the country is across the world are increasing facing similar problems, especially when it comes to the language at all times. hello and welcome. i'm sorry because somebody i know watching equally. yeah. even of this a nuisance to these problems are the same around the world. there is lots to learn from how other countries are trying to stuck in that environment. initials via quantity in almost all of and as big metro fees has been for if northwest or year around over the last 2 years. and this is a similar story for less than last capital focused on what is the government the we have to, we seems better what other solutions available and all these, the new things enough. here are some of us it's 6 pm and closed it down the days before the valley. these people are participating in cycling with lights in about 20 hours. fine got to collect my to levels in the air with rocket

to even higher levels. the norm is. the perfect time for an initiative design to bring attention to pollution in the city around november, december, and january, month based, 3 months out in 40 believe you have seen it while it in for to get that will that thing so you get live is as well and it is a very poor and for live is on most of it was during the inside these months with some $24000.00 people per square meter glucose. that is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. the roads are shopped every year, almost $90000.00 additional vehicles that are just stood according to the center of science and environment. the vast majority have combustion engines. all of that is taking its toll on air quality here. the under warranty really cannot expand your match, but just look, see the kind of traffic that builds up and we know that the traffic a big who's that are going king congestion,

the image lots more then they're designed to image. so all of that is making joshua sector a very serious challenge for the diesel vehicles, are the worst concerts when it comes to find particulate matter, the emissions which i, particularly hon. so the human has and almost all las vegas like buses and trucks have diesel engines in 2022, the national green to be in an audit to see the best thing was to face out all the codes that were older than 15 years, or that exceeded certain emission limits within 6 months, it was a start, but there is still a long way to go into transport, fix stuff he had trying to promote the, the net with, by playing the assessment. these for the most. you like to be going to be shortly between get a device? yes, we have some easy testing space and so you have the start of the last

one here. so i decided not to but this is a big thing feature. but at the same time, the city has practically eliminated it's drum network. cool. good. that was the 1st indian city to have jobs. and the only one with a few was still in operation. see a thought of d. c. john's cost congestion by competing with vehicles on the roads and mine meant lists are outraged. he ought to be asking for a good set on this technology. next tune up on the drum with the modern technology and the exclusive on the track to the governments of single audi. traffic is responsible for more than half of fine particulate matter when use in, enclose at the roadside stoves, garbage and sanitation. dust from building sites are all additional sources of

apple use and elderly people. the sick and children are particularly at risk, but as a potential has, has out for everyone. that's because actually what the, what disclose it and get this done. does the just guessing system that's when you're getting these kind of fx movies as well as not at the x or see what would the next it is recorded. students at this 36 a up in school in south. good. good. the other lucky ones. this is a green campus and environmental education isn't in the group by just the curriculum. a to us to do need to drill down at quality monitors to the school. so they can keep a close eye on levels. is the evolution is too high. the students, the insight i have been going to be monitoring the ad for the next. you know, so is that through the whole people, i'm responsible for it. you have an app in our close that we can see and you can

let it go. you can check right now, it is more than it's the city 1st launched, it's clean action plan. in 2020, especially the coast, regularly sprinkled in dias, treats with water to his cups, dusk levels. this is already has been improved things along with our the show us see god's be. it just shows you this uh to the phone and uh, and the on back to the substitute. it did have converted or did it shows 2 f t g as the collection efficiency off the municipal charges to recess increase. they have given subsidy to replace b, sorry to a base to looking with a beacon but glucose task still has one of those list particular smarter for use and levels in india. so more must be done in the long run.

run. it was a big i'm vicious electrification, for example, the other sectors make the rece check to pass to ensure 100 percent situation. i'm actually 300 percent collection and then the me to do to go and i'm also not being of your the newer than that. you put for you, cool, good. that also has districts in which people can go shopping or go to work or scores within a radius of 3 to 5 kilometers or stay homes. other cities can only dream of such a thing. compared with other cities in india, quote good us residents use public transport a lot. the city needs to capitalize on those strength. and that's what the participants of cycling with lights are fighting for to single bar is also known as the future, the 6 cities because of the since the dr. b. a head office times in many ways. now

this islands, to be safe space is us significant challenge, a lack of natural gas water resources. with a drawing me for water. singapore has devised an emphasis strategy. winchell walter, the sea forest people, the nation has managed to transform its challenges into a model of the a welcome to singapore, a vibrant multicultural city, state right on the equator, densely populated around 6000000 people live on this tiny island. it's an international home for trade and finance. it's clean, safe, modern, wealthy, and green. basically, it has a lot of everything you'd want. there's just one thing. singapore has no natural, fresh water resources. and the way its economy and population are growing, total water demand could almost double by 2060, but singapore is on it. uh, none of what they've done is magic. that's peter glank. he's an award winning water

expert. he puts thing of poor success down to what he calls the soft pass approach to their problems. so the soft pep for water is in contrast to what we have done over the last century in more, more than a century. look with a hard path to build hard infrastructure to take more and more water out of nature, to ignore the consequences of our water policies for nature, to build narrow institutions and the soft path tries to turn that around and say, let's use water efficiently and carefully let's stop wasting water. let's look at new sources of supply. to understand how singapore can pull this off, you 1st need to understand where they're coming from. the single for what the story starts with world war 2. that's john church, the guy for water at the united nations. singaporeans would argue that the story goes back a lot longer. but 1942 is certainly one the issue of grab the world's attention.

that's one allied troops, namely british australian and india and forces were battling fascist, depend on singapore island, which at the time was the british colony. the allies depended on imported water, which was a bit of a problem when japanese forces blow up the pipes transporting that water. the rich, the connex, malaysia, and singapore was bones. the result was a lack of water in the city, a terrible episode of older scar city. the allies lost the battle in the single port, but after japan's overall surrender, the island remained in british hands. it took more than 20 years until it became fully independent. but political liberation didn't free singapore from its water crisis. water rationing catastrophic sanitation and regular floods continued with it's faint now in its own hands. singapore began planning for the long term cecilia toward the hot has spent almost 3 decades researching water policy and innovations around the world. and is fascinated by single points past c number beginning the

biggest at the beginning to be watching the band as well as for the band in energy independence. but they are going to have she stance up kinds of things as tracy. that was in 1965 for 2016. their initial master plan was fine tuned over the years and a water strategy that they called there for national taps. first, water imports, 2nd, dissemination, 3rd, local catchment. and 4th, something they call new water. let's dive into it. firstly, singapore new. there was plenty of water right here to deals to important water from malaysia in the sixty's. got the taps running again. it's cheap and millions of leaders are pumped over the border every day. but buying half your water from your neighbor isn't sustainable long term. on the contrary, from the start,

malaysia, made threats to cut off the supply and argued over its price. the tensions of even let to warnings of a military complex singapore, as leaders know their weak spot. so they want to stop importing water by 2061. so it's all the more important that the other 3 times become more than a drop in the ocean. the motor planning is very important because they have so little water, they must single, there must make sure that this waterways use the lice me. and the objective of this master plan is to make the most out of every single drop of water. this means keeping rivers and drains clean, investing billions, starting to collect more water, cleaning it, and using what the island state singapore already has. for example, this, the ocean this underground facility, for example, is state of the art. normally, a treats used water in times of drought, it disseminates sea water on top. people use it as a park. today,

5 d celebration plants provide up to 25 percent of the entire islands water supply . singapore plans to increase this capacity to meet 30 percent of its needs by 2060, by which time water usage is expected to have doubled. but that's nowhere near self sufficiency. so what's next? bingo rain. a lot of it. and singapore is a master of maxing that out. 2 thirds of the entire state surface is accused for rainwater catchment. and extensive network of rivers, canals and drains channels. the water into 17 reservoirs. the biggest is marina barrage with an area of 10000 heck there's it holds back fresh water from flowing into the ocean and helps to control frequent floods, sodas, this underground tank that catches flawed water in extreme cases, when the drain spill over. even this water could potentially be treated and reused by 2060, the government wants to use 90 percent of

a land area for rain catchment. catching rain. water is one thing. but what about the water already in circulation? o drainage water is, is collected and, and treated and reused as much as possible. most countries, they not to invest, not even a fraction of what a single pores invest in the water authority spilt at 206 kilometers, 2 inch pipe highway, costing $10000000000.00 to guides, the city sewage into state of the art reclamation and cleaning facilities. okay. single port is by some measures the 5th richest country in the world. so it can afford to splash out like that. it's also a lot easier to push through such projects when you have this sort of control democracy, run by the same party that singapore has had since independence in 1965. anyway, the entire cities underground is basically one big sewer network. but the pride of

single pores, water strategy, is what happens after collecting the water, the treatment, the authorities call it new water. it's produced by micro filtration, reverse osmosis, and uv radiation. some of that water is so high quality, singapore is using it in their chip manufacturing industry, which requires hold for pure water, which has an indication of how good a quality of that water is. did you know that around the world? half of our waste water is released and treated and only 11 percent is actually reused and single port about 30 percent of the entire drinkable and non drinkable demand can be met by recycling, use water. and they want to increase that to 55 percent by 2060. most of it is used by industry, only a function of it is mixed into the drinking water supply because we're also squeamish. it's controversial because we're taking waste water, which, you know, we goes down our drains, we flush or down our toilets industry dumps waste water. and we typically think of

that as of a liability is something to get rid of. so how do you get people on board using the flush save assistant bag and shave with every flush, make saving water pay produce water consumption, save up to 10 liters of water per dollar. a nationwide campaigns encourage people to install water saving fittings. and if you install them, you can discount vouchers for other sustainable products. digital water meters track each household to water consumption and detect links and plates. that's how singapore comes down to an incredible 5 percent of water loss from leaks, which is 1st class globally be average is estimated to be 30 percent. what they've done incredibly well in my opinion, is on the side of water education. they've educated their community about their water situation about their water challenges and about the solutions that they've chosen to put as good a single poor as doing. it has big advantages over other countries. besides being

rich and a tightly controlled society, the city only has a tiny agriculture sector and can focus almost entirely on urban industrial wastewater. so they have one problem less as food production pollutants and consumes enormous amounts of fresh water in many parts of the world. despite that, they've shown a lot is possible. as the water moves away from traditional sources of energy, like softly fuels, i'm cool, is the social economic impacts of this transition have become a growing concern? once about jobs, the closure of life mines in us will walk. you and don't sponsor the same question . i'm for the miners to really define the future with mining jobs disappearing the region to innovation, transforming or mining infrastructure into a hub for greenhouse agriculture. i'm fish for me. it can grow up to

1.7 meters low and weigh as much as 60 kilos. it's natural habitats to his tropical war. since such as in africa. see african tough fish thrives in close quarters with other fish of its kind making. it's an ideal choice. aquaculture feeding them regularly and maintaining stable oxygen levels in the tanks. this for my mind that is now responsible for 300000 fish. he has successfully transitioned from mining to fish founding the work is interesting. miners have always had to improvise. the climate here in the hall is very similar to what was down in the mind, the temperature and humidity of the same. it's very warm, around the 28th or $29.00 degrees. outside of the late night mines in hundreds of us that hadn't been profitable for years now. they've closed,

but the company has already looked ahead, investing 16000000 euros into building this fish foaming, facilitate the key to this investment, pulse round, which is available for free and large quantities from the old mining shelf. the former she's supervisor brought plenty of technical know how for me is mining days behind the scenes. the fish coming operation is a high tech computer controlled business. the tie system is based on that is a he cousins, is it a, is real, this a dry country that goes with water shortages. so it has to conserve water and recycling constantly that inspired us. and that's how we came up with the idea to use the ox groundwater. after the mind closed, the water is also used to heat the screen house, where many of the minus wives have sent plug. gabriella was synovis, husband was

a minor who goes to school. so she's grateful to have left her family. the company is now one of the largest produce, says of the states to monetize. and mom's keeps rising. still neither fish farming nor the green house can make up to the nitty 3000 minding jobs that window to, to on the link there used to be a lot of minds here, but now many of the minors are unemployment and too many just stay at home studios, it's hard for them to adjust and find new jobs. there aren't many options here, new villa most most. meanwhile, done in the shelves. the final work to secure the mind, sees on the way of machinery, convey about electrical systems to being dismantled and the minds of being stabilized to prevent collapse. it's a tough reality for the late of minus. they used to be respected well page and cost

of a proud mining tradition. the have to i'm fine with it. what can you do? the decision came from above. all right, well i just have to deal with that. they're offering retraining courses. so we'll see how things turn out as mike goes on. would you mind giving us here? yeah, absolutely. wasn't many old and minus of up to to leave retirements, while others will receive state wage compensation for up to 7 years. your opinion is funding retraining courses and helping with job searches demand for the 2. most hayes continues to grow that sold across the country along side processed fish and even exported to poland. the roadside still rules, so creating new jobs. and then look to the back here. fresh fish is always on the menu setting up the fish common greenhouse didn't happen over night. it's it is.

but these projects are helping cushion the impact of structural change in this woman mining region. it could serve as a model for other areas transitioning away from coal mining coming back to where they are in the heart of somebody, not those for lots a district goal. cornered, farming not only sustains live eagles, but also generates a sustainable byproduct. tulsa page is an equal send me or sean. it is inside and it says is rapidly gaining global demand. it's huge. energy goes beyond agriculture into a range of core base by products that's going me be sama innovative ideas, has transformed somewhere by products in distribution from building coconut palms. as far as the i can see, we're on the outskirts of paula to town in time, and nato farmers have grown coconuts here for generations. but now they're in

demand for more than just the sweet flesh and be the husk. has also become a soldier. after all, material, sage entrepeneur, s good goeth about thousands of tons of fed up with used every harvest of what their and diarrhea when they don't mind. then the once the coconuts are harvested, they split them to retrieve the co, canada, and the coconut task in which is the out to now on the matter we do this with machines. so how come the then there's another separation process which allows us to access to the product. the symbol. this one is quite a fiber will know and another. yeah, but he's go compete, lindsey, i'll have to call you. so in a corner, cause i've taken off one card, we'd be quite a fiber optic and 2 thirds would be to go peacefully at $131.00, they'll call you at 5, but it would go to for the wonderful. but the good thing for you to is especially popular in agriculture, it helps young plants trying thanks to

a key advantage. what to each kilogram of the capacity and 14 liters of water. it also keeps money order intact. i'll be able to cuz that's why it's so popular with our international customers out front of it . i'm gonna make, i'm going to be longer on every yeah. in the exports, almost 900000 tons of the useful buy product. the trend towards more than forms of conservation. h way an oven areas. he's pushing up demand. humans, a lot of them done orders are all in good order yet. i'm still in the today. most of the developing countries want to grow and cultivate that attention foods. the little sustainably in green houses of us can palms. we find you might know that if you want to cultivate tomatoes, you can grow full 1000 tomato tons on an acre of land. whereas in a green house, you can easily be dropped 821-2000 kilometers from the front of the i'm a video and then some of it can. what do you think available using blocks of cocoa beaches you can save on water and when you get

a switch also helps involved production. i understand what you're going to you. what ex gentleman's exhaust the one on india and now sales it's cool, cool. feet more than a $125.00 countries. the us is a key market. 40 percent of the cocoa feet souls the comes from pointed out to you alone. the 5 bodies pressed into 5 kito blocks for transportation, but that's not the only product. the factory is in full lot, you have on all 5 will go, but the whole good brand best and we do, yes, we need to go whether you're more likely we produce around 300 products with cocoa pizza, including c termination this all your coin the bought the ball, how secure somebody and also going to the product. so when that's, i don't know if i need to go in agriculture the coconut 5 but can be used up to 3 times before use degrees. ready one more reason why the byproduct couple feet is

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