Life story may have ground to a whole. Twenty seven years ago but theres no holding back his dreams. Thank you for watching. Cinema stars may twenty seventh on t. W. Hello everybody and welcome to the latest edition of a good africa now a time when the fossett book may go to nigeria and im very happy to welcome you with new environmental top exam ideas from africa and europe but im not alone with these white charming calling in south africa i love felicia he is my name is from asia enders very and i hope youll stay tuned for our show which is brought to you
by vella channels t. V. And chris today will be taking you on a trip all over our beautiful continent as we throw some light on the environmental threats we face here. Well explain to you why senegal is suffering more and more on the coastal erosion. Im making art out of way. And how the recession is making life difficult for fishermen and make the korea. Lets kick things off in egypt many areas in the North African country are so isolated theyre completely off the power grid which is a problem for residents and the Tourism Industry so nepal could provide a solution but until now less than ten percent of the electricity in egypt has been provided by the sustainable resource. However there are now plans in place to build the Worlds Largest solar plant in egypt though this still
a long way to go in the meantime to fill the gap smaller supplies are setting up a raise and localised grids lets take a look. Cool down is a remote Fishing Village on the red sea and its not on the national grid. Until recently the only alec tricity here came from Diesel Generators. Now a solar powered local grid to provide the electricity of around the clock. Enabling fishermen to store their cash safely. You know. When we caught fish we used to take them either eleven kilometers south to have more sixteen kilometers north to run. It was quite a long drive and the fish would sometimes go bad and start to smell. Now that we
have electricity around the clock we have a freezer people come to us to buy fish and we save on time and travel costs. One hundred kilometers to the north is marseilles. Its a popular Tourist Destination the hotels here rely mostly on Diesel Generators for electricity. But thats not the case at the Marseilles Shaktar a large where people come from All Over The World to dive the owners here have invested in solar power but the system only provides electricity joining the day when its dark the hotel still uses a diesel generator. Still the partial switch to solar hasnt just been environmentally beneficial its also been an advantage on an economic level. For many. For. The price of fossil fuels has risen a lot over the past eight years but. Right now the cost of producing one kilowatt
using the generator is the equivalent of twelve year olds. On the other hand because from the solar plant is only eighty euros. I mean one point six. As a result weve been able to recoup our outlays in less than five years before. The aim is to switch to one hundred Percent Clean Energy as soon as possible. The many great and solar station was built on is maintained by the carm Solar Company itself the electricity to the hotel. Jamaal up doll cause there is the on Site MaintenanceTechnician Karm Solar has a policy of training local people wherever it builds a facility. And. When i started i was a manual laborer. Digging holes laying cable and carrying stuff around i knew
nothing about solar power throughout slowly i started learning things to console or i got trained by their engineers. He checks the solar panels every day its important to clean them regularly because a lot of sand blows around here for local Technicians Karm Solar is grids present opportunities for career progression. I know in charge of three solar grids and nasa. Carm solar mostly sets up facilities for big clients and companies but it also serves smaller ones like this Bedouin Settlement they recently received two solar panels from donors. Jamal is visiting to explain how the mini grid works. Carm solar also works with the government on large on grid power plants. Another sign that solar power has a Bright Future in egypt. Did you ever stop to think that a lot of what we throw away could be used in other ways to illustrate our french project started creating mosques out of waste then this was so successful that its members now travel around the world to share the idea and god has inspired school kids start doing their bit for the environment. Is one of the most polluted countries in the world the capital across generates about Three Thousand metric tons of waste in a single day off and its burnt in the open polluting the air. Creating awareness on waste thats the aim of the International Initiative part of change twenty one together with two gunny and nonprofits they visit schools and
show kids there how to personalize dust masks with plastic textiles waste. That raises their awareness of the Environmental Impact garbage hands at the same time they learn that it can be recycled rather than discarded indiscriminately in the streets. You know like that. If you were doing your. Visit our website or send us a tweet. Do your. Hair your story. What a wonderful idea and a Great Initiative lets hope it will inspire many more kids to change their attitudes towards waste shifting gears now to another environmental problem that threatens nearly the entire west coast of africa erosion the sea has already
swallowed many villages on the atlantic and residents are helpless to stop it. More Fishing Village close senegalese cop car erosion isnt the only problem industrial activities are also poisoning the environment to belgian Documentary Makers went to find out the facts uncovered a shocking situation. Science is. Lost. To. The Bunny Project is a Web Documentary by long. Nest Black And White film tells the story of a vanishing senegalese town near the capital dhaka the belgian filmmakers
discovered a coastal town called bonnie which is under threat from the sea but also industrialization. In the west theres been a cement work very close to the choruses Nine Hundred Forty Six a new city center is being built to the north. A percent is built on land that could be found. In the west of the quarter theres a coal fired Power Station that went into operation in twenty eight scene. The government says the Power Station will be able to light up the whole of senegal but it was constructed on land that was originally promised to the fishing in farming communities ongoing coastal erosion is forcing families to abandon their Crumbling Houses by the sea. So. Its. All a part in what theyre. Equipped with a notebook and a camera here and explored the Densely Populated Urban Area where almost Seventy Thousand people live. They met families deprive both of a place to live and the means to make a living due to the construction project. Sit down and walk this Land Wasnt Worth a lot up to now and that is precisely the danger with this new town center and that its being described as if it would have been a wasteland otherwise without any homes but maybe a few fields pretty insignificant all in our heritage of real. Just a hundred metres from the power plant local women dry fish traditional work that
provides almost one thousand jobs but now a buffer zone is being created between the Power Station and local homes the place where people come to dry fish is being swallowed up as a result. Because if you if. I really. Didnt do well. In the beef if i am. South about the size of the village. The filmmakers say that barneys Homes Schools and fields are already covered with enough dust from the cement plant. The industrialization of senegal is a billion dollar project that has failed to take into account many environmental issues. The met. The course building a Power Station alongside the port in the old cement works has added to c o two emissions and contributed to climate change. And it most probably will
exacerbate coastal erosion to. Station is also threatened by erosion of history situated very close to the coast of. The to pass. Along. And now back in bonnie to show their film to the communities affected they hope their Web Documentary can raise awareness about the situation and inspire more people to resist Construction Projects the disregard the local population and their environment. Staying within the west african sub region here in nigeria the activities of man also affects the earth even farming as well a young man in lagos is wanting to help to solve that problem he wants to reduce the effect of farming on the earth through the Hydroponic System of farming and uses less land space and little or no soil for the cultivation of vegetables
however the most remarkable bit of news is that it brings the farmers and their produce closer to the. These bustle possibly and litters plants especially they being drowned with old use a noble sword visit over to systemise called i drip products to feed the plants the gardeners use an organic sterile media made from the part of the coconut tree at the clinic you transfer yours or not. You transfer its chemical additives. Natural state and a special vegetable form micro nutrients that the plants need. They got no color we group began growing herds and vegetables in lagos two years ago fresh
produce is often difficult to find into nigerian megacity and organic products even harder to get hold of cutting a cut or starts with a need to. Want to empower the farmers and also with the consumer in mind in terms of providing fresh Quality Produce to all consumers which is real farm to table which is part of the whole agricultural revolution thats going on in the world by growing locally they could even undercut the prices of the organic produce a valuable in the city bodies still make profits conventionally grown vegetables so the to market cost around thirty percent more than the organic ones here i buy kill spinnys in the eightys most of them i imported so that very expensive but the seas look in the gloom and danny so the pricing yes its very reasonable when you think about what you are getting nothing can be fresh for you know straight from
from farm to mouth the whole concept nothing if its not too expensive. Its also environmentally friendly other company only delivers within the city it keeps its Carbon Footprint low the firm is also helping other farmers to follow its example. We. Branch of the called and its a part of the continent that literally you know you would people are pretty fond of them i dont trust fights a day. So far theyve helped three farmers to launch their own businesses. Gartner collar we are planning to expand and are currently sitting up to new c. T. Farms in lagos. Some german cities have begun imposing driving bans on
older diesel vehicles thats because Diesel Emissions can cause disease the ban is also an issue for logistics and possible Delivery Companies a german Postal Company plans to convert it into half fleet and has developed its only electric vehicle line we spent a day with a mail carrier on the road. Benyamin for it is a mailman its a small town there hamburg in northwest germany he delivers about Eight Hundred letters and ninety parcels a day. He works for dr past germanys biggest mail company. He drives an electric powered light Utility Vehicle called a street scooter. The post has a fleet of thirty four at this sorting office. The mess im in my First Impression was that they look a bit odd that the design was unusual but it gets past special nothing like it had
ever been seen before getting out the vehicle was commissioned by dr passed because there were none on the market that fulfilled its requirements. Dacha past the company that makes the vehicle four years ago. When benyamin four sets off each morning the battery is fully charged it cant be recharged while hes out and about only back at the depo. The range is eighty kilometers thats fine for his route and its a war except perhaps when he has the heating on. And it was once when it was raining a lot and everything was really damp i cranked up the heating on and i used five percent more power on that day and it wasnt even cold when i have to see what happens when it really does get cold case unit or to the. Past has Eight Thousand electric delivery vans in small towns across germany now it
wants to deploy Street Scooters in big cities as well but their limited range has so far been a problem dacha past Spokesperson Martin Gondola acknowledges that the diesel powered vans they currently use in cities will have to be replaced as they cause a lot of pollution. The volume of parcels has been rising and will continue to do so we can only guarantee delivery if we have a fleet they can reach our customers where ever they are that will no longer be possible with our Diesel Trucks and inner cities and the pursuit of all future. We have to consider alternatives. Environmental activist zone kiddies and regularly measures the air quality. Its not just cars and trucks that pollute the air here but also ships hamburgers germanys largest port. The concentration of Particulate Matter is high. The same kind of pollution from Water Traffic that we
do from Street Traffic its just that on ships the Diesel Engines are much bigger hence the high levels of Nitrogen Oxides and fine Particulate Matter in our set in. Older diesel vehicles that dont meet the euro six standards have now been banned from parts of downtown. At least thats a step in the right direction. Of just. All road traffic to be electric powered there are no longer any technical obstacles to cars and Light Commercial vehicles all going electric. Then of course the air would be lovely. If large commercial fleets such as that of dr past the switch to electricity that would make a significant difference the post office or Street Scooters are too small for the large volumes of goods it has to shift in hamburg and new and bigger model is in the works. Benyamin caulked says most people he meets welcome the shift to evade
calls but there is one problem. There you hear. Once an old lady was about to walk out in front of the van horn and she jumped she complained that you cant hear new cars anymore but then she said its good that they dont pollute the environment. For a person i dont. Benyamin forbes says hes happy with his evil he just has to drive even more carefully because people dont notice it coming as it glides silently through its a hole. In tanzania and uganda and kenya pretty stocks in Lake Victoria are being depleted pollution is partly to blame ease overexploitation of Natural Resources over such projects with partners from seven countries in europe and africa wants to help to talk some of these problems. All
reporter went to uganda to meet with a team from the university of calls in germany the scientists have come to the lake to hold workshops their goal is to boost fish talks and show noble communities how to preserve the environment. Mohammed has been fishing off their gun and shows of Little Toller for more than twenty five years. We no longer fish like we used to. Be Economic Impact on us. Right now you can sit ups 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 mind for fish. This has prompted some ugandans to set up fish farms. One of the Biggest Challenges is the lack of clean fresh water. 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 what im reading into the different points every ten thousand. Shes taking part in a human funded project called the. She and the other 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 Kansas way in germany the team has come up with a new system green 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 the. Makes you soft hundred percent Water Reuse Recycle so its mentally 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 two footprint. In the tunnel on the side of the lake its already in place the water is filtered using whats known as membrane bio reactor technology. In uganda has been using recycled water for the last eighteen months the used water is pumped into a tunnel from there it flows into this busines which contains toms and sun that
help clean the water. Now wants to use recycled water to have big bones too. So we already have a system and it has proved to be very efficient for us using that same water would maintain the same temperatures because thats also very crucial when youre watching exit to there in doha cherry so for the points that still work in progress for us to see how well be able to integrate it. This just would like more from us to recycle water ideally using Renewable Energy the professor and his team have been working on this project for the last three 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 this we need to at dept this
solution for the local market so at the moment weve 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 the established Best Practices that boost fish stocks and protect the environment. Weve come to the end of this edition of Record Africa but we will be back next year with more environmentalists ideas and initiatives from africa and europe we hope you enjoy the show see you next time from now so long from the Fossil Park In Lagos nigeria. And dont forget if you want to know more visit our website or check us out on social media we appreciate your feedback and commons santillan next edition of eco africa thanks for watching
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