Lets start in india as i t. How big for the last 2 decades new economic prospects have of course meant more and more migrants making their way to the city but its also next to a Shop Decrease in access to the most basic of facilities like Water Electricity and Cooking Gas to me in just a few and organization in the city is hoping hard to reach families by empowering their women to create this access themselves but to help. Luxury is familiar with housework she doesnt just care for her family she also works as a domestic helper in bangalore. But its her 2nd job that changed her life after some Training Luxury become a clean Energy Entrepreneur are sodium ok. For the past 3 years she has been selling products like solar lights and cooking appliances in a community an informal settlement in eastern bangalore. Outing to list them but a lot of people who have been living in the community for 18 years have always known me but a lot of the new people dont know me and that is when the neighbors started telling them about mean that i said clean energy appliances like School Course Effect the all have my Phone Number now so the new will fall also calling me saying that they have just moved and they also need appliances for their home to get it at them or that at about the marriott. Luxury mainly sells. It means families are no longer dependent on kerosene they need light in the evening for cooking and for their children to do homework so lambs are healthier and more environmentally friendly than kerosene lambs and cheaper in the long run one lamp costs between 11. 33 euros depending on whether it is a simple light or if it also has a radio a lot of money for the inhabitants of the slums but achievable with a 5 Week Interest free payment plan. The idea to aid low income migrants came from all in Aid Group a social enterprise working to address gender equality climate Change And Poverty alleviation. Clean energy is one aspect of an improving situation in the slum the population here is constantly increasing for were doing 2 years no one has seen a steady rise of interstate migrants arriving and looking for jobs. Like shot on them and our family they moved here from the state good bugger district. To work there is Farming Work but its difficult to live on so people would sit at home with a lot of loans to pay they dont have much land as well and had difficulties thats why we came here but living in tents its difficult to access bathrooms and toilets or getting water for domestic use and sleeping in such a small space is a challenge when children grew up. Most of the migrants here live in harsh conditions and small checks often but the Water And Electricity the multiethnic city of bangalore also known as a bungalow is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Who would you. Thought dynamic that are. Low Income Household Income people. The only option that they find are. These informal settlements and most of these informal settlements are on certain unused lines and because. You dont get any other services. Often these this quarter settlements are found close to construction sites or industrial areas open definition is a common practice in the problem of indoor Air Pollution is rampant natural Lighting And Cross wind listen inside homes on and on the phone. The Hygiene Situation in these communities is bad and women who bear the brunt of it. The men are confined to these communities and they do not have the ability to move beyond their communities the fundamental problem starts from the fact that they have no access to and even these basic wages and the men typically dont want to be anything in the family so the women pick up small jobs around the place to provide for the family now the moment the access to the source of so know then that access to any product that can help improve their living conditions is also. With their approach the group of women. So that they can act independently with their Job Luxury complements the monthly income by 25 to 50 percent depending on how much. It has enabled her to take the 1st step out of poverty moving out of the. And into a book a home next to her community. My children have suffered a lot i have 2 daughters and i had to ask them to wake up. Before sunrise but now we have our own toilet in but its up to us now they can do their daily activities according to their vision. Over 900. 00. Sales in their communities they have improved not only their own living conditions but have also made a significant change for many people living in the slums like. A migrant from your district. Sense she has had a Soul Lamb her health and that of her children has improved theyre no longer use kerosene. They may no back at all back to the law on some days we were dragged out of corrosion and had to be without life we were able to get it again back then we didnt have mobile phones to use us torches we would cook and eat and live in darkness in reality the solar lights have not only lit up my home but also my life and ive got to keep in mind. It is unlikely the people here will receive support from authorities in the near future to improve living conditions in the magazine these informal settlements but solar appliances do give them the chance to live a better life without kerosene theyre healthier and theres less damage to the environment a step in the right direction at least. We all want those that pretty top and that stunning jacket fast fashion. Nobody every we buy estimated 56000000. 00 tons of clothing much of freight consumed in the developed world but it has a devastating impact on the cities of developing countries. Like the south indian city is a hub for the Clothing Industry and industry which is now destroying the regions once. To. Become a dumping ground before all this for. As long as. Humans are interested in reading plots this dismissal exist. Id love to be. The only place for textiles in india is to a poor no where else. If your Wedding Shopping come to your poor how did our desire to be fashionable this one sleepy town and if they could get into a toxic environment be nice. If you have no one. With a maid in india this is probably where it came from. Duple wood on the banks of the divan noir is a city in southern india up to 90 percent of the Countrys Cotton Textile exports and more than half its knitwear exports originate here. The global retailers that source clothes i usually large western corporations. As all the major. Medical. But there is now all too famous for the state of its drivel this is one of the its green the view of a ban on this one sacred river smelled so bad and is so often of chemicals that its. So how did things turn out like this. Just a few decades ago the duple was almost entirely farmland growing primarily cotton so when small textile factories began to set up here in the late 1970 s. Follows gave up their livelihood and joined the trend. Like a mugger a slimy good runs a Garment Factory Insult to the poor and has seen the city transform. Lives now worth 260. Bistrica corpus and we are employing about more than 1300000 people about a plea any better be any country maybe india with so much of been spotless and really need to invest. The Textile Industry here is what is called a cluster around the house in small to midsize independent garment factories like todays armies exist alongside dying Bleaching And Embroidery units together they bring you know revenue of 250000000000 the peas are almost 3000000000 euros a year. Industrial scale have also been set up but its to small to midsize facilities that make up the majority. Of modern myself. More that. That would be so much of an impact as far as the pollution is concerned are one stage more that really spoiling the in my mind. Will be a brain been to the it were. Only 180 kilometers in length and has long been considered sacred as a nonissue as the region and sustains at least 2000000 people before draining into the famously. As the oil flows through the growing cities though it gets short with household and plastic waste. But the most harmful pollutants enter the liver in the industrial cluster. At 2020 study found high levels of Copper Zinc Lead and other carcinogenic metals in the water. That could leave long term effects on the land local people and livestock. This is the water that goes to peoples fields. People who have been drinking for bathing. Its not clear. In 2011 the state high court stepped in managing all manufacturers to set up Wastewater Treatment plants most have complied but activists say many manufacturers who cant afford to clean up their chemical waste continue to dispose of it illegally sometimes under the cover of darkness or in areas that are 2 or more truck constant monitoring. Pit we dont see that on me was one of the activists. To convince the court to take action but he says the burden of cleaning up this we count only fall on the little guys. This Dying And Bleaching doesnt exist in developing countries because they dont want to follow the water if somebody raises the issues of pollution in europe in North America people very suddenly there will be a Knee Jerk Reaction from the cooperation then theyll say no no no no were not so thing from your real source from buying all of this as if everything is fine there are there are several sources from we have now we associate from terry now that i do this. Is not a vehicle. He says that developed countries are outsourcing their pollution and the social consequences of this extend well beyond this city. The brunt of the impact of the normal pollution has been faced by the farmers and i would have some communities basically they lost their the fertility of their soil they lost their capitals they lost they have grown bored of the sources and ultimately income as ground 0. Read in a few years the lost everything. Down driven neal one of the do downs in the new year is that the impact of this is most severe. I did a visit to order to buy em down which has been polluted for decades. Visit a porch of over 800000 fish dying here in just a single. That was over 15 years ago when the flood gates were opened but even today the water is polluted the desert what is blanketed in Water Hyacinth plants indicators of heavy Metal Pollution they also choke the entire River System below. 3 farmers who are on their morning walk on the dam approached me and began describing what had happened to the river they grown up beside. The net when i was 15 or so we used to drink this water but its been dirty for 30 to 35 years now and another by the way they say many people have jobs on the other side but what good is that if the water is contaminated theres a saying in time you know its like selling your eyes and buying a movie. One of the families david invited us back to his home he used to live here as a Subsistence Farmer but over the past 20 years things have changed dramatically here but back then there was Cotton Rice Sugar Cane Corn lots of crops. And. Now the ground is so contaminated by the water that we dont have any of those crops anymore now we dont grow anything just coconuts. He says though the yield of his coconut trees has dropped by at least 30 percent because of the water so now he employed school cannot from other Indian States and hires laborers to break and dried them before he sells the pots mainly to the Coconut Oil Industry you know in the marketplace. It started when Coconut Oil became fashionable in markets around the world. But no matter how much business we do we need water thats my main thing. I have money for everything i need now when its not enough. And what will it be like in the future for our children. Its only getting worse what is in the business. Since the Court Order more than 100 Treatment Plants have been established some individuals factories others are common Treatment Plants which treat wastewater from several small scale facilities more than 1000000000 liters of water every day the government subsidizes a large part of the operating costs i visit to the common Treatment Plant where 18. 00 small dying units send their Waste Water for treatment. My family this is the 1st thing that ever at some point. This long dying operations do have to be a part of the treatment and they still need to stay competitive many have seen a steep drop in their profit margins sometimes down by 15 percent. So many of the facilities have moved out of the loop to either to other states or even just beyond the District Border where the Courts Rule doesnt apply to. The number of dying units and to boot has declined from over 700 at its peak to around 400 at the moment the district has taken a financial hit even as the neuer has become somewhat cleaner. I went up to the source of that which is predicted. To see what this looks like its not unusual for. Just a 15 Minute Drive from the easternmost city on the river the landscape is completely. Different. I mean in the same way of. Oh here i was thinking. I wondered about the future of this river and the many stakeholders involved shouldnt corporations that saw step products from the area better greater share of the financial burden could the state to be more vigilant and why did legal requirements apply across the entire country. Theres a lot of downstream could one day become some version of this but with the modern falling on the small number of people in the long chain is this going to become a case where history repeats itself on another tip and in another place. And this is already happening industrial farms are being set up across india and inviting more small businesses to develop small towns so do i want new clothes yes but after seeing what my claws are doing to business and all the systems of support i wonder if its not mine and our collective responsibility to make sure that this doesnt result in the destruction of all of this. If you like that story and want to learn more about sustainability i knew you Tube Channel D W Planet is just the right please make sure to check it out. Now growing cities need to make an important choice really work with need to and be sustainable or will they work against it and be extracted to delhi for example its set to take work from 2 q. As the worlds biggest city by 20 with the population steadily growing towards 40000000 people for cities like delhi we need new concepts for Mobility Sustainability and urban planning and sooner rather than later they dont. You know we had a ideas for what the cities of the future look like lets take a look. Mushrooming megacities are a global phenomenon there are now 3 times as many urban areas with 10000000. 00 plus residents as just a few decades ago. But as cities grow so do their problems. That cities are microcosms of society who can observe all the opportunities and challenges in a very small space like under a looking glass and. The biggest conurbation on the planet is greater Tokyo Population 38000000 followed by jakarta with around 34000000 Delhi Mumbai Manila and shanghai each home to more than 20000000 people as are the biggest metropolises in latin America Sao Paolo and mexico city. Traffic is a major problem in megacities but there are new ideas out there on how to tackle it. Were also used to cars that we cant imagine cities without them anymore but if we were to experience that we wouldnt want to go back to cars thats an obstacle and. This is how cities might look in future if different kinds of road users were separated one road is so fast moving Aleck Trickery eccles another for pedestrians cyclists and scooters with the 3rd a prominent reserved for pedestrians only. Welcome to the Overton City a project under development by japanese Carmaker Toyota a Prototype City and living laboratory for cutting edge technologies. Here all vehicles will be Self Driving and run on electric Power Or Hydrogen the mini city itself will be powered by solar and geothermal energy with everything coordinated central. By ai technology. Its been designed for a population of 2000. People he kluger that we need it smarter ideas about how people can move around. In a city with 5000000 residents and 3000000 cars that are idle 90 percent of the time you just need to do the math. So that you could probably reduce the number of cars by 80 percent. Or going to the smart Sharing System people could still enjoy the same level of mobility. Meanwhile at the other end of asia in Saudi Arabia there are plans for a new Megalopolis Neon a linear city comprising for. The Pet Project of the Saudi Crown Prince is said to cost an estimated 500000000000 Euros Road and high Speed Rail Transportation are all electric and underground. Neon nicknamed the line because its meant to be 170 kilometers in length is designed to be carbon neutral with a 5 g. Network driving all manner of applications. d right now its a thinly populated and undeveloped area. We want to create sustainable infrastructures and stimulate economic activity. Which will in turn create new kinds of jobs and economic development in Saudi Arabia. The country is seeking alternatives to its based economy. Should also boost tourism and attract startups and Media Production companies the entire Citys Energy requirements are to be supplied from renewable sources. Huge amount of sunlight and ideal wind conditions so our Energy System will run exclusively on primary energy. Grids energy will and also be used for desalination is in. Because water is a big problem here. Is an acronym for a new future the plan is to create a city for 1000000 people in just 10 years but is that really feasible. Might them if the 2 projects have something in common its that theyre not what was originally hoped for blueprints and reality are miles apart the projects assume a managerial perspective which ignores the fact that cities are more than just infrastructure what draws people to living there is not something you can plan just like that. No One City and me are 2 visions of eco friendly high tech cities where people can actually enjoy life but will they actually get off the ground. Cities like the land they have built on our finite. Like we just saw new innovations which make sure our cities cry sustainably are the need of the hour what i hope could be as short give you some perspective on the burden on our cities and what we can do to reduce it thats all we have to be ill see you again next week with a brand new episode of equal india for what entire team in India And Germany good buy. Im going to. Feel. Safe. Thanks to the Law Enforcement that i am forgotten by society. Discarded children on the streets of the philippines searching for homes but what they find is Persecution And Prison and violence. A film about minnows homeless children who are fighting for survival every single day. 15 minutes on t. V. W. Its an ongoing Quest Story a bit of. The arab spring began in 2011. 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