Off quite so those are the headlines on al jazeera earthrise is coming up next and its the news hour with the hill raman thanks. In india a Mining Company is heading to australia to build one of the worlds biggest mines will it be an economic bonanza or an ecological disaster. At this time when i visit. Here in the himalayas maybe half of the causes of Climate Change will be affect all around the of a male thing the temperatures are rising although you can feel it is about forty five percent more Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere just now and that was when human civilization first developed. Climate change is just one of the ways in which our presence on earth is profoundly altering the planet. And this new series of earths rise will be exploring how to counter some of the greatest threats to survival including pollution loss of habitat drought and over consumption. From the mountains of the himalayas to the a straight out back in the hot springs of iceland well be looking at the impact of these global issues at the local level. Were bringing you stories of adaptation innovation and action and the people who are rising to the environmental challenges that we face today this is a thrice. Wouldnt cut his teeth that the status of the. Less than three percent is freshwater and i said that is frozen glasses and polar icecaps. This leaves less than zero point one percent readily accessible over the planets fresh water needs. To disappear. Despite resources on the threats from pollution mismanagement rising demand and Climate Change. In just over a decade its estimated that world will and have sixty percent of the water it needs. And we were content to conserve it. A muscle read up come to the dark in northern india where some engineers have come up with some Innovative Solutions to alleviate water stress in mountain communities and i might even enjoy what were going to take in the water crisis and to that. One another. Millions of people are like directly on glass will melt water survival due to Climate Change these reservoirs in the sky disappearing at an alarming rate some scientists are protected by the end of the frenchie much the himalayas could be practically ice free. Here in the dark which experiences only fifty millimeters of annual rainfall glasses have been a light source for centuries but due to Climate Change over fourteen percent of the local area has been lost in the last fifty years im here to visit an engineer whos come up with a beautiful and extraordinary way of preserving the gracey water. Made of ice. In the town of late and its a wonder you dont need a local environmental scientist understanding. About Climate Change and the effects on mountain communities can you give us a sense of some of the challenges that theyre facing here in lay the main crisis is that you have. Is that we can see that kind of leisure and thats where the person of the weather is going for the near the dead and that glacier is receding at a very fast rate and everything every lady has a guest house and theyre draining the groundwater like anything if there is no rush or water sewerage are they gonna watch it in the polls there will be what the floods if you will the people you know fighting over water literally literally the situation is getting worse by the. Almost a billion people are affected by shrinking glass years throughout the himalayas a nearby village few Young Farmers are on the front line. And phone shook and shook have been working here for more than forty years. Thank you so much. Ok so cheers have you noticed any changes perhaps with the seasons or with the levels of water or even the law in the shooting of. Your long. Because russians. Theres that term that are too she tells you not her own come i found was not going to make an answer presents itself to she china nothing that really counts of class which has in chief here. Got to be met by young treatment. When i come here i says thats what has your. Position. Here in the region of the population relies heavily on the indus river. But with the situation getting dramatically worse the local engineers so numb one chook stepped up to the challenge of helping the villagers adapt to these changes. In general february nobody needs water so the streams flow and going to the indus and into the ocean whereas in april or may everybody all the plants all humans are all dying for water. And then there is. Q chop your fork. What iced over does is by using the water storing it in the form of life and it melts exactly when there is this acute shortage that spring problem is solved using winter water into ice that melts in spring and then set. The environment to Mountain School he founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight tsunami has been refining and teaching his eye stupid concept for the last two years brings water and it boils down and become. You know the next forty fifty years the people who will be running this world are now in schools and colleges i want to engage them in these you know it is to be sensitive towards the environment in the mountains so then the earth could be in safe hands and before we go to well see a little demonstration of how it is. Now that i suppose is the mountain and that bucket there is say the stream from the lake or the stream water comes in the bible which is underground but here you can see. There is pressure in the pipe and then it comes like this so you can see small droplets which means water is exposed to the minus twenty minus thirty air loses its heat and theres no moving part there is no electricity just gravity thats the beauty of it. Good. That you. Were heading up to the ice stupors further up in the mountains the first we have to make it works dont. Use these for the ice to push to help us form. So this is a kind of way of parts like the skeleton of this if you like. Ill go and give them a handwritten. Thank you. Thank you. Again. My contribution. Wow. Never seen anything like that before. This is. Now i understand. You know its a is a bonkers idea its quite as creepy as. The design of the steeple is critical for his success he must have a minimal surface area to provide the maximum protection from the sun this enables it to last long into spring sometimes up to four months if the same volume of ice was a flat it would melt within days. After. The earth. Claimed the top rate is crampons and i set and hes thrown down this role please do. Pulling them up piece by piece and just adding them to the pile the prickly buckthorn is added all the way to the top of the stupor the water catches on to the stones making it easy to crystallize in the cold weather. And when you see the size of it you really understand how that could have a significant impact. Would you reckon the volume of water used are two million liters going to need. The bulk of that really in the heart of the ice. Is this large plate thats the one is channeling the them from the up on the mountain coming down to the base of the pipe because the head of pressures forcing a fifteen or twenty metres up into the air and. To sprinkle. Structure. For spooky. Sometimes vision isnt just about handful of very stupid was in one moment village hundreds of protecting the entire himalayas and helping irrigate field forests. Five thousand trees were planted in twenty fifteen and irrigated each spring with the water harvested from the ice steeple it is already one local recognition for this project whats the future for these guys where do you see is going in the next few years i see it going in two Different Directions lower and lower towards the people in the villages higher and higher towards the highest part of the valley where you can grow many of them scenes of them so our hope is we could really hear what we have lost to bide time and adapt to changing climate so weve just lost the sun over the hill its getting cold very quickly but weve got a plan. Because danson and thomas here and theyve brought some prayer flags to tie up on the top of these two i stoop with and well get a sense tomorrow morning fact of. These amazing structures. The water in the plate is released over night when temperatures reach minus twenty minus thirty degrees. Slowly building up these structures until they reach heights of sixty or seventy feet. Its like all right thank you struck oil. The next morning a return to the stupid to see the changes in overnight. Oh man. That is asked to his. Thoughts i want to claim up there thats a good idea thats why i get stuck. Im going to make quite a nice addition to the sculpture just thinking im going to come back tomorrow and frame it. Bearing in mind the whole reason that theyre doing this is to try and conserve winter. Is like a kind of water battery charger in the winter. In the spring. We are losing our gaither almost for no fault of our. Life would not have been possible at all in the desert had it not been for those blessed. Because it had this delay is water from then love thousands of years ago being able to survive and if theyre gone we will be gone and it will be a real desert with no life people in big cities if they lived simply than people in the mountains would simply live and sooner or later it could come to their own doorstep so we should be sensitive to see the first signs and mend our ways. Sources of fresh water. And drought is spreading the Investment BankGoldman Sachs has to patrol the next century yet its already tension. On the indus river system built by n. G. O. S seen by rival pakistan as a threat to National Security but in india boiled over in bangalore in two thousand and sixteen when the Supreme Court ruled to the state not to race motor recovery into town. Has become a weapon of war in iraq and syria. Two thousand and twenty two thirds of the worlds population could be. Taken maybe closer think. Jordan is one of the driest countries in the wild but thats what the capital of the west anywhere else on Climate Change population growth and politics but im already strained water supply under stress. With the country recently suffering from its was trapped and nine hundred years it is now estimated to have enough water with us support two Million People it has a population of six men. With faulty pipes and plumbing contributing to the crisis im here to visit a scheme which is putting women at the heart of efforts to combat this growing. I mean to expand look to right and to being one of the well when people come to buy more hotel. People come when they run out yes this is. The gong dog. So these guys are they going to sell the water to people or if its for them or they buying it. Yeah. Sure who might. Have. This new land theres fifteen families asked for him to bring the water for them fifteen families i did. What we did on the sixteenth. Which is. An average of somebody else in the world this is well below the threshold defining go to stress and its due to drop in the coming months normal people. Would. Want to live why is the situation so bad with israel the seriously this is who it comes to. And i found out i think personally the coming war in the region would be about twenty according to one study the kingdom supply of fresh water is on track to be. Twenty six to make matters worse around fifty percent of the have to distributed to houses across the country is lost to illegal tapping and faulty pipes but a practical solution to these water issues has been developed in collaboration with the jordanian government its known as the water wise womens initiative. This course teaches women water saving techniques and plumbing skills and is supervised by an expansion. Regulator the main told what happened the faulty. Oh the parts of the top need to come out in order so that they can go back in order so the farmer can check them one by one. Astonishing lee the total loss to leakage and me is at least seventy six billion liters enough to so. By the needs of two point six Million People i am reattaching into the term and im going to make sure its very secure ok thats tight enough ok good. For your family kind of. Childish i think it was that. Women are specifically being trained because in Traditional Middle Eastern culture the husband must be present for a male plan they can visit. To fix the problem themselves saves them both time and fight. Three thousand women around the country learning from this initiative is making a big difference. Some of the going to find out why some women have got a job fixing the plumbing. And ive been invited to join. The. Broken into the time and make the water so theyve got to make sure every drop of. The time. Because. If the water. The mom of the moss is just checking that everythings down. But. I think youd know these babies now. With the water tank on the roof signed off its time to head inside to complete the job. So i basically lavish a room where people come and perform make they wash before they pray and the lady is going to show me how to attach these at the top and they dont waste as much water helps conserve water because its small its hard to yeah. You have to. Go to the last ones to. Fail the first had to fire a thing when you got to peoples houses and sometimes you find many is a man who kind of dont like that theres a female come to their home what do you say they say science and see if we can do it or just give us a chance this year we are. So confidence with this they look at us like oh my god well be sure knew it they have oh. Ok lets see wow yeah i already know that you know nice name i would die out is leaking from the top so yeah i was not ok so i think i need to stop now and let us take over. The walk the water wise women are doing is even more important now considering the impact the in neighboring syria is having on jordan around two million refugees are being hosted in the country increasing the rate of groundwater depletion. Just fifteen miles from the front is saturday refugee. This. Is like a little sissy. As eighty thousand sign of fijis living have just beginning i will strain on jordans supply. Getting water to the People Living here is a massive logistical operation carefully controlled with no pipe now fifty eight trucks like this one distribute water daily to Twelve Thousand tanks. Or scouting for when the water runs out that set. We have. Been reaching effect. So its like. Very. Ensuring the syrians manage their water russian. Is one of the camps will to promote education refugees and how best to conserve their water the water here its. So small they need like an awareness session for them to improve the use it for the water these awareness sessions to help refugees cope with limited supplies ahead. And i. Have been i mean does there on the sea the feel. And. Think of me and. This is women here. Because they are of the lets say the court for the family they are responsible for everything. I mean the best way to manage their water ration is fight with these women and yes. Its great its really good the what theyre doing have to kind of reinforce the message of how it is and how much we need to conserve. One refugee has been on the water wise women. I meet up with. Who is now one of the initiatives by successful women she sets up her own business and employs five other female candidates. So the as you winner. Will be a mentor. To the new. Its a. Moment. Which is essential now the left. Anything for you eat healthy. And i mean look at the way. Its clear that we want to show churches across the globe. To find creative and sustainable solutions. New designs such as this mesh like structure in the pack converting pets to drinking to. Other devices and looking to the power of the sun to help solve water in countries like i could. And. To the mine causes are addressed to skies to continue to spread its innovations like these provide time between conduct in the meantime. Across the globe breathtaking efforts to clean up the planet sat around the way in Milan Companies are turning to a radical solution biodynamic cement toxic pollution so this really is a living building thats constantly interacting with its environment earthrise trees its the from two notes of the battle for the environment trying to steer in the ice and a pioneering a new technique to reduce emissions earthrise look for new ways of preventing air pollution at this time now does your Business Update brought to you by cartel they always going places together. 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