A dying people back to life. On the good news in jakarta are setting the stage for a plastic free plant and how technology can solve the frustrating problem of traffic jams. But first to a story of revival and hope for fifteen years the noggin of the do good in the Southern State of thought was dry and dead but local women decided they had to do something about this under the National EmploymentGeneration Program big got together to dig wells and collect rainwater to create commons that will benefit generations to come to be the revo is striving just how they achieve this revolution of the feet. Its hard to believe. The river with snakes through the northern part of tamil nadu was once dry and dead. And up a new civil one of the resolute district who brought the river back to life was a young girl when it began to disappear. When i was a child of built this huge where lots of people in our village built it after that we had access to groundwater but then the rain stopped and we had to dig deeper to make sure we had enough water to survive the new under the by. At the time farmers in the region relied heavily on cash crops like paddy wheat impulses that required an abundance of water to thrive and Digging Deeper and deeper every year meant that the groundwater was steadily depleted by the early two thousand and the gandhi river had disappeared. That is now. In two thousand and fourteen however after years of hardship things slowly began to change. With the help of a local ngo the women in the village decided to come together to replenish the groundwater and resurrect a river that was once their lifeline when we started working in this area right. When the positive change the kind of broad lot of attention to turned out to be a miracle for some people but its where the science of how the whole art of logical for you like a works and the best part was that women for a long who are working would think the dramatic change in terms of how gone what a situation a strange thing how big the creation i thought it did to the water thinking so but kind of you know more. The women folks to join more and we may not have to do too much of hard selling in terms of why we need to do that and all that so some positive results on the neighboring code could be used to come along right i mean theres a theory that we want to work into this project on but thats a kind of how the whole thing came along. And. The process was simple lever intensive the women worked long hours to build deep trenches in the ground called recharge wells that could trap surface water draw it underground and store it until needed. Once the groundwater was replenished when the rains came the river started to flow again. Very early with fairly the hands and legs heart or because of all the climate of steps we had to do. Between work we take rest breaks in turn mark my disdain for one hour of one person worked then theyd come up and meet climb down. Thats how we worked. Over the last four years these women have built more than six hundred recharge wells and planted hundreds of drought resistant saplings along the river basin. Gandhi river rejuvenation project is carried out as part of the National EmploymentGeneration Programme which supports work to develop the countrys common resources. A steady source of income has ensured that these women enjoy some amount of financial independence. The Success Story of commanders village is also been drawing women from neighboring villages to come forward and work. Satisfied he who started out carrying cement down to the trenches today has formed a Selfhelp Group to build cement rings that are part of the process and keep the economy local. These rings go deep into the wells and hold water much like the rocks that tend to hold water underground naturally. On. The island and. I guess. Were now. While we were working to build recharge wells here by helping carry cement we had a guruji who taught us yoga. He was the one who trained us in making these rings. After that groups of us got together and started making the cement rings. We get a good salary from that there. Was no other malone used to grow only one crop now because of his recharge whereas we get lots of water and were able to grow as much as to im very happy now. The project has so far helped nearly sixty thousand people like commander and satisfactory and their families. With nearly nine thousand hectares of Agricultural Land reclaimed and a staggering six metre rise in groundwater levels but the work is far from over. Howard dean wants to help the farmers one grow less water and through crops important to recreate the fireplace there of the water rehab dog saw back all the demand side of the water which means that the water the farmer has to know what are the best way to use the water and that is where we kind of work with them in the longer and educate them to give them the market which is needed for that so that they know they are aware and they can come along in terms of not feeling that with coffee moving out on the income. That most women are very low or districts have achieved is no small feat they have brought a dead driven. Back to life and they continue to do all they can to make sure their children dont endure on the hardship they did. Its alarming that even today three in ten people dont have access to safe water a French Company movie intake is trying to change that with helios fears which use some light to turn dirty water into clean Drinking Water heres how it works. In many countries clean Drinking Water is a scarce resource. Population growth and Climate Change are making things even was. French Company Marine tech has come up with an idea. That produces these plastic hellyer spirits. Which target dirty water into Drinking Water. The sphere contains a tray thats filled with unpurified water. When the sun heats the sphere the water evaporates. It condenses on the dome and then collects beneath. High temperatures in the dome also kill microbes. The result is perfectly clean Drinking Water. From the twelve hundred euro system can produce up to ten liters of water per day. Thats enough for a family of five. The manufacturer says the helo is designed to last thirty years. Do you like them. Doing your illness around. Visit our website or send us a tweet. During your been sharing your story. Now thats an idea that could potentially save millions of lives but pollution is largely a manmade problem that could take generations to be solved take for example plastic ordinary plastic could take up to five hundred to a thousand years to decompose but the devastating effects of the in bodmin during the process a company in indonesia a green who is on a mission to offer alternatives to plastic as we get. This public garbage dump thirty kilometers from the indonesian capital jakarta is thirty five days big but its overflowing with trash the temperature is thirty six degrees celsius and the stench is overwhelming people come through the waist looking for anything of value such as plastic here we are in the landfill of the and its theres about five pound. Solid with coming here and fifteen the twenty percent is plastic. Sugianto tandy zero has declared war on plastic and has a plan that would help reduce these mountains of garbage Plastic Waste takes at least five hundred years to decompose its an environmental disaster. Tandy i was an engineer and you develop spy degradable alternatives to conventional plastic. Plastic in indonesia on average they recycle or it is only around here less than ten percent. Of the second rate for plastic its actually around fifteen percent. Along with regard to how to increase the recycling rate but no matter how increasing it is going to reaching the end of like. However many times a plastic bag is recycled it will eventually end up in one of these huge landfill sites. The mountains of plastic get bigger by the day one consequence of economic growth. But poverty also contributes to the problem. Many indonesians buy small individually packaged drugstore items from kiosks because its all they can afford. In terms of packaging its incredibly wasteful. This is what they can buy but the saw how the solve the problem without forcing us back you. Know. Why us. The solution is. To make all this. So again to tandy zero spent years researching alternatives. His Company Green hope manufactures biodegradable polymers made from tapioca and naturally abundant starch extracted from the root of the cause or money or plant. It can be processed and then used to make a viable plastic substitute. This is the broad. Shopping bag one of them made early fellow in the media. Green hope developed a number of viable alternatives to plastic. The company even makes a dog food bag thats completely biodegradable. And idea. So the idea is theyre back in the pool with the fit together. So this is. The grid that already. So this is what will be great to. See. The small pieces. Because savva is cultivated in tropical regions in asia africa and latin america. This is a plan. To grow actually on the ground on the ground so to harvest their pull this out they harvest that this is what a source of starts. And then to try to grow to about two or three meet. The live we actually it delivers a solid. Server is cheap and abundant. But it doesnt have much nutritional value so it makes sense to put it to practical use. The interval up in countries such as indonesia the cost of plastic alternatives is all important but thats one of the main challenges greenhouse faces Green Solutions are almost always more expensive. And his partner tommy. Came to reconcile environmental and economic interests. Every single down the plastics we ever produced has never really gone away its gone out of sight when this mean that its truly gone its somewhere in the bottom of the. Its floating its its a land feel its everywhere so that there isnt built into the cost so were addicted to the economics and the functionality but we never had to pay the true environmental cost of these things. Ninety percent of plastics are derived from crude oil and about the environment future generations will suffer if nothing is done to curb Plastic Waste. Not only indonesia urgently needs alternatives the whole world does. Lets now shift focus to a solution that many of us who live in big cities have always hoped for weve made peace with smaller yet expensive Living Spaces but the other big problem traffic is only getting worse after years of congestion and poorly organized public transport the city of hamburg germany is making some headway Smart Technology is now helping to avoid creating doc lets see how. Does our cities become increasingly congested with more people needing more routes governments have to devise new solutions to improve traffic flow and these days theyre digital. This brand new software is helping hamburg to improve the coordination of its construction sites. Were very pleased weve got some astonishing results. The programmers very intuitive its very similar to a smartphone or tablet. Anyone can use it its very own problematic i was seeing a big improvement in coordination at the one at sea and the software shows were a construction site as planned. If it looks like the plans will cause traffic snarl ups Building Work can be postponed or bundled with other projects. In hamburg traffic lights and signals are already coordinated digitally with technology that after mises signal timing to create a succession of green lights for municipal buses the Traffic ControlCenter Software shows how best to keep the rest of the traffic flowing in the mornings there are lots more cars and motorbikes heading into the city as opposed to out of it so signals a program to optimize traffic in that direction the wish i did to think yes with a new start up to get. The most dependable way of avoiding traffic is by rail but those who dont have a station on their doorstep still have to get to one. So maybe they can temporarily switch to four wheels. Hamburgs overhead rail system is also linked up to car sharing schemes. Its good moments and i theres an app for hamburg that shows what public transport options are available where the nearest car sharing station is the nearest underground station overground station and the distances between them that. Have been a person into comfort and we want to create a platform where the entire process is seen to from leasing up to registering and paying just. Complex began kind. Of. The inhabitants of big cities need to be able to move about efficiently and also get along together at the hamburg hafen City University researchers have developed digital models to analog. Behavioral patterns such as where people tend to congregate. Building contractors can therefore see if their projects meet criteria and compare potential sites for advantages and disadvantages proximity to a Research Institute or an airport for example digitalisation give city dwellers new opportunities to enhance the urban experience. India has around fifty million small on the principles of which we two million women and seventy nine percent of them have had to finance their companies themselves because no one was prepared to give them a loan lets have to bring new and look at this more closely. Your place. Its all about the right spices so this is your kitchen workshop suture rita is in bangalore visiting entrepreneur gaia tree rao she makes spice mixes while today she wants to make sure the packaging is appealing and she hopes her reader can help her marketer products nationwide. Three is a startup entrepreneur. And so thats one group that comes to us and we are really excited because its a new idea theyre at the starting stage so we can be with them right from the beginning of the journey is that diet trees website has recently gone online now shes working on a Business Plan because she needs a bank loan to increase production but shes also dealing with a different challenge. That stand out ive had experiences where ive had to deal with vendors or things to be done when we were putting up the unit they wouldnt respond to my calls but they would immediately respond if my dad made the call my brother made the call. So cerita ishwar understands this problem as a young woman she wanted to have a career when her marriage failed sixteen years ago she felt stranded now as a single mother she had to take care of her finances and raise her two daughters by herself. All that made me realise that its very very important for girls to be brought up in a we. Are totally independent and they think independently and theyre not influenced by the cultural conditioning which exists in our would that weve been are primarily to be seen as whole may cause and mother. If you say so when she created her own company with a circle of like minded entrepreneurs many of her friends were skeptical for her daughter tara though it was a logical step. Honestly i think the one thing that she continues to keep telling him to me shes like dont think small think big just you know imagine whatever you want and follow your heart thats the one thing that she gives she has to keep in mind in the months and the well. All this violence against women attacks and molly station of women that you see is often against girls who are working who have chosen to lead an independent life. And the boys. Are still being brought up to think that women theyre as subservient to them about them and its ok to attack them or they need to be taught to listen. So that they start going back to their traditional rules so were seeing a lot more conflict in our Society Today because of that how is it quite. Such a reader issue on her network am to help women achieve their business goals meetings like this they share their experiences the young entrepreneurs present their products and have to answer some tough questions before they receive any support for the next stage. And you have a home the access to finance is a big challenge the second one is access to markets so they do start out and then as they think of growing bigger they are thinking ok where do i actually now Start Marketing who might be additional. Market segments that i can address how do waves reach them so thats another big area the hard one is. The challenge in using technology in the network also encourages women it hosts frequent gatherings this. Evening there at a popular bar in bangalore. For suture reading. Its clear that Women Entrepreneurs are making the world a better place i think they released stay in a business where the road dont run so and they create sustainable businesses then they are seriously getting to starting and running a business theyre not thinking all of exiting or selling it to in three years five years and making a big pile of money and going out there looking to growing consistently year on the i was about to get so thats true but the issue are says that if she and her network succeed in improving the situation of even one young female entrepreneur it will all have been worthwhile if not how big is over to now the state of the when you empower would a woman you empower the who would think about that and well be back with more stories like switch out of thousands of people who make a difference with a simple yet significant solution to what the Sustainable Future goodbye and have a wonderful. The books. The books. The books. The book. The be. 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