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Water is vital to every living being on earth all life depends on this simple mix of hydrogen and oxygen where water disappears life can exist anymore but water scarcity is the reality for an increasing number of people around the world and its even been bought a god was more than 70 percent of the earth suffers from today is that the saudi lets dig why this happens and how we can change it alone welcome to equal india im sunk that i can and the indian who 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 strikes creating an imbalance in the region that could affect those who live in these mountains but also goals in countries sovaldi based mountains a community in kind of the foothills of the him obvious has found a way to the plumage 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 migrating to towns and cities in search of a better life. These abandoned the structures of stone as grim reminder of the frightening reasons for the. One that may not seem obvious in. A post month. The groundwater table beneath dumb god has receded. A symptom of assyria 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 of natural springs but a meal source of water the focal goods residents had almost entirely dried. My lady then middleby. A bit when it you dont 90 percent of the population living in the himalayas are dependent on the strings we got abusive but you follow. 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You see the dying man who gets men 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 rejuvenate the himalayas bring. To 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 merely had and i used. The method that i learnt about courtside drugs if i like rocks and the nates rocks i had no see. Us play our share in the local language is called dusty town and file it 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 go ahead or. Between 20132014 just to meet the injured rock designed a host of different matters to charge and manage their 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 channel. 4 wanting to relive for months the man and women were hard at work building door crunches check dams and percolation box and planting hundreds of native saplings that would help augment ground water recharge and the story. Moreover the women. With a deep understanding of the geology of that was. No help drug created water groups from other will it is this is what i tell it they. Got it in i really enjoy the process of exchanging knowledge because it is important for us to know how things are done and get important supporters and we get to learn a lot interacting with others. Will escape it middle 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 tell 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 otakon where in the more a region 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 told be it is from these or smaller springs that the streams or did you neck and beauty streams come line to form major rivers the decline office links will have a crash beginning effect that will eventually dry up the ones you claim a lot will be left to claim that is why there is a need to know more than ever to understand this. Springfield getting run over the words you want to gin it will soon that communities in and. Out of london routinely get from any walk or rises in the future. But. Goods budding hybrid jala just represent what this possible new for communities with the knowledge and do to manage their natural resources. We in the 21st century the false ones to what are you about and tackle the finite need to water or well build what sort of book in the world doing the city or in the deserts think about just what had hundreds of made water bodies and were bought of india or listerine water harvesting systems but with modernization been no longer the primary source of water for people a movement is now underway to recognise this and cultural about 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 chambers the 75 year old irishman has been working to save this local heritage. These buildings were constructed for the behest of maharani of the other female companions of the. Name 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. 00 bares quarter in 52. 00 i would think is this more that with the gathering in the ground below us this is ground water short 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 its to its former glory. By. Work for these places because they are precious heritage truly precious theyre not just a fancy building derelict they are a system of war to harvesting that is priceless as an example of how people in those Sophisticated Society is ancient red your stone wall. 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 the historic city of george poor and its ancient water wells that have given him a purpose in life. This is molly a bad job read the 1st well rawnsley cleaned during the heyday of the wells jobbers where the places female members of the royal family would congregate. Here they could swim and entertain themselves. But it would have been a very. You know. They would have had to play with probably sitting around and they were made a very atmospheric very beautiful and local businessman is now paying for the upkeep of the bulbs 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 of the trash. George bush 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 try to damage the walls or 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 roger tat the ruler of then mandela state since then the rank of force 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 had 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 of the. Soft. They could only have been cleaned manually. Cannot use machines there. But then the youths 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 hours of my mother so wherever i go. I will know for a connection that they are with my planet and with my ancestors. Carried monthly is still. 18 if it was 75. 00 and wants to spend many more years saving indias step wells. We are not directly that we cant exist without water but today our oceans rivers and lakes are more polluted then ever small groups of people around the world are trying to change this little by little we met one such group in indonesia who are the worlds waltzed polluted river the shitter all take a look at the 1st part of our mini series about the civil. This entire room river connects the sis 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 tonnes 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 matters 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 without any tools 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 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 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 just dump it into the water now you can see that there was 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 roshan its present sedimentation and at the same time purifying the water. Just 200 meters from the shore here my hoot of iraq 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 because cooking or showering its filtered in special times and also through this sweet grass that river all right this is the ever plant 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 at ductile 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 under stuff as it turns out steel. Venture 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. Or most 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 references santy the entire bank is covered with better 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 up of just on the and this is the this is the Ticket Holder what does ring a come out here and we still can mend in the clean up of this whole place in the shit out of me. Ive been pretty much we can say if we were better. Now regions thats 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 what care food without water. 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 and that means 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. The washing machine is fed with the Household Waste water which has been purified by a machine called the hyperloop and app tells dad yon vinum schoolin and when theres enough recycled water to use. The only thing is that we do. This to get. Our lifestyle as much possible 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 their fair and us having kids we were you thinking about ok how can we make this world better also for our kin for next to inherit the earth after us and this is when we thought ok we have to be smart and think head. 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 all soaps and hair and sentencing like that with this infected 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 low 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 in the. Folkies that aims to take the business further. 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 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 onsite 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 from 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 n