Colleague sandra hello from me to i am sandra teen of the hour here in uganda the africa well on todays show were going to visit the river thats those things live but is also a source of conflict because water is a cost and value of those who also take on the cost. Someone planted a company that used green and sustainable. In the democratic republic of congo 1000 people friendly chuckle. And a project in uganda to teach kids about the environment. Fust to the mara river it starts in kenya and it flows into left victoria. It is 400 kilometers long and it is an important resource that the 2 countries have to ship they are all over how to manage it fairly unsustainable it is the kind of conflict the to see elsewhere in africa too we went to tanzania to meet people who are walking on resolving the issues. Of. The mar river in northwestern tanzania is the lifeline for local villages. They have to travel almost 3 kilometers to collect fresh water people here only use a small amount of water for the homes livelihoods and animals but the populations upstream a growing polluting the river and putting pressure on the water supply. The bubble of pollution continues and isnt prevented the morrow river will dry up. And if it dries up it wont only affect. But also those living further up the river. They are the ones polluting the water. But its us at the low and you are mainly affected you know one or 3. Suppose the child says village chief and chair of the Water Use Association in the village the organization was set up to conserve and protect the village Water Resources but theres only so much they can do charles thinks the government needs to do more. Jumps touma is a coordinator for a project working with the government to do just stunt hes come to marsh the board to find out how much water people use and how the river has changed over time he and his team want to make sure theres enough water for People Living all along the river they want to boost biodiversity to. Go through require water for environmental flow the minimum amount of water that should be where weve been. To floor downstream and take care of. Everybody. The marker of the project is funded by the International Climate initiative and implemented by the nile basin initiative. Scientists are collecting data to form a water allocation plan and facilitate a political agreement between the kenyan and tanzanian governments they want to make sure people on both sides of the border have access to water and avoid any future conflict the Current Health of the river is an important aspect of the project the scientists examine water quantity ph balance temperature and other factors. We measure these parameters because if we find theyre outside of the correct range then we know theres pollution in the river. And that is something that would affect all the life in the river as well as other users like us human beings. Today the water ph is normal but water levels both in the wet and dry seasons have fallen over the years which could be a problem if that trend continues. A problem also for these water uses in the serengeti here the mara river provides an essential source of water for animals including more than a 1000000 will do to migrate here every year the migration brings interests and without income for tanzania the post hotel does not use the rivers water but the river does give the hotel an advantage i think. The hotel be here to be here as well because. A lot of. Trucks a lot of. A lot of come here because of the animal. Back in march the burra surprised a childs fears that could come a day when the water in the marva stops flowing. The river is very important to me because as you know without water there is no life. Only an agreement between tanzania and kenya will ensure there is a future for surprise the child and for all the people and wildlife who rely on the river. Many people in the democratic republic of congo use firewood for water to cook but that contributes to do for station and pollution so young men have developed an alternative which is more eco friendly lets see what they do in these with doing. The Business Venture a congolese vieira or green congo aims to ensure nothing goes to waste when harvesting trees sawdust paper and other organic matter is carbonized to produce charcoal young entrepreneurs and so with eastern congo only started the initiative recently they called their charcoal briquettes mark out of their. Their Michael Leavitt will see so mccullough very is designed to replace wood as a fuel. Well we need to reduce the pressure on our forests in a place you. Know for. The curb and ised waste is mixed with water starches then added to bind it together the resulting briquettes are then dried in the sun or with a machine which takes 2. 00 to 3. 00 days. The briquettes or compact and burn for longer than conventional charcoal. But is a beauty theres no difference in the way its used its a direct substitute replacing charcoal that damages nature with one that protects the environment liquid system. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit. We share your stories. What does this thing will be to me when it comes to food well it was time to be grown the rightly and that it is important for us to grow new world to me and also influenced me. Here is a company in germany that hasnt made sweets here for ages and hes now going green vegetarian and even begun it is also investing in other Food Companies heading in the same direction it thinks the market. Is going to be very he. German can be manufactured because he is starting to Venture Capital fund in downtown berlin the family owned firm hope scotches green food will encourage hip sustainable Nutrition Trends and make money at the same time thats a period i say pureed mango coconut milk here a banana a syrup lemon juice as are all the powdered cold pressed not to pasteurize by heating the innovation. In the sector is the pressure high and so heres the worlds 1st getting ready to eat as a whole. The manager of the fund to spin a vegetarian since childhood funds food projects that she believes are forward looking and environmentally friendly bacon chips without pork or hemp bars and shes prepared to invest between 200002 1000000 euros in the. Touches green food has so far invested in 8 startups among the firms theyve invested in is the porridge maker cough akasha. Have. Actually came across profited by accident they had a pop up store in the main train station and i walked past it on a sunday and tried it and found the taste fantastic i got talking to the founders and learned about their concept but we ended up investing because it was the 1st Healthy Breakfast to go on the market and yes. It marked in 2014 on the shubert open berlins 1st part bar with 2 friends they wanted to offer Something Different from the bakery chains and i thought its always easier to sell something with meat a breakfast with hand will sell people want that but there are enough existing concepts that offer it already we dont have to. 40000. 00 portions of powerage across hoffer counters counters every month odes fruit and nuts are challenging meats dominance. When we started we renovated just small kebab shop that we scraped all the fat off the walls and said lets start our part business after a few months we took part in an Accelerator Program run by german rail they were looking for startups to make train stations more appealing it was mostly tech firms with a few companies we were one of them and they were impressed by our part of. Their concept is simple tick. That have been in europe for centuries and add different toppings and fruits. When Anna Schubert and her cofounders were given the cash injection from conscious green food they made the leap to become a chain. The good food is now a trend in german cities this shows where most begin foodstuffs are being rolled out 15 percent of Global Market launches take place in germany closely followed by the United Kingdom in the United States in spain in france its only 4 percent so a market for wealthy countries but there is more to it if any witnesses i wish there was wider awareness of the relationship between nutrition and the environment that such an important point and we need to become more aware of it when i believe were just at the beginning especially in germany and in the United States people are already 2 years further along in terms of consciousness making for. Germany maybe catching up fast but for the time being Sustainable Food trends remain a nice market for young and well heeled urban foodies. Now mamma. Elephant in swahili it also is an affectionate little women call each other and they mean it literally some of them track the animals and do what they can to keep the car wheels free for them to move about that helps to keep the elephants safe from harm but also and shows that both the humans and the animals have enough access to discuss resources like water. Its early in the morning in some county kenya boitano is taking have families animals out to the grazing fields but thats just one job shell do today. As a few accessories for her next job as a what life conservationist. She is the leader over women group popularly known as mama timbales mother of elephants their task is to monitor the movements of the big animals. One. At 5 am i do my chores and then get my children ready for school at 8 am i pick up my data forms and the g. P. S. And walk to the wildlife corrido we dont just observe elephants but the other animals to. Get the elephants are still their primary interest the paki dams are endangered in kenya alone between the early 1970 s. And 19 months his then numbers dropped 90 percent but here in the columb a Community Wildlife conservancy numbers are now increasing one reason is that pack off have identified and signposted what life and lifestyle corridos elephants often pass through the area but left alone use the route they can lead to conflate the mama temple take note of where animals tend to congregate as well as any trace of illegal settlements or traps set by poachers antelope trucks. I mean one Conservation Organization has provided the women with g. P. S. Devices and data sheets the fact that antelope came through here is a good sign an elephant is just an umbrella species is a big animal and if an elephant has enough space to survive enough space to whom around. No doubt other small animals will go under a fence and this is why we its been elephant and also the data that we have it coming from elephant. Things are quiet today but that doesnt mean the women arent on the lookout they want to protect wild animals but they also have to watch out for themselves. Why not my dog i want animals adventurous we have lions elephants and other dangerous animals and they do feel anxious as i walk alone. Another source of worry is porches they can service equal lets the skull of slaughtered any malls but they are finding fewer and fewer of them. Life has become a little more secure for the majestic beasts sounds to the presence of drink as. The console is in fact. Of creating a commodious what the disposal areas. Are in a very secure environment. Because our security is so sure. The troll just bottle. And there they are an entire herd with a drop in porch ng they have become more relaxed in the presence of people. We have discovered that the elephant is a friend here anymore and this has also helps the community because the animals have now become very social in the past the wouldnt pass new homes because every time they passed the would be killed but nowadays they passed new homes without any human interference. In the evening pion returns to her foster job have family depends on it the small son she receives from one litter in the elephants is a welcome extra income but contributing to the protection of the elephants is a reward in itself. So going to digital has made our lives easier in many ways value has also had its downside in rwanda there was no tax on a number of Electronic Devices and nicety based gadgets and thats led to a massive increase in electronic waste in recent years now we disappeared from the world bank the Rwandan Government has opened a state of the art dismantling and recycling facility close to the capital kigali not only protect the environment it also provides jobs. Every round and school child will have a laptop soon thanks tony location Police Initiative but what happens to all that electronic waste when it stops working each of the 450 pupils in this school in bogus sarah really does have a lot to fulfill us not all of those and many are recycled all the models which breakdown get prepared. With. Good reason this is not to use because to help us to expand on the ridge. The whole country is committed to recycling dommage and discarded Electronic Devices in hospitals schools government offices and companies picked up by employees in virus of an International Recycling company. They hardly is taken to environs saabs plants are 60 kilometers. From the capital kigali here its recycled and restored its one of the biggest plants of this kind of africa. We want to have. The horses to. Go by system for in a 20 west management to stop british and london thats thats our main. Our main target and we want rhonda to be a model for for other countries not so many countries have. This kind of facility in viruses Business Model is to sell their refurbished equipment more than 50 people in walk here showing him it ever since he started walking with one virus of collecting ive been able to support my from line up and they get no insurance and had no problem doing that for me childrens education of. Your with. Rhonda is seen as the i. T. Innovation hobby in east africa thats why this sector is attractive to the Younger Generation it attracts people like that it were all eric. He left school early but began collecting electronic was 2 and he was 17 now he has his own company employing 35 people. To get you to get a good we buy these electronics from different places and from people who dont need each year to buy for us these electronics are valuable after collection we saw the electronic equipment to separate the ones which can be reused and resold after being repaired. If you take one mark the government wants to make sure the countryside doesnt get clogged up with abandon illust so it has imposed strict regulation. As it was set up by the hobble. Technology we want seduce developing in this as a level way with the green valley his. Riverfront or technology because we want to see our countries there. Looking but with minimal impact in terms of environmental consequences back at school the laptops are given to pupils for free. Since you are started using. Many things has changed. The student have started to knowing that he did this source of information in these and it is not only they did a pretty become no longer i imagine life without them and they know these laptops wont go to list but to be recycled so most to dance can defeat to. The us. Pollution on the Climate Crisis harming our world the future of our children is at stake so when the young people stand up and demand that i dont take responsibility the world sits up and listens just think of greater than bad and fridays for future environment 3600 in ghana but supports so cool the economies it teaches children about recycling and Green Technologies and the pulse of what belongs to the funny kids can be great influences. Saying larry lopez live once a week at cut about Junior High School the kids have a class on environmental studies. Where riyad us around this when the place is what we need to sleep you feel sorrow decide whats going to. Yes. Fall sick. You. Must get those of moods ah this is in the class the young people on things like how to properly separate trash for recycling them want to harvest the west they discovered that paper and plastic our neighbor sauces that come this. Sold for cash income from them has helped finance projects and Study Materials and the school. d there is only about recalls home says they used to put all rubbish is the simplest realize lol says the so they came back to come and fix them how to salt when to do its. Because of bottles and such its because it generates income from them so much. When the content is a food theyre picked up by the ngo and barrowman 360 s is set up the Initiative Environment 360 is a mixture of n. G. O. S and company and income is reinvested in new programs last year we were right at 150 or so tonnes of plastics not think about 200 tonnes of paper with is this essentially was able to support all 43 schools on our recycling program we employ 13 people at environment 360 so 10 of those have actually been paid out for the rest cycling services. This is a 10 minute town a poor settlement outside that has a container on one side and enough to park on the other this is where environment 360 has said time please fast recycling center throughout the day steady stream of people brings me to you they have got that in their districts here for sorting and weighing up to 5 tonnes of plastic a month the company pays by kilo caution and interesting rule is make 10 minute a plastic a plastic with 3 communities everywhere you go Everybody Knows about with money demand signal beaten and then didnt know how to manage. Waste and rudin see plastics just lying down i dont care to tama has been. Out and about in this land since early this morning the single mother of 5 doesnt have a lot of options when it comes to making money. I mow it up i didnt have modeled them i have had them on the model on the women in the community some of them sell water at the south provisional fruits others go to the fishing harbor to buy fish which they smoke and sell but now a lot of them pick waste on their way back home to what not love apple. You have 1. 00 a gallon. Environment 360 well pick up the food sacks later. Back at quite a bobby Jr High School is out for the day time to gather up the west thats ended up in the school yard in the course of the day. Dont forget to wash your hands afterwards nowadays these kids in gonna clean up the west they have produced as a matter of cause. Weve reached the end of the show walked with interesting environment stories and inspiring ones and we hope they will be the killings towards over a beautiful wild it is a good bye for me. In kampala uganda apollo both pick up. And buy buy from me in Lagos Nigeria if you have any questions or comments do write so wasnt social media over email would like to hear from you or you find the addresses in the credits where love to hear from you again until next time its bye bye. Climate neutrality the 25th. Energy pioneers opera pairing forest. Green deal is attracting real money from. The city and goodbye c o 2 is just one way the climate killer can even be recycled post and replace crude oil. Made in germany. 30 minutes on d w. S so as europe the european idea is in crisis. If its to have a future it will mean champions young champions meet foreign journalists for countries. They play or function for the train. They stand a chance can they safely european idea. In 75 minutes on t w. Grappling with some tricks. 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