Its even been bought a car was more than 70 percent of the earth suffers from todays episode lets dig why this happens and how we can change it alone welcome to equal india song that i call the indian to malias over 3000000 Natural Springs and this is the primary source of water for the people who live here but Climate Change air pollution and deforestation has dried up a large number of these thinly and streaks creating an imbalance in the region that could affectionately dogs who live in these mountains but also goals in contrast surrounding these mountains a community that are kind of the foothills of the humongous has found a way to the plaintiffs the ground water. As you walk through the crumbling ruins of dumdum one of the hundreds of ghost willet the sound of silence hits you hard. Every family that once lived here deserted their homes and migrating to towns and cities in search of a better life. These abandoned structures down as grim reminder of the frightening reasons for the. One that may not seem obvious in. A post months. The groundwater table beneath dumb god has receded Economic Growth a symptom of a serious Climate Crisis thats growing in thousands of families in villages like this. Roughly down kilometers away willage was headed towards a similar fate a few years ago. The fun in a knowledge or Natural Spring but a meal source of water a focal goods residents had almost entirely dried. Didnt middleby to give. A bit when it you dont 90 percent of the population living in the himalayas are liberal on the strings we got abusive but you follow. Just well enough possible indeed 25 years in line when a change has caused tremendous changes today in florida. Are saying fall rains are not. Yes they can reason is deforestation and nobody. Can enable thats up to walk out of the jungle double. The. Water from pipelines only reach going to go in the early. Or the years the supply became erratic and unreliable and the knowledge that one served almost as a community is lifeline was in a dire state at a time when the wrenching brought it back from the brink of extinction. Of women from the Village Community sorry that davy but was one of the resolute leaders of the sponsible started to revive under her leadership the Community Set out to understand the underlying rock structures that made it possible for the spring to exist. The 1st class but then again. You seem to respect the dying not. Man and women organize themselves into a just me i want to use a group again last knowledge of hydrogen gone with the aid of to run an organization working to recharge and redo going to. Bring. The name but i get better by only that i remember that underneath our spring there are 3 types of rocks found our date. I learned this in my training it was something i never knew before totally really had and i just. Never made it but i learnt about courtside rocks if i like rocks and the nays rocks. Play a large part in the local language is called dusty town and firelight is called busselton water flows undertrained the rocks and that is how it comes out to the surface he did it most people dont necessarily need a head or long list. Between 20132014 the the injured are designed a host of different matters to charge and manage this brings catchment area to prevent water runoff increasing the rate of its infiltration thereby enhancing the spring discharge. 20 percent of the total cost was contributed by the Water User Group in the form of journal. For one in 3 live for months the man and women were hard at work building door crunches check dams and percolation and planting hundreds of native saplings that would help augment ground water recharge and storage. Moreover the women of. Girds. With a deep understanding of the geology of the spring should not help draw crane water groups from other will it is this is what i tell it they. Got it you know i really enjoy the process of exchanging knowledge because it is important for us to know how things are done and get important supporters we get to learn a lot interacting with others. Will escape it moved a little what i did you have got to tell it i didnt ever think i would be able to speak so confidently and interact with important people. But you maybe you can i will but sometimes i even feel a lack of support from for them my community but i feel proud when i hear someone say that im an impoverished person. But there is a long road ahead in the revival of a 1000000 this brings the problem appears especially grim in the talk and in the more reason alone the number of functional springs has reduced to one 6th of its origin a number in the last 100 years. You need to be tookie from the smallest springs to streams or the generic and beauty streams come in line to form major rivers the decline office will have it there didnt you think that will eventually dry up the ones you claim a lot of you love the clay and that is why there is a need to know more than ever to understand this. Spring when i were the words yardage in it well so that communities in the next are not what i had been in room only seem from any walk i see is in the future. But. Goods budding hybrid jala just represent what this possible need for communities with the knowledge and do to manage their natural resources. We in the 21st century on what the false ones to what are you about and tackle the finite need to water over a little bit what sort of luck in the city or in the desert scenes about just what had hundreds of made water bodies and were part of india or listerine water harvesting systems but with modernization the no longer the primary source of water for people i was one does not recognize this and cultural back and restore. The Crystal Clear waters of a barry a traditional indian step while this one in the western city of job poor was 1st built almost 3 centuries ago currently rawnsley can often be found in these peaceful change as the 75 year old irishman has been working to save this local heritage. For these buildings were constructed of the behest of not done is the other female companions of them are around. Being concerned always about water and the Border Security of the common population and fit is good only exists when water was harvested reliably and hygienic free and the best quarter in 52 i would think is this the border that we see gathering in the ground below us this is ground water just for lies in an average region with very little rainfall the step wells were once the citys main source of clean water but with the arrival of pumps to extract ground water the old well systems fell into disuse and filled up with dirt and trash. Ruins lee helped clean out this bury a year ago restoring it to its former glory. Fibro. For these places because they are precious heritage truly precious just a fancy building derelict they are a system of harvesting that is priceless as an example of how people in those Sophisticated Society is ancient red your stone wall it. Is now pumped into the city supply from the restored well. Karen rawnsley inherited his love of india from his grandfather who was posted here as an engineer in colonial times hes traveled the world and lived in several countries. But its historic city of joy and poor and its ancient water wells that have given him a new purpose in life. This is merely a bad job read the 1st well rawnsley cleaned during the heyday of the well as with the places female members of the royal family would congregate. Here they could swim and entertain themselves. But it would have been a very. Business thing to them they would have their families play is probably sitting around and they were made a very atmospheric place very beautiful and local businessman is now paying for the upkeep of the barbs and hes employed a permanent caretaker to manage them. He let it cool karen rawnsley also helps out with his expertise. But not everyone appreciates the importance of this Historic Site which is often strewn with plastic bags and other trash. George poor has more than 500 historic bodies of water that the city could still be making new cells today. Several awareness programs are held by some organizations of different levels. Still we see cases where people tried to damage the walls pollute the water. We have to stop it now were witnessing the water crisis in many parts of the world. If these resources are not conserved will face a water crisis here. Just because he was founded in 1459 by. The rule of then mandela state since then the rank of ford is the identity of the city. The trust which manages the food is also providing funds and other support to step restoration. That it gets broadly speaking we have 2 challenges. But 1st the lack of Awareness Among the people. d the. Second they were in so much tissues that they were full of silt and wastage of the. Soft. They could only have been cleaned manually. Cannot use machines there. But then the use of the city and some organizations came together and they started to clean and conserve the step well as. Karen runs the son and daughter live in the United Kingdom but he says the wells of joy poor have also become like family to him. I havent a mother in my heart and then and these places outside of my mother so wherever i go i dont feel any. I want to know for connection with my planet and with my ancestors. Carried monthly is still fight. You know if it was 75 and wants to spend many more years saving indias step wells. We are not correct equally that we cant exist without water but today our oceans rivers and lakes are more polluted than ever small groups of people around the world are trying to change this little by little we met one such group of indonesia only the world was polluted the shit errol didnt look at a false part of our mini series about the civil. This entire room river connects the says youve been doing with the megacity jakarta. Traditionally its been the source of life for the people of west java. At the markets next to the fruit and vegetables there are still fish that come from its waters. But for years residents have been urgently warned not to eat them around 280. 00 tons of unfiltered Chemical Waste that comes from the textile industry daily have gradually poisoned the rivers ecosystem. 60 percent of the creatures once found in the sitara river have disappeared in the last 30 years. The waste here comprises heavy metals and toxins like cadmium copper chrome mercury and lead after being eaten by fish these poisonous materials end up in the human food cycle yana him arena has lived his entire life in bondo he says things werent always like this. When i was a kid the water of the sitara was clear so i could get fish for our food. In the afternoon so my parents asked me to get fish i just got naked and jumped into the river to catch the fish with. Just my bare hands. The programme sitar on her room has been active since february of 2018 it aims to return the rivers water to drinking quality alongside the military several n. G. O. S are taking parse says theyve been doing in part and we need former Television Presenter who have a rot the founder of the Award Winning project sitar im kara started to clean the banks of the river a few years ago she also started a garden nearby thats watered with plant filtered water from the sitara river. Started 5 years ago im before this is the mountain of garbage we have people littering to the river we have 2000 factories dumping out the poisonous water the waste water and most of them are not being treated they just dump it into the water now you can see that there was a lot of 5 of or heard just in this area i planted like one kilometers to the right in one kilometers. To the left because it prevented it roshan its refined sedimentation and at the same time period the water. Just 200 meters from the shore of your mom who tarata planted a garden its become a refuge for unusual plants and insects indigenous to the region. The water for it comes from the sitara. Before it can be used for watering the garden cooking or showering it still turned in special times and also through this sweet grass specially for all right this is the 5 or one. And we call it the miracle of grass were planted at 14 kilometers already my dream is to make 260000000 kilometers off to. d d the asian sweet grass is a highly at dr bill plant. It can survive harsh conditions in toxic water is. After being planted on the banks it rapidly develops roots that can grow as much as 4 metres deep and its tough as tense ill feel. Better for also have a higher than average absorption rate of heavy metals and toxins that makes it an outstanding primary filter for plant based water treatment. Most faithful companion is i. T. Specialist Julius Robinson he regularly observes the projects progress his pride and joy is the source of the sitara reverences santy the entire bank is covered with that of our plants the collaboration between sitar and care in the military started here 2 years ago. Julius is optimistic. If we can copy pastes the cleaning out of tucson and this is the this is the Ticket Holder what does bring a come out here and we still can maintain the clean up of this whole place into the shit out of me. Ive been pretty much we can say if we were better. Now wed see in such a lofty goal will require stamina. But the only yielding vetiver grass also offers a good example of how to strive despite the challenges. We have to be care food without water. We have to avoid pollution we have to clean up our water and beef to be careful with our water but we also need. And that we have to clean water and bring it back into the cycle. For these children water is a basic right that here in the netherlands comes easily from the tap. Ok. As it does for chip and eve to wash their hands even so this family knows just how valuable water is. Water is really important with no water you cant drink and you die alone the washing machine is fed with the Household Waste water which has been purified by a machine called the hydro loop and app tells dad jaan vinum schoolin and when theres enough recycled water to use. The only thing is that we do. This to get. Our lifestyle is much sponsible for saving water with the machine. An average family of 4 in the netherlands uses up to 191000 liters of water per year. Hydro loop says its clients use around 45 percent less. When we came to live here and us having kids we were you thinking about ok how can we make this world better also for our kin for the next 2 and to inherit the earth after us and this is when we thought ok we have to be smart and think i had. Water seems to be abundant in the netherlands around 60 percent of Domestic Water here comes from the ground the rest is surface water. Once used in homes wastewater is treated and then returned to the rivers and oceans but treatment takes a lot of energy and water is also lost along the way. But to a full keizer designed the hydra loop a decentralized water recycling system that means part of the process is done in your own home this system doesnt use filters instead using 6 steps to treat and clean the waste water to International Standards we collect the water from the shower and optionally also from the washing machine and then we treat it we remove all soap and hair and sentencings like that with disinfected so its safe and then you can reuse it again for your washing machine to flush the toilets and for your garden the water can only be recycled once and cant be used for drinking hydro loot prices start at around 3300 euros its already selling in countries across europe as well as the United States and south africa. It can be retrofitted into older buildings or built directly into new systems. Aims to take the business further. To the next stage is that we want to do fill up cooperation with companies in countries like India Bangladesh with local Production Companies so that we can start producing our products together with them in those countries where its. Has less cost to produce it so it can also be introduced in these markets at a lower price globally water is becoming ever more scarce recycling waste water is 1. 00 option. At the water campus in the city of lloyd managing director hein mullen compering Companies Like hydra loop universities and Research Institutes together to find more possibilities what we do here and what the compass is in fact helping companies celebrate developments go to the market and that is from one side market demand but also what is the ideas within the companies themselves and at the end of the day she would bring their product to market. Work at the water campus is funded in part by the Companies Developing the products along with the Regional Government and the European Commission among Others Companies find the expertise to test and develop their ideas and products in International Concerns and start ups its a process that could normally take decades but here firms are helping to speed that up. The general picture is more for how can we help being more the campus bringing new sustainable technologies to the market with help sociality with solving the big issues in the world like how do we produce more food do we make sure that senator ration is healthy for the school and children water for now has slipped from their minds but that can easily change. With water becoming a scarce resource in many regions learning how to save water could be the key to making sure they and other children like them continue to have a future to look forward to. Many experts believe that the walls of the future will be fought for what i hope to be sure has given me the inspiration. So that it doesnt come to that ill see you again next week with many more stories from across india. And obit. Look look at. Whats going on here oh i see the house of your for me only from a printer. Computer games that are healing. My dog needs electricity. Just explains the letters facts and shows what the future holds oh yeah living in the Digital World shifts. On d w. Ws crime fighters are back africas most successful radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech cholera prevention and sustainable charcoal production. All of this is are Available Online and of course you can share and discuss on africas Facebook Page and other social media platforms. Crime fighters to mindanao. Ok. I require. An angle so that any i know about the movement of. The us at. First but as i am a bunch of us. I guess im. Just cut. Out other than yes i am a loner. And i will call when. I will fire. But. There my i want. Well worming gag on look at that i will read them what am i. What i am. Theres. No. Prime minister warns the u. K. To prepare for a no deal with the European Union johnson says the e. U. Is refusing to give britain a trade deal like the one it has with canada which the u. K. Wants to keep maintains a no deal will happen unless there is a fundamental change of position. The World Health Organization casts doubt on the effectiveness of a. Patients perceived your for the 1st time but the. Medication does not increase the survival. Welcome to the program british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson es warning that the u. K. Must prepare for a no deal breaker unless there is a quote fundamental change of position from the European Union he says the e. U. Wont give britain a trade like the one it has with canada which the u. K. Wants as well e. U. Leaders have dismissed johnsons statement as rhetoric and since we have only 10 weeks until the end of the transition period. I have to make a judgment about. Come. Already. And given that they have refused to negotiate seriously for much of the last few months and given that this summit appears explicitly to rule out a kind of the star will deal ive concluded that we should get ready for january the 1st with a range moves that are more like australias based on simple principles of global free trade british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson there lets bring in our correspondents in london and brussels very good mohsin alexandra. Berg it lets start with you what do you make of johnsons statement but hes not completely abandoning the talks and the speculation here in london is that talks will continue next week and that this somehow is an exercise to save face because johnson had over its merely said that there is a deadline that this summit is at that line for him but the proof will be in the putting would have to see whether next week these talks will really continue the Prime Minister has promised as always promised that there is an avenue ready deal with brussels to be made thats the basis that he was and that acted on this private stuff and now its proving not as easy as he had promised say for he had made c. N. N. Its its an exercise in trying to save his face and a lot is that stake because the economy would be really really hot if there was no one to affect it. Alexander all of us the leaders met in brussels today as you surely know what was the reaction to johnsons statement. German chancellor Angela Merkel reacted soberly with her typical no nonsense attitude she said that important to continue the talks that the best option for everyone to strike a deal but she also added that if thats not going to happen the European Union the would have to plan for alternatives i tried to press her a little bit with a follow up to get the direct reaction to. Demand but she just told me that shes not negotiating through the media it was french president emanuel not cold who was more outspoken he told the press that its not the job of the European Union to make Boris Johnson happy and that the british people were misled to believe that its a repeat union who really wants a deal he said. Its a k. That needs a deal more that the European Union clear signal from brussels here that they are determined to continue the negotiations they want a deal but not at any price. Johnson Spokesman Says the talks or over the e. U. Shift its position is just another tactic to increase pressure you think. Well yes you went a step further than that Prime MinisterBoris Johnson had just a couple of hours before and definitely increasing pressure on the European Union but they were not a band talks lightly and we will have to see how this plays out over the weekend whether the talks will actually go ahead next week and the speculation is that they will we know that a lot of Business Leaders of reading him prorating the Prime Minister not to abandon these talks because the economic long term consequences of a new idea of braggs it could really be very very rough for the u. K. The countries are already hit very hard to cope its a big recession and its history and if there was a long time put on the putting on the brakes of investments due to break that that would really hit the u. K. Economy hard it could be mass unemployment for example in the Manufacturing Sector so the Prime Minister will not abandon these talks lightly. Bergen i want to stay in london there for a moment because boards johnson of course as you just referenced is facing a growing coronavirus pandemic he issued a stark warning today if tougher restrictions are not implemented take a listen to what he had to say no one wants to have to implement these measures which damage local businesses could tell you individual freedom and impose significant strains on Peoples Mental Health but these decisions were necessary because of the rate to be increased not just of infections but also in hospitalize ations and admissions to intensive care we dont actually there is no doubt that our really chase would soon be struggling to treat the sheer number of people seriously do we could bring it just how bad is the situation in britain and whats the outlook. Well at the moment its really quite dire there are statistics out used to states and they estimate that almost 30000 people every day and thats just in england get infected so thats of course a huge number if you look into the european context and we know that its the Health Service that could really be overwhelmed quite quickly we know from doctors in the north of england they are warning about their day their hospitals are nearing the breaking point we had from Northern Ireland another region apart from england that is hard hit we know that we have reports that some hospitals have to stop other procedures other elective procedures so that of course this is harming the people and the discussion at the moment here in the u. K. Is what is the best measure is it may be necessary to go to another Strict Lockdown as we have seen earlier in the year at the moment the Prime Minister has judged that he doesnt want to do it but he hasnt excluded it for the future so we have to watch this space. Correspondents for good monsters and alexander phenomena really appreciate your time thank you. A new study by the World Health Organization is casting doubt on the effectiveness of the drug desart fear in treating covert 19 results suggest that the u. S. Developed antiviral medication does not increase the survival rate of covert patients or help reduce the length of their hospital stays from deaths of your received emergency approval in the u. S. After earlier studies showed the drugs help speed up recovery the medication has been touted by President Donald Trump who was treated with it during his own hospitalization with the krona virus. We can now hear from catherine small words shes a senior emergency officer at the World Health Organization and she joins us from copenhagen a welcome to news i guess the 1st questions a simple one how big a deal is this. Thank you for having me on its significant announcements and thats based on a significant amount of research through a massive Clinical Trial called the solidarity trial that the theatre has been working to coordinate with over 30 Different Countries and in this trial in fact over 5000 patients were involved in the end as of their own so we do have a lot of data on these results all interim results and they compared hospitalized patients against the current standard of care in 3 areas so that included mortality it included the time taken to. To be placed on ventilation i was included in the overall hospitalized time that the patients. Were put through and for all 3 of those results to show that the comparison that i get standard of cat was not significant so they are quite important announcements to make and the trial will continue with them doesnt theyre continuing to to be. As one of the arms of the trial and well have the details and results to share in due course i wonder at this stage in your in your research or in your studies you can answer this question but i think its an important one so yes of year doesnt increase patient survival rate nor does it shorten hospital say it stays so what does this highly touted drug actually do. Well that remains to be seen and there are other trials. That run through other countries and to other Research Groups that are looking at the the use of the most sim in other types of patients and that might include patients with less disease that are not hospitalized so thats an important cabinet to make that this information and the data thats being used currently by debris is really limited to those patients that have a disease thats that 19 that is severe enough to be facing them in hospital in the 1st place catherine small word from the w. H. O. Really appreciate your joining us your work thank you very much for its now highlight some of the other stories that are making news around the world at this hour do you leaders have condemned turkeys decision to again dispatcher ship into disputed waters in the Eastern Mediterranean german chancellor Angela Merkel called the action regrettable deployed a Research Boat close to greek islands to look for possible gas reserves. Security forces in thailand have used water cannon to disperse prodemocracy demonstrators thousands rallied in defiance of a ban there calling for reforms to the constitution and monarchy again for the Prime Minister to step down thailand is facing its most serious unrest in a decade. Former president french president Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a new charge over Campaign Finance scandal prosecutors have accused hosey of criminal conspiracy they allege she finances 27. 00 campaign with money from libya hes already on trial over the affair so denies the charges. U. S. President donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden have been answering questions from voters at separate televised events held at the same time on different t. V. Channels the socalled town Hall Meetings replaced the 2nd president ial debate which was canceled after trump was diagnosed with coded 19 and then refused to conduct the debate online the rivals have very different approaches. Always confident at times defensive as the incumbent u. S. President donald trump now has a record to pick apart and he got a grilling starting out with the nations biggest crisis a coronavirus. I knew it was a big threat at the same time i dont want to panic this country i dont want to go out and say everybody is going to die everybody is going to air it ok you dont know obviously but you can you know know is not going to get and more contentious exchanges as trump made exaggerated claims about voter fraud and deflected criticism over his tax returns and his position on White Supremacy rush into it youve done this one everybody seen like i do now its White Supremacy ok i didnt say that supremacy for years my position at the same time on a different channel a different tone thomas challenger joe biden offered a forceful rebuke of trumps Pandemic Response it was the president s responsibility to lead and he didnt do that he didnt talk about what needed to be done because he kept worrying and my view about the stock market we make up 4 percent of the worlds population we have 20 percent of the worlds tests were in a situation where we have 210. 00 plus 1000 people dead and whats he doing nothing hes still not worried mask and so on because at times that bite and he entered but he did deliver clear punch lines on a number of issues including Foreign Policy if they will and before the election you are open greeba most effective as a world leader in my humble opinion not just by the exercise of our power most powerful nation in the world but the power of our example thats whats led the rest of the world to follow us calling factor trading blows remotely the 2 candidates will again face off at the final Election Debate next week about making a force that. In formula one vietnams 1st grand prix will have to weigh. The race has been officially called off because of the virus organizers were hoping to stage the event next month but say the continuing uncertainty makes it impossible all tickets will be refunded. Youre watching news from berlin up next rob watts with the Business News dont forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website. Dot com. Well have more news at the top of the hour. With him how to be. If i had known to them would be a small