has a company. does that 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 hear this, but it's really worth

a chance of a what a landscape. well, you could make a blockbuster here. this mode about too much of the blue bus, the the arrow see which struggles is beckett's down and catholic stone is only about to 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 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, how much as they are naturally beautiful did. although there isn't a single tree or greenery because it's an almost otherworldly few days. 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 the move for a large area. 68 roll top to homage sugar beads comes to check on his sex or plants. because uh, let me explain, remember, because 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 i 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 moines that took almost 4 hours only a few people find that way here to this wastelands most to make the long drive a menu, workers will start from local 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 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 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 i know i talked about my own country. so yeah, my homeland of visitors here get to hear different stories about the canyons and 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's 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, the proposed everything meticulously of the role. she wants a visitors to feel at home and that is done by 9 soon as 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, we were 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 likely that should be less than to us all the time with us. we need to save our water. we should plant trees. is it? it is, a tourist may come here, but the old man is being left without him to see the once a month. cuz some people it takes a day to such a waste. so disability endo which hayes no. yeah. and these critics don't tough to

dave to deep plastic flux to us at the surface of lake 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 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 and most of you somebody 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, and eats 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 that 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 petition. the 9 month 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 lake. it's not just state the plastic and other was the lake victoria mainly comes from the canals. hope you're going to copy to accomplish that is 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 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 the as it kinda starting to realize that it's healthier and be to for

the environment. let's just to waste into the water. to solve the for the site. we started me for that 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 the plastic out of like 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 contaminants shouldn't be gunned. didn't very thank steve. the control so doesn't have his functioning with the management system. see government discussions like discussing is such a environment protection rule. that's what pinot lice polluted as a hope for 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 i didn't 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 mutari. 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 most similar 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 arrive 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 for release of age on a board into one big sofa and not enough people have to convince us to help protect lake 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 load 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 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, both 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 said, 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 year renew both 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 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 sola and when 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 bottle 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 then run generates us. of course not all of them is 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. what are those bonds off 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 of 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 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 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 dam 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 how the organisms by the end, the river tuesday 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 uh, 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, the thing is bad in other ways to steal and cement, to use, to build plans, some of the most common intensive materials on of and as know, remember when i said hydro is when it 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, did q. there's a sub much trees degrade much faster than 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 or the quakes in the region. the other,

the down in toki 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 said that sort of a local people to protest in the environmental effects and social cost already back in the 1980s. eventually the world bank, one of the largest funders put 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 right. 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 source of 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. but the thing is not much has changed in terms of social environmental impact since hydro is days with a bad reputation. either all the problems 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 banks and companies 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 a 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 deck that's meant to mitigate the time of crisis is becoming a big victim of the crisis itself. as rivers i the flag on dry 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 tent, 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 top city 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

audits on hydropower, which i've already had an impact on the environment. maybe put in generators turbine. and i guess the transmission lines are the 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 generally 2 units of software upgrades. and then upload categories. we know from the ceiling and our data day, that there is a bunch of them that are the smaller scale. so there may be, you know, a farmer, he's not a small damn 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 how of 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 other renewal goals. 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, 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

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