Because they knights of nations, once flemish police and make his foot water out of the heart of the plans. Weve put water at the heart of the show about sustainable whats in management. Lets take a look. The below and she is in ivory coast, getting the homes dotsie to protect the neighborhood from flooding. Why once furnish island is hunting to folk just sole eats what the problem and how droughts heat. So my kids and look into the seats to get the precious drinking supplies. What to in wrenches our lives in so many ways in kenya, both sides of households dont have any electricity which folds by businesses and flemings in the daily task. Bonds in some areas, the res of policy goals, the east closer most sustainable and more affordable than you might expect. This is the Gardner River in central kenya, is the main shrewd retreat of the countrys long history. The populace quotes the water recreation. Its also helping to generate electricity. This wilderness come so to risk, for example, of his own hydropower turbines. For more than 10 years, rid of water is type 30 to power the water wheel when the time ive seen it, does it have a 50 now . Yes. When the high water, im 20 flow, what size the yes its source through the is less us. Then. Then what i said is the best. And when the what the level is a high, we are able to use this in freeze as freeze in sun show as under lighting. Energy studies thing to that generating electricity locally using hydro power has huge potential, especially in remote areas that are difficult to electrify. Like the mountain is mironda county here too. Theres plenty of older available to generate power with. The beauty with more on light is one of the reasons that these, the last few of no frequent flaws. What the flows because of the fever. But as tropical condition, the experience has a lot of rain. So give me a moment can yeah, so these, these a lot of favorable conditions that really supports the communities in those areas to be able to identify needs to be, to invest in such many types of projects. The key figure in bringing hydro power to the region is joe mcgee, right. He started out building small turbines to provide power to his community event. And up with the belgian businessman to find the company and scaling the technology. So mcgee was, its a dream country. He grew up with idols, electricity in by for you to do the i was no and the connection over the file. I did that. It was north for a and also then nothing a bit. So they made chatted. What was the thing about that was do my sunday, i could not mainly give access to the power. I was easy that time using that, but i think im like hydro electric dams. These clones dont decline. Knowledge mess applies, or the re sacrament of entire villages. Part of the reserve is simply re directed down this loose way. It speeds fast enough to rotate turbines. Before being channeled back to the river. The electricity is fed into a network of lines across the region with this relatively simple system, like a rolling, his team is supplying power to 9500 households and 35 schools and businesses. We are also improve them in because a here over the funding, because right now they can use the same activities to pump the what the to the, to the a whole. Although they havent been whats a down mentally improve it, visited the region. It will event of the education because they could be up to now to lot of this today, good. We need to be able to do it on our end because they have the power just of a 75 percent of people in kenya currently have access to electricity. But even those connected to the National Grid con, always be sold at power will be available when they need it. As pharmacy, you know to well, oh no, yeah. We were connected to the National Grid power, but it would often fail when it would cut out to the side and i put on hitched eggs would be in our bathroom. But my, when the electricity went off, i called the chicks. We did, i said we made a last look. The cool. Thats why we decided to get connected to mcgills grid. Is it to find a but it doesnt have cuts deal my, you know, high for k. This t factory has also signed up for jo mcgee rose high to of highway to avoid the wrecking that al digits. Central kenya is famous for its t processing. That leaves is energy intensive. So a reliable source of power is key. If we dont have the power to almost abrupt and effective equality of all of that to you, but not with the state more power, we are able to pro deals in a very its done that way. The quality of the of that is acceptable at globally and also helps in the improving also the price on that date and translates to additional income ultimate to least to the, from the long periods of dreamt do need to less power when water levels and know its headlines how the very tight and sometimes get clunk with debris to to come to this problem, the wilderness come decided to add solar panels to its power. Next, the hydro books team i will say, pursuing the same principle, but on a much larger scale that hydro electric power plant is covet, insightful tank panels, which helped to keep your net just the slowing when water levels, i know it is not like that the, that i was the nice charging the member i need to the talk about 5 giving me the because of the, the grid is the by the rising. Now, 99 processed and visited during the i connected, the increases joe mcgee really made his 1st simple turbine as a child using hawks on his brothers bicycle. Since then hes never lost his loss of hydro power. Now is one time hobby is benefiting the entire region. Its great to have an abundance supply of water nearby bottom. In a roughly expanding cities, it can be a problem. Only about 15 percent of households in ivory Coast Commercial capital hooked up to drainage on sonia station 50. Thats right, sandra, and thats bad news. When havent room full comes and brings flooding water, bone diseases, volunteers and one pause if i be young with determined to make it the friends. You can see how they do this in this weeks doing your big a b. I le cro settlement and ive been john is a now low lying district, sewage from high areas fluids into the neighborhood. A big problem, especially during the rainy season. I la cro doesnt have a functioning drainage and sanitation system. But it does have its own sanitation brigade, which has built a run off canal because when we had the idea of building the canals, we have the water come in this way and go out that way. The sanitation brigade really gets no sleep when it rains because theyre always ready. Uh cuz when somethings blocking, you have to unblock it quickly to avoid any real damage that they go. The volunteers dont just have to work. When it rains, the drainage canal has to be cleared regularly since it was built that has been fall, few of floods here. But the last section of the canal still needs to be built. The popular method people had to put their hands in their pockets so that we could build this. Now the idea is to extend it to really avoid flooding from our lives and on the sale. The volunteers have off 700. 00 local households to contribute a monthly fee. They even remove the trash in the area. Dedication that people hear. Welcome. Okay, so they keep the neighborhood clean. All thats why we support them. Sandra is that the sanitation brigade and la crew didnt want to wait until the all star seeds took action to help the neighborhood. They sold the problem themselves and that has improved the lives of those around the end. How about you . If youre also doing your bit, tell us about it, visit our website. Hash tag doing your bit. We share your story. Of course, what a shortage is becoming more and more frequent in many places in the world including europe. It could become such a precious result. The researches in switzerland or bridget trying to erupt good crops without wasting a single drop. Filippo ne is research or at the switch center of excellence for Agricultural Research or agro scope. He has been ideas about how to preserve water is your 1st good on the important goal is finding the right amount of water adapt so we can use as little of it as possible for irrigation loss to achieving the best possible while it was able to pull out the mayo objective, cutting that monique is working on a drip irrigation system. For orchards. Each tree needs a little more than 12 leaders per day and using the right amount in the right places helps conserve water. Your thoughts reminds me of an australian publication which demonstrated that drip irrigation can reduce water us by 50 percent to discuss cycle and for someone do. Other studies may be less optimistic, but all of them come to the same conclusion. Drip irrigation is an efficient method of distributing water to fruit trees, especially when used in combination with ground sensors. To separate sensors at different depths and the ground measure its moisture. When the phone gets to dry, the sensors send out the signal indicating that the tree needs water. The signal triggers the watering system up to 3 times a day. Monet has conducted trials on 30 different fields, and hes developed a fully automatic irrigation system. It prevents waste and guarantees high yields. Just call the we are in a part of the more charity that for experimental reasons, like we having direct gated laws in newton. How scholastic, currently, fortunately, observe, is that the fruit here is not only small, its not the best quality guntee the produce 0 in terms of 1st choice that would cost to grow or tens of thousands of francs per hector in the income loss of weight that they will deliver new port of the product of the drought is noticeable between the trees the dry summer has caused major problems with these trees have died if they hadnt been irrigated ill provide the cold. Yeah. Do to show you how long a treatment survive without the water. In fact, a tree has some mechanisms that allow it to survive without water. Excuse me, but im a dispute of assorted without water. They stop growing and cant drive quasi the priest difficulty. The growth of the shoots and the branches go, it will be completely stopping as well. The growth of the fruit, a co pay table. A. That question was if we so its the yields the quality of the production that is affected by the lack of water. He fixed the bottom, the bottom of the aside from so improves. There is another way to measure entries need for water. Den durometer is a Research Project by monets colleagues, measures the diameter of the tree trunk. During the course of a day, the trunk expands or contracts. When the sun shines, the tree loses water and becomes dinner. When watered in the evening, it expands again overnight. If a tree doesnt get enough water and cap regenerate and experience is whats known as water stress that has a negative effect on yields. The researchers and irrigation system is faster and more precise and also more reliable. So when the irrigation is well adjusted, it ensures that human errors wont occur. Its soften valves that people forget to close, that lead to water waste and we bundled these are just going to be as water becomes a scarce commodity around the world. Water saving technologies like these are more vital than ever from canada to hawaii to greece, the destructive power of wealth fires has been frightfully evidence this year. The island of brun canaria was also the victim of quotes in places a few years ago. It is hoping to avoid and repeats by using a very special message of water harvest. The Early Morning clouds are gathering in the mountains of ram, canarios and strange structures will capture their water. The sol, ill leave is an environmental technician with a life me a blessed project. Hes showing a trainee, the principal, based on nature his model, the way i just put him on the phone. I would see them in lincoln and put ahead plug in. I got an extra moisture from the air, lo me that im afraid he got them. They sucked it up to like a smart girl, su the by doing usual structures take advantage of a common phenomenon on the north side of Spains Canary islands. Cloud to move in from the atlantic and stall on the mountain sides, the salo, levi and his colleagues have set up 5 collectors. Cloud catch