Drone shots Old Delhi

Caption: Delhi

Man moves boxes on hooks - general shots of the process

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X Ice factory, Delhi

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Delhi can reach XC in the hot season. Due to humidity, the feels-like temperature is YC

In summer, Delhi’s both hot and humid. 

38C days can have a ‘feel-like’ temperature of 48C.

Due to the sweltering heat outside, I like working here

The inside temperature is cool because of the ice

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X Ice Factory

Caption: Pappu Yadav

Ice-maker

I extract ice from the boxes

I give it to the client.

This is m  y job the entire day.

Removes ice from the boxes

I work 12 horus a day

From 8am to 8pm

My pay with meals is 10,000

Hands ice with ice holder to man outside

Govind, go at once and return soon

Don’t worry, do it later, just  leave at once

Owner from window

You have to make two rounds, one now, another in 1 or 1.5 hours

Owner interview

As you know it is so hot in India

Caption::

Anwar Tariq

Factory Owner

We make ice and distribute it to different places

It gives instant relief to people

As the temperature rises,

Our business grows

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Ice is made using a 120 year old method.

Ammonia is stirred through brine to create a freezing fluid.

Upsync: We have to maintain the requisite temperature

This is salty water to maintain the temperature so the ice form.

It’s more eco-friendly than other refrigeration methods

Ammonia circles in salty water

Due to circulation, the temperature goes down

The temperature reads -7C.

After filling the cans with water, we preserve it in that salty water for 24 hours

And the temperature of the cans

Normal water becomes zero and it starts freezing.

After 24 hours the ice is ready to be distributed.

Ahmedabad drone shots from 01 30 opening as is

GFX from delhi map into a drone shot of Ahmedabad

Caption;

Ahmedabad

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Ahmedabad is one of India’s hottest cities. 

Temperatures regularly reach 44C, and even reached 50C.

*in 2016.

Woman wiping sweat from head

This heat is intolerable.

How hot is it?

Hot

Get me some water, child

Do you feel anxious in such heat?

Yes, it is very hot

I feel dizzy, blood pressure falls

Cutaways of children sleeping

Shaqeela Bano is a grandmother with a household of six. 

On hot days, there is no escape from the heat.

Child, get me some water

This heat is intolerable

Caption: Her family and neighbours are forced into the street when their houses become unbearably hot.

Woman fanning child on street

What has happened to her?

These are boils caused by the heat. It is very hot.

This is how we spend that daytime

It is hotter in the evenings

So we have many sleepless nights

It is very difficult

Caption: But help is about to arrive. 

Yes

Can I come in?

Yes please come in

Caption: Krishna Yadav works for a housing trust that helps families cool their homes.

You must be feeling very hot in this house?

Yes, it is very hot

There’s no window?

No there’s no way for the air to pass.

Name caption: Krishna X

Whenever we take a turn while sleeping, its always sweaty that side.

Krishna’s housing trust has measured temperatures of 46C in houses like these.

Thermal GFX interior of house

Let me tell you I was in ten times

Worse situation than you are

Then I got associated with this organisation

I told them about my suffering.

Then they suggested me to go for white paint

Concrete roofs absorb the heat, but

white paint reflects up to 90% of sunlight, reducing heat.

Women on roof of house

This is 5ft.

This is 10ft and that is 10ft more.

It is approximately 25 foot

I wanted to tell you that I have come to the Naroda Patiya area

It's 25ft. She wants the white paint.

I think it would require 4-5 boxes of 5kg each.

The problem with her house

It is surrounded by other houses

Woman PTC inside

On all sides

So they cannot have any windows

Woman on roof of house

Their roof is made of RCC

So there is no scope for ventilation

I had visited her place for a little while only and it was unbearably hot

I thought to myself that is would be impossible for me to stay here for half an hour

But they cook here and stay here

So life is very hard for them

Woman with bedding on roof of house

Come up kids,

carefully.

We expect so much from the paint.

It will comfort us during the day.

We can sit downstairs comfortably

And we’ll be able to cook and eat with sense of relief

Do you feel cool now?

GV - factory exterior

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Ice factory, Delhi

Owner prays

01 03 51 22nd July Ice opening

Owner: If you're talking about temperature or heat, it’s Delhi, and Delhi’s heat is famous.

Every year we see the temperature making new records

This disturbance in nature

And atmosphere is troubling everyone’s lives

As We know the reason for this increase

is climate change

Night shot of factory

Most of our labourers are from Bihar and easter Uttar Pradesh

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Most factory workers here are climate migrants from Bihar, a part of India which has suffered drought.

18-19 men had left the village together and arrived in Delhi, to get some work

Name caption:

Pappu X

Transition shots

I feel that rainfall is decreasing and temperatures are rising.

GFX

Transition from drone shot of ice factory into the Leh drone shot

Day 1:

06:51:50

And sometimes, it can be erratic over cooling in some certain locations. But generally, heating up of the planet. And we hear each year you know since 2001 or so, each year has been a record-breaking err hot year since we remember.

o that’s when I started looking at the bigger problem.

06:49:49

LOCATION CAPTION:

Leh

Indus Mountains

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Drone mountain shots

NEW CAPTION

Elsewhere in India, another team is also using ice

to counter heat and drought  - on a giant scale.

Leh is nearly 2,000km north of Ahmedabad and at a height of 3,500 metres.  Winter temperatures can fall to -30C.'

February 2021

Earlier in the year, a team here solved problems of heat and drought ahead of time with ice - on a giant scale.

archive of the ice stupas

Caption:  This ‘ice stupa’ is x feet high and took x long to make

We hear each year you know since 2001 or so, each year has been a record-breaking err hot year since we remember.

06:49:22

so that’s when I started looking at the bigger problem.

07:53:53

So, ice stupas are a technique of making these large cones that could be 10 to 12 storeys tall, could hold some 10 million litres err of water in the winter. And then because of its geomatic shape, it doesn’t melt till June/May. And when it melts, in those months, it releases the water slowly, so that trees could be planted in deserts or it augments the flow of streams, so that farmers get a little more water in the crisis period.

07:54:32

Caption: Sonam Wangchuk

Environmentalist

The simple principle of science says that water maintains its level.  So upstream where we put the pipe, and downstream where we put the ice cone, the water wants to go to the same level, so it goes up and there’s pressure, so it throws wter into the minus 20 winter sky, so then it freezes into a cone of ice.

Woman making drink

I was clueless about this

Place name:

Ahmedabad

Name caption:

Krishna x

I did not know that climate change was a thing

But I had an inkling when I realized that it is always hot

Even during the winter and monsoon months

I gradually started understanding the issue

And the involved myself with the project

I started visiting slum areas

And spreading the message among women

Initially, the women would say that all this is God’s doing

I told them how was it before?

Did you sleep outside?

They replied that the trees have been cut down

So there is no breeze

They replied that there is no breeze because the trees have been cut down.

The road was to be made broader by felling the trees at the sides

Then I would say that this is not God’s doing

This is our own human doing

New caption; Shaqeela has ordered white paint for her house, and Krishna is now delivering it.

Woman getting into Tuk Tuk

If they apply the white paint

There will be a temperature difference of 3 to 4 degrees

You will be available at home today, right?

(So) this is a very big achievement that Shakeelaben has proactively decided

To test the white paint

No problem, I will there shortly

Okay

Bye

Greetings, Shakeelaben, how are you?

I’m well thanks

OK, I got you the white paint

After the first coat fries completely

You can do a second coat

First horizontal strokes then vertical strokes or vice versa

That’s you call

But the two coats must be in different directions

Thanks to the lockdown, we have no source of income

We have borrowed some money

Caption:

Alfaraaz

Shakeela’s daughter

We have to do something about the heat

Man paints roof….07 52

New caption:

The housing trust offers loans of 10,000 rupees ($135; £100)

at an interest rate of 10% to make white paint affordable.

Return to Delhi -

 ‘22nd  Ice Opening’  01 06 09

Caption: GFX transition Ahmedabad to Delhi

Men take ice out of metal moulds

Shsahstri Park, then Khajuri, then Usmanpur,

And then Seemapuri?

And then Jaffrabad

Drone shot Delhi

Old Delhi GVs

Man in stripey T-shirt walks round a corner to ice delivery

New caption at 11 13 (you might need to extend the shots)

An ice merchant in Old Delhi is about to get his delivery from the ice factory.

Make sure we only get blocks from the middle

Not blocks placed that have been on the sides or broken please

This is our 3rd or 4th generation in the same ice business

We have only ever lived here, in Old Delhi

We own this ice business

We bring huge ice bricks from factories

Then we sell it here

for 5 or 10 rupees

People take it to their houses, shops

Workers take it to their factory

Milkman takes it for his milk

Lassiman takes it for his lassi

Butcher takes it for met to prevent it from getting rotten

The ones who take a small piece are poverty stricken

who get tired from their daily work and need a relief

How much shall I give you?

A quarter

Just a quarter

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As India gets hotter, more people are buying fridges.

It’s increasing climate change - and hurting the ice trade.

Now the workload is reducing

Now people are bringing fridges to their houses, big fridges

There is no future in this work

You will see after 5 to 10 years this work will disappear.

This work will not exist

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For the moment, ice continues to offer respite from the heat of Old Delhi.

It’s about to be serv  ed up in a cold drink.

People get relief from this drink

If you drink it once you would want to drink it more and more

It has ice and milk

Take this with allmy love nd care

Cool cool drink, I hope you enjoy this.  By the grade of god, have it

I love you,

drinks.

Needs transition shot

Delhi to Ahmedabad shot - exterior of house or drone shot

Come inside Krishnaben

Woman entering house

This is great. Come

Women on rooftop

Take a look

Nice

Right?

Doesn’t it look great?

It looks awesome, Shakeelaben

We can even sleep here now

Yes it has been cleaned out and it looks great

Previously, we would burn if we walked barefoot

You could not stand here without slippers

It is not hot at all

Now we will just come here with a pillow and go to sleep

Come upstairs and see for yourself

Yes, please come up and see

Is it cool?

Yes, yes

Great, great

I will also get it done, for real

Now you can rest or sleep in peace without any care for the heat

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Krishna’s housing trust has arranged white paint for more than 5000 roofs.

It used to be so hot that we could not stay indoors for a stretch of 5 minutes

But today it is not the case

It is much cooler inside

Which is why this child too has slept off, otherwise he does not stay

In the house for even a minute

Section ends

Caption:

GFX Ahmedabad to Leh transition

Caption: Environmentalist Wangchuk is calling for rich nations to adopt simple sustainable solutions too

Some environmentalists are calling for us all to use simple measures to cool -  and reduce global heating.

06:49:22

Our glaciers are melting, not just because of our actions. It is to do with the big cities of the world, erm New York, New Delhi, Beijing, Paris.

Most of the Himalyan glaciers are affected by the fast melting of glaciers, it is said that already we have lost 15 percent of our glaciers in the last ten years or so.

By the end of the century, 70 percent of the glaciers will be gone.

Caption: India’s glaciers supply millions with water.  If they melt forever because of global heating, the results could be catastrophic.

06:50:48

So, that’s when we started saying, ‘Please live simply in the big cities, so that we in the mountains, simply live.

ENDS

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