Know youre coming to from kampala here in uganda on a big hello to my fellow presenter auntie in nigeria hello everyone and hello sandra you are so right about our waters in fact you could go so far as to say that the future of our planet may depend on the conditions of our oceans lakes and rivers will have more on that in the coming reports but 1st a brief look at whats lined up today in our program. Special teams has a rescue plan its called so a way as well take a look at how that works. They Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just presented its report on the condition of our oceans well see what it said and in germany and other parts of you are you going to go kayaking for free as long as you collect travel along the way. First to the seychelles where environmentalists are working to protect coral reefs. These frogs ecosystems are among the most specially rich bio tubes on earth and the island nation relies on them for its very survival i mishit of launching 2014 aims to support a healthy ocean and implement Climate Change strategies and to promote the stable blue economy and the region depends on winning 115. 00 islands that simple i go hes truly unique a marine ecosystem. If. This issues is a tropical paradise they are keeping local covers around 455 square kilometers of land. But more than 1300000 square kilometers of sea. Than on our Marine Resource for everything whether its economy activities or for tourism and fisheries we dont have anything without that. Many tourists come to visit the archipelago for this big truculent child. So i realised it wasnt horses for quite a survey old fellow was growing up and understanding the relation that the say show what people have done with the ocean with the mire in the system and how much we rely on. A summary scientist shes concerned about the growing pressure on the ecosystem. Experts go on regular days to assist the phoenicians fishing environmental pollution and to resume put strain on the sea shells unique underwater world. The coral reefs are suffering the effects of Climate Change because theyre very sensitive to changes in water temperature and. They provide a home for a whole host of the marine life from sea snails to sharks so without them. Cell phones reefs near the coast are especially vulnerable and theyre the 1st ones to die. There has been a rise in ocean temperature and this has an impact on your corals because then this leads to coral bleaching and then you move the coral because then you and the coral by the late 1990 s. Most part of the reason the Shallow Waters have died. Why quarrels and once they dead they are usually taken over by. The resources and the activities that you could carry out. That. Now the government recently agreed to protect nearly a pound of the countrys marine waters within the next 2 years as part of an initiative called the sea shell is going to. Danish a t. V. Scurrying out of some of the of the underwater ecosystem. We carry out activity with the intent of collecting data on. Ensure that the management of protection. Is effective in partnership with the Nature Conservancy in geo. Vision economy to use hoping to understand exactly whats happening to their lives. Heard reeves often trouble regenerating the Shallow Water because the waves and currents are constantly moving this kind of turns are good their coral around making me tired for new orleans to sit. Around on. You can see the change is we have a very long period of time where the temperature is really high in the corals recall so this has a huge impact on your marriage. We have started a coral reef restore project looking at other ways to try and restore coral reefs using the corals. And growing corals and putting them back on the river. Together with the fisheries in terms of compounds the country wants to find ways for everyone to use the sea sustainably even also the pretty. Action eves. The marine especially is the 1st of his kind in the indian ocean very boy that we constantly have this good healthy moral home that i want everything i do should make a difference and if you have any i think its a really wonderful feeling knowing that whatever information. Its going to point you to the way we do conservation thats going to have a positive in. Byron conservation station. The project transit least until 2020 in which time the fos long term Protection Plan should be in plants the ecosystem in the sea shows is counting on. What a beautiful place lets hope it stays that way about the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently published its just a 2nd on the state of our oceans and it wasnt good news the same process thats happening online and is also happening at the same yes sadly youre right and we are being too careless with our quartic eco systems that includes levels of a board being absorbed by the water bodies how slow to a city ficus and coastal areas are being polluted or awarded marine life is disappearing in a moment was picked to an expert in nigeria but for now here are a few raw facts in a new segment eco took all over. The ocean is a place of many wonders. But now its garbage dump 8000000. 00 tons of plastic land in our oceans each year about one garbage truck per minute. Thats not only harmful to all she life but also to human beings. Climate killer Carbon Dioxide around 30 percent of Greenhouse Gases from suman activities are absorbed by the ocean thats roughly 1000000. 00 tons per hour. That helps to reduce the greenhouse effect. But the more c o 2 the oceans and seas absorb the more acidic they become 40 percent of all call reefs have perished in the last 3 decades. The oceans are getting warmer sea levels are rising. Between 20172018 they rose by 3. 7 millimeters its the highest see that a rise in a single year and its already enough to flood small island nations. Its pretty shocking isnt it the oceans have huge potential to adapt to change and even to compensate for it but that can only walk if we humans also play a part my colleague n. T. Paid a visit to the Nigerian Institute for oceanography annmarie in result in the why his spoke to dr rice in a follow on that is to collect data and mix recommendations to the government on how best to protect the sea or off the coast caused dr follows so had some interesting things to say take a listen. Dr phil lucia thank you so much for speaking with us on the go up because now weve just heard of about 4 wheels think about those you walk with Jens Stoltenberg of them i said can you tell us what exactly is the state of the ocean. Around the world. Become now confident that ocean. Ocean of plastic. Why you take a seat cruise of the National Empowerment for example a fisherman you will catch tons of plastic and very little fish the fish gets in bed because the im just saying plastics and they harvest a month full of plastics what is the situation like that margie i mean we dont do the cleanup plus you know the pollute less should pay they should encourage people to come out for beach cleanups there are also domestic waste in the oceans there are several things the biodiversity is depletes in the monger budget fission is deeply tied and the ocean is not so good do you think the government can do anything to make some countries are bombed rustics yes our governments can help by. Gets in the salience groups of people to create the awareness of the damaging effects of Single Use Plastics for example cops you know plastic cards strolls plastic bottles all those things should not be used we should go back to what do used to be you know in the fiftys whereby we use a vegetative league to save food we use a cotton box to stop most things we ought to be doing to save the environment lets the last exam because a little bit of the question of overfishing and africom on the coasts of the region the message size for fishing you know tsunami should log is smaller than the specific fight mr eyes because if you measure by this a smaller than it is that you take on bald more fishes done just what you targeted the federal government can help by have been you know money train systems all over the coastline because we got our fish resources with the people who would do more to come from and to do consciously to. Discuss the environment nigeria without talking about the oil industry and its impact on the environment well we have oil fields and this oil fields affects the fish resources because the juveniles cannot breathe when there is oil on the surface of the water so the 7 of by and then we have the whole fish top level for human consumption this week in the un the un talk about Climate Change and no jew think some of these marches need to be looked at more more deeply than it would for us because we have to save our next generation these are the resources we have to live for them so we have to look critically at the Climate Change issues at pollution thats a single use plastic you know being dumped anyhow when you look you must be functional you know when we put some of these things in place to keep on vironment safe for the next 2 years thank you very much for coming in. So know we a bit wise about the state of the woods oceans but what about the lexx on the rivers which make up a significant part of the water system in many countries i hear things arent much better sandra not if you talk to the people are the Danish Initiative group kayak but they are not just complaining about the state of you of the rivers they are taking action theyve come up with a pretty cool idea as youll see in this weeks doing your bit. Far too much waste ends up in rivers and lakes especially in cities that bother to b. S. D. About london and from denmark so much that in 2017 he launched an initiative called green kayak battlers can use boats for free in return for collecting any trash they find in the water. Cannons recorders. This is fresh and. Small bits of plastics and. Green kayak now has support in 5 countries including germany after reserving online a boat a bucket and trash grabbers can be picked up at the dock of a cooperating vote rental a few enjoyable hours on the water that benefit the environment too and others are also getting on board to mention people are pretty conscientious these days almost everyone who rents a canoe kayak or paddle boat picks up whatever trash they find along the way and in that green kayak volunteers have collected over 21. 00 tons of waste so far and as word spread via social media the amount is sure to grow. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send his or tweet. Doing your page. We share your story. Well that would be a good idea for law going here in lagos were going to stick with the subject of us and visit one of germanys biggest waterways now the right even major rivers are feeling the heat as Climate Change gathers pace right and what we tend to forget is that a river system like that one house provided on the source of water for people and nature for thousands of the is here to the eco system is fragile our needs protecting so our Water Treatment plant on the rhine purifies millions of littles a water every year. The rhine is one of the most important rivers in europe. Its 1200 kilometers long and over half of it flows through germany scenic as it is its also. A busy transport. Industry lines its banks and much of its waste water is discharged into the river if it isnt cleaned 1st the water is contaminated and cant be used for anything else here before the wind sampling points close to the river bank the water is extracted from the river as it flows by and then 2 transported by each with a diameter over a meter directed to the water works. There the water is intensively cleaned before being directed back into groundwater reserves fired these shafts the Water Treatment plant south of frankfurt is the only one in germany dedicated to processing river water. The infiltration process taking place in these tanks has a number of advantages. Historical then. Historically surface water hasnt been used for Drinking Water in germany mainly because the potential for a disaster on the rhine is unavoidable so we couldnt guarantee supplies around the clock and there are also hygiene reasons the infiltration process filters bacteria from the water im reducing if not actually completely removing the risk of contamination in the summertime the water in the rime can be as warm as 28 degrees the infiltration ensures a temperature balance so the top priority is maintaining groundwater levels guaranteeing a clean Water Reservoir even in the event of extended drought 43000000. 00 cubic metres of water per year processed here at the main Treatment Facility in biebers heim the process is managed in monitored and controlled center which runs industries and. You need to bear in mind that this solution is only possible thanks to local geological conditions and with what we have here as a vast natural aquifer you dont get them everywhere. Across eastern germany for example there arent any natural reservoirs. So this sort of solution wouldnt work there for geological reasons and if youre looking to shut. Water from the rhine flows into these basins and this purified using a specially developed process. The response once the water has been mechanically purified in the untreated water pump station the next step is flocculation thats part of the chemical purification process a flocculation agent is added so that flocke forms which is an initially soluble then is turned into sediment and floats to the top the next step is to filter off the purified water. The facility was built 30 years ago at the time it was state of the art today its been extended to be able to cope with the increasing. Contaminants in the rhine. The water is examined for bacteria heavy metals and pesticides here in the abort in germany drinking in Irrigation Water must satisfy stringent quality standards that have based on specific micro biological parameters the facility also provides clean water to farmers such as hands yoden fish if it irrigation. The soil in the region suffers badly during heat waves lately local farmers have needed to irrigate much more than usual to secure their harvest. Around 12 percent of the water purified in the facility is a market for farmers its gone through its essential we grow onions strawberries and a step is flocculation but part of the chemical purification process a flocculation agent is added so that flock for its almost as clean as Drinking Water and that means we can sell our strawberries directly i can wholeheartedly vouch for our produce. Farmers pay between 30. 50 per cubic meter for the Irrigation Water Drinking Water would cost 10. 00 times as much says hansie of. Against a backdrop of Climate Change clean water has grown more important than ever for the region. Back to africa here in uganda but also in terms anya and kenya fish stocks in like victoria are being depleted while this one is bonded to them ours is over exploitation of Natural Resources a project with partners from 7 countries in europe and africa so forces to talk with some of these problems we went to the gun inside of leftwich toria to meet up with a team from the university of cars in germany the scientists are here told what their goal is to boast fish stocks and also show the local communities how to preserve the environment. Muhammad has been fishing off they were going to shows of little taller for more than 25 years. But. We no longer catch fish like we used to. Be Economic Impact on us then got it right now youre going to sit traps and come up empty or give just one catch a week in the old days we would get a good catch every day. The main cause for the depletion of stocks is overfishing pollution from industrial activity is another problem these issues have made it harder to meet the rise in the minds of fish 6. This has prompted some ugandans to set up fish farms. One of the Biggest Challenges is the lack of clean fresh water. Runs a fish from outside the capital kampala. To fish farming you have to keep flushing your ponds all the time so you can imagine the amount of money that was spent just to make sure that we had water running into the different points every 10000. Shes taking part in a union funded project called vision one she and the fish from us are learning about a new technology. It was developed by a team of european and african scientists the project is led by Professor John from the university of khans way in germany the team has come up with a new system drill use west water in order to cut costs while boosting efficiency. One develop a system for the market its called research aquaculture so this is to makes use of 100 percent water. Reuse. So many very friendly because theres no water going through and theres no nothing spoiling the environment and we make use of Renewable Energy in order to reduce c o 2 footprint. In the tunnel on the can and side of the lake project is already in place the water is filtered using whats known as membrane bio reactor technology. Over in uganda has been using recycled water for the last 18 months the used water is pumped into our tongue from there it flows into this busines which contain storms and sun that help clean the water. Wants to use recycled water to have big points too. So we already have a system and it has proved to be very efficient for us using the same water would maintain the same temperatures because thats also very crucial when youre watching exit to the into her cherry so for the points that still work in progress for us to see how it would be able to integrate to. Discern just like more from us recycled water ideally using Renewable Energy the professor and his team have been working on this project for the last 3 years so far their work has brought them to uganda kenya and tanzania. We want to train we want to show people and we want to see how everything develops in the future and finally very very important is we need to dept this solution for the local market so at the moment we brought a lot of ideas from europe and now we need the feedback of the local people to give us a guidance in future how can we develop a low cost system one of the ways theyre hoping to achieve that is by promoting exchange between scientists and from us. Establish best practices that boost fish stocks and protect the environment. So what we have us and see a dramatic decline in the life or since an waterways full of plastic and industrial waste surely its time for all of us to do our bit and hopefully you know how you can divide youve been watching a special edition of africa on aquatic eco systems its time for me to say goodbye from kampala here in uganda. And goodbye from me in Lagos Nigeria you can find the show on further information on our website and social media platforms and remember our oceans and waterways are just as important for the planet as the lad see you next week by. Close. To. The. Odd. When the germans colonized what is now known as the bia they brought great suffering with. The ethnic population was subjected to dispossession denigration and destruction. To this day namibia still lives on the shadows of colonialism. In 15 minutes deep look. 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