Scarcity is the reality for an increasing number of people around the world and 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 im sunk that i. And the indian have malias have 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 thin streaks creating an imbalance in the region thats going to fictional for the dogs who live in these mountains but also goals in country so founding bees mountains a community that are kind of the foothills of the him obvious has found a way to the pinch the ground water. As you walk through the crumbling ruins of dumb guy one of the hundreds of ghost will it is the sound of silence its your heart. Every family that once lived here deserted their homes and left migrating to towns and cities in search of a better life. These abandoned the structures they stand 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 syriac Climate Crisis thats growing in thousands of families and 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 the focus of goods residents had almost entirely dried. Didnt middleby to give a. Bit when if you dont 90 percent off the population living in the himalayas are living on the strings because it abusive but you follow. Just well enough possible indeed 25 years in line with the change has caused tremendous changes today in florida. Just as ours and i dont fall dealers are not. Us they can reason is deforestation and nobody. Can enable that talked about other than those old till. The. Land and. Water from pipelines only reach going to go in the early. Or the years the supply became erratic and unreliable in the knowledge that one served almost as the communitys lifeline was in a dire state at a time when the wrenching brought it back from the brink of extinction. Woman from the village community. Was one of the resolute leaders of the sponsible for her to revive under her leadership the Community Set out to understand the underlying rock structures to made it possible for the spring to exist. In the 1st place. You do Research Read the dying man who gets men and women organize themselves into a gel to meet a Water User Group again last knowledge of hydrogen gone with the aid of to run an organization working to recharge and rejuvenate on a 1000000 springs. The. Only that i have ever met 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 nearly had and i just. Never made it but i learnt about courts a drugs if i like rocks and the nates rocks i had no say thats it ok. Play a large part in the local language its called dusty town and followed its called bustling town water flows on between the rocks and that is how it comes out to the surface he did it most people dont necessarily need go ahead or loneliness. Between 20132014 the junction with the injured rock designed a host of different markets to charge and manage this springs catchment area to prevent water runoff increasing the rate of infiltration thereby enhancing the spring discharge. 20 percent of the total cost was contributed by the Water User Group in the form of journalist or 1. 00 in 3 live for months the man and women behind it work building door crunches check dams and percolation and planting hundreds of native saplings that would help augment groundwater recharge and storage. Moreover the women of. Girds. With a deep understanding of the geology of the spring should not help drug cream water groups from other will it is this i want to tell that 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 important supporters and you get to learn a lot interacting with others. Will escape it moved a little what i did you name it well he got to tell it i didnt ever think i would be able to speak so confidently and interact with important people. But maybe even i will sometimes i even feel a lack of support from her than 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 dark and in the moral reason alone the number of functional springs has reduced to one 6th of its origin the number in the last 100 years. You need to be tookie from these are smaller springs that the streams or the generic and the streams come in line to form major rivers the decline office will have it didnt affect that will eventually dry up rivers decline a lot for us to claim that is why there is a need to know more than ever to understand this spring when i were the words yardage in it so that communities in the next are not what ive been in routinely from any walk i see is in the future. But. 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 the false ones too what are you about and tackle the finite need to water or well build what sort of book in the world the city or in the desert seems 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 a movement does not recognise this and cultural but you restore. The Crystal Clear waters of a barrier a traditional indian step while this one in the western city of job poor was 1st built almost 3 centuries ago kerryn rawnsley can often be found in these peaceful changes 75 year old irishman has been working to save this little heritage. These buildings were constructed of and at the behest of maharani the other female companions of the. And they 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 300 theres water in the 52 i think is this border that with the gathering in the ground below us this is ground water just were lies in an arid region with very little rainfall the step wells were once the citys main source of peace moves have 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 theyre not just a fancy building that is usually derelict they are a 5th of this day that is priceless as an example of how people in those Sophisticated Society is ancient red your stone walls. Is now pumped into the city supply from the restored well. Karen one tree inherited his love of india from his grandfather who was posted here as an engineer in colonial times he has traveled the world and lived in several countries. But the historic city of joy poor and its ancient water wells that have given him a purpose in life. This is merely a bad job read the 1st well rawnsley cleaned during the heyday of the well as were the places female members of the royal family would congregate. Here they could swim and entertain themselves. But they were having a very elaborate you know listening to the music they would have this time to play with probably sitting around and they were i mean a very atmospheric very beautiful and local businessman is now paying for the upkeep of the bulbs and hes employing a permanent caretaker to manage them. 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. 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 at 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. Because if these resources are not concerned we will face a water crisis here. George bush says he was founded in 1459 by. The rule of then mandela state since then the rank of 4 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 the. Second they were in so much tissues that they were full of silt and wastage. Off. 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 wells. 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 theres a good enough and these places are also my mother so wherever i go i feel im dealing with i want to know for connection to the day i with my planet and with my ancestors. Carried monthly is still fine. If it was 75. 00 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 in indonesia only the world was polluted for the shooter take a look at the forest part of our mini series about this river. 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 come 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 banjo he says things werent always like this. When i was a kid the water of the sitar 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 program 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 part. Says theyve been doing in part and we meet former Television Presenter who have a rat 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 and 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 is a lot of active or had just in this area i planted like one kilometers to the right in one kilometers. To the left because it prevented it roshan its present sedimentation and at the same time purifying the water. Just 200 meters from the shore of your mom who tarata planted a garden its become a refuge for unusual found some insects indigenous to the region. The water for it comes from the sitara. Before it can be used for washing because cooking or showering its still turned in special times and also through this week grass specially for the right this is the 5 or one and we call it the miracle of grass weve planted 14 kilometers already my dream is to make 269 kilometers. Off to. d d the asian sweet grass is a highly adaptable 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 toughest tensile steel. That river also has a higher than average absorption rate of heavy metals and toxins that makes it an outstanding primary filter for plant based water treatment. As 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 clear me out of his son and this is the this is the ticker what does spring come out here and we still can mint in the cleanup of this whole place in the check out of me. I think pretty much we can say if we were better. Now each year in such a lofty goal will require stamina. But the only yielding vetiver grass also offers a good example of how to thrive despite the challenges. We have to be what care food without water all that we have to avoid pollution we have to clean up our water before be careful with our water but we also need careful what about the church and that 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 youve done. 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 life so much. 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. The next 2 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 waste water 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. To a full keys a design the hydro 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 actually also from the washing machine and then we treat it we remove also and hair and sentence and like that we 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 loupe prices start at around 3300. 00 euros its already selling in countries across europe as well as the United States and south africa. They 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 develop 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 morning tom brings Companies Like hydra loop universities and Research Institutes together to find more possibilities what we do here and what a 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 and 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 what the campus bringing new sustainable technologies to the market with help so sanity 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 the inspiration. So that it doesnt come to that ill see you again next week with many more stories from across india if you. Dont it. If. I win. A super lotto. Guy im like the must be interesting to me. Actually a culmination. In future. Oh wonderful. Faster. 15 minutes on g. W. 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