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Illegal we usually get into trouble with the beach owners or with the police samantha lewthwaite crew owns a guest house on the lake has been observing the increase in illegal sand mining for years she thinks the lake can withstand the loss of a few oxcarts for now and then but not all truck loads on a daily basis theyre taking every day they were taking 50 tons theyre doing it for. the beach in front of for a guest house is still intact because theres no excess or wrote but shes worried about t...

Removed even though this is forbidden. all over the beach you can clearly see the damages are feel equal sand mining the sand has taken over here obviously theyre waiting for somebody to pick it up in a larger scale and on top of it you can feel the sand is very soft but a little bit further down you find the harder sand it has parts of stones inside and this is the sand that is ideal for construction. these children loading an ox cart with the sand quickly leave as we start filming. you know pe...

Concern also with the dwindling fish numbers they provide the livelihood of many here but profits have dropped by more than fifty percent in recent years and a series of causes is worsening erosion on the coast. said mia airport but really theres reduced sediment flow from the boat to reverse a result of dam construction and the reduced sediment is a factor sadly illegal sand mining from beaches for construction purposes can also contribute and thirdly climate change studies show that sea levels...

Google amazon access that data what data they can access hes also pushing for something that he cause the contract for the web which is an international set of laws signed up to by the nations of the world that can govern how we all use the internet and how our information is used maybe a way to change the next thirty years of the world wide web all right rob thank you so much our business reporter with the story thank you. now the u.n. environment programs annual assembly has opened in nairobi ...

Morning what exactly is the plan well at the moment the transport minister has said that he will first the first thing that they did to happen was a. sent which was set up at the main international airports in kenya the telekinetic international airport so now families and relatives can go and find out whats happening to their loved ones a team of government officials has also been sent from kenya and hopefully will get more information as the days go by the investigations are still going on i t...

A small yard. then came the water. everything collapsed into the river all of it is lost. experts say manmade erosion is causing the land in this part of the delta to sink about two centimeters per year. its leading to dramatic scenes like this. roge and is rapid. and caused by two main factors the construction of upstream dams in laos cambodia and china and unregulated sand mining fueled by an insatiable regional demand for the construction resource both are draining the river of sediment thats...