done, that's fine, but this is derek. g leads to higher unemployment and slows down. the economy was the card, you've reached the 300 trillion that the trump dot december 9 on 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, most we humans comp suffice with ounces, and yet we just keep them wasting at this point. knowing full well how disastrous was escapes, the t can be c, r o c used to be the world's full largest lake, then the rivers that fed it with cats 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 were in moines in the far west of whose becky stone in central asia, the kids were. the last spoke to the 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, like 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 throughout 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 to space 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 so nice and they were for holiday counters, law 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 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 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 his 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 lake. it was once the size of the various delia quickly motor a toga has accompanied us through each city of the i comes here 3 or 4 times a month, sometimes with guests. 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 just of what a landscaping guy. well, you could make

a blockbuster here. this mode not too much of the blue bus, the the arrow see which struggles is becky is down and catholic stone is only about to 10 to bits for mate 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 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 a stall to the 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 them over a large area. 68 low top to homage sugar beads comes to check on his sex. so implants, oh goodness. let me explain. remember, because a plant is now totally covered in dust, the company is because the dust is 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 pretend as though here where the c 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 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 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 scares me. what would you 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 of 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 those back histone 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. 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 submit it unless 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 these items. all we need to save our water. we should plant trees is it is to is may come here, but the old man is being left without him to see the once a month. how some people it takes a day to such a waste. so disability endo, with taste low e. and these critics don't have to dave too deep plastic flux to us of this office

like victoria of because we get fresh with that lake. is food of trash? don't they? oh, and when they 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 then sure of like victoria. so he was 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. they pull out to bundle and fish and eats or goes to mit, which had been yes for the day 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 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 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 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 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 it killed them about the negative impact it has to the communities and the neighborhood those leaving the canal starting to realize that it's healthy and be to for the environment. let's just to waste into

the water. to solve that fourty site, which meant for the benefit of the free and convenient for a family on the for fish, the or the for all of activity to exactly what was already getting all the plastic out to of like, victoria would be huge. undertaking the lake is almost as be goes to your in your and so they as low as a guest, what to contaminants sending you going to get a very fixed if 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 2 international. you've been a solutions really help. you'll be able to buy to cover bikes and billboards. the supposed to get these by jelly to run a few of the more then facilitates, uh, they use the teams that through our feet. wet and no major money that we gain for release of age on important to the 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 is find 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. they will continue to catching 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 and wisdom 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, damn slacks of that sort 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 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 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 bala comes from the dams that are built across rivers. water is stored in it as a for 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 bumped 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, the actually that can come to the intermittency of solar and wind, 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 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 other devices dixon is but it's not only about 2. so it's also about other organisms that in the river tuesday, out of the software 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 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 organisms in the, in but done building is bad in other ways to steal and cement, to use, to bid plans, 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 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 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 a 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 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 . go up 26 and 2021. many countries push 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 global warming to 1.5 degrees. but the thing is not much has changed in terms of social environmental impacts since hydro is days with a bad reputation. either old problems 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 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 in the 2. hydro has had its blue murphy's and today 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 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. 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 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 lines are the 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 generally 2 units of software upgrades. 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 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 a global,

equitable and quick integration for 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 nice. so now 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

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