Poverty is multidimensional meaning its hard to compare 1 countries Poverty with anothers. Even in Africa someone could be below the poverty line and have all their needs in rural tribal areas because they make their needs. On the other hand someone in the city can be making more but struggle to obtain basic needs. Another point is how many homeless people live in America but make more than a poor African. Cost of living effect and acess to goods needs to be looked at just as much as how much someone makes

This isn't a problem of urbanisation, this is an issue of unconstrained growth, building houses without plans or building the needed infrastructure FIRST rather than AFTER areas are built upon

Honestly Africa has alot of water but the infrastructure to distribute is lacking due to the poorly planned cities

Subhana Allah..... How is it possible for such a rich country to let its people suffer in poverty??? 😔😔😔

Make catchment areas to harness the rain water when it rains. It can be done in individual homes or on a community level. When it rains the water runs off and is not store. Education in water harness, storage etc is needed.

This could have simply been avoided by proper planning before building. You can't just build anyhow. How hard is it to leave space for pipes and roads? 🙄🙄🙄

What!!! & the way Nigerians are all over social media platforms making the most noise and looking down on other African countries with self entitlement to being the "richest country in Africa" is this what we call rich?!?!

I love how the BBC is pretending to explain complex, continent wide dynamics in less than 6 minutes in a clip full of stock vids, with a smattering of tropes and soundbites from a couple of Ong reports and guardian articles.

The water crisis is crazy in lagos. During the dry season our well go dry and water become very scarce. I have never seen it this scarce that we can wait for the rains.

Poverty Doesn't mean Filthy. Africans should Know that.

This could've mentioned Kano's fertility rate of 6.8. That's about 7 children for each woman. This accounts for much more than migration.

Why are people in the comments acting as if this poverty in Nigeria doesn’t exist.

20 to 25 years to go from a family of 3 to 30 is absolutely unsustainable.

I'm beginning to think that I will never see a fruitful and prosperous Africa in my lifetime.

Very informative!

Here in Maputo we stop waiting for government to provide water, every new neighborhood, a private person or company go there's open a weel, and provides clean,24h to all houses around.. luckily we have subterranean water, almost every where.

BBC at his best, am not surprised

I recently have been looking into alternative water sources and found the hydropanels as similar to the warka project.

Dear BBC, Africa is an extremely large continent. Please talk address individual countries and specific cities to insure the message you are trying to share is clear. Thx

Why does the video make it seem like our only hope to solve the water shortage is through new technological solutions, while in rich countries we've had universal water infrastructure for decades? Instead, it should be discussing the economic forces that stop the Nigerian and other governments from being able to provide proper investment in their infrastructure.

Intelligent Planning. Planning. Planning and more Intelligent Planning. Africa can learn from Chinese mass construction mistakes, I wish them the best future and prosperity. ❤️

hate seeing the issues and problems, but love seeing some innovative water solutions!

interesting very informative 👍

I live Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State thou it is more than 90% riverine but there is no safe water provided by government except boreholes that are own by individuals

I’m living in a place where it’s 24 hrs raining nowadays.

The next billionaires will be water suppliers, the basic commodity essential for human survival is now scarce

Eti Tanzinia?

How can we help?

Water is accessible to almost everyone in southern Nigeria , I am from Delta state Nigeria,I appreciate how accessible water is to our people back home when I travel to other African countries

3:25 Off-topic but, what a *beautiful* pendant! 😯

Please add subtitles

Welp the average woman in northern Nigeria has on average six kids. Religion lack of education snd lack of woman empowerment leads to this crisis.

The bbc needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress

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BBC avoiding to mention china success of installing water pump in many remote area in Africa

The nice thing to see is that all the scientists and specialists they had in this looked to be african themselves, im glad it's improving over there even if slowly. As a side note, i think it's time the governments of the world came together and regulated the water industry, companies like evian and dasani, make a fortune selling water, while millions of people have no access to water at all. What gives these companies the rights to water, that they can sell it.

Solar is all cool and stuff but it doesn't store energy, thats the problem.

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build a central sylinder with allt he plumbing and wiring - everyone gets a 360 apartment

AFRICA ON THE RISE

You talking abt urbanisation and showing videos of villages

They would be a costly autocracy

Et si toute l'Afrique suivait l'étalon-or, et non l'USD? (etc...)

Et si toute l'Afrique suivait l'étalon-or, et non l'USD??(etc..?)

BBC makes a show about urbanisation then goes into the rural areas to film struggling villagers.

The examples they use are in rural areas…video is about urbanisation…

*Before clicking ...I knew they'd be in Nigeria*

Hi

BBC you need to start being specific. Which African country? Under which leadership? Or are you intentionally being racist ? The Africa that I know looks nothing like this. But to be specific I am talking about Botswana, Namibia and South Africa’s

what's the need of all that fancy solar pumping technology when you could just build a well?

"Love" how people are talking desperately for shortages of basic human needs, and there is a positive melody in the background while Europeans are talking about innovative solutions in "Africa". Sorry for the sarcasm, couldn't resist

Some people here are funny trying to blame overpopulation we have enough technology to produce more water that we will ever need, the problem is lack of initiative from stakeholders, having less children or under crowded cities will never be the solution. Under population is the biggest threat to the human existence, let's find a solution to the water issues stop blaming overpopulation.

What if the whole Africa went on the Gold Standard, and not USD?(etc..)

I wish Africa was free of Islam, Christianity, colonization and slave trading. All of these have undermined African countries and the ability of their peoples to be self-sufficient and successful.

Would not have been a problem with Gaddiaffi alive :/

Thank god that you didn’t say it’s China’s fault.

Very traditional of BBC , they never show any beautiful side their former colony.

VISIT RWANDA 🇷🇼 A COUNTRY BUILT ON CONGOLESE BLOOD

The giants

How about not having so many children and a more healthy growth.

Industrialization is inevitable, they will have to learn how to manage it and stop complaining. Every problem has a solution which they can work on themselves. This will help Afrikans develop their own laboratories and stop relying on the west. The next step is local laboratory development and local curriculum development

The negative aspects of Africa

3:45 how about the Pipe Innovation? What a joke

All of those cities look so dusty and dirty.

Whether trump or Biden is your president! Is your life better? The system is broken. changing the presiden doesn't work ! We need to change the system!

Here, in Brasil, there is a similar reality in some regions. We must fight climate change! The poorest people are the most affected

It boils down to …. To many people… not enough production. The government has not encouraged education and self reliance. If the government hands you food and water…. amount of children doesn’t matter… in fact, maybe you can increase your income by increasing amount of children. If parents have the responsibility of feeding their children…. they will limit amount of children.

I consider myself a Pan-Africanist. The filth, ugliness, and lack of standards in today’s African cities is shameful. Africans must fix this. Unacceptable!

You build a city from the ground up. This is neither new nor groundbreaking information. Have none of you played Sim City?

Is climate change the problem or capitalism? Go back to the roots our Africa isn't supposed to develop like Europe that is the problem. We must build a community that makes sense for our environment.

The impact of civilisation in Africa*

Next thing you know the West is reporting "China is destroying Africa by building their infrastructures and cities" narrative xDD

Rich coming from a country that has colonized africa along with several other european countries

Based on my past experience with KZfaq videos featuring Nigeria, I can predict how this comment section is going to be like: North... exists.... Southerners.... 'rageeeee!'

I’m sorry I’m not seeing any growth in Kano, looks like filth

Nigeria is worst country in the world, no drinking water, no electricity, no good roads, no security, 18.1M children out of school and 37.1M unemployment. Shame!

Yeah urbanization is the issue. Not years of British colonization, American slavery, Chinese and Canadian mining or all the other rape and torture of their land and peoples they endured with no compensation or help to fix what was raped from them, destroyed and stolen. Hey Brits, here's an idea, why don't you start the process by giving back all the stolen cultural artifacts you still profit from at your museum at the very LEAST. Love how BBC is constantly reporting about what's wrong in the places their culture destroyed.

Africa needs to HURRY UP FFS

John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

My cousin that has been to Africa, told me that there's too many black people there.

Harvest water from air is the real game changer!

If BBC cannot present a good narative about all the great stuffs going on on the continent then they should be banned.

Nigeria must be so wealthy. In the last 30 years the population has more than doubled! While in much of Europe the population is declining because people cannot afford to have children. 🤔

waiting to BBC to mention a single positive aspect of China's infrastructure investment in Africa

corruption and stupidity. :)

Too many Africans

Chorine isn't needed to eliminate things from water. Human waste & animal waste can be turned into methane gas.

Always mention problem in Africa and show white as the sahviour, why not show all local solutions.. stup d

this is the impact of capitalism

i do think african countries could consider having a 3 (or 4) child policy like china...so it prevents people from having too many children this is about public resource management and affordability

Honestly , its the 21st century for gods sake. How humans in 2022 can't figure out the basics like clean drinking water is utterly amazing. Too many years of Africa blaming others for their complete incompetence instead of buckling down and getting organized and getting to work.

Whole lot of wife beating going on there

Honestly, urbanization makes life more difficult and doesn't solve the poverty issue. You end up having small cities with millions of people living in them. The end result is poor living conditions, many people few jobs, etc. What value is there in having overpopulated cities whose resources are overwhelmed? Let's devolve development, wisely.

At 1:47 a Sheka community leader speaks. He speaks in his own language. So, presumably with no particular accent. Why did you choose an interpreter with a heavy "foreign" accent? Why not choose someone with a neutral English accent?

Make less babies

Another useless “feel good” report

So basically I see that the Black African countries can't figure out how to bring clean water to at least some areas of their cities and the white engineers elsewhere figure it out and have projects to help them. That's what this video shows. I know it's not as simple as that as I know something about Africa. However, it's time to compete and come up with solutions and maybe one of them is to figure out how to finance things.

So on social media posts, "black people" are now saying that they do not need help from "white people" as they can help their own people. I am therefore reluctant to help when i can see that they need it so as not to offend them. Back in the UK, i don't see colour any more, since i was brought up on an estate amongst friends. I learn new cultures as they learn mine. Hopefully, they obey the rules set for me too here. Not many governments in the world these days that people like but some as one, put down political weapons and just live, like we did and have been. Let the rich fight over their battle grounds on their OWN money. Firstly, MSM Africa is a continent, not a country, just as much as there are countries above and below the US. I just learnt that some tribes, within some African countries, just live off milk and animal blood as apart of their culture. Was also interesting how their also used the stomach bile in their dishes and the kids drank it. I watched the video to observe as i am not in a place to judge but to learn.

SIMPLE REALLY..........don't have sooooo many children! Funny how we always go on about how humans are suffering. We have screwed the environment, now we're reaping the "rewards.

Can we please talk about the journalist's outfit.., is that all she could find to Wear?