A Technological Lift to Ancestral Gift
thank you so much just want to
put not several dots
in this occasion but few dots
that probably you need to connect with
each other
with your own passion and imagination
my talk which i displayed here
is a technological lift to ancestral
gift
food energy water nexus
for sustainability these three
items probably the basic of the basic
if you just think about your own home
when you are waiting for a litre of
water to come every week probably or
every day
you are looking for some kind of energy
sources
that keeps your house running and of
course
food stops that you need
to fulfill your hunger
they’re all interconnected they’re all
interconnected we have been taught
to think in the silo like in isolated
only think about
water security only think about
food security only think about energy
security
but they are so interlocked so
complexity in between
they are independent not independent
they are very much interdependent with
each other
so with my small concept
which also um comes in
you know whether further sustainability
we have to look for the modern age or we
have to look for
the un to provide us a 15 years of
ultimatum by 2030 we have to achieve the
sustainable goal
you see here the water energy food how
complex
they are interconnected with each other
and
if you also indulge yourself
whether a gtp growth
in terms of your well-being
then what comes in your mind whether you
should have a high gdp
or you should have a high sdi human
development index
now three this the small
chart which provides you 17 goals that
we have to achieve
by 2030. this is the sustainable
development goal
by un provided by un and
at the bottom you can see this is the
natural environment
you have to have climate action that
means
clean climate you have to have a clean
water
and also life the biosphere
also should be and these two others at
the end
is the cooperation collaboration and the
activities and actions
that require the policies etc
if you go a little bit higher
then you can find the built environment
you can find your society you can find
there are many many different
infrastructures going on that is
required
based on our environment we have to go
for
building our own society and
at the top then
you find yourself there and this is
what we have to achieve is the
no poverty by 2030
zero hunger and
you know the very good health
quality education etc you can read that
one and equality everywhere you can see
the common
denominator if you draw the lines then
you can find
these three dots we have already given
the zero hunger
it’s a food clean water
water of course and the energy
our ancestors already knew that one
already knew that one the energy they
got from soul or energy
food whatever they have already their
possession they’re a piece of land
from where they could grow enough food
and of course the water water was a
little bit difficult but
they were trying to not to pollute your
surface run of water this
river but they wanted to take that water
whatever provided nearby to their
villages
and that was not house to house provide
but they’re at
some places where people have to go and
face the water of course if you think in
other direction that it is a hardship
for people and of course
among them the hardship is what in our
society
unfortunately what my previous
speaker also told that the woman
children had to face that one but there
was
or there were also our ancestors who
tried to devise
technologically in order to
safeguard these own society on people
and provide them no hardship little bit
of
relief of the hearts if they had before
and
so all connected all connected
and the first picture you can see how
these
three items connected with each other in
a society
of course just remove all the
technological lift all wind turbines and
the solar
gain and but just think basic of the
basic is
we have water supply already we had
ponds lakes streams
we had a piece of land and also small
houses of course we were just going out
of the cave
and wanted to build our own society
on the right side of your
screen you can see you know few
many other countries are having their
strategy how they are going to cope with
these three elements
um in our country ministry of
energy water resources and irrigation if
you can see
if we hear energy water resources
and irrigation irrigation is food
equivalent to
water resources water and energy so one
single ministry can address these three
we call it nexus of
food energy and water
now if you think only isolation
then you can think of the left side if
there is
energy that means in terms of light
there is no water
and the other day there is enough water
coming but no light
but we wanted not like that we wanted to
have
some more um integration
and the problem was the conflict between
these
three also if not properly managed then
we can
end up with conflicting uh with each
other
water needs for power generation
irrigation water needs for irrigation
water is for
a day-to-day health aspect you know
public health
for a person to drink water so if this
is not properly managed
then we’ll end up with the conflict
now with the time in 21st century we
have been giving a lot of technological
things in our hand i have this mobile
phone also
and there is a simple question there are
people also philanthropy want to give
you some
more more things just for them probably
for the boat
cell phones laptops sarees swinging
machine but
there at the end per person isn’t why
don’t they provide enough
food water or food or something and that
was the
very very uh you know in our society it
is going on
and on the right and right side you can
say now engineers are confused
in a built-up environment we built up
society
and they don’t know where the water
pipelines are
and he is just giving the money to a
fortune teller to find out
where the water lines are
this is just this old man
elderly man is drinking the water right
directly from this water spot
and that was created long long back even
you
don’t know where long back kirati is
built this one
okay not probably this one probably the
kiratis brought this
spa water spot from somewhere from
pearson for
they were just migraine and they they
came to nepal
and they started building the water
spots
think this is very simple water spots
but
the complexity in between thousands of
years even
we are still having water from these
water spots
and they how beautifully they are
decorated also they had
this beautiful decoration has also
something to say
if you know that one i just tell you
that
this is for maintaining for long long
time
this is a kind of a artifacts
but not only the artifacts but this is
in built
in our tradition and culture that to
maintain that water spots
but we have been forgetting this simple
thing
now i bring my own example
and everybody can do it start from
family start from your own home
every house can be energy house and this
is what i
have given here my house is
not only decorated with the photovoltaic
expert but now
also we have the composting plant and
water harvesting system
so all those three provide me ample
opportunity whenever we have
some problems uh be it be a
you know block it from india or or um
climate change
uh degradation of our livelihood i am
safe
if i could be safe you could be safe
also think
three things food
energy and what and it’s
only few okay
the other thing our ancestral gave is
this watermail and they wanted to
relieve their sisters wife or
mother from their hearts if provided
mechanical power of water
to listen their heart safe and this is
the water mill
and this water mill in at kathmandu
university we have seen it
whether we can lift it a technological
lift to
ancestral gift whether we can improve
the water
mail to generate electricity and we did
it
and this is manufactured in nepal the
generator
on top of that water mill this generator
we researched here we produced with
nepali
hands and mines and also we installed in
six places of
cavalry the dhading and
nuaccord
and the happiness is there when they
have
light they can utilize this water mill
otherwise
would be only utilizing for grinding the
grains but
also in the free time they can also
generate the electricity
and the happiness still some of the
photos you see
at the end the children’s are watching
the television and
you know watching the television in one
aspect is good for education
and also there is also you know hidden
difficulties of the one once you have
upgrade uplift your technologies you
should have also in your mind that
it should not be abused it should not be
obvious the technology should not be
abused
so and for this that there are several
grants and there’s several awards uh it
won’t
and because of that we could
we could continue the research at
kathmandu university thanks to my
students and thanks to my
um fellow colleagues and uh professors
that we could achieve that one now at
the end
i would like to say that if you whenever
possibility you have
don’t waste your energy you save your
energy
saving is not becoming poor saving
is your culture and then you can think
of
there is one thing save water save
electricity and
save food
okay that is one
small picture there is a slice of
pizza everybody knows that one you know
this is
i took it from one document which was
produced
um and gracia produced by
american ngo but that because of their
culture they
it they like pizza very much that’s why
the examples there it could have been
our
momo
yeah momo think momo and it has
everything you needed
if the balanced way of putting water on
the dough
the dough comes from the kitchen garden
or
from field the wheat and
of course you need some
to cook the momo and momo is tasty
and this is that few momo better for
your health
don’t eat too much momo
and one challenge i always give my
students also
this is written in nepali but nepali is
very rhythmic and if i
first i tell you in nepali and then you
can translate this is in
english also no that is the
technological challenge also my future
students and future engineers also
now
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our ancestor gave us very very pertinent
technology three stones
it’s a stove so it’s so easy to build it
you put some pieces of wood then it
provides you energy
and then the rest is to feed your family
cooking okay and water is needed there
so the
all the time basic of the basic is live
food energy and water that’s why it is
called few
few can be remembered because only you
need to think few things
these are the things so everybody should
have
this in mind and try to try to
be very very conscious about your
environment
you don’t need any mobile phone to save
you from
climate change probably sometimes it
provides you some information of course
this is also important for information
technology but
if mobile phone is not there sometimes
you can forget about this
but water everywhere you look for water
everywhere you look for something to
cook everywhere look for something to
eat
so please be conscious and think about
few things and that is
food energy and water thank you so much