Which means our weekly environment show is no more important than ever. Welcome to echo africa from ogen state nigeria. I am chris phillips, are welcome from me to i am sandra t. Nobody and im here in counselor, uganda. Well, drought and how people cope. We lead ease. Only one aspect. Were looking out in this fixture also on the program. Reviving an ancient irrigation method him to museum, we show you how to better maintain the increasing number of Wind Turbines in europes waters. And saving the rough, how namibia is protecting the walls, tallest land unknown. To day we start our show in europe where persistently hot temperatures have been causing major problems, including forest fires, crew failure, and heat related death. The World Wildlife fund that sees eats calculations shown by 2050. The number of people facing extreme water shortages in europe will have risen by 50 percent. Farmers are especially feeling it right now. Most funding areas are at less than half their regular water capacities. So do we really have options for countering the water shortage . This plant is still something of a rarity on german farms. The chick pay its more commonly cultivated in the dry regions of southern yarelly. The scientists have planted de la creme hair on a small organic farm to test it under these conditions. Chick piece grow . Well, and the chalky sandy loam soil found in me, oh, come out a region in North Eastern germany with dumb circus in this year. We had severe drought once again and the crop developed really well and figured out here in this location, it demonstrated a high tolerance for drought and, and that will be very important in the future with here in one of the countries driest regions. The research as a testing 5 different types of check pay and theyre also collaborating with local organic farmers. The most productive chick p plants could boost their income. Up to now chick peas, have mainly been imported, and demand for them is rising. And guns and shade enough, one very decisive factor will be the extent to which we managed to create landscapes that retain water effectively in particularly in agriculture limbed or don. Its not enough to just switch to new cry like trivia switched. Its as it somebody kisha, opposite water shortages are not just affecting farming. Ground water levels have fallen throughout germany. The amount of water currently lacking as a whole years worth of rain and say climate researchers from come finish. Now theres little coming from above to replenish the large amounts of water evaporating from rivers, lakes and marshland store. Yeah, well even less rainfall the higher temperatures and more of operation of idols means that were facing critical situation. Lamore regarding kritisha said towards june, her common saving water would be one of the 1st steps to take but people are still filling their private pools or watering their gardens liberally. Further depleting, ground water resources, stroudsburg etna, a suburb of berlin, where a lot of new houses have pools, is one of the few minutes or palletized in the region to take action. From now onwards, anyone using more than the average of a 105 cubic meters per day, well have to pay a fine add new construction has been put on hold. But water shortages are probably her to stay. Climate researchers estimate that the state of brandenburg will have to make due with 20 percent less water by 2045. Theres already a low Water Management plan, but that wont be sufficient. D, a written tampa to one period because of water loss due to rising temperatures and subsequent evaporation of handling. Where you cited that we will take legal is that not to establish an official war to reserve far less on bracelets at up. Even the plan is to set aside 20 percent of available water as a precaution, meaning the local war works and citizens would have less war to at their disposal. The german capital has its own experience of managing limited amounts of water balance. Drinking Water Supplies come from ground water, which is largely fed by nearby lakes and rivers. But its not enough. The city has been boosting ground water levels for a long time. Now pre purified water from 2 rivers is pumped into pons, which then seeps down into the ground water that provides around 10 percent more drinking water. And thats all recycle t. Im shoes on a warm summers day. We use about 750000 cubic meters a day. And at the same time we put the same amount of waste water back into the system. Possibly in the same way. You can see that more or less balance is out balance strength or graphy with that kind of circular usage is less than the quantity should be adequate in dry years to google yard high. But if levels continue to drop, then there may be less water in circulation. The water companys cooling on the city to provide more spaces that are able to absorb rain water rather than the ever more impermeable surfaces. Keeping water in the soil, thats an important aspect of organic farming yoke. Usta had a good lupin harvest this year. Its a crop that can cope with modest rainfall. Preparation of the soil also plays an Important Role after the harvest. Its only lightly tailed and then come when youre a spread on top to create human up, you have your photo. We have a certain amount of water available for the year away. All the work we do on the fields has to be adapted to that. And so we try to work the sol as lightly as possible to look slots, so we dont ever write too much soil wouldnt lift because then the water simply evaporates us to instead the cultivation of these protein richly creams is profitable because the crop can be turned into flour or used in vehicle products. Your usta is looking for other alternatives for the future. So perhaps along with white lupins chick peas will soon be harvested here to well thing on the subject of waters castillo, when ill head to to noisier in northern africa. Here farmers is up to 80 percent or, or what are used in the country. So they really need to change their behavior moving forward. Sometimes it is enough to take advantage of the old traditions. So take a look at these weeks doing gibbons, blah ah, olive trees are hearty plans that you well and arid regions. Up to a point in the past, there used to be adequate rainfall here in northern tunisia. But due to Climate Change, its become a lot dryer. And now farmer mohammed been is maya transports water to the orchards from a well that is far away water thats becoming increasingly scarce. So hes filling allahs clay pots that hes buried in the ground. The un glazed vessels have porous walls can are quite large. If the soil dries out the pots act as a reserve to keep the roots well supplied, the trees just get the right amount of water pyramid. This methods better than direct watering, because when you pull water on to the ground, the water around the tree evaporates and better still with ancient method does the job using around 60 percent less water chemist in olive tree expert he man quiz. Lottie is carrying out chests on trees. Here in venice myers orchard look scholarly motley. You either when the weather is humid or when it rains up by you know, water seats out of the vessels look lost, can get lush as high as when its dry. And the trees need water there, has the roots can absorb it directly from the supply in the buried part as well. You bet i feel the low either a patio dilemma and there is another advantage. These trees produced around 20 percent more olives, despite less water being used, the ala method dispenses water much more efficiently. And tell about you, if you are also doing your bits, tell us about is, this is l websites. Both send us the tweets hash tag doing jo, base. Ah, we share your story, ah, the rings, the re, mountains are african largest mountain range, also known as the mountains of the moon. They struggled the body to uganda and the democratic republic of congo. They are a popular destination for climbers and white life tourism. Absolutely, and its one of the most beautiful places in your country, sandra. But suddenly, here to Climate Change is having an impact. And the affirmed glazier is our melted forest could help to slow the process in the area. One man in uganda has used his own money to do just that. Here is our echo hero of the week. Net. Just correct. It is this route every one to for now chatting and protecting this more for it and allowing it to florida. Ive got a pattern with animals and bags, and the ecosystem. We must see it amazing cause the tranquillity. You can have your peace of mind here. You can mid th and lake that noise in the city. Tom were generous family, white blue cross from this land, but decades that well, they from a hotel manager, dedicated 5 acres or it sell a leave for 2. Ive been to europe and out of these places and what not says land Geneva Zurich in perry. I know these places his people have what the green and trees and what is the tease in the cities and i dont see why we cant at least see did some of those things and dont do it the same, you know, of replicate to them. We know our cities this model wooded area is close to the center of what button in was than uganda offend. If i do as the garden city, what button is i get it to new men as National Parks and so find is but its popularity is both a blessing and a cass. This city of 50000 inhabitants is expanding and has taken at all. And the local nature we used have trees in town and this and that, those trees are no longer there. The news have wetlands co solved by louis. Thats not the case. He aware this is a wedding friend for the invader. Mentalist. What, what all is surrounded by a number of because she has natural sides including he, ballard, national park, which is protected population of wild chimpanzees. And when Elizabeth National park home to glad tads of elephants and, and they were as and then wednesday, mountains, african clad ledges mountain range. Here just ask as we are on the globe, the glasses at 5000 meters are melting due to human driven global warming. Their fresh water that flows through the lever of what bottom comes from here. Its another part of the fragile ecosystem that my janet wants to see protected. Matter, liver, literally know these buses abandon resorted mountains and a n t as in eco. But as the similar cutover and it goes through ne carry but comes out as the old but to nail. And jane is the other. The other you are the who the river me. And off it goes to says cana. So leslie linking to reading the eco activist is so passionate about the environment. Hes even willing to fight for it in court by jana celebrated success at the font button courthouse after seeing a Road Construction company. But the looting the air and when the case thats when the whole country knew that even that the, that id call certain names because its where by every citizen dated to clean and his environment from vain. Now, these fellows cannot do a rod in any, in, in a Community Without spraying it with the water bo were to pumps whatever it is on the road to. So that the, the madam becomes wait and doesnt have to meet, do that dest. But what happens to him by jam as little pad as when he is no longer and out . Hes rejected. And off of mendez from Tourism Group just is i to ensure that the for us remain as it is even after his death when he passed away in future. Am people coming after me . Dont destroy white, have much it for all these. Yes. Oh, what my grandmother who came here 1930 lift that legacy . My mother followed it. Ill die neat. And i wont even new future generation to do this. Im over the last 3 decades, uganda has lost more than half of its natural forest to encroachment according to the point celestial is back and i shall be enough incentive for the next generation to follow his example. Now lets move to europe, the governments. They are searching for new sources of energy and not just because of the Energy Crisis caused by war and ukraine. So they switch to renewables. More and more big wind farms up in plant and constructed in the north sea. The problem is they also need regular maintenance. Scientists from the u. K. Want to help facilitate that task in the future. Offshore Wind Turbines. They produce a lot of electricity, but maintaining them is complex and costly. This tank at a Scottish University can simulate conditions at see the scientists here a testing a remotely operated vehicle, or are we designed to make the upkeep of offshore wind farms safer and cheaper . If successful, the device could revolutionize the offshore wind industry . You have to imagine that in 1015 years time go be under the wind farms, which means that the Wind Turbines all across the coast of the u. K. U also. So maybe you, i, ga, and technology is being developed and all of it will need to be maintained, inspected, and service was using our step. We have lots of crew. This is not scalable. There are currently around 5500. 00 offshore Wind Turbines. In europe alone, like britain, many countries on the north and baltic seas want to expand the offshore production in the coming years. Wind turbines becoming bigger and bigger. Most of the heavy Steel Structures anchored to the sea bed in deep water, far off the coast that put them under a lot of strain. So the supports must be checked regularly for signs of damage. A typical mission would be to send the vehicle down. Typically in the north sea for the 50 meters rally more, but in other parts of the world, youre talking of under the meters. And you need to equip the system. We have some turnover. So the system of a set of cameras here. So now system acoustic system for image light, i know what to go. Most Maintenance Work on Wind Turbines is done by industrial divers, but its tough work and very expensive, not to mention extremely dangerous. In future, many task could be performed by are these. Typically you would corrosion on the, on the system, divide after 10 evolve. You might have to correct a cable. You might have to change that. I know clean the surface if is too much by a falling, etc. So is lots and lots of his cases. For now, the robot is still connected to land by cable. Later, it will be able to operate fully autonomously in the sea or if necessary, be controlled by a drone pilot. The system will work for inspection of anything that you can find under. Busy water for pipelines for c bed and for, for shipwrecks. Anything that you would like to explore . Anything that you would like to 3 d model test is still being conducted in the lab for now. But last spring, the underwater drone had its 1st field deployment. At an offshore wind farm of the northeast of england, it successfully recorded videos that allowed researches to assess the exterior condition of foundations and cables. We end up are showing the media for more than 5 years now. Giraffes are all the red list of fishes threatened with extinction. Once common across the continent, there are less than 100000. 00 of them left whar what a shame but there is hope. We went to the country in a very south west of africa, where santas from an inky, or have been studied. He rough populations very closely, and they now see there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic. Most people are familiar with giraffes, but far less is known about them than many realize what certain is that they are the worlds tallest land, animals which enables them to reach leaves high on trees in the african savannah. Whats less anon, is that you rubs are incredibly fast in short, best they can run up to 60 kilometers in our beyond that there are still many Unanswered Questions about them. What are the different species . How many giraffes currently leave in the wild in namibia biology . Lackland mac features enjoyed the michelle more one to learn more, the photograph every year of the sea, so they can be identified later at a fee. Now. Right . 8573, up. So visual studies lake. These have concluded that they are currently only 117000. 00 euros in africa. By comparison, we are nearly 4 times as many elephants. If you think about sammy locker and african elephant, there are no, you know, i ran at 400000 mark, i believe individual. So if you think that compared to 170000. 00 individuals and its pretty incredible for such a, a large, a browser spaces that is kind of one of the, the most iconic spaces in africa. Really. There has been very little work done on them. I suppose the priority in the past has been some of the more sexier species like elephant and lion and draft of sort of gone under the radar. And i think because they are quite wide spread throughout africa, you feel like you see them everywhere. But that is deceptive. Climate change in humans clearing land for settlements in agriculture has led to a substantial loss of happy tent for g wraps in the past that he is the population of these graceful animals. His sank by about a 3rd waste in rivers also threatened their drinking water. When tories numbers dropped you to the cove, it pandemic. These guides started picking up the trash instead, which will benefit the jewels in the long tim. Protecting these animals has a long history in the media. For if i can tell you more little bit about the bushman, the they were not killing drop it or even during their handing activities, they were not targeted to ross because they thought it was the tallest anymore. And they realized it killing a giraffe. You are cutting communication between yourself and the ancestors. This was once considered a sacred sports, 3000 year old cave drawings prove how important giraffes where to the people leaving here they regarded is bring us off life. Oh, we believe in the euro. That the mag x extend bay and nacken touch their gloat and make it dream. So good. Dream is a good i have year for them. Wild you wraps in western and Central Africa as to under threat. Their numbers in namibia, in its neighboring countries, are actually increasing, rising from 30000 to almost 50000. Thats largely because they are better protected here in National Parks. This is done vision game reserve located near namibia capitol hill dog. Today, kids from the Childrens Home are hoping to get the 1st glimpse of a real giraffe, a little edgy, rough skull like this one is very heavy. The animals sometimes use the borne your projections, cold or seconds in combat with other animals was like old old standing next to a lead bond. Keep the kids an interesting sense of proportion or on my leg drives. I love the colors and i like it looked all like i am dull, very strong. So draft kicks are very powerful. Thats how they defend themselves from pleaded us. Example. Lion, so they can kick a lion. The children wont have an easy time sporting the animals to day. G raps. I shy. This turtle on the other hand, wasnt too hard to catch. You dont put your fingers next to the mouth. Its hoped that if children lynn about the animals in the region, there will be more likely to fight to protect them in the future and doesnt get an group of kids. And when they see animals, for example, you can tell you that elephant or defeat, oh, id be standard, tell you its a horse. And thats surprising because we have so Many Wildlife in the country. Thats why we think that if anything, the moment litigation and that this program is actually making a change in difficult life, drops prefer leaves from bushs in trees or long river courses. Akasha trees are among their favorites. Biology is like landmark feature. See that as a result, they dont compete with life. So for food making conflicts with farmers re sofa. The scientists have counted 450 g ross here in northern namibia. And they are doing all they can to make sure these elegant creatures survive. Wall. What beautiful creatures and what an amazing planet we have. Certainly one was protected. 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